Persuasive Essay On Blind Obedience

In 1983, Raymond Carver introduced his short story “Cathedral” to the public. The first-person narrative takes place within the narrator’s home, where his wife is waiting upon the arrival of her blind friend Robert. The narrator, however, becomes more concerned about how Robert’s visit will affect him rather than enjoy the situation. Once Robert arrives, the narrator tries to understand the blind man, but he is unaware of what tasks Robert is capable of performing due to the narrator’s inability to “see”. In time, Robert shows the narrator the difference between looking and seeing through illustrations of a cathedral, drawn by the narrator with his eyes closed. “Cathedral’s” narrator exposes readers to anti-heroic views

According to Daniel Goldhagen, genocides are constantly being underestimated, which causes the never ending realities of the past repeating itself. From high officials to ordinary citizens, people often overlook the pattern and causes of these systematic killings. One of these includes the UN, which was created to prevent another World War, and to protect the rights of sovereignty of member states. This organization serves to solve international issues, but has failed and continues to fail to prevent genocides. Even though this group signed in 1948 a UN document, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which punished and still punishes people guilty of genocide, not one life was ever saved from that declaration. The reason is because most at first want to deny that these extreme situations could happen ever again. Sadly,

“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think” (Hitler, Mein Kampf). As time passed, there has been many times in history where a genocide has occurred. A genocide is a one-sided massacre from one party toward an ethnic or different group of people. As genocides occurred, questions such as “Why do people kill?” and “How can people allow these atrocities to occur?” are asked. There have been many theories made up as people researched the reason behind genocides. Throughout different centuries in history, genocides such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Asian genocide, have occurred because of the negative psychological effects on the people caused by propaganda, corrupted leaders, and differences in ethnic groups.

Ever since the holocaust in World War 2 there has been more than a dozen genocides, not only in Germany where it started, but from all over the world. Most of these genocides had started off from one race thinking they are better or superior to another. Races that thinks they are better start blaming the other race for economic problems they face like, political, social & many other things. They think the only way to fix this problem is to get rid of the race that they believe is cause of their problems thus causing the being of a genocide. There’s been genocides that people don’t even know that have happened & that the holocaust was the only genocide known. I’m going to name & example some of the different genocide that have happened since

Hollie Nyseth Brehm’s article, “The Crime of Genocide”, digs deep into the violent conditions and acts that eventually cause genocides. To begin with, genocide refers to a deliberate or intentional act of committing an action that destroys the existence of an ethic, racial or religious group of

Genocide has been around for many centuries. One of the most known happened in 1915 when residents of the Ottoman Empire were told to leave upon orders from the government. Due to the long and harsh travels, there was an enormous amount of disease trapped in the concentration camps. With that alone, there was an estimated amount of one million Armenians killed. Another example of genocide is when the Khmer Rouge took control of the Cambodian government in 1975. Citizens who were suspected of receiving an education were tortured at the Tuol Sleng prison. In four years, approximately two million Cambodians died in the “Killing Fields.” A Civil War in Rwanda aroused tension between the Tutsi minority and Hutu minority. When the Rwandan president’s plane was shot down, there was no doubt that a war was about to break out. The two minorities found themselves in the center of the conflict; in the end, the “outbreak” claimed the lives of an estimated 100,000 people. About a decade ago, the Sudan government showed an act of genocide when they murdered 300,000 Darfuri citizens and displacing two million. In addition to that, Native Americans died from colonial conflict, disease, and discrimination devastated their population. Within this time period, over nine million Natives died

Many times we may hear but not respond, we see and don’t move and having the ability to take action we don’t even move a finger until the situation is out of control. It’s amazing how ignorant and stubborn the human race can be. This is exactly the response of many nations when it comes to genocide. Genocide is the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group. Two of the most recent genocides in history are the genocide of Rwanda and the genocide of Cambodia.

Raphael Lemkin described genocide as "acts of barbarism that should be outlawed, even in times of war". Lemkin is right. Genocide is a cruel vicious act that I do not wish upon my greatest enemies. It is torture and death. A lot of people think genocide is a thing of the past. After all it is 2014 already. We are so much more advanced and connected then back during the time of the Holocaust. A genocide started just 22 years ago and it was during the Bosnian War. The Bosnian Genocide was atrocious because it classified and dehumanized a religion, it allowed for the extermination of a people based on religion and the murderers denied they ever committed a crime and tried to cover the deaths up.

