...A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah illustrates Beah’s childhood under Sierra Leone's Civil war in the 1990s. The book recounts Beah’s experience as a 12 year old boy struggling to find his family. Although this book mainly follows Beah, it also gives a lot of insight on the instability in African countries like Sierra Leone. Ishmael Beah was a normal child before the Civil war in Sierra Leone, which is what the beginning of the book illustrates. In the early chapters, Beah talks about his childhood, which seemed to be very normal (Beah, 6). However, his childhood would take a drastic turn for the worse. When visiting his friends in Mattru Jong, Beah runs into swarms of people talking of rebellion. One passerby warned...
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...Throughout the book, A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, we see that he faces many challenges and conflicts. These challenges prevent Ishmael from reaching safety and living a normal life back in Sierra Leone. Most of the time, the main character is facing challenges that are caused by other people. These people, like Ishmael, are trying to get away from the war that has caused chaos in the country. Children and teens around his age were most likely to be thrown into the war to fight either on the Sierra Leonean government’s side or the rebels, the Revolutionary United Front. The people that saw Ishmael and his friends, they tried to kill them because they could have been rebels. All of the problems he faces prevent Ishmael and his friends from getting somewhere safe. First, we see Ishmael running away from his home in Sierra Leone. Once a peaceful village full of music and laughter , then was brutally attacked by the...
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...The book “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah is a book that has many themes and lessons. It is a true story about a boy soldier. One of the themes in this book is survival. When war hit Ishmael Beah, it was all about survival until the end. From the moment Ishmael fled the violence at Mattru Jong, the focus of his life became surviving. For months, Beah had to survive by overcoming hunger and violence. Survival was the most important theme in the book. Ishmael had to survive the war and in the forest all alone. He lost his family and friends. To stay alive during war, he had to join the army. He had to overcome his hunger, the violation, and the isolation. The book states “Things changed rapidly in a matter of seconds and no one had any control...
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...Rationale: In this essay I will be writing a biography about Ishmael Baeh a child soldier from Sierra Leone that wrote the book ‘A long way gone.’ I have chosen a biography because we were reading this book in class for a very long time and that’s how I got interested in the life of Ishmael. In my essay I have tried to get on a personal level with Ishmael which makes the essay more interesting. I’ve done this by writing in a lot of detail. In my essay I also talked about the child soldiers that are active now, because of the main topic in the book ‘A long way gone.’ This essay is aimed at people that read on of the books of Ishmael or are willing to read a book of him, with this essay they will understand the writings of him better because they know more about his personal life. The challenges I got during this essay was the research about Ishmael because there wasn’t much information available of him from after he left Sierra Leone. I solved these problems by searching for newspaper...
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...Free Essays Home Search Essays FAQ Contact Search: Go View Cart / Checkout Search Results Free Essays Unrated Essays Better Essays Stronger Essays Powerful Essays Term Papers Research Papers Search by keyword: wind Sort By: Go Your search returned over 400 essays for "wind" 1 2 3 4 5 Next >> These results are sorted by most relevant first (ranked search). You may also sort these by color rating or essay length. Title Length Color Rating Wind Power and Wildlife Issues in Kansas - ... Turbines can produce electricity at wind speeds as low as 9 miles per hour, reach their peak of production at 33 miles per hour, plus shut down and turn sideways at wind speeds above 56 miles per hour. An average wind speed at the site of a turbine is 20 miles per hour. Because of these features on the towers, they rank Kansas the 3rd in the US for wind energy potential. The Gray County Wind Farm in Kansas, powered by Florida Power and Light Energy, has collected data from 2001-2009 on electricity production.... [tags: kansas, wind energy, wind turbines] :: 1 Works Cited 1537 words (4.4 pages) $29.95 [preview] Analysis of Wind Turbine Designs - Abstract Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and one of the most philanthropic men in history giving over 28 billion dollars to charity so far, states his number one wish for the world wouldn't be to rid the world of aids, vaccinate kids around the world, or feed every starving children; instead, it would be...
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...Instructor English 101 10 December 2014 Essay 2 Tragic In the “Fourth State of Matter” by Joann Beard, Beard expresses the horrific event that she encountered at the University of Iowa, by using the symbols of her dog, the squirrels, and the plasma to help the readers interpret and understand the shooting and how it influences her life today. The symbols play a key role in Beard’s writing and the struggles she deals with every day of her life, but also helps her get her point across, as well as keep her audience engaged to connect the symbols in the shooting. We, as an audience, are first introduced to her dog. The dog is the one symbol that is continuous throughout the essay and symbolizes the shooting, and death of her friend Chris. As Beard states “The collie fell down the basement stairs. I don’t know if she was disoriented and was looking for me, or what. But when I was at work she used her long nose like a lever and got the door opened and tried to go down there, except her legs wouldn’t do it and she fell.” (Beard 23) This shows that the dog had no control over his body, just like there was absolutely no control in what Gang Lu was thinking during the shooting and there was not anyone or anything that could stop him. She explains, “Gang Lu stands up and leaves the room abruptly, goes down one floor to see if the department chairman Dwight is sitting in his office. He is.” (Beard 25) This shows that anger Gang Lu has and it leads up to what is about to happen....
