Lauren's Reflection

I thought that the project was fun and really helped me get ready for the essay on the final. When my group picked the event that we were going to research we wanted to pick something that not that many other people had picked. We also wanted to pick something that we had never heard of before. I am pretty sure that have accomplished this because I never even knew that there was a place named Chechnya let alone that there was a war there. I learned a lot through this project including stuff about human rights and how it affects our daily lives. In the introduction I talked about how many people in the world aren’t aware of all the wars that had happened in our world. I probably had heard of about 3 of the 136 wars that I mentioned.

I thought that this project was good for us to do because it got us looking at cases of human rights issues. World War 2 was filled with the affects of human torture and maybe we just don’t look farther than the things right in front of our noses for problems, so this project helped us dig farther into the problems that we are facing. Maybe now we can better understand them.

Our group did Russia and the case of Chechnya. This was about a war over in Russia between Russia and the federal subject of Chechnya. The people in Chechnya wanted their independence from Russia. They went through two wars, the first from 1990 to 1996 and the second from 1999 to 2003. Even thought there isn’t an actual war going on right now the conflict still exists and is not resolved. The war was horrible, people killing other people for no other reason than just to kill them out of anger. I don’t know what I would do if I was a soldier in a war and was ordered to kill someone. Obviously I would not do it but if I knew that my superior would injure me to the point of death then I might do it. I could never understand the situations that anyone in a war is in and I don’t I could voluntarily fight for my country.

The only reason I didn’t like this project was that it was difficult to work in a group. No because of the people in the group but because not everybody had an email so it was difficult to organize everyone’s writing and get it posted. I also did not like that there were multiple groups doing each event. It was hard to differ the information your group had posted from theirs because not everyone put a name on their posts.

Overall I thought that this project was very helpful in preparing for the essay on the final because it taught you a lot about how human rights affected and still affects our world.