not safe causing the death rate to just go out of the roof. After war‚ the conditions didn’t just leave them when the war was done‚ but instead it has stayed with them causing them to be traumatized. Using children as soldiers negatively affects them‚ and this will continue until people around the world become more informed and laws are created to stop the use of child soldiers. Negative affects of war on children include extreme brutality‚ exposure of violence leading to some changes to the
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Imagine your child or sibling has two choices‚ to get their limbs cut off‚ or to join the army. This makes me believe that the kids in the military are mostly victims. Because the children are forced‚ drugged‚ and brainwashed into killing‚ they are clearly victims. I got my evidence from the testimony by Tom Malinowski. Some may think that child soldiers are guilty and should be punished‚ but it turns out most of them are forced or left with no choice but to become a soldier. In the same article
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EFFECT IN SOLDIERS Post traumatic stress disorder has many effects on people in everyday life; such as the effects in family‚ friends‚ and even their career. Post traumatic stress disorder‚ also known as PTSD‚ is quite common in today’s military. The reason for this can somewhat be explained in the definition of ptsd: The type of anxiety disorder that comes from an event in which you’ve seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death. Our soldiers‚ while they
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being the chiefest of them). But it still leaves many people asking how a force so drastically outnumbered was able to hold a force nearly twenty times their number. The answer lies in the difference in their equipment‚ tactics and their training. The Persian forces were primarily light and heavy infantry consisting of swordsmen‚ spear men and archers with a measure of lightly armed and armored calvary. The average soldier was very lightly armored in so that they could move rapidly. The Persian
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Literature 10/18/2013 Child Soldiers: Morally sickening or justifiable? The stop of the practice of recruiting child soldiers would increase the standard of morals throughout the world. It is estimated that there are as many if not more than 300‚000 child soldiers around the world. Since 2001 and as of 2008‚ child soldiers have participated in 21 on-going or recent armed conflicts in almost every region of the world. Ranging from ages of 8 to 15‚ child soldiers are raped‚ abused‚ and sometimes
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Whenever you ask someone about the Revolutionary War they think of one thing and one thing only... the Americans fighting off the British for their independence. And although it is true that they fought of the British for their independence‚ a lot of people miss the fact that there were others fighting on the British side that greatly added to their number. These men were the Hessian soldiers‚ or as other historians call them‚ “German Mercenaries”. These men were hired by the British and made
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When I was younger‚ I went on a fun and exciting vacation to Africa with my parents and siblings. There were a lot of places we went to and experienced and I learned a lot about the culture of Africa. While reading these two articles about child soldiers‚ I learned a lot more about what is going on in the world today and how it affects children. I believe that child soldier practices should be banned because the children are put into dangerous situations and they won’t get to live a happy life. Others
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killers‚ child soldiers‚ are an example of criminals that should not get amnesty. Child soldiers‚ should be prosecuted for their crimes. The reasons for their prosecution are very simple: they have committed horrific crimes‚ had a choice not to fight‚ and are a threat to national security. Not many people echo the idea that child soldiers should be prosecuted for their horrific crimes‚ but these people are wrong. An example could be Omar Khadr‚ it states in the article‚ The Child Soldier on Trial at
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3.05 Assignment How did the new technologies of WWI affect soldiers fighting on the front lines? Please include at least three examples of new technologies in your answer. New Technologies created many more advantages for soldiers fighting in World War 1. Many new technologies were introduced to warfare including airplanes‚ poisonous gasses‚ automatic rifles‚ tanks‚ and artillery. Automatic weapons were one of the largest step-ups from the single fire rifle‚ which is probably a reason why trench
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Soldier Field I have never been astounded by such marvelous architecture until I laid my eyes on Soldier Field in Chicago‚ Illinois. Soldier Field seemed like a dragon‚ just engulfing everyone who was spectating the Mexico vs Bosnia game on May 2011. When I first laid eyes on the monstrosity‚ I was very intimidated. The thought of entering this behemoth marveled me and made me even more excited to enter and watch the Mexico soccer game that I was anxiously waiting for! Chicago itself is a marvelous
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