and thoughts of any normal teenager from the west. It is heartbreaking to learn that such dreams of millions of children like Beah are crushed down and ripped apart by the institution of War. Ishmael Beah was 12 years old when the civil war in Sierra Leone entered his life‚ in 1993. When the rebels attacked
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money and clothes. Not only this but he wishes to rescue Mariatu from her terrifying reality and bring her to Canada‚ and give her a shot at life. He even goes as far as to hide her from Comfort‚ whom is trying to take Mariatu back to Sierra Leone. Another provider of hope in this novel is David. David wishes to support Mariatu by providing her with a prosthesis and bringing her to London for an education. Although she ends up leaving for Canada‚ David had tried his best to help
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them. Maddy is a journalist who travels around the world in search of a good story. She ends up in Sierra Leone to get a story about what is going on with the civil war over the diamonds but when she gets there she finds it hard to get any information about the diamond smuggling so she focuses on the welfare of the country and the people. In the film Maddy is shown to value the welfare of the Sierra Leone people. This is shown when Maddy is writing a story on her laptop and then Danny walks in. Maddy
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complete study guide: http://monkeynote.stores.yahoo.net/ A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah - MonkeyNotes by PinkMonkey.com For the complete study guide: http://monkeynote.stores.yahoo.net/ A LONG WAY GONE KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING Sierra Leone‚ 1993-1997 New York City‚ 1998 LIST OF CHARACTERS Major Characters Ishmael Beah - The narrator of this true story‚ Ishmael‚ is a boy soldier who finds a way to escape the horrors of war and go on to counsel others who are only looking for a
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Long Way Gone they mix beyond separation. So many children from Sierra Leone got caught up in the war‚ and were forced to do things that even grown men shouldn’t have to do. They were forced to kill people in inhumane ways and do drugs. Childhood is something that should be shielded from war and destruction at all costs; Beah’s true innocence is lost through forced immoral actions. The war that changed everyone’s life in Sierra Leone took everything from everyone; It stripped down people to nothing
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This autobiographical story tells a story about him and how he grew up in Sierra Leone during the country’s civil war. Sierra Leone descended into a brutal and chaotic civil war between Foday Sankoh’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and corrupt Action Peoples Congress (APC). The conflict lasted most of the 1990s and‚ in common with the civil war in Liberia‚ became intimately linked with the use of child soldiers. Sierra Leone is a former British colony in West Africa. This book was very interesting
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the other party and to understand their way of behavior and attitude‚ belief‚ values‚ etc. For the purpose of this assignment China would be the country chosen in fulfillment of this assignment as their culture of doing business and my country Sierra Leone has lots of differences. The People Republic of China: According to Ghauri and Fang (1999) article on China business negotiation process‚ they highlighted three dimensions of country’s business culture as follows; 1) first to understand the
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life in Sierra Leone before the war seems like a very traditional African country. The elders of a village were the most respected out of everyone‚ men had their traditional roles of hunting and providing for the family‚ the women would cook‚ and the children would go to school and have various chores and games they would do. There were stories told and big village celebrations that everyone in the village would attend. All of these things that made up the African culture in Sierra Leone were ripped
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By sharing his experiences in A Long Way Gone‚ Ishmael Beah helps increase awareness of the events that have occurred‚ and continue to occur today. Beah provides an intriguing perspective on the Sierra Leone Civil War. A Long Way Gone depicts the fascinating life story of a real person and is not simply summarizing a series of events. Ishmael Beah’s wrote A Long Way Gone to bring awareness to the many terrors of war‚ and to acknowledge the numerous people who aided him and he accomplished this by
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DIAMOND AND GOLD MINING PROJECT IN SIERRA LEONE [pic] 9.25 CT DIAMOND FROM SIERRA LEONE CONTENTS 1. GENERAL 2. INITIAL REQUIREMENTS GENERAL For the last 2 years our company has been closely following the Sierra Leanean diamond “Industry” if we can call it that. Sierra Leone is a small country in West Africa mainly known because of the bloody and vicious civill war which ended about 3 years ago. I have visited this country a few times – each time for a period
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