Retired lieutenant general‚ senator from 2005-2014‚ soldier‚ advocator and humanitarian. Founder of The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative. Served in staff‚ training‚ and command positions through North America‚ Europe‚ and Africa‚ rising in rank from Army Cadet in 1960 to Lieutenant General in 1998. Funds specific projects for children affected by the civil war and genocide in 1994. Dallaire started an altruistic organization‚ which is particularly designed for unfortunate young people to
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Nations along with other human rights groups‚ a child soldier is considered a child who is 18 years or younger fighting on the front line (Child Recruitment pg.1). Child soldiers are found all over the world except for North America. If these children ever get out of war‚ some may have to get prosecuted for the things they did while completely brainwashed. That is unfair considering most were forced into this terrible matter. Once the child soldiers get out of the situation they are in‚ they should
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The Hurt Locker and PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder that runs through our military system and is often vastly overlooked. It is a little-known mental health problem that is poorly understood. It can be traced back to the times of the Civil War and has been given names like shell-shocked syndrome‚ PTSD‚ soldier’s heart‚ and combat fatigue. A soldier who has experienced combat or military exposure of any level of severity can be susceptible to this anxiety disorder and
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Medicinal Marijuana and PTSD Lorri S. Gray Western Governors University Abstract In this paper I intend to show you that the best treatment for PTSD is in fact medicinal marijuana‚ also known as cannabis. I will show past and present studies and research analysis that shows that properly used‚ cannabis can successfully treat PTSD . PTSD sufferers are among the highest users of cannabis. Research shows that not only can cannabis help the PTSD patient‚ with nightmares and mood swings‚ it
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eighteen to fifty-four in the United States in a given year. Fourteen percent of those people are military personnel. Post-traumatic stress disorder‚ or PTSD‚ is a mental effect on the brain after going through trauma or a life-threatening event. I am familiar with PTSD in military personnel because my dad had this mental effect when I was growing up. PTSD is a serious mental effect that affects a lot of troops who need treatment. Post-traumatic stress disorder‚ according to WebMD‚ is a condition in which
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can be very intense. The information that I will be addressed is from other personnel suffering from the same disorder. I hope that this paper will help others to better understand exactly how PTSD can affect those around you when you choose to not get help. Introduction What are the affects of PTSD when not treated? Unfortunately in the world today there has been so much conflict and war from Iraq to Afghanistan that has caused all U.S. Service members to fight for what our country stands
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English Essay ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke And ‘Asleep’ by Wilfred Owen Pg.1 These two poems show the difference of how death in the war could be written in many ways. The poets used a variety of language techniques and also the imagery being extracted by the reader. This will also help me to shape my understanding of war and hopefully lead to a change of perspective for people. Both poets have used a wide range of language techniques in both of their poems. One of the techniques used is
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disability resulting from fear of battle and the stresses of military life (Bentley). Many soldiers experienced a wide range of illnesses such as paralysis‚ tremors‚ and self-inflicting wounds. This took them out of the war and put them mentally in a disabled state. One of the most common illnesses of this time was the “soldier’s heart” or the “exhausted heart” or severe palpations of the heart (Bentley). PTSD grew rapidly as field commanders and surgeons urged the war department to build military
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Disorder? More known as PTSD. With this information I am going to provide for you will know a lot more about PTSD than you have before. The more you know the better you will understand the infected. You could help people that were diagnosed with this horrible disease. And get the concept of how they are living. WWII was a lot different from other wars they used bigger field weapons and bombs‚ which made soldiers have a greater risk of dying and seeing others die. Additionally‚ soldiers were put into smaller
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Sangeetha Ramanuja Strategy 1:A main problem that soldiers with PTSD try to cope with is the stigma that surrounds their illness. In the military‚ many people think that having PTSD is a form of weakness. This ideology is what hurts many soldiers. Their friends‚colleagues‚ and families think that they are some sort of liability and that they are weak and useless. For captain Wayne Johnston(a military captain with ptsd)‚ “the pain of dealing with his diagnosis – and the stigma that
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