The book a long way gone takes place in Sierra Leone and this war was started in 1991. This started when the (ruff) with support of special forces form (Npfl)‚ intervened into Sierra Leone in an attempt to over throw the josephs momoh government. It was between the rebels and the government. The people of Sierra Leone were effected because the rebels would either kill them or make them fight for them and they would also destroy their village. The conflict is surviving the war and finding a safe place
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was one of the most shocking books I have ever read. I knew that there were many problems and civil wars occurring within Africa‚ but I never realized how much war truly affected the country and its culture. This is not a typical war that we envision here in the United States‚ this is a dismantling of a country’s way of life. Beah’s story gives detailed accounts of things that seem unimaginable in today’s world. The fact that governments around the world had an
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usually a happy conversation filled with lots of laughter‚ happiness‚ and remembering the innocence. In the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah‚ this is not the case. In the beginning it starts off with Ishmael as an innocent child who loves rap music‚ but it all get destroyed in the blink of an eye. War and innocence are two things that should never mix‚ but in A 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
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Girls just want to have fun; but often they don’t think about the consequences. Rebecca Martin’s feature article "Girls Gone bad" utilises specific techniques in order to persuade the reader to share her point of view. The issue of modern teenage girls losing respect and misbehaving is shown through the conventions of anecdotes and omission of detail. The reader is made to feel that parents must regain control over there teenage daughters‚ before society is damaged. Anecdotes play a pivotal role
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of details about inner body studies such as the soul‚ madness and lovers. Within the text‚ Plato refers to the platonic soul‚ this concept that Plato discusses had a lasting impression throughout my reading‚ this is because if one is trying to move souls‚ one must understand the souls first‚ meaning a person needs to be aware of their audience. The platonic soul is an analogy to two horses pulling a chariot‚ "First the charioteer of the human soul drives a pair‚ and secondly one of the horses
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This extract is taken from ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ (1903) by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois‚ an American sociologist‚ historian and civil rights activist. Du Bois was the first African American to ever receive a PHD from Harvard‚ and is considered one of the most profound scholars of his generation for his active protest against Black discrimination in the US. The Souls of Black Folk explores the effect of being ‘identified as a problem’ by American society for the African American people who
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The World Has Gone Quiet My lungs fill with cool autumn air. Breathe in‚ breathe out. In‚ out. In‚ out. As I breathe‚ I begin to walk. My head doesn’t know what my destination is‚ but my legs carry me. Down the road‚ turn right onto Meridian Street. The only sound is the wind in the trees‚ my feet on the ground. My shoe scraping softly against the pavement. It’s quiet. Too quiet. Somewhere‚ I can hear a bird’s hushed call. It seems like that’s the only living thing out here. The town
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seriously injured or permanently disabled and over ten million have been left with serious psychological trauma.” (Shah) Even though many do not believe in luck‚ or consider it to be occasional‚ Ishmael Beah‚ author and main character of A Long Way Gone‚ demonstrates how luck can be a part of someone’s daily life. Life for a child soldier‚ can be overwhelming‚ full of risks and dangers‚ and even a living hell. In most cases‚ these children die‚ end up as orphans‚ or simply live the rest of their lives
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others should avoid having their body altered. All the history and background information comes from different history sites‚ the dangers and statistics come from medical sites and the cosmetic surgery gone wrong stories come from different news papers in the last six years. Cosmetic Surgery Gone Wrong The human race has an unrealistic expectation for physical perfection. Physical perfection is that model we see in the magazine or the actors that are on the television. Physical perfection is never
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The house for the lost soul. Absent-mindedly‚ 17-year-old Trey Fierce read the line of words carved on the wood plank on the wall which were a subtle depiction of everyone whose life thrown into this place; the facility for the mentally incompetent‚ the unbalanced person‚ the deranged - those were just a few of the names. Whoever had said that madness was always in the form of frenzy and hysteria‚ must have never dealt with madness itself. It was often soundless and discreet‚ appeared in many tender
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