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    Child Soldiers Need To Be Saved Imagine being being taken away from your family and everything you have ever known to become a soldier. You see people get killed everyday people force you to take drugs to make your performance better you are treated like an animal and you are forced to fight. Oh yeah and you are a child maybe as young as 11 years old. Child soldiers are the victims and this needs to stop! My first reason this selfish horrible crime should stop is that the children are sometimes

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    Soldier’s Creed Means to Me The soldier’s creed is embedded into every new soldiers brain through memorization of the words and the characters which it instills is displayed and repeated everyday all day. To me The Creed influences my life‚ both the way I live and the way I think. The soldier’s creed has taught me many things that make me who I am today. "I am an American soldier‚" To me‚ that means that not only am I a soldier twenty-four hours a day‚ seven days a weeks‚ but that I have the right

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    We only see what we are shown but not what the soldiers know. The theme “People in power lie to persuade civilians to do their their dirty work without them knowing the true aftermath of war”‚ is seen evidently throughout the four texts I have chosen. The song Hero of War by Rise Against‚ the song War Pigs by Black Sabbath‚ the film Rambo by Ted Kotcheff and the film American Sniper by Clint Eastwood. The song Hero of War portrays the theme of “People in power lie to persuade civilians to do their

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    insurmountable‚ and we will never forget those who gave there lives during combat. Many films were made to show the American public how gruesome and bloody the Vietnam War was. I believe one of the best films that portray this is We Were Soldiers. The film We Were Soldiers is based on a true story of the combat that occurred in the Vietnam War. The battle takes place at the La Drang Valley called "The Valley of Death". This film allows the viewer to see what fighting and the what the war zone was really

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    The documentary‚ Soldier Girls‚ provides content about some of the first women to enlist in the army. The documentary provides examples of “observational film” and “performance acting” of the people in the film. A good example of a observational “fly on the wall” scene in film‚ is the scene where the cameraman is filming the female soldiers in the barracks. In this scene‚ the viewers are observing the living arrangement of the soldiers as they chat with each other and their rifles. Soon‚ the sergeant

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    Child soldiers are a problem for kids under age the of 15 that who are forced into military service. This putting young kids lives into danger putting them into battle to fight.Also kids this young should not be taught this kind of violence. According to article 38 of the Convention of the Rights of a Child‚some governments should be “establishing a ban” (fact sheet) against forced military. This is still important today because there should not be any child under 18 going through this kind of

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    still allow edited humans to be able to reproduce‚ as they only had genetic diseases removed. Somatic cell manipulation is manipulation of the cells that do not pass on DNA (Epstein). So‚ the process is the key to creating a safer society with super soldiers in the future. A safer society where people no longer have to stress

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    April 1930 version of Saturday Evening Post. It is a gothic grotesque‚ and at first look seems to have little in the same way as the short story‚ "Soldier’s Home" by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway’s story gives off an impression of being the tale of a soldier recently returned home from benefit in World War I. "A Rose for Emily" seems‚ by all accounts‚ to be the straight forward record of the life of a southern aristocrat‚ a delicate lady who appears to have made due into a later age‚ and stands‚ in the

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    Child soldiers are a huge problem in the world. Child soldiers are kids who are under the age of 18. Not all of them fight in war but some are used as cooks‚ suicide bombers‚ messengers‚ spies‚ human shields‚ guard prisoners‚ domestic servants and almost always used for sexual purposes. Anyone over the age of 16 who has killed someone in war‚ does not deserve amnesty‚ but those who have not killed anyone in any age deserve amnesty. A reason why people over the age of 16 do not deserve amnesty

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    Welcome Home‚ Soldier by PaulieG© I was finally going home. After a year in Iraq‚ I was going home to my beautiful wife. Little did I know that not only had the war changed me‚ but my home life would change too.  Genneveve‚ or Gennie as everyone called her is 11 years younger than me. At 38‚ I marveled at the fact that she still didn’t look a day over 25. Standing 5-7 with coal black hair contrasting with her nearly translucent smooth white skin‚ the contrasts didn’t stop there. Every bit

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