For my independant reading assignment, I will be reading A Problem from Hell by Samantha Power.  The book discusses genocide in the last century and reflects on the failing promises of world leaders to stop it.  When we were first asked to bring in a visual representation of evil, many people brought in pictures of Hitler or other representations of the Holocaust.  Of course, the Holocaust has a section devoted to it in this book.  However, as I read through the table of contents, I noticed that the Holocaust was one of only a couple of genocides that I recognized.  It should be interesting to see whether or not most of these examples of genocide are similar to each other.  With only previous knowledge of the Holocaust and a few other examples of genocide from social studies courses, I hope to gain a larger understanding of the “evil” behind genocide by reading this book.