Di Giovanni Essay

Twenty years after the largest mass murder on European soil since the Third Reich, one question still remains unanswered. How did this happen when the eyes of the world were watching? Why were death squads able to, unchecked, massacre more than 8,000 men and boys in a UN protected “safe zone”? According to eyewitness accounts of survivors, “They stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and deliberately and methodically killed them solely on the basis of their identity” (International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia). The sole male survivor in his entire family, Mevludin Oric recounted how he lay for hours under the corpse of his nephew pretending to be dead while death squads searched the killing fields. “I closed my eyes...And for a few seconds before the expected shot, I wonder what it is like in heaven, or in hell.”(NBC)

A field sobriety test is commonly used to see if a driver is under the influence of alcohol or other substances. It's important that drivers understand how the test works and what is involved so that they are prepared should they ever find themselves having to take one. Understanding the field sobriety test will also allow drivers to better understand their rights.

The Bosnian, Srebrenica, and Herzegovina land was involved in an ethical war where ethnic cleansing was seen as a way to solidify the breaks in that region (“Bosnian Genocide”). The trigger of this ethnic war was the break-up of Yugoslavia from one country to three (Bosnia, Srebrenica, and Herzegovina) in 1990 (“Bosnian Genocide”). This rupture of Yugoslavia resulted in the massive dispute between Muslims, Serbs, and Croatians (Bennett). Not long after the war began, the Serbs began executing the Bosnian Muslims through ethnic cleansing, in order to fill the fissure that was created in 1990. The mass execution lasted three years and nine months, and did not end until the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervened in 1995 (Bennett); by that time, an unforgettable 70,000 Bosnian citizens were executed by the Serbs (Perl 71). If NATO had intervened sooner, perhaps thousands of lives could have been saved and this haunting genocide may have had less of an impact on the world.

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici was elected in 2012 to represent Oregon’s first district, which is located Northwest of the state. Bonamici is currently on two committees which are Education and Workforce and Science, Space and Technology. Her main priority as Congresswoman is to advocate for federal policies that can benefit working families a chance to succeed in the economy. Bonamici has been a big advocate in not only helping workers to become financially secure but also saving up for their retirement. Congresswoman Suzanne has been a strong supporter of raising the federal minimum wage, giving workers the opportunity to voice their opinion in their jobs, paid family leave and giving women the opportunity to have access to family

In James Baldwin's second novel published, we meet a young American called David. He has left his home country to live in Paris. In the first meeting with this man, he stares out a window and thinks about his life. Even this early in the book we get an impression of everything not being in its right place. This is where emptiness lives.

Genocide is the systematic annihilation of a group (“Bosnia”). Many have lost their entire families, including children, belongings, and opportunities. The Bosnian genocide is a tragic event that led to the death of 8,000 men and boys. Bosnia's current population is 3.8 million with a 48 percent of Bosnian muslims, 14 percent of Croats, and a 37 percent of Serbs. Those responsible for the genocide focused on what they deemed as “ethnic cleansing”. It is important to share this horrific event with the world, so it does not happen again, as it has occured in so many other nations.

The Los Angeles Times starts by explaining that a Bosnian Serb army colonel named Vidoje Blagojevic was charged with crimes against humanity and genocide. The Los Angeles Times stated that “the charges against Blagojevic relate to alleged Bosnian Serb atrocities around Srebrenica. More than 7,000 Muslim men and boys were executed after being caught fleeing a Serbian conquest of the town in July 1995” (Times Wire Services). This information supports the case of Blagojevic’s arrest but it also connects to bias by making the Bosnian Serbs (such as Blagojevic) more guilty of commiting war crimes. As the article goes on, the Los Angeles Times address that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) got involved on whether his arrest is justified.

In 1992 in the country that was once known as Yugoslavia embark (launch into) on one of the worst know genocide since World War II, the war in Bosnia. Bosnia was a human rights and humanitarian nightmare. The war was known as the Bosnia Ethnic cleansing. The targets of this ethnic cleansing operations were Bosnian Muslims. The object was to destroy and forcefully remove those of Muslim religious faith. Many Families witness unjust imprisonment, torture, killings, and some exiled. In The Bosnia List: A Memoir of War, Exile and Return, Kenan Trebincevic and his family was one of the last Muslim family in their building, and then in their town during this time of turmoil. Throughout the course of this memoir, Kenan Trebincevic and his family lost their right to vote, their freedom of religion and liberty and respect to their privacy.

