Freshman Seminar
On Saturday, September 9, the University of Mary Washington sponsored a day trip to Washington, DC to several students and professors; for this Freshman Seminar class, the trip was an...
In reading Ronald Grigor Suny’s informative book They Can Live In The Desert But Nowhere Else, I have been exposed the the causes, events, and lasting aftereffects of the horrific Armenian...
As our last assignment for the semester, Professor Al-Tikriti encouraged my classmates and I to attend one or more sessions of the Fall 2017 History Symposium today, a showcase of...
Learning to Hope: Education in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide Attached is the handout and presentation I created for my individual research project this semester, which focused on the...
Latcho Drom was, in my opinion, and incredibly interesting film to view in many ways. Most prominently, it was an obvious cinematic attempt to re-imagine the ways in which stories...
Michael Sells’s The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia was an incredibly thought provoking book, and was a relatively strong piece of literature to complete our semester’s discussions, I believe....
Chapters 1—7 Brother Number One was a relatively interesting piece to examine, with a number of facts and ideas quite new to me. As someone with barely any education regarding...
The third film in our series this semester, Bitter Harvest, was incredibly different from both previous films we’ve viewed, in a number of ways. One which stood out to me...
After reading Philip Gourevitch’s accounts and analyses of the genocide in Rwanda, this article written by Helen C. Ebstein was an interesting change of perspective regarding the events. It should...
Part 2 (Chapters 12—22) The final half of Philip Gourevitch’s collection of “stories from Rwanda” was interestingly different from the first. While chapters 1 to 11 focused primarily on the...
Chapters 6—11 The final six chapters of Suny’s analysis (and reveal) of the horrors which occurred in the so-called Bloodlands on the outskirts of the Soviet Union before and during World...
Chapter 6 As this section of Norman Naimark’s work has begun to discuss genocidal events in more recent modern history (as opposed to his first discussions of events which occurred...
