The genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people in camps. Also 3.5 million people are now considered hungry. More than one hundred people continue to die each day; five thousand die every month. The Sudanese government disputes these estimates and denies any connection with the Janjaweed militia. It is assumed that the hundreds of rapes reported and treated are not even close to the actual number committed, as victims of rape in Darfur are often too scared or too ashamed to seek help.
Hate Crimes Hate Crime, just the word hate seems to bring a sort of uneasiness too many people, add in the word crime and all sorts of thoughts and emotions start running through my head. According to the “Merriam –Webster” (2014) “dictionary the definition of hate crime states; any of various crimes (as assault or defacement of property) when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group (as one based on color, creed, gender, or sexual orientation)”. Any and everyone can be a victim of a hate crime. There are many different types of hate crimes that are based on a person’s race, religion, disability, gender, and a person’s sexual orientation. The word hate crime didn’t come to light until the 1980’s but it is a known factor
Every night American family saw graphic pictures of Zippo raids, bombings and killings. Almost every town and village in the America faced the problem of their young men being either killed or wounded in Vietnam * Others faced physiological problems such as post-traumatic stress * President Johnson ordered heavy air force bombing raids which led to deaths of thousands of Vietnamese civilians including women and children * More than 11 000 died in 1967 a further 16 500 died in 1968 ( American soldiers) * The My Lai massacre resulted in the murder of 397-504 civilians mainly women, children and the elderly. Many of the victims were raped and tortured * The horror of death maiming, burning, terror and unthinkable destruction of a small country on the evening news, coupled with the threat of the draft made it feel like nothing
The Black Death The Black Death, known as the Black Plague, or the Bubonic Plague killed one third of the population of Europe during the 13th and 14th centuries. The beginning of this plague set the scene for years suffering. It left the social and economic world in pause. The Black Death became a subject of art, music and folklore and it influenced the mind of the people. The impact of this mass killer caused disorder to the medieval society because of its unknown origin, the unknown causes and preventions, its deathly symptoms and its breakdown of life.
Between 1974 and 1978 the United States was in a state of terror as the country’s most prolific serial killer, Ted Bundy, was on the loose wreaking havoc. Bundy raped and killed women in Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Utah, and Florida. Bundy eventually confessed to 40 murders [ (Lohr, 2002) ], but others estimate that he was responsible for many more deaths, starting as early as 1961 [ (Shadow, 2008) ]. The biggest question that many people pondered was how someone as intelligent, as highly accomplished, and as praised as Bundy could commit such atrocities. Although some people believed that Ted Bundy was born evil, he became a sociopathic murderer of women due in part to his antisocial personality disorder, his failure to form bonds that would encourage conformity to societal norms and his viewing of violent pornography which stimulated his aggression against women.
What is a hate crime? 2. Should hate crimes be punished more severely than other types of crimes that are motivated by anger, passion, or greed? Why or why not? Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the GCU Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
Do you prosecute that as a hate-crime, just because it might be? One group of people is now getting special treatment under the law. That sounds lot like discrimination to me, which isn't how this country is supposed to work. Whatever happened to equal protection under the law? Further, because most hate-crime legislation puts added effort into prosecuting crimes against certain individuals or groups, what about the same crimes committed against someone who doesn't fit into one of those groups?
2,700,000 polish jews died being the most affected during the holocaust. 1,250,000 soviet jews died. And 1,390,000 other jews died. Because of the holocaust the jews are offended by the word hitler, and jew. This is an outrage to all of people in the world.
Horrific injuries were inflicted upon everyone in the blast radius, upon women and children, and the lasting effects have still yet to fade. The psychological effects are unknown as well. Many survivors were most likely traumatized by seeing their entire lives turned to ruin, seeing family members dead, seeing their entire community turned to ashes. Thousands of years of culture, food, and literature was lost at the insensitivity of U.S. generals. Even though “The American government estimated 1,000,000 lives lost in a war”, civilians did not deserve to suffer for the sake of others (Zenger).
Sailors abroad arrived dead or gravely sick, with mysterious black boils all over them, which gave this disease its name “The Black Death”. Over the next five years, this plague killed one third of Europe’s population, which is about 20 million citizens. It was the first epidemic of the second series of outbreaks of the disease (Gottfried xiii) The Black Death was the greatest catastrophe ever which resulted in great fear, and impacted European society religiously and economically. Black is the metaphorical sense of terrible, and that is exactly was the plague was, a terrible and devastating epidemic linked to rodent and human ecology. This disease varied between Bubonic, Phumonic and Septicaemic plague strains.