Hotel Rwanda

I will be answering question #2: How did individuals, groups of people, and the world community fail the people of Rwanda?

Well they failed them greatly. For one, the Belgian UN guards eventually abandoned them. Some people who were foreign actually wanted to help but were forced away. When the intervention force arrived, they gave so many Rwandans the hope they needed. But there were only an intervention force to those lucky foreigners. Most of those foreigners wanted to stay and help but were forced out of the country. The foolish intervention force, just came to protect their own people not those who actually needed protection. That is just some of the ways. The newscaster, when he sent that footage, well it was able to get on the newscast, but did it help? Did all these people come to help the Rwandans in the struggle they are having to deal with? The simple answers: no. No one came to help, no one came to intervene, no one helped those who really needed help. That is how the world and everyone who could help failed the Rwandans. The only person who helped was the person Paul called in Britain. He helped but he was the only one, while the rest of the world let them down.

Africa Footstep Cartoon

Obviously, the main visual elements is a giant footstep on a black shape of Africa. The cartoon is trying to show that the Europeans really left there mark on Africa. The author does not seem to have an opinion on whether it is good or bad, just that they had huge impact and it can still be seen. Now it is not obvious that it the Europeans were the ones who made the impact but it was probably someone who had taken control of Africa at one point or another. Maybe this point could have been more clear, because it is not very obvious that somebody had made a impact/left there mark, and the cartoon could be misunderstood if one did not know about Imperialism. I mean to say that I interpreted this cartoon the way I did because I was learning about imperialism now, but if someone else interpreted this cartoon it could have been quite a bit difference. If the author really was trying to say what I thought he had to say, then he/she should have made it more clear.