Three Essays

The Young Turks were determined to create a common culture, language and religion shared by all, a movement that excluded all minority groups especially the Armenians. The genocide was not ethnically motivated, however. Any Armenians who were willing to adopt the language, culture and religion of the Turks were to be spared. Those who refused to convert or change over to the dominant Turkish culture, religion and language were tortured, buried alive, decapitated or burned. Unlike the Holocaust in Germany during World War II, the Turks permitted Armenians who would convert to live but not many were willing to change their religion or language to suit the Turks. Many Armenians were decapitated or otherwise killed in front of their families to instill fear in those Armenians left alive so as to motivate their conversion.

My grandfather was only ten-years-old when the Turks came to his village a

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, and all that is moving about human existence. By avoiding the arts, one loses not only the experiences of others but a significant experience of self. Work Cited DÆAmboise, J. (YEAR). I show a child what is possible, 209-212. ESSAY THREE: Love While there are many varieties of love, my personal descriptions of love relate to the love shared between my mother and I and the love I shared during my first real romantic love with my boyfriend. The love I share with my mother is love based on trust, nurturing, support and encouragement, and family bonds. This is a love I know will never be absent from my life no matter what choices or decisions I make. It is a love that forgives as well as guides. This love is powerful and strong, one that grows deeper with time and increased understanding. While this love is based on kinship, the love my mother and I share is also a love similar to that shared by good friends, as my mother and I enjoy a fun and deep relationship. There is seldom pain or sadness involved with this form of love. Quite often it is love that yields enormous joy, satisfaction and meaning. The other personal love I describe is the love shared by my first boyfriend and I. Being young and nanve, I thought this
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