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Historical Genocides: Home

Information to be Gathered for Analysis

You will be researching a genocide that has happened over the last 100 years. You will be creating inquiry questions utilizing the guidance below:

 

The country + culture 

The historical/political context

The genocidal actions + results

The aftermath + lessons learned 

Possible Genocides to Evaluate

-Darfur Genocide (currently happening in Sudan)
-Rwandan Genocide (cultural genocide between historical tribal rivals)
-Bosnian Genocide (1990s, targeting Muslims)
-Cambodian Genocide (One of the worst genocides since the Holocaust)
-Armenian Genocide (Occurred in early 1900s and reoccurring today)
-Rohingya Genocide (Actively occurring in Myanmar) 
-Parsley Genocide (Dominican Republic)
-Holodomor Genocide (Russian genocide against Ukrainians) 

Citation

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Reference Databases

Whenever you are doing research it is good to get an overview of your topic. Use the Encyclopedia databases below to better understand your topic. Pull information and keywords from the articles found in these articles to guide your searches in other sources. NOTE: These are starting points only!

Databases

 

 

Catalog - Find Books, E-Books, and Audio Books

Log in to Destiny Discover to access these sources:

username: your ID#

password: your first name (all lowercase) (ie. kevin)

 

Useful Search Strategies

TRUNCATION

Truncation lets you search for a term and variant spellings of that term. 

Just add an asterisk (*) to a word with multiple endings:

EXAMPLE: interact* will search interacting, interacted, interaction, and interactivity

 

BOOLEAN SEARCHING

For more precise searching, connect your keywords in a meaningful way using the words AND, OR, and NOT.

Using AND narrows your search.

EXAMPLE: 

The more keywords you connect with AND, the fewer results you will retrieve. The database will need to find each of your keywords in the text in order to show it to you.

EXAMPLE: "homeless youth" AND "education" AND "new york city"

Using OR broadens their search. You should get MORE results using this strategy.

EXAMPLE: water OR lake OR river OR stream

Using NOT narrows your search.

This type of search is good to use when you already know what you DO NOT want.

EXAMPLE: (cars OR automobiles) NOT Europe.

 

QUOTATIONS

Sometimes you may want to search for a phrase. Using QUOTATION MARKS around a group of words will search the phrase as a whole instead of by individual terms. 

EXAMPLES: 

"common cold"

"primary school"

"community college"

 

 

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