On 5/6/02 11:56:00 AM, Levi Leslie wrote:
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>Exercise 2.1: Finding the
>Questions
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>1.In the space below, write
>the title of your tentative
>topic (e.g. Internet
>addiction)
>Causes of the Kosovo-Serbian
>war, and the rebuilding of
>Kosovo
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>2.Briefly state why you chose
>this topic.
>I chose this topic because I
>spent 2 months in Kosovo and I
>came to love the area and the
>people. And I just wanted to
>find out more about the
>country and to tell people
>what is going on there and how
>they can get involved if they
>wanted to.
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>3.Spend about five minutes
>listing what you already know
>(if anything) about your
>topic. For example, are you
>aware of any
>interesting facts, common
>misconceptions, your own
>assumptions, important people
>or institutions involved, key
>schools of
>thought, the extent of the
>problem, current trends, etc.?
>Kosovo is about the size of
>Road Island, it is 90% Muslim
>and 10% Catholic, it has
>mostly villages with only a
>few large cities, and it is
>currently under U.N.
>protection. They currently
>have no form of government,
>and they are working on
>forming a Democratic Republic.
>In 1996 Serbia decide to kick
>all of the ethnic Albainians
>out of Kosovo, and kill the
>ones who didn't leave. The war
>ended in 1999 after the Serbs
>surrenderd to the U.N., and
>released Kosovo to their
>control.
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>4.Now spend at least fifteen
>minutes brainstorming a list
>of questions about your topic
>you’d love to learn the
>answers to. Make this
>list as long as you can, and
>don’t worry whether every
>question is a good one.
>What is the U.N. doing now to
>help them form a government?
>How far back does the hatred
>between Kosovars and Serbians
>go? And what started it?
>How many lives where lost in
>the conflict?
>Why did the war really start?
>and why did the U.S. intervene
>in the war?
>How much did the war effort
>cost?
>Who started the war Kosovo, or
>Serbia?
>What was Kosovo's economy like
>before the war? And what is it
>like now?
>What are the major forms of
>employment?
>What are the Kosovars living
>conditions like?
>Why do they need help from
>other countries?
>What countries are there
>representing the UN?
> What language do they speak?
>Is there still alot of
>fighting going on at this
>time?
>What else could be done to
>help their economy?
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>I liked your question about why the U.S. got involved in the war ( it rases a real good point of making me at least think)
>another question that you could possable ask is did the envolvement of the U.S. be because of past war's that we have been involved in play any type of part in our thinking so we felt compeled to try to help stableize the situation in Kosovo.
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