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...most part can be a pretty tedious task, never the less it is part of my daily living. Most of my current writing is done for school essays or work purposes. Having to write detailed professional field reports for supervisors and managers to read. I think the hardest part for me when composing essays has always been the initial development and getting started. Making sense of what is in my thoughts and translating those ideas clearly on paper. Often times, I think really hard into it and just coming up with that opening sentence to catch my reader’s attention can truly frustrate me. Once I get started there is nothing stopping me at that point. I just let the flow of thoughts and ideas smoothly translate into my essay while still making sense and sticking to my main objective, which is sticking to central idea and not getting off topic. As I been told many times over, the main purpose of composing is to send a direct clear message across to the reader. Once I have reached the conclusion of my essay, I feel a sense of true accomplishment and pride in my essay. I have successfully pass the initial hurdle. Then comes the easy part which is the revision of the first draft. The revising process is piece of cake and where all the fun starts. Going back proofreading and making all necessary adjustments in order to have a solid and well polish essay is the goal. One of my greatest accomplishments for me personally, was to be given the opportunity to serve my country honorably...
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...year. The effort made to convert IPL an Indian version of European league has been a success to some extent. It contains all the element of entertainment that an audience can ask for. Now recently the stage performances by various artists have also started catering to this kind of need of entertainment. Though I believe, catering to the need of particular segment many a times, the marketing efforts have been gone to too much length than actually needed. As have been observed, skimpily dressed cheerleader and their dances are not much welcome to traditional society like India, where entire family watches TV together and still such a show of exuberance combined with excessive show of flesh is generally a taboo. IPL has successfully poached into viewership of TV soaps, as it was a welcome change and affect created was of mirth and merry and welcome break from Saas-Bahu’s painful saga. IPL has been successful in bringing the entire family together as it has something for everyone These classes of people, who want to see cricket along with entertainment rather the other way around, have been dithering away from this new genre of cricket. IPL has also failed in targeting the wide spread rural population, which forms the major chunk of audience for International cricket team. In this divide of team and hence the loyalty has left a huge mass of rural people from semi-urban and rural places looking for belongingness. For ex, a person from Patna, Bihar may wonder whether he should support...
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...Essay of the Glass Menagerie Jenni Frederick Introduction to American Literature Everest University Online Essay on the Glass Menagerie In the very beginning of this play, Tom avoids conflict with his mother by stepping out for a cigarette in the middle of dinner. Tom wants to escape his mother's nagging so to avoid it all together he leaves the dinner table before dinner is even finished. His solution was to just get up and walk away. The fire escape seems to be Tom's way to escape. All he wants is out of that little house and away from his mother. I believe that Amanda wants Laura to find herself a husband so they can leave their little cramped space. Laura, however seems fine with her surroundings and does not share her mother and brother's wants. In Scene Two we can see that Laura does not want the same things that her mother wants. She does not want to go to school. School just wasn't for her, that is why she dropped out. Her mother is upset about this because she wants more for her daughter. I think that it is more than that too. I think that Amanda is looking to Laura to save both of them from the life that they have. You can see this when Amanda says to Laura, "So what are we going to do the rest of our lives?" (Williams, 2016, p.705) Amanda is looking for an escape from their poor life as well, but she is looking to Laura to provide that escape. I believe when all of them talk about their father, there is a little jealousy...
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...over work himself. I’m not sure if I see an unreliable narrator or not. Sure we see a younger kid seeing his brother and father figure in the hospital practically dead. He might be making these occurrences up to help deal with this serious event he has just witnessed. “My father and I kept notes, neither of us aware that the other was doing it, trying to get down all of worth’s little disclosures before they faded” (Sullivan 49). By recording conversations he is having with his brother that also leads me to believe in a reliable narrator. 2. The two quotes that ended up standing out to me were “The upper one was still above the waterline” (81). “Gone” (82). It’s hard to image the water line being in your house. Your place of comfort and shelter just taking form you or from the other quote gone. Gives me chills just reading it, gone once something was there and now it’s not. The situation at the end is what I think is the problem with people. No one is nice to strangers and helping someone is hardly ever returned. Now I could be an asshole and say he shouldn’t have tried to “help” the women out because who cares. But I am glad he did try what he could to get her out of traffic. Now the come coming from the back of the line to confront him about cutting the line is totally ok in my opinion. But he is not...
