...woke up everyday as a child soldier. He trained and went to go attack enemies and villages. When he needed motivation or when he had accomplished his goal, he went to do drugs and shoot guns with his friends. He didn’t choose to be a child soldier and commit terrible actions on his own. He was forced to do these actions and was bribed to execute orders from his commanders. Ishmael’s situation is not uncommon around the world. In fact, there are multiple amounts of people who are/were child soldiers. Though a fraction of child soldiers were committed to being a child soldier, most of them are forced into the war. If they do not do what they are told, they could be killed. This issue is a hotly debated topic. While...
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...thousands of child soldiers are put on the front lines each day. Their lives put at risk for values most of they don't even believe in. We don’t allow child soldiers in the U.S., let alone, capturing and beating children to become soldiers. Child soldiers have been around for hundreds of years. Why has it taken us so long to notice that we should do something. So why have we let other countries capture kids and use them on the battlefield? Ten-year-olds in the U.S. are running around on the