This article talks about Vietnam discussing about the reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina, all part of becoming a part of the EU. They were talking about this due to the fact that there has been some tension, politically, however, why Vietnam would want to talk about Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am unsure.
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This article is about the Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina I believe, wanting to remove his foreign minister as he probably thinks of him as a threat to his position. So, he is using the excuse of his Jewish origin to fire him. However, this could cause political unrest and could destabilize the country.
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This talks about a first hand experience from an athlete of thoughts about the war, politics and how Bosnia and Herzegovina should become part of the Olympics, while I don’t think that they will be able to join the Beijing Olympics, maybe next time, they will be a part of the Olympics.
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Costumes and Props: List any props or costumes that are need and who will be responsible for bringing them in. Eg. Scientist Coat – ReedScientist Coat – Science Room Scheduled Meeting Times:List the date, location and time for the group to meet.Monday, 19th April in School, Tuesday, 20th April in School, Sunday 25th April in Dasmarinas Village Park at 2:00pm
Our country is Bosnia and Herzegovina and the text that we have chosen is a poem. It is by Balint Szombathy and it is called “The Face of Mourning”. It is about the author having bad memories of the war for independence and about 15 years ago, it was published in the “Mourning of Sarajevo” Journal. The main theme of this poem is that the war has torn the country apart. Some clues are, “dead woman’s body on whose arm I notice a watch”, “never grown child“, “small loaf of bread” “family photographs that flutter beneath garbage trucks” and “pools of blood”. “Wind strafes… chill of December.” The weather in this poem is mainly gloomy and has chilly nights and windy mornings; probably the overall weather is cold and lacking in sunlight. The story is set in the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, where there is a river running through the center of town. The issues in this poem are rape and war. We think the issue is rape because the author says “When its waves sway a dead woman’s body.” The author is saying that every time the waves sway a woman dies in Bosnia and Herzegovina by rape. War is also an issue because the poem explains many reasons on why the war was so horrible and that people still have memories from the torture and abuse. There aren’t many clues about the values and the author’s beliefs, but there are certainly clues about the author’s attitude towards the issue in this poem, the war. His attitude is very negative; he shows his strong hatred towards the war. He also keeps repeating a word “face”, which is horrible and is his most distinct memory of the war. The evidence is “I saw that face in a hand motion that stuffed a shoe of a never grown child into a wood-burning stove” and “It’s a face that returns its thanks on the back of family photographs that flutter beneath garbage trucks”, even more proof of the author’s hatred toward the war. In the poem, “The Face of Mourning”, I think there would be two languages spoken during that time because of the line, “whom the Sarajevo wind strafes”. This means that the poem takes place in Sarajevo. The majority people in Sarajevo speak Serbian and Croatian so I’m assuming that from the main character of the poem speaks either Croatian or Serbian as well. Because of this, probably everyone in his neighborhood speaks the same language as he does. The line,“with a small loaf of bread under my arm” probably means that food is rare and/or expensive, especially due to the food crisis now and the fact that Bosnia and Herzegovina needs to import food. I can also infer from this that the quality of life there isn’t great but rather like a third world country. However, for him to be having the food, it appears to me that the situation has stabilized and while nobody’s living is particularly luxurious, the basic necessities are met, people have settled in a relative pattern of living and there isn’t any war ongoing, people are relatively happy. The quote: “A face which nightly keeps me from sleeping” makes me think that while the situation is stable, the author still has many memories haunting him about the Civil War. Other quotes such as “dead woman’s body” help to support my ideas about the memories about the war. Especially: “I know mournings’s face… A face that returns its thanks on the back of family photographs that flutter beneath garbage trucks.” He also adds a lot of emotion and opinion about what the author remembers about the War. This quote helps talk about his memories, nightmares of the horrors that took place during the war.
Nicole Shim
My country is Bosnia and Herzegovina and a text I found is called The Horse and the Wolf and is a fable. The author and the date it was written are unknown. There aren’t any clues about language or dialect or clues about issues but there are clues about day-to-day life, values and climate and geography. The day-to-day life in this story is that people work with horse and the evidence of that can be found when the wolf says that the horse is sick and thus the master wouldn’t like the horse. The value of this story is not to deceive someone because in this story, the hungry wolf tries to deceive the horse so he could eat him but he fails to do so and gets a bitter punishment. The climate and geography in this story is that it has spring and has green grass.
