Rwandan Genocide Talks

The Rwandan Genocide debate was very fun and exciting. I personally, was the United Nations. The United Nations played a key role in the Rwandan Genocide. Other teams such as the United States and Uganda tried to back us into a corner and tear us apart. We were asked many questions that were hard to answer, but luckily we were prepared for most of them. Some of the questions we got asked were “Why didn’t we help?” The easy answer was that we did not have the sufficient military support and weapons needed to face such a great opposition. Our counter question to that was “Since we did not have the military forces needed, then why did the United States deny us the tanks and military we asked for so that we could help in Rwanda? They had no answer and were stumped, but the bombardment of questions did not stop here. We also got asked “Why did we pull back our troupes after only ten of them died?” Our simple answer to that was by the time the reinforcements has gotten there, our 5,500 troupes would have been slaughtered. So to save their lives we pulled back to regroup with help from other countries and to get ready to go back in.
Other countries got interrogated with questions too besides us. The MRND was also asked many questions like “Why did u brainwash the Rwandan people?” They were prepared too and had answers to the questions. Jake was one of the main people asking all the questions during the debate. He kept asking the MRND questions and more questions until I thought they would pass out(which was good because it kept the questions of of the United Nations). Some people did not get to talk as much as they wanted to probably though like Uganda and the Interahamwe. Our main goal for everything was just to blame the United States. So if something got put or blamed on us we would somehow find a way to push it onto the United States. The United Nations was a very hard organization to do. It was not that hard to find out information of the United Nations role, but it was hard to find reasonable reasons why we pulled out of Rwanda and explanations to other hard questions. In the end though, I found that this pre Simen experience of being the United Nations in the Rwandan Genocide was a very fun thing to do in English. I cannot wait until the real Simen comes and I get a county to represent.

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Thinking Beyond the Horizon

Thesis- Emerson's argument in "The American Scholar" about American society still holds true today.
Emerson's argument is a valid statement, because people are no longer thinking to broaden their knowledge. In China, they only learn what subject you are good in. So if you are good in math that will be the only topic you learn. This would not broaden your knowledge and not allow you to be the professor, priest, and the scholar like Emerson explains. Another example is if a student goes to school only worrying about the subject he is good in like science. In the future he won't be able to be all he can and do the jobs others can.

The common man/women today does not care how their job influences others. They just do their job everyday and get paid. Men and women need to think like the scholars of how they help the world. The farmer helps the world by feeding people so they don't die. Doctors help people become healed when they are ill. Now a days though, people just worry about how much money they will make. Emerson had a great analogy when he said "Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better to answer its end." He is saying without everyone working together in the world and feeling they have a purpose then we are basically useless.

Buddah and Zeus Try to Save the Lions (capitilization story)

It was Thanksgiving weekend, and Zeus and Buddha were sitting around watching the Detroit Lions play from Mt. Olympus. Zeus was just sitting on his throne drinking a can of Pepsi, while Buddha was drinking Coke. Then Zeus said, "I am tired of watching this team get killed, I thought Lions are suppose yo be fierce!" Then Buddha said, "I don't know, I guess the Recession on Earth is hitting them hard. At this rate they should change their name to The Pink Bunnies." So a couple minutes later Zeus could not stand this horrible game anymore. He hurled a lightning bolt at Ford Field, and hit the ball right as it was in the air. Then Zeus shouted "I'm going to the East and watch the Steelers play." Zeus thought to himself, Finally a team that actually deserves to be on NBC and ESPN.
Zeus and Buddha later went to Coach Joe and and asked him how the Lions could improve. Joe just laughed and said pray. Zeus and Buddha were determined to help the Lions. They traveled to the West, to ask Coach Jim to help. After searching on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday they finally found him. So Jim said "Get us out of this Depression and I will tell you." So after much thought they fixed it and Coach Jim told them the secret. Just as they got back to Detroit, Aunt Alice (Zeus's aunt) and Uncle Ming (Buddha's uncle) said "You have to finish reading your books." Zeus had to read Expresso a book about speaking Spanish. Buddha had to read Gootentog, a book about speaking German. After all the work they could not tell the Lions how to get better and the Lions have been bad ever since.