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Darfur, Sudan. The world’s biggest crisis, maybe second to Iraq. As a class, we found this incredible website called Darfur is Dying. It shows you a day in the life of a refugee camp, and young kids running for water so that they survive. You can also look at the camp, and see the daily […]
Filed by two13 at February 29th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Reflecting back on this year, and the writing we’ve done, my favorite post would have to be the Darfur Interview with Ben & Alex. I really liked this post because I got to show what I’ve learned and what I knew about my topic. The Darfur issue was a big deal in our classroom, and because […]
Filed by two13 at February 25th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Genocide is defined as ” ..the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, political, racial &/or cultural group.” But genocide doesn’t just immediately begin. There are eight common and typical stages that you see occuring before the “real” genocide takes place.
The first stage is classification. This is when people are classified by their culture, ethnicity […]
Filed by two13 at February 19th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Darfur is a region in western Sudan. In February 2003, right after the civil war ended, the genocide and conflict began to start. The rebel groups became largely frustrated and led an attack against the government. But the government took it seriously, and led an even bigger attack against the Darfur region. The government just […]
Filed by two13 at February 11th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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To enhance global responsibility for the events and genocide currently taking place in Darfur, we are holding an “International Darfur Awareness Day [Many Voices for Darfur].”
We are group of 8th graders who are planning to blog for the genocide in Darfur on March 6th. Darfur is a smaller, rural city in Sudan. Since the oil […]
Filed by two13 at February 10th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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Today we watched a stunning video about the crisis & genocide in Darfur. My group, Darfur Awareness, did a blog about the crisis, and the many ways we would like to support them, so I already knew some of what was in the video. Little did I know, it got even worse. The Janjaweed, a […]
Filed by two13 at February 5th, 2008 under Uncategorized
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