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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Meghann Ellis

Meghann Ellis

Bystanders to Genocide - Samantha Power - The Atlantic - 5 views

  • As the terror in Rwanda had unfolded, Clinton had shown virtually no interest in stopping the genocide, and his Administration had stood by as the death toll rose into the hundreds of thousands.
    • Meghann Ellis
       
      What else could President Clinton have done? This is the question that many find debatable. Is the duty of the United States to protect other nations in times of genocide. Honestly I think that many didn't not know how bad the genocide was at first but as time went on more and more died, which called for more nations to step in and help. Clinton was taking a huge risk if he put his country into the mix of the genocide. Oddly enough I don't think that there was much he could personally do and so I think he made a good choice in just staying out of it, even though it may not be the most moral thing to do.
Meghann Ellis

http://www.astcweb.org/public/publication/documents/Burkley%20Sept%202008%20TJE1.pdf - 7 views

    • Meghann Ellis
       
      It is interesting to see that in the how to say it section that keeping your arguments to a minimum will increase the strength of an argument but also make it easier to take a side.  You would think that if you have numerous reasons for an argument that it would make the audience think that your argument is much stronger but it just shows that you are trying to pull in as much information to go off of in order to not look dumb. Obviously phrases like umm, and like make an argument weak to the listener.
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