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...Managerial Finance Reflection Essay 5th July, 2015 DELL’S WORKING CAPITAL Dell computer Corporation, a company with a Build-to-order manufacturing system, focused mainly on selling directly to the customers. It was their Core Strategy. The company has reported impressive growth in FY-1996 and is predicting a future growth of 20% annually. Positive Inferences - DELL The primary advantage for the growth of the company is their Inventory Management. It followed the build-to-order strategy which resulted in Low Finished goods inventory. The Days Supply of inventory for Dell is the lowest in the industry. (ALSO A NEGATIVE EFFECT) DSI Dell Apple Compaq IBM 1993 55 52 72 64 1994 33 85 60 57 1995 32 54 73 48 Also, when we consider the income statement of the Company, it becomes clear that the company is growing in terms of its SALES per annum. The sales of the company have grown by 83% from 1992-1996. Income Statement - DELL Sales COGS Gross Margin Op. exp income financing tax net profit 1996 1995 1992 1996-‐1992 5296 100.00% 3475 100 890 100 4406 4229 79.85% 2737 78.76% 608 68.31% 3621 1067 20.15% 738 21.24% 282 31.69% 785 690 13.03% 489 14.07% 215 24.16% 475 377 7.12% 249 7.17% 67 7.53% 310 6 0.11% -‐36 -‐1.04% 7 0.79% -‐1 111 2.10% 64 1.84% 23 2.58% 88 272 5.14% 149 4.29% 51 5.73% 221 83.19% 11.54% -‐11.54% -‐11.13% -‐0.41% -‐0.67% -‐0.49% -‐0.59% The rate of...
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...A Long Way Gone Essay Matthew Morgan Prof. Carey “On Democracy” Due: 02/27/08 For the “Everybody Reads” assignment I choose to attend the Central library book group discussion. When I first got there I was really surprised because I thought it was going to be a bigger event than what it was. There was only about 10 people total, and 5 of us were students who were there for this exact assignment. It was a really interesting discussion because half of the people that attended were my age and the other half was about two generations older, so there was a very diverse pool of perspectives and opinions. But because there was a large generation gap it was a bit more difficult for me to share my views, so I mainly listened and observed other people’s thoughts. The discussion itself was very helpful because of the different views people had about the memoir. One of the themes of A Long Way Gone that we discussed was the importance of hope. We mainly talked about how this theme was not constant throughout the memoir and that it changed with time. For example one person brought up how at first Ishmael’s only motivator was the hope of his parents being alive, then when he realized that he would never be reunited with them he had lost his hope. It was only when he remembered what his father had said about a person only lives if they have something to live for which gave him his hope back. As far as themes that’s really the only one that we discussed, but we did discuss a lot...
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...Focal Point: When students, especially high school students, are faced with a problem/challenge, they tend to just give up when they hit a ”roadblock”. However, motivation and guiding them through the thinking process drives them to continue working on the challenge, and helps them even solve it in a way they wouldn’t imagine solving it. Observations: Today at AVID was back to normal. The students were back to doing their regular tutorials. With the first sophomore class, with only 2 tutors out of the regular 6, it was very hard grading the tutorial request forms. But myself and my partner Brian got it done. I was in charge of leading a geometry group consisting of 5 sophomores. Each of them had a specific question that had to be...
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...2017 The Cask of the Amontillado Theme Essay The Cask of the Amontillado is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe. The story has two main characters, Fortunado and Montresor. It all starts when Fortunado dishonors the Montresor name. Montresor hears of this and is furious. Montresor decides he must have revenge. Since there is a town party, he tells the house staff he will be gone all evening, and he wishes for them to stay and work. This would ensure they would all be gone as soon as Montresor turned his back. Montresor purchased amontillado to lure Fortunado to the basement/ wine cellar. He was smart and was sure to get Fortunado after he was already a little drunk, and while the whole town was gone at the party. He then dangles the amontillado in front of Fortunado, and gets him even more drunken then he already was. After this he lures Fortunado in a very small, closet-like, room made of cement blocks. This compact room had a door with only a very small hole in it. Montresor decides to chain Fortunado to the wall and seal the door with cement blocks, so Fortunado was basically buried alive....
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...The full title of the first edition of Malthus' essay was "An Essay on the Principle of Population, as it affects the Future Improvement of Society with remarks on the Speculations of Mr. Godwin, M. Condorcet, and Other Writers." The speculations and other writers are explained below. William Godwin had published his utopian work Enquiry concerning Political Justice in 1793, with later editions in 1796 and 1798. Also, Of Avarice and Profusion (1797). Malthus' remarks on Godwin's work spans chapters 10 through 15 (inclusive) out of nineteen. Godwin responded with Of Population (1820). The Marquis de Condorcet had published his utopian vision of social progress and the perfectibility of man Esquisse d'un Tableau Historique des Progres de l'Espirit Humain (The Future Progress of the Human Mind) in 1794. Malthus' remarks on Condorcet's work spans chapters 8 and 9. Malthus' essay was in response to these utopian visions, as he argued: "This natural inequality of the two powers, of population, and of production of the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their effects equal, form the great difficulty that appears to me insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society." The "Other writers" included Robert Wallace, Adam Smith, Richard Price, and David Hume. Malthus himself claimed: "The only authors from whose writings I had deduced the principle, which formed the main argument of the Essay, were Hume, Wallace, Adam Smith, and Dr. Price ...
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