https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi An essay written for a museum dedicated to the Armenian Massacre en-us 2016-11-19 04:20:07 UTC 2017-09-04 19:11:36 UTC hello@padlet.com demurdock18 https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138855955 2016-11-19 04:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138855955 demurdock18 https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138855990 2016-11-19 04:29:26 UTC https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138855990 demurdock18 https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856175 The Armenian Massacres in 1915-1917 were the first near-genocidal series of atrocities committed against the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire. ]]> 2016-11-19 04:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856175 demurdock18 https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856180 The massacres broke out in the summer of 1915 in the remote region of Sasun in southern Armenia, where the government relied on the excuse of Armenian resistance to Kurdish encroachment into the last recesses of the mountains to order the sacking of the alpine hamlets. ]]> 2016-11-19 04:39:08 UTC https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856180 demurdock18 https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856198 The police responded to a demonstration held in Constantinople in September 1916by Armenian political organizations which sought to pressure the government and the European Powers to implement the promised administrative reforms by letting loose a massacre in the capital city. ]]> 2016-11-19 04:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856198 demurdock18 https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856211 To a last desperate attempt by Armenian revolutionaries to draw the attention of the world by seizing in Constantinople the European-owned Ottoman Bank in August 1896, the government responded by unleashing wholesale reprisals during which five to six thousand Armenians were killed in the space of three days within sight of the European embassies.]]> 2016-11-19 04:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856211 demurdock18 https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856229  Estimates of the dead run from 100,000 to 300,000. Tens of thousands fled the country. Thousands of others were forcibly converted to Islam. The associated plunder of homes and businesses economically ruined countless families, and the destitute counted in the hundreds of thousands.]]> 2016-11-19 04:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/138856229 demurdock18 https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/184569899 With third person limited, the author picked and chose what we knew and learned about each character and their feelings. The POV in the novel is limited to Ethan so his feelings for Mattie can overshadow her real personality.]]> 2017-09-04 19:10:18 UTC https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/184569899 demurdock18 https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/184569906 Yes, the narrator effects the message of the novel because in the prologue, it is shown that Ethan Frome is a town tale and even over twenty years later, people are talking about him.]]> 2017-09-04 19:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/demurdock18/dzhtndbc5mgi/wish/184569906