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I believe that we have the choice to shape who we are and how our future will look. The things that we do, can shape the things that happen to us in the future, or our destiny. In Hotel Rwanda, the characters have many choices to make, they can run and try and survive or they can help those in need and show kindness to them. The film shows that everyone has the chance to change or chose their future. Showing kindness to others, as Paul did for those in his hotel, can play a major factor in your destiny. If you chose to be kind, your future could be full of happiness and benefits but you could also chose to ignore those in need, thus choosing a future that may not be filled with happiness.
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These people are the kind of people that are not kind, they are far from. I believe that their destiny is being shaped toward the darker side of life. Those Hutu people that killed Tutsi people must now live with the fact that they have murdered people, they will have to live with that guilt for the rest of their lives. Their future will have been changed from one that could have been all sunshine and rainbows to one that is like a living prison that cannot be escaped. The Hutu people chose to kill, when they could have continued to live in peace, but they let hatred control their thoughts. Driving them away from kindness and showing them a darker future. They did not let kindness shape them and their future. They instead thought about what was best for their tribe and only those that believe the same as them. Paul was a part of the Hutu people, but did not believe the same, he treated them the exact opposite of the Hutu people, and was rewarded for it. In 2000 he was awarded, and given the Immortal Chaplains Prize for Humanity. Those Hutu people that did the killing were not rewarded, they instead punished

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