In this hand in‚ I will focus on the film Blood Dimond‚ I will include a summary about the film‚ and explaining how the film is connected to the issue of child soldiers. Task B will include information about an ex-soldier who were in war-ravaged Sierra Leone‚ what he experienced and what he saw. After this task I will be focusing about the media‚ why the film has a critical view on media. Then I’ll talk about what I personally think about the movie. The story begins in Sierra Leone in North-western
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view situations in the world around me. I cannot pick a favorite text that I have read throughout my grades nine to twelve years‚ but I will review a few that made an impact on me. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. This is the memoir of Ishmael‚ who was once a child soldier‚ reflecting on his
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Bibliography: Beah‚ Ishmael. “The Making and Unmaking‚ of a Child Soldier” New York Times 14 Jan‚ 2007 Gold. Thomson Gale. Alameda Free Library. 19 April. 2008 <http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/retrieve>
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For many years now‚ children have been fighting in wars. Scared‚ hurt‚ alone‚ and in hope of survival‚ these kids fearlessly fight. Imagine a 13-year-old boy in war. He has just been ripped out of his home and taken to battle the rebels. He is mistreated and has no way to escape this horror. After throwing a bomb‚ which killed many‚ he is taken to court‚ where they are asking if he should be given amnesty. If it was your decision‚ would you give this boy a second chance at living freely? Or would
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Brianna Selhorst Glenn Ames Contemporary World History 5 December 2007 A Long Way Gone vs. Blood Diamond A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and the recent 2006 film Blood Diamond both depict how it was living in Sierra Leone‚ Africa during the Civil War in the ‘90’s. While A Long Way Gone focuses on child soldiers and what they had to live and go through for many years‚ Blood Diamond focuses mainly on how the country is torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel
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I cannot cut out a piece of my head and give it to you. Unfortunately‚ lobotomies performed by untrained individuals such as myself tend to end in death. Even if I did manage to harvest a little piece of my brain and live long enough to place it in your hand‚ you would only have a lifeless‚ squishy mass of tissue that used to be inside of my skull. There would be no memories or emotions; you would be no closer to understanding my experiences or me as a person. That’s the thing about the human mind:
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Imagine if you were forced to kill others for whole years of your life‚ seeing the people bleed out each and every time as they struggle to hold onto life.This is what child soldiers are put through almost every day. In some parts of the world‚ such as Sierra Leone. There is tremendous disputes over child soldiers. Everyday hundreds if not thousands of child soldiers are drugged‚ abused‚ and brainwashed to kill others in the battlefields of Sierra Leone and countries alike. Now after all this‚ these
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because they were forced to kill due to coercion‚ they were drugged and brainwashed‚ and had no access to a proper education. One reason why child soldiers should be granted amnesty is because the children were forced to become soldiers and kill. Ishmael Beah‚ a former child soldier says “You either kill‚ or be killed.” this kind of action is a form of coercion‚ which is “The practice of persuasion using force or threat.” Child soldiers usually don’t become soldiers or kill by their choice. Jeffrey
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Have you ever ran from someone who was trying to kill you while running through the jungle to escape and get freedom. This is the life of a child soldier. “Nearly 20000 of Uganda’s abducted children” (Hope for Uganda’s Child soldiers). The issue of child soldiers came to worldwide attention when a 14 year old child soldier was executed in 1999. Child soldiers is a very big debate now. The two sides are they are victims and they are perpetrators. I think that they are victims. They are victims for
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The people who live in third world countries have much harder lives than how we live everyday. In “Radiance of Tomorrow” by Ishmael Beah it shows how difficult their lives are. Even though they are going through tough times‚ they still remain very hopeful. The theme of this book is to always stay hopeful‚ and that’s what the people of Imperi do. Bockaire’s family should stay in Freetown so they can get nice jobs‚ a new beginning‚ and it is more realistic over all to stay there. Bockaire’s family
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