Rwanda Personal Statement

I was born and raised in Haiti and moved to the United States in 2006 for a better education. After completing middle and high school, I decided to attend college. Because I came from a poor country, I am always motivated to strive for greatness. I grew up seeing people struggling and from those circumstances it is embedded in my head that I will not stop reaching for success. Attending Claflin University was the start on my successful journey.

Rwanda is located in East Africa. Rwanda has a population of 12 million people and only 23% of this population has access to the electric grid. Rwanda boarders with Burundi in the south, Democratic Republic of Congo in the west, Tanzania in the East and Uganda in the North. It is a small, densely populated country, with an area of 3/4 of the Netherlands. Rwanda belongs to the 20 poorest countries in the world. However, economic growth was high in recent years, and the prospects for further development are good (World Bank, 2015).

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The first article is called Return to Rwanda, and is written about a man named Jean-Claude Munyezamu, who was forced to flee his home country of Rwanda during the genocide, but is returning home 20 years later. The main point of this article is to show how the genocide occurred, and show short and long term effects that the 1994 genocide had and still have on the people of Rwanda. According to the article, the genocide was one that had been building up for a very long time, possibly from the time Germans began to control the country in 1894. After WW2 Germany was forced to hand the country over to the possibly even more race obsessed Belgians. As we know, at this time in Europe tall, light skinned, small facial featured peoples were seen as

Genocide movie analysis Hotel Rwanda and Hitler were in about the same time period with World War II going on: 1940’s. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is about a boy who lives in a Nazi family becomes friends with a boy of the same age in a concentration camp. Hotel Rwanda is a movie about a person named Paul and how he helped out the side that he should have been fighting. Hitler’s events took place in Europe and Hotel Rwanda was in Africa. Both of these movies are trying to illuminate that human differences don’t matter.

To analyze the need for a pulse flow in the lower Colorado River, we assessed the historical streamflow data of the Colorado River. We first created a time series, Figure 3, of the streamflow of the Colorado River below the Yuma Main Canal in Arizona, which is a few miles upstream from where the pulse flow was added at the Morelos Dam. Each data point represents the monthly mean streamflow rate (discharge rate) in cubic feet per second, from 1963 to 2016, as reported by the United States Geological Survey (USGS, 2017). The red linear trend line in Figure 3 shows the overall trend in the streamflow rate during this time period.

The Rwandan 1994 genocide was an absolute tragedy in African history. Before reading this book, I didn’t know much about it. I knew that there was a war in a small African country where a whole ethnic group was almost wiped out. I knew that there was a woman who had to stay hiding in a tiny bathroom for three months along with several other women. I had this information because in my fifth grade English class we were reading The Diary of Anne Frank and her story about the Jewish Holocaust. Immaculee Ilibagiza, the author and narrator of the book, was just made an American citizen, so we spent the whole class reading about her life and her journey throughout the Rwandan Holocaust. Before reading this book, I had no knowledge of the country,

As children we are told to follow our dreams, to work hard, and never give up.

Hotel Rwanda, a movie that focuses on the issues of hunger and poverty, is a very eye-opening movie. This movie takes a look into the Rwandan Genocides and gives you a good idea of what was going on in 1994.

Beginning in 2008, I have traveled numerous times to the central African nation of Rwanda to perform a wide range of research on the country’s history, genocide and rebirth. While my studies on Rwanda began with a focus on better understanding the 1994 genocide, also referred to as the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, it grew and developed. Since my first visit to Rwanda, I have become passionate in better understanding Rwanda and the surrounding Great Lakes region, which includes the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Burundi, Central African Republic, Kenya and Tanzania. I want to continue my academic career at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, because of the unique opportunity

One of my absolute favorite films of all time is the movie “ Hotel Rwanda”, based on the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, this was genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority. During this Paul Rusesabagina, a man no different from you or me, saved the lives of over 1,000 Tutsi adults and children. He was the manager of a popular hostelry in Rwanda with many international and local guest. Many Hutu radicals began uprising in hostile acts of brutality but none very alarming, not until the first day of the Genocide where thousands of Hutu supremacist killed

The people of Rwanda first gained their independence from Belgium on the first of July in 1962 (UN, 2016). Since then, their nation has grown both economically and in population.They are one of the most highly populated areas in their region, but as the number of people increases, so does the tension between ethnicities.

From the names and institutions that appeared in the transition process it was clear that the transition to an Obama Presidency will not, in the short term, reflect the kind of change that was promised in the election campaign. Instead of a future of sustainable peace and transformation, one saw a re-emergence and recycling of the same militarists such as Susan Rice emerging as a top official of the US foreign policy establishment. When mass killings erupted in Rwanda in April 1994, Rice was serving on the National Security Council and was part of a coterie of U.S. officials who took little action to stop violence. Even after the reality of genocide in Rwanda had become irrefutable, when bodies were shown choking the Kagera River on the

In the documentary Inanga: A Song of Survival in a Daughter’s Rwanda, Sibomana Athanase says, “After the drum, the inanga is the queen of all the traditional instruments” (Inanga: A Story of Survival in a Daughter’s Rwanda). For Rwandans, it is an instrument that is deeply rooted in tradition and in culture, yet as time goes on, it is slowly losing its appeal across generations. Traditionally associated with the Tutsi people, the inanga’s identity lies in its historical origin. Played in the courts in order to soothe the Tutsi kings, or mwami, the inanga became a concrete symbol of the contention and power divide that separated Rwanda into two distinct groups (Barz, McGovern). It is

Rwanda has a relatively poor infrastructure, transportation costs for imports and exports are among the highest in the world. The nation lacks a connection to regional railway networks, which limits all trades are processed by road or air. Non-tariff barriers add to elevated transportation costs leading to inflated prices of domestically manufactured products, as majority of raw materials processed for manufacturing need to be imported. Energy costs, at $0.24 per kilowatt-hour which well surpasses the rates in other East African countries. Annual per capita income at USD 697 in 2015. A shortage of skilled labor containing accountants, lawyers, technicians, and other skilled professions. Increased interest rates and exceptionally restricted