Thursday, October 25, 2012

Armenian genocide

It all began with the ottoman Empire which was ruled by the Turks who acquired the empire through conquest, the main city was Constantinople. they were at war with a few nations. A man named Sultan Abdul Hamid came to power. Under his rule, there would be a series of massacres occurred to frighten the Armenian people. The empire was at war with the allies in World War I, after suffering a string of losses, they retreated to continue their campaign to kill the Armenians. they hid the people in caravans to look like the troop transports, so if the allies had seen them, they would be killed. if they made it back to their lines, they were taken to camps to be worked to death or killed. the people were told it was a "resettling" program. in which most were forced to walk the destinations. the empire created small bands of people to specifically attack the convoys and kill the people in them. they also created other groups called butchers to "off" the rest of them. these crimes were not discovered until they declared a republic in 1923.     

Monday, October 15, 2012

intro blog

hi, my name is Byron, I don't necessarily like to read book all the time. but there are a few genres that i really like. my favorite genre would be adventure and mystery. my favorite books would have to be Ranger's Apprentice, and Assassins Creed: The Secret Story of Altiar. My least favorite book would have to be either Animal farm, or Fahrenheit 451. The book i am currently reading is Assassins Creed: The Secret Story of Altiar. so far this book is about a man who is a master Assassin and it talks about all his assassinations, and the story of his life, from the point when he was a little kid, to when he was a very old man. i find it interesting that he has no feeling of sorrow or anything else when he kills a target, or even thinks much about it years after he has killed them.