Saturday, February 28, 2009

Another Paper about Genocide...which i should be writing right now

Now that exams have kind of died down, it's time to be focusing on something more important (this blog ha..ha).  No, actually some essays.  I have a Spanish one coming up, that should be interesting, but right now my focus is on another paper for another class that is due soon.  How does this paper pertain to my blog?  Well...it's about Genocide, something I now rarely discuss with people (out of frustration) but is of the upmost importance to me.  In particular, I will be focusing on the ongoing genocide in Darfur and the media's coverage of it (eighteen words down only about a thousand more to go!). 

The subject of Genocide is extremely important to me.  It is my topic when it comes to papers, essays, presentations, but more importantly, its rooted in my family history.  I grew up hearing the shocking stories of the Armenian Genocide and as i got older i grew a disgusted with the fact that i continued to exist.  Also, not to mention, Genocide is kind of like my "fall back" topic.  You know, the subject that we can write an essay on that no matter what kind of information we find, it will always, always, always, be of interest of us.  Maybe a better way to put it is passion.  Yeah, passion is a good word.  

I would much rather be theorizing why I choose the subjects that I choose but right now journalist/political commentator/author Walter Lippmann is calling my name.  He makes some excellent points and I prefer I him from that other guy (you know who you are, Dewey!).  

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