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Reports show more Bosniaks killed than Serbs.
Ethnic tension, cross would create.
Long sentence in prisons, Serb commanders received.
International administrator called Bosnian authorities to stop cross building.
Giant cross. 85 feet.
Infuriated Bosnian Muslims.
Overlooks Sarajevo, the capital.
Upper half of the hill is Bosnian Serb territory, the lower part in Sarajevo.
Slovak Miroslav called cross building “designed to create interethnic tensions”.
Dukic says 5,800 Serbs were killed. Reports show not true.
Electricity cut off while city under siege.
Branislav Dukic came up with the idea of building the cross.
All food supply trucks were cut off from the city while under siege.
Trebevic Hill is designated location for cross.
“Erected in memory of the city being held under siege.” Sarajevo Association of War Victims says.
I think that this issue is at the moment, big, because of the fact that the group of Serbs is persistent on building the cross while the Bosnian authorities are simply saying, no. this issue is connected to religion because the Bosnian Serbs want to build the cross for the Serbs that died but the reports show that almost three times as many Bosniaks were killed. The religious symbol is just provoking the Muslim-dominated Sarajevo. I believe that a possible solution for this issue is for the Serbs to cancel building the cross, or at least build it a little further away from the hill, so that it’s not overlooking the city. It will still be on Bosnian Serb territory, making everyone satisfied.
1. Why would the Bosnian Serbs still wish to build a cross if they know that they did wrong deeds?2. If you had the power, would you allow the Serbs to build the cross on the hill?3. Why do the Serbs insist on building the cross on the hill, and not somewhere else?
The Associated Press, “Int’l administrator: Bosnian Serb authorities should not allow sdfsdfdsfsgiant cross over Sarajevo.” International Herald Tribune. 14/Mar./2008. 23 ssssssssssssApr 2008 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/14/europe/EU-GEN-ssssssssssssBosnia-Cross.php.
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Personal Reflection It seems to me here that the international community does not want Kosovo to separate as the impact it may have on the general area. Kosovo’s independence, although the article stated that it had no impact on Bosnia, I think that there will be an impact, the Republika Srpska will want to be independent but again, the international community is willing to accept the seperation of Kosovo but not of any other nation. I also conclude that the Republika Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina could simply be a Serbia and Kosovo waiting to happen as they seem to have conflicting viewpoints and the Republika Sprska wants independence, much like Kosovo. Furthermore, the Republika Sprska is almost run like an individual nation although it isn’t recognized as such. In the first article, Miroslav Lacjak denied any connection with Bosnia/Herzegovina’s stability and Kosovo’s independence but the other article believes that Kosovo’s independence will have a widespread effect of the surrounding area. The second article also opposes the military intervention as it had put Kosovo in a tight spot, being occupied by foreign soldiers, making it easier to declare independence. Their viewpoints are different as one is written from the perspective of Bosnia from somebody I feel is extremely defensive whereas the second article, is written from a neutral point of view, thus stating the most facts. I doubt that time has anything to do about it as they were written within six days of each other.Questions for article 11.) In your opinion, what impact (if any) does Kosovo’s independence have on Bosnia and Herzegovina?
2.) How could the federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (the second entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina) react?
3.) Should the Dayton Peace Agreement be disregarded and should any of the smaller entities of Bosnia be granted independence? Why?
Questions for article 2
1.) What good came out of NATO’s military intervention, what bad came out of it?
2.) If you were NATO, would you have bombed Kosovo if you’d known what would have happened? Why or why not?
3.) Would it be wise for Kosovo to accept Serbia’s offers for autonomy? Why?
Project Syndicate. “The Kosovo effect|Comment is free.” The Kosovo effect|Comment is free. 21 April 2008. Comment is free. 21 Apr 2008 <http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/robert_skidelsky/2008/04/the_kosovo_effec t.html>.“Bosnia Envoy Rejects Link with Kosovo.” Bosnia Envoy Rejects Link with Kosovo. 15April 2008. BalkanInsight. 15 Apr 2008 http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/9406/.
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