The most disturbing image to me was the bottom block on page 72.
I don't know if it is the image, or the words that go along with it, or a combination of the two. The text on that strip just really stuck with me, "and the fat from the burning bodies they scooped and poured again so everyone could burn better." The facial expressions on the mice in the picture and the fact that you can see there ribs just disturbs me a lot. The pictures makes me think of how painful it would be to burn alive. And just the pain that is brought to me by looking at the picture. Then you get the added visual effects of the old bodies that had already burned and the thought of them being poured on top of the people that were still alive is utterly disgusting.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Thursday, October 7, 2010
moral dilemmas
I think that being brought up in a military family had a very large influence on my decisions and opinions. At most family get togethers, there are not the usual 'I had to walk to school, uphill both ways' there are the stories of “when I was stationed in ____” I think that having heard these stories, and having read the letters that were sent back home from war and the first hand accounts that my dad, or my aunt, or my uncles, or my cousins, or grandpa had witnessed caused me to view things in a different way.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/congothedemocraticrepublicof/index.html?scp=2&sq=democratic%20republic%20of%20congo&st=cse
This article talks about the issues that the Congo has faced, and how they are impacting/have impacted the people.The Congo has vast rainforests and natural resources. There have been many lives lost and battles fought in recent years. In 1960 the Congo was set free and basically didn't know what to do, and became a pawn for more powerful countries to utilize. The article talks about the United Nations' impact on the Congo. However, 4 million people have died since 1998; over half of them were children under the age of five. How can the United Nations not be able to protect them? How can a country that has so many natural resources, and has had billions of dollars invested in rebuilding it, not be able to sustain itself (that's not the right word)?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/10/01/congo.atrocities.un.report/index.html
This article talks about the recent report that the UN published regarding the many atrocities in the Congo. The report talks about how children were recruited for the army, and millions of people died. The report also focuses a lot on the horrible things that have happened to women and children. This article makes me wonder, if we know that these things are happening, why can't we help figure out a way to stop them? What caused the Congo to be in the constant state of war and heartbreaking atrocities? Just why?
This article talks about the issues that the Congo has faced, and how they are impacting/have impacted the people.The Congo has vast rainforests and natural resources. There have been many lives lost and battles fought in recent years. In 1960 the Congo was set free and basically didn't know what to do, and became a pawn for more powerful countries to utilize. The article talks about the United Nations' impact on the Congo. However, 4 million people have died since 1998; over half of them were children under the age of five. How can the United Nations not be able to protect them? How can a country that has so many natural resources, and has had billions of dollars invested in rebuilding it, not be able to sustain itself (that's not the right word)?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/10/01/congo.atrocities.un.report/index.html
This article talks about the recent report that the UN published regarding the many atrocities in the Congo. The report talks about how children were recruited for the army, and millions of people died. The report also focuses a lot on the horrible things that have happened to women and children. This article makes me wonder, if we know that these things are happening, why can't we help figure out a way to stop them? What caused the Congo to be in the constant state of war and heartbreaking atrocities? Just why?
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