Music has the capability to bring forth many emotions and feelings in a person. Depending on the tone and the melody of the music, emotions such as anger, joy, and grief may arise. For example, rap music, in general, brings forth emotions such as anger, frustration, and rage to a person's mind. Melodies such as Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On and Aerosmith's I Don't Want To Miss A Thing often arouse emotions of love, sadness, and hope; "lovey-dovey" feelings which remind a person of a past or current love. In Mozart's Opera Don Giovanni, many emotions and feelings, such as hatred, distress, and sorrow are portrayed and felt through the characters.

The foremost aspect of chivalry that should be understood is what this code of conduct actually implied for the nobles of the Medieval Ages. When it comes to the concept of chivalry developed during the time of the Crusades in the middle Ages, it began as a code of conduct for the knights. For them, their actions were not solely occasional, but rather a way of life. The key ideals behind chivalry were not intelligible acts that could be performed. Yet, they were about attitudes and virtues that should be owned. The standard of chivalry, nonetheless, had considerably deeper roots. An author of Bloody Constraint, Theodor Meron said, “War and Chivalry in Shakespeare, states that the practitioners of chivalry, the knights, were expected to be cultivated

Before the introduction of the bill titled “Punishment for the Crime of Lynching” (S.1978), previous attempts to introduce antilynching legislation at the federal level had met with no success. By 1934, changed attitudes toward the role of the government encouraged people to think that antilynching legislation would now be successful. Bill S.1978, which later became known as the Costigan-Wagner bill, was drafted and introduced by Senators Edward P. Costigan (D-CO) and Robert F. Wagner (D-NY) as an attempt to implement federal law intended to “assure to persons within the jurisdiction of every state the equal protection of the laws, and to punish the crime of lynching.”

The moment for this poem passed long ago as the sly smile of James Baldwin browns the cover of his words in the interview where he questions is there a gay community, and if he was ever a member, while a woman shimmies in a red dress in my memory of a dance floor and I hear miles and Miles and a marathon of Bessie in the thought I am neither black nor white nor any other but I have loved this brown face as perhaps no other man, though I will never be of his and he of mine, though we keep each other, don't we, in these lines. O Giovanni's room, that love you deny is your own soul's tiny tiny space in the

At a time when humanist thinkers occupied themselves with determining man’s position in the world, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, in the 15th century Oration on the Dignity of Man, asserted that man is master of both his dignity and destiny, and there was no limit to what scientists may achieve as long as they glorify God in the end. World history teaches that, though scientists might begin research with the intent of glorifying God , the rush to advance in science and technology and the fever to uncover the wonders of nature result in hubris and the abandonment of God and the subsequent exaltation of human beings’ God-like properties. Scientists throughout the centuries have held differing opinions about the limits humans should impose on science: whereas Pico della Mirandola believed science was to be used for the glorification of God, but never for the imposition of man on God’s will; Sir Francis Bacon, writing 150 years later, believed that any scientific experimentation or means which justified the end goal of human perfection were acceptable, even if they interfered with God’s creations. In the 21st century, ethicists and scientists from around the world propose that science should be allowed to continue with broad moral checks; science is not inherently good or

Kosovo is a southern province of Serbia, the core of the former Yugoslavia. Slobodan Milosevic is currently president of Yugoslavia. He has been president in Serbia since 1989. In 1989, President Slobodan Milosevic stripped Kosovo of its autonomous status and declared the Albanian language unofficial. Yugoslavia came on the edge of economical collapse under his role. The crisis and war he has started with Kosovo is his third war. Last year violence broke out between Serbian police (MUP) and rebels known as the KLA, prior to that there were many years of political struggle between Albanian organizations and the government of Serbia. NATO has decided to take military action after unsuccessful peace talks with Milosevic.

By the war's end, the Bosnian Conflict claimed the lives of over 100,000 civilians and soldiers, and forced another 2 million from their homes. This so called civil war was next on the list compared with the destruction of Jews in WWII. It began after ethnic and political conflicts within Bosnia started to divide it’s people and cause cracks within its political system. Other republics known as Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, and Macedonia surround Bosnia and was what made up the country called Yugoslavia. One by one these territories declared independence, but when Bosnia tried to do the same, some disapproved and tried to put a stop to it. In the face of all the attempts to stop their freedom, the Bosnians stood their ground and gained independence in March 1992. Nevertheless over the next 4 years, Bosnian civilians were ravaged by the relentless Serbian militaries and their use of the tactic “ethnic cleansing” that killed masses and caused millions to become refugees. Bosnians have faced many injustices before, during, and after the war, primarily by the dictation of Serbia’s president, Slobodan Milosevic, and other Serbian officials.