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Congo Regressed Workers Decided Independence
325 wordsInstead of moving into a century of growth, The Congo seemed to regress after its independence in 1960. I feel that The Congo regressed in several ways. All of these ways attributed to the stagnation of The Congo. The Economy of the Congo regressed shortly after June 30 th 1960. My sources tell me that the GNP of Congo nearly halved itself weeks after independence. This is because all of the workers were doing other things. Some workers decided to join rebel armies and raid the Belgians. Some wo...
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Racial Tensions Colonial Powers
636 wordsColonialism has acted in many ways like a narcotic to the growth of Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, and Angola. These countries had their independence taken away by a colonial power and are just in the last few decades been regaining their independence. If many of these countries are to survive they must first readjust to their fairly new situation and find systems of their own that work. The Democratic Republic of Congo was taken by Belgium at the turn of the 20 th century. The Belg...
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Colonial Powers Raw Materials
423 wordsThe essay, The Myth of Global Ethnic Conflict by John R. Bowen, overlooks the work by Huntington, Kaplan, and Barber and their theories on ethnic conflict. Bowen states that there are three basic assumptions made about ethnic conflict. The three assumptions are: ethnic identities are ancient and unchanging; that these identities motivate people to persecute and kill; and lastly, that ethnic diversity itself leads to violence. He says that these are mistaken. He argues that ethnicities are a part...
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Crimes Against Humanity Facial Features
1,488 wordsGenocide is a crime on a different scale to all other crimes against humanity, and it implies an intention to completely exterminate the chosen group; genocide is therefore the greatest of the crimes against humankind. The massacres that transpired in Rwanda less than four years ago possess every quality attributed to the ramifications of genocide. There, in the clearest case of genocide since Hitler, a vast slaughter occurred which claimed the lives of more that 800, 000 Rwandans. This genocide...
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British And French Versailles Treaty
2,730 wordsMore than any previous war, World War II involved the commitment of nations' entire human and economic resources, the blurring of the distinction between combatant and noncombatant, and the expansion of the battlefield to include all of the enemy's territory. The most important determinants of its outcome were industrial capacity and personnel. In the last stages of the war, two radically new weapons were introduced: the long-range rocket and the atomic bomb. In the main, however, the war was fo...
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Congo Regressed Workers Decided Independence
327 wordsInstead of moving into a century of growth, The Congo seemed to regress after its independence in 1960. I feel that The Congo regressed in several ways. All of these ways attributed to the stagnation of The Congo. The Economy of the Congo regressed shortly after June 30 th 1960. My sources tell me that the GNP of Congo nearly halved itself weeks after independence. This is because all of the workers were doing other things. Some workers decided to join rebel armies and raid the Belgians. Some wo...
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