children as soldiers. There innocence is taken away from them the second they are forced to not use their voice and are compelled to join under threat by the leaders of this terrible idea. When considering the question of whether or not amnesty for child soldiers is right‚ it is important to be specific because child soldiers are children who are forced to serve as soldiers in armed conflicts. These child soldiers had to do many things that should have never been done. Child soldiers should be given
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President Charles Taylor of Liberia abducted countless child soldiers during his fight for the presidency in a tumultuous civil war that lasted fourteen years. Taylor was known to be one of the first warlords to recruit young children into a life of soldiering‚ often requiring them to perform horrific acts upon innocent people. Child soldiers are a major issue in Africa; over six of its countries regularly use child soldiers. Child soldiers go through many struggles most cannot even fathom. These children
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The short stories It Used to Be Green Once by Patricia Grace and Revenge Gardening by Sue Harper have many differences. The children are all ashamed of their mother because of how she acts and the car she drives in the beginning of the first story while in the beginning of the second the child is very proud of his mother and her garden. How well the children listen to their mothers is very different between the two‚ because in the first the children always obey the mother even when they don’t want
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to be green once” written by Patricia Grace mum is the main character‚ Mum is a interesting character because of these reasons. I found mum interesting because of the way she dressed‚ she used to dress in a purple dress made out of a Japanese bedspread and the way she raised her children. She would often drive around in an old cruddy car and toot to let people know she was coming. Mum was a very shameless person. She did not care about what people might think of her. Her children were ashamed of
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Melanie Brown Final Draft AP English Description and Narration "Once More to The Lake"‚ by E.B. White portrays desscription and narration‚ refelcting the general sentiment by describing the experiences with his son that he shared with his father at a later time. White utilizes adjectives to emphasize that his son reminds him deeply of himself. Illlustrative description conveys how personality traits of families get passed down to younger generations. White sees and describes
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Once There Was a War picks up with the author recalling the tragic bombing of a theater. In the writer’s next report he details the relationship between the British and the Americans. Furthermore‚ The writers describes Private Big Train Mulligan in two correspondences. The author visits a hospital where he meets a soldier has received a hand injury. The soldier is scared he will be crippled for life: however‚ while the author is there he accidentally moves his hand. Next‚ the writer describes a trip
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story It Use To Be Green Once by Patricia Grace is a short story that I enjoyed toughly not just because it was a story I could relate to ‚ but impractically because of the mother in the short story. I enjoyed reading about the way she handled her whanu (family) ‚ the way she acts towards others‚ her positive attitude ‚ the way she showed love towards others and finally because of the fact she never changed despite winning the lottery. I enjoyed reading It Use To Be Green Once because the mother had
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Homework on “Once More to the Lake.” White says that he seemed to be living "a dual existence" as a father in the present and as a son in the remembered life of the past. Point to some moments when that dual existence seems most natural and to some when it seems more difficult to maintain. What seems to explain the differences to him and to you? Ans; Some of the moments when that dual existence seems most natural are when he got back there at the lake with his boy‚ he knew that lying in bed
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Once More to the Lake Argument Essay In Whites essay “Once More to the Lake‚” the narrator ends with a chilling sensation. As White watches his son hop out of the lake‚ he has an epiphany concerning his old age. “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.” the concluding sentence is not only effective‚ but also perceives the purpose of the entire essay. With a little attention‚ it’s easy to see how the essay leads naturally to a sense of death’s approach or inevitability
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a bit. The soldiers learn to self-anesthetize to not feel (Scurfield). When I say not feel‚ I mean not feel emotions. The reason for doing this is because when a friend or another soldier dies‚ they do not want their emotions to get the best of them. The negative about detachment is that the soldiers get so used to doing this that they go home and still begin to use detachment (Scurfield). They cannot feel the normal emotions like everyone else can. For example‚ a child of the soldiers is to pass
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