Mike P.
10C
The Racial War In Darfur
In 2003 genocide broke out in Darfur. Darfur is a state the size of France located in western Sudan and has a population of roughly six million people. After the genocide was finally finished it had claimed the lives of over 400,000 people and displaced more than two and a half million people. That is like all of the people in Nevada either being killed or displaced. The cause of the genocide was the Sudanese government’s discrimination of the black Arabs.
Despite the fact that the vast majority of the Darfur is Muslim, they were still discriminated because of their skin color. A quote from the book Darfur Diaries states, “The government in Sudan takes care of some states and ignores others. . . The policy followed in Khartoum is not the same in Darfur.” (Marlow 35) When this man talks about how some states are ignored he is talking about Darfur and all those affected in it. The government used a task force called the Janjaweed to kill all of the non-Arabian Muslims in Darfur. They would hunt down and kill anybody who was not Arab. Men, women, and children all died at the hands of the Janjaweed.
(Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images)
The killings were carried out systematically and Arabs who opposed the killings were killed as well. The Sudanese government tried to do the same thing that Hitler and the Nazi’s did sixty years prior. The racial cleansing carried out by the Sudanese government lasted many years and from what we know the killings are still going on today. This speaks to how the Sudanese government turned a blind eye to the entire situation after having been the ones who started it. Another quote from the book Darfur Diaries stood out to me, “Those talks with the government are not serious. The government is not giving correct information.” (Marlowe 48) This quote shows how the government acts like they are not responsible for the genocide going on even though they are the ones that instigated it.
Another tremendous problem facing the people of Darfur is that all fighting and conflict leaves millions of people homeless without a place to go. In Correspondence from Abroad by Gerald Martone a passage states, "1 million people have been uprooted, and more than 130,000 have fled to neighboring Chad." This quote shows how even if you are not killed or raped in Darfur, you can be affected by having to flee your home, village, or country entirely.
(www.ncpublicschools.org)
We are not entirely sure what goes on in Darfur because most of Sudan is closed off and not much documentation can be made as to what goes on inside, but from what we hear from most peoples accounts we can be pretty sure that racially fueled killings still go on not only in Darfur but all over Sudan. Although the government still keeps silent about what really happened and continues to go on the problem still affects millions of people all over the state of Sudan, there is still hope for the refugees that reside in Chad to stay safe from the Janjaweed and the Sudanese government that has betrayed them.
Hopefully sometime in the near future the conflict can be fully resolved, people can get back to where they lived, and people can finally start to begin putting their lives back together and the world can move on from this ordeal. Hopefully this will never happen again anywhere, even though every time we say that it seems to happen again.
(pictures.salem-news.com)
I chose this piece of school work because I believe I worked hard on this and really took the time to find the statistics, the quotes, and the pictures that would best best demonstrate my mastery of Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.
Media Sculpture
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I chose to use this picture of my sculpture because I believe this shows how I worked hard, took what I learned in Media class and applied those things to making it.
Spanish Presentation
Yo fui a la bodega de dominicana. Yo compre agua y pan. Yo sali de
la bodega. Yo doble a la izquierda. Yo anduve veinte metros. Yo doble a la
izquireda. Yo llegue al correo. Yo envie una carta. Yo sali del correo. Yo
doble a la derecha. Yo aduve cuarenta metros, y doble a la docha. Yo llegue al
supermercado. Yo tuve un bocadillo. Yo sali de supermercado. Yo regrese a mi
casa.
I chose to put this on my E-Portfolio because I really feel I wrote a good story that used good vocabulary, and was written well. I also feel like it demonstrates the ability to communicate in another language I gained over the coarse of this year.
Reflection
Over the course of this year I have learned many things, gained many strategies, and finally become a bit more organized. At first this year I was so overwhelmed with the amount of work that I wasn't really able to finish much of my work, so I went to my teachers and they helped me stay organized in Humanities and to always make sure I turned in the work I did. I also went to a regents prep class on Thursday during my Advisory class and learned new strategies and test taking skills that may help me pass the global regents. I learned a lot in Humanities and this year it was my favorite class. I could have done much better but next year I will be on my game. I intend to take the skills I have learned over the last two years at Frank McCourt and use them to better myself not only as a student but as a person.