A Long Way Gone – Ishmael Beah - Notes Chapter 2 notes The imagery in this chapter is a jarring contrast to chapter one when Ishmael played music and went to school and had a loving family. It is filled with memories and dream imagery that are horrifying to both Ishmael and the reader. Chapter 3 notes This chapter is filled with contrasts‚ especially the days of peace versus the days of war. There is also the contrast of Ishmael cooking dinner as gunshots ring out throughout the town. There
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their prediction? The Kogi‚ descendants of the Tairona‚ live in the high reaches of the Sierra Nevada of Columbia. This area remains mostly untouched and indigenous. Europeans landed here in the 1500’s and attempted to conquer the region and for a short period enslaved the locals. There was an uprising and the Tairona fled to the higher elevations in the Sierra to rebuild their civilization. Kogi‚ who refer to themselves as Elder Brothers‚ call anyone not of their society
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Against my better judgment‚ my wife and I attended another one of Hollywood ’s attempts to coerce public opinion on their latest target. Blood Diamonds‚ the saga surrounding the moral challenge of the international gem trade. Based in Sierra Leone‚ Africa‚ in 1999‚ it depicts the story of two mercenaries fighting to locate a rare blood diamond the size of a golf ball. The local region‚ engulfed in a civil war between the government and the RUF (Revolutionary United Front)‚ is a backdrop for indiscriminate
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Compare and Contrast In 1991 the RUF‚ (Revolutionary United Front) was established in Sierra Leone with the intent to change the government‚ but the only motivations it seemed to have were loot‚ power‚ and glory. The RUF’s fighting quickly became extremely violent. Using child soldiers‚ torture‚ and amputation the government responded with the same tactics. Abu grew up in the village of Kuiva‚ in eastern Sierra Leone; kidnapped with around thirty other boys in 1991‚ Abu was a thirteen year old
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As Ishmael explained all that he had gone through in his journey of being a child soldier to being free‚ he uses diction in his writing to make the story easier to understand. A lot of times many writers use different types of diction so that the writing has a clearer meaning to the reader. In this memoir‚ Ishmael was able to use different types of diction for the reader to be able to understand the importance of scenes while in the war. “I stood there holding my gun and felt special because I was
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CHAPTER III “A LONG WAY GONE” ANALYSIS After a long and dramatic journey‚ the period of relative peace found in a village protected by the Sierra Leone army didn’t last that long for Ishmael Beah and his friends. One day the Lieutenant in charge of village protection announced “In the forest‚ there are men waiting to destroy all of our life […]. Some of you are here because they have killed your parents or families […] we need strong men and boys to help us fight these guys […]. This is your time
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Syerria Neuman Tillman Pre-Ap English 17 October 2012 1.What does Ishmael say the war is about? Ishmael says nothing about the causes of the war‚ or what each side was fighting for‚ or of the overall political and social conditions in Sierra Leone that caused the war. This was a deliberate strategy on the part of Beah‚ the author. He wanted to present the war through the eyes of a child. As a boy of twelve‚ when the war first affected him‚ he had no interest in politics. He had no reason
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some kids growing up in times of war‚ they completely lose out on their precious childhood. Not everyone is familiar about the issue of child soldier and whether or not they should be prosecuted. In countries in the Middle East and Africa‚ such as Sierra Leone‚ governments and rebel groups are recruiting and using children in battles. Due to this‚ these children are exposed to shooting guns such as 10 pound AK-47s. They take part of mass killings and many other crimes such as rape. The problem is
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African wars that is so disturbing? Why do they unsettle us so? We in the civilized West know all about bestial and mindless cruelty‚ as the events of 1939-45 graphically prove. And yet as we read about Darfur and Mogadishu today and recall Rwanda and Sierra Leone not long ago‚ or Biafra and Congo further back‚ we realize that these vicious‚ bitter African conflicts have left their trace on contemporary history‚ and on contemporary consciousness‚ in ways somehow different from the usual squalid reckoning
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NTR 341 Weight Management Section Guide Name:_____Sierra Bowman _____ I. Define Terminology: Double labeled water- It is a noncalorimetric technique for measuring energy expenditure. It is water where both the hydrogen and the oxygen have been partley or completely replaced with an uncommon isotope of these elements. Nonexercise activity thermogenesis- This is considered all of the physical movement in our lives that is not planned exercise or sports. obesigenic- This is promoting excessive
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