The definition of genocide according to Merriam-Webster dictionary, “The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation”. The genocide with the most amount of deaths was the Holocaust, killing an estimated amount of six million people from 1933 to 1945. Another example is the genocide happening in Iraq since 2014, the last update, of which was on August 3, 2017. About 3,100 Yazidis have been killed in horrifying ways, along with 6,800 people kidnapped. Genocides have killed more people than most can even fathom. It’s still killing thousands of people, even to this day. This violence needs to stop!

Genocide is one of the evillest moral crimes any ruling authority such as a government can commit against its people and it happens more than we think. A general definition of Genocide is the intention to destroy or murder people because of their race, beliefs, or even political and economic status. As we have been taught in this course Raphael Lemkin, created the term ‘Genocide’ 1944. Lemkin combined the ancient Greek word ‘genos’ which means race and the Latin word ‘cide’ which translates to killing. There are many examples of genocide in the world but the most recognizable is that of the Holocaust and how the German powers that be sought and attempted to kill all Jews. A recent example is the Rwandan Genocide in 1994 where the assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana caused a violent reaction resulting in mass killings. In efforts to reduce Genocide, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (UNCG) was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 and was placed in force in 1951. On July 1, 2002 the International Criminal Court (ICC) came into force. The ICC not only accepted the UNCG’s definition of Genocide but expanded it to include crimes against humanity such as enslavement, deportation, torture, rape, enforced disappearance and apartheid. There have been many organizations created throughout the world to defend and prevent genocide and even communities, religions and even colleges are forming organizations and these are just some examples of how

To answer this question one must know what the definition of genocide truly means. If one goes on to answer this term without prior knowledge, then they will abuse the word like many other people throughout history. The word/term ‘genocide’ means to kill, inflict, or cause bodily harm “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” The word ‘genocide’ has been abused and misused several times since the closing of the Holocaust by the media and various people around the world. It is in the best interest of humankind to use this term only when it is absolutely necessary. The reason for this is because the word ‘genocide’ will lose its original meaning and join a vast list of various terms that have lost their value because of overuse.

Background: Genocide is a horrific event that must stopped and prevented around the world. With that, political leaders that played roles in the genocide must be prosecuted and given necessary punishment. The convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of punishment defined genocide as an act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. One of the biggest and most known genocide would the Jewish Holocaust during World War II, where more than 11 million innocent people lost their lives under the Nazis regime. Other genocides have occurred after the Holocaust, such as the Rwandan Genocide and the genocide in Darfur (Still occurring). Genocides can include mass murder, acts of terrorism, Physical or mental abuse, exclusion from certain rights, or

Sadly, genocide has happened too many times in the past. However, measures can be taken to prevent this atrocity. Firstly, governments of other countries can take a stand; an outside force can bring hope to a desolate situation. Secondly, protection of civilians during armed conflict. Unfortunately, conflict is bound to happen- not only between people, but between countries. If those not involved in the conflict are protected and kept away, it can prevent the death of innocent people. These are just a few ways the atrocity that is genocide can be

Many people to this day believe that one of the main reasons that we can't reach out and help the genocide problem is because the world isn't developed enough yet to learn how to prevent and predict these mistakes. Even though we learned from history that genocide is a bad thing and not the answer, we still can't predict on what will cause a genocide or why they happen. It can go from sometimes people just being crazy or someone holding a grudge against a certain group of people.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external direction (naturaliter maiorennes [those who come of age by virtue of nature]), nevertheless remains under lifelong tutelage, and why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as their guardians. It is so easy not to be of age. If I have a book that understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a physician who decides my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble myself. I need not think, if I can only pay -- others will easily undertake the irksome work for me. That the step to competence is held to be very dangerous by the far greater portion of mankind (and by the entire fair sex) -- quite apart from its being arduous is seen to by those guardians who have so kindly assumed superintendence over them. After the guardians have first made their domestic cattle dumb and have made sure that these placid creatures will not dare take a single step without the harness of the cart to which they are tethered, the guardians then show them the danger which threatens if they try to go alone. Actually, however, this danger is not so great, for by falling a few times they would finally learn to walk alone. But an example of this failure makes them timid and ordinarily frightens them away from all further trials.