Africa News Current Events #1

U.N. Chief: Rebels 'poisonous' for Congo

This article was about the rebels in Congo. The rebels are fighting the government troops in The Democratic of Congo and the U.N. chief was concerned that the rebels will be "poisonous" for Congo. The violence and the attacks were worsening the whole issue and the situation. A lot of innocent people have been exposed to the battles and though many of them fled to other countries or the U.N. protected camps, hundreds have died during the last past eight weeks. It had started from the killings of a half-million Tutsis by Hutu militia in Rwanda and Congo's civil wars in 1994. A lot of people were killed and people near by could hear someone screaming and would find a corpse being taken away in the morning. People demanded that Nkunda and Mai Mai commanders should order their troops to stop committing such horrible crimes and that they should be responsible for all the deaths. Other countries have agreed to stop arming, financing or support armed group in anyway.

I thought that this article was important because the rebels could end up worsening the whole country. A lot of innocent people are getting murderd out in the streetins and making all the people around the country more stressed and panicked. Many people, including the neighboring countries and the U.N. have to suffer from it and is trying to work things out.

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5 Themes of Geography

There are people seating out in the restaurant watching the view and eating. There aren't that many people walking around and a there is a man dressed up like a waiter. The climate is very good and the sky is pretty with clouds and the sky is azure. The whole place is really bright and clean. The people are wearing normal European clothes and are just ambling through the streets. There is no car on the street. The houses are not tall and have a slanted roof. The ground floor of the buildings are shops and on top are houses where people live in.

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Violence Leads to More Violence

Evaluate this quote, “Violence leads to more violence.” Use evidence from Julius Caesar and current world events to support or reject.

The meaning of the quote is that once you start a violence, it'll never end or become worse. You should never solve things by violence because it could come back to you. I think that was what happened in Julius Caesar. Brutus and the other conspirators shouldn't have had killed Caesar without telling him what their problems were. Because at the end, they all ended up like Caesar. You wouldn't know who would be holding grudges against you. I think that happens in modern world when people murder other people usually because they hold grudges against that people. It happens in wars too. When a country A start attacking the other, B, country B won't just let country A attack their country. Some other countries who haven't been liking country A might start helping country B to defeat country A. And other countries would start making teams which will lead to a calamity and end up killing a lot of innocent people.

Brutus's Dilemma

If I was Brutus, and had to choose between my best friend and my country, I would choose to save my country and join the conspiracy. Even though Caeser is a good general and popular to the commoners, it doesn't mean that he is a good leader who can make peace and improvement to Rome. And the situation Brutus is in makes it harder for Brutus to choose Caeser over Rome, because he also loves his country and according to Cassius, Caeser will be a bad infuluence to Rome. Brutus doesn't really have the choice because Cassius is making the decisions for Brutus by making him think that many others also agree with him. Brutus thinks that Caeser will do anything he wants to do and not care about other people's suggestions. It's natural for people like Caesar who has power to become selfish and greedy.

Imperialism

Imperialism is when a powerfull country take over smaller country for land, capital and labor. Imperialism began in Europe where the countries are all small. For example, England took over India for cotton and indigo, and Muslim countries for the access to the seas. It was easier for European countries to take over countries such as India and some in Africa where there was no one big community. Also, England and the other European countries were advanced in technology. When other countries would ask for help in governing the country, they would gladly help them and slowly take over the land. That's what happened to Turkey, Persia, and Egypt. But Imperialism wasn't all that bad. It brought some advantages for the poor countries. For example, India could learn some new technology and everyone started speaking in English which now is a great advantage for them. In Turkey, after loosing all the lands, the leaders decided to modernize their country and now Turkey is one of the richest countries.

Leadership

What are the qualities of a good leader? Who are the student leaders in Grade 8? How do they demonstrate the qualities of a good leader?

People who become leaders in a gang or in a school are people who are usually loud, dramatic, bright, handsome or pretty, and makes school interesting. These people do thing that others want to do but cannot do either because they are not allowed or not brave enough. The leader type people are very brave to do things and makes things seem fun. People around these people think that everything they do is "cool". Because school is a dull place where there are strict rules and things to learn. These people make others want to come to school.

End of Quarter 1 Feedback

My goal in the first quarter was to memorize more vocabularies by reading and improve on writing essays. I think I didn't really reach my first quarter goal. I did a really poor job on writing assignments and didn't work hard on them. The vocabularies are always the same in my essays so that proves that I hadn't really worked in learning vocabularies.
What are three specific goals that you have for quarter two in humanities?
For this quarter, I think that I should keep the same goals; improving on writing essays and learning more vocabularies by reading. I should read more educational books. I think that for this quarter, I should read more about the topic at home and improve on researching for more specific informations by using the library books instead of internet.