Midterm Reflection
The topic I chose to write about for my midterm essay was the Rwandan Genocide. We learned about it in class but I was intrigued to learn more.
Because of the time given in class and the fact that the overall midterm was split into multiple parts, I did not face many problems. But one challenge I originally had was my understanding of the topic. In the beginning of my research it was difficult to find a site that had the basics of the Rwandan history. I wanted to find something that would explain it easily from the very beginning and then I would find more academically inclined sites as I went on such as GALE, and Google Scholar. Typically, I found myself forgetting the difference between Hutu and Tutsi or why they became