Children of War; Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone “I still dream about the boy from my village who I killed. I see him in my dreams‚ and he is talking to me‚ saying I killed him for nothing‚ and I am crying” (Sierra Leone Rebels Forcefully Recruit Child Soldiers; 1). These are the words of a sixteen year old demobilized child soldier‚ forced to join an armed rebel group in Sierra Leone. Around the world there are over 250‚000 youth being forced to become child soldiers; they are taught to be cruel
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According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and United Nations Development Programme (2007) the civil war in Sierra Leone was … [A] decade-long …marked by widespread human rights abuses‚ the collapse of the central government‚ and destruction of public capacity to provide any services or protection for its people. [The war displaced] more than two million people…widespread of sexual violence [with a record of] more than 1‚800 victims of sexual violence…[as] 55 per cent
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My multi-genre portfolio comprises of a series of five pieces selected from a variety of different texts. The original text that I brought in was a book and its title was The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. The French title of this book was Notre-Dame de Paris‚ and the English title made the “Notre Dame” part less important. Victor wanted the focus of his book to be on the cathedral. Notre-Dame was ruined after the French Revolution. He didn’t want the cathedral to be gone‚ and he wanted
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Mothers’ Fight for Visibility The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo of Argentina were a pivotal group of mothers rising against being silenced by the military dictatorship during the Dirty War‚ between 1976-1983 at the time when thousands of children and adults disappeared. In March 1977‚ the mothers began a march in the square of the Rosada presidential palace to break the silence and expose the truth of uncovered lies told by the authorities. Argentineans either looked the other way when it came to the
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tag for many of these materials‚ the Sierra Club and National Geographic Society eventually published less expensive versions that appealed to a wider‚ less affluent and younger audience. This was also an opportunity to expand their base‚ particularly to the youth movement and counterculture. Purchase of their books‚ calendars‚ posters and visually appealing magazines provided Americans a way to passively show support for conservation reform. Both the Sierra Club and National Geographic Society’s
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Effect of Imperialism in Sierra Leone In 1787‚ British humanitarian founded the "Province of Freedom" which later became Freetown‚ a British crown colony in 1808 and the principal base for the suppression of the slave trade. Throughout the 19th century‚ the colony steadily grew through various treaties of friendship from the local chiefs. After the British abolished their slave trade the new colony was used as cornerstone from which the abolishment could be enforced (Gascoigne‚ Bamber). By 1855
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3 Carlos Marchand 4-11-11 Per.3 Marijuana Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. It is a dry‚ shredded green and brown mix of flowers‚ stems‚ seeds‚ and leaves derived from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. The main active chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol‚ or THC for short. How is Marijuana Abused? Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette (joint) or in a pipe. It is also smoked in blunts‚ which are cigars that have been
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in culture. Comparing and contrasting an American Culture from a Sierra Leonean culture‚ which is a very small country in West Africa will clear up a lot of stereotypical ideas that people believe in. Compare and Contrast Your Cultural Background and Another Cultural Background The culture that I will be comparing in the American Culture‚ where I currently reside‚ and the Sierra Leonean culture where I am originally from. Sierra Leone is a very small country in the continent of West Africa. The
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Madres de Plaza de Mayo is a social movement that emerged in Argentina military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983 also known as (La Guerra Sucia) Dirty War. Madres de Plaza de Mayo started in Buenos Aires when after their children were suddenly kidnapped by the government military who never admitted of this crime. Madres de Plaza Mayo is an example of new movement formed mostly by women‚ who struggle fight for human rights abuses. Majority of Las Madres were housewives that had to step into the
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In Sierra Leone‚ there are many different languages‚ but only several are commonly used. Krio‚ which is an English based Creole‚ is the first language of 10% of the population‚ but it is spoken and understood by approximately 90% of the population. English‚ while the country’s official language‚ is limited to the approximately 48% of Sierra Leoneans that are literate. Another language is Mende‚ the lingua franca and main language of the southern portion of the country‚ spoken by approximately 30%
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