Genocide Essay Prompt and Outline

Genocide Essay Prompt and Outline

- Essay Test Prompt: Define Genocide and summarize the 8 Stages of Genocide and how they function, explain a major similarity and a major difference between the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide in relation to the 8 Stages of Genocide, and explain what the most important actions are that can be taken to prevent genocide.

 I. Introduction

  A. Lead-in ("Hook": quote, fact, statistic, anecdote):

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        2.

  B. Historical Context (anti-Semitism, Social Darwinism; Colonialism in Africa/Rwanda:  

1.

  2.

  C. Thesis: Your topic (subject), view (argument: what should we learn from your essay?)

  1. Subject:

  2. View:

II. Definition of Genocide and summary of the 8 stages and how they function

   A.

   1.

   2.

   B.

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2.

III. Similarity: Choose one of the eight stages:

    A. Define/describe the stage

    1.

    2.

     B. Analysis of why the two genocides are similar in relation to this particular stage

    1.

  2.

IV. Difference: Choose another stage of the eight stages:

     A. Define/describe the stage

    1.

  2.

     B. Analysis of why the two genocides are different in relation to this particular stage

    1.

    2.

V. Prevention of genocide and lesson of history

     A. Key preventative measure for us today:

    1.

  2.

     B. Lesson of history:

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      2.