Genocide Research: Visual Essay and Gallery Walk

Genocide Research: Visual Essay and Gallery Walk

Due Date:______

Essential Question: What causes human beings to inflict suffering upon others?

Genocide: defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group”.

Step 1: Research your topic.

You are to research an event in the world when a human being has inflicted suffering upon someone else. For this project you are focusing on suffering to a vast amount of people (genocides). You will be given your topic in class (if you want to choose a topic not listed below, you will need to have it approved by me by Thursday January 5th).Answer the following questions, this should be 1-2 pages typed and include a works cited page with at least 2 separate sources.

• What is the background of the event or the person who inflicted the suffering?(this should include the who, where and when)
• How did this person or event affect the people of the country or community?
• What motivated this person (or people) to inflict suffering upon others?
• How did this person or event cause the suffering of others?
• Was there an attempt to bring the person or people responsible to justice?

Make sure you are using credible sources; here are some good ones to start with:

Human rights watch:

Documentation of Cambodia-

University of Minnesota-

Authentic History –

Yale U-

International Criminal Tribunal-

Darfur-

National Council for the Social Studies-

Sudan:

Step 2: Create a graphic or artistic visual that could represent the information that you have researched and learned. Try to come up with interesting, creative symbols and images to reflect the information on your visual. Someone should be able to tell what event you have researched through your visual piece and it should be answering the essential question above.

My research topic:______

Topics:

Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50)

Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1932-39)

Leopold II of Belgium (Congo, 1886-1908)

Ismail Enver (Turkey, 1915-20)

Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79)

Hideki Tojo (Japan, 1941-44)

Menghistu (Ethiopia, 1975-78)

Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94)

Yakubu Gowon (Biafra, 1967-1970)

Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982)

Jean Kambanda (Rwanda, 1994)

Saddam Hussein (Iran 1980-1990 and Kurdistan 1987-88)

Jonas Savimbi (Angola, 1975-2002)

Mullah Omar - Taliban (Afghanistan, 1986-2001)

Benito Mussolini (Ethiopia, 1936; Libya, 1934-45; Yugoslavia, WWII)

FodaySankoh (Sierra Leone, 1991-2000)

Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic, 1930-61)

Hafez Al-Assad (Syria, 1980-2000)

MLA FORMAT: If you are quoting or paraphrasing something from a source you need to include the author’s last name and the page number after the quote or paraphrase. Example: “The Darfur genocide killed 20,000 people” (Sutter 5).

If there is no author, include the name of the article: The Chinese revolution resulted in the deaths of nearly a million people (“Chinese Revolution” Par. 5). *Note that in the above example, this is a paraphrase, thus no quotes are used. Also, there was no page number, so a paragraph number was used instead.

Works Cited Page: Any source information that you provide in-text must correspond to the source information on the Works Cited page. More specifically, whatever signal word or phrase you provide to your readers in the text, must be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of the corresponding entry in the Works Cited List.

Basic Rules:

•Begin your Works Cited page on a separate page at the end of your research paper. It should have the same one-inch margins and last name, page number header as the rest of your paper.

•Label the page Works Cited (do not italicize the words Works Cited or put them in quotation marks) and center the words Works Cited at the top of the page.

•Double space all citations, but do not skip spaces between entries.

•Indent the second and subsequent lines of citations five spaces so that you create a hanging indent.

*Alphabetize your entries on your works cited page.

Example:

****I would see each of these works cited entries in my paper as an in-text citation. For example, in my paper I might see: Making vegetarian chili is very simple, one only needs a large pot and many vegetables (“How to Make Vegetarian Chili” par. 3). This was paraphrased from the online article on ehow.com.

For electronic sources you will need the following information:

•Author and/or editor names (if available)

•Article name in quotation marks (if applicable)

•Title of the Website, project, or book in italics

•Publisher information, including the publisher name and publishing date (date last updated). (if there is no date, use n.d.)

•Medium of publication (Web)

•Date you accessed the material.

Use the internet to help you with MLA format if you have any questions. The Owl at Purdue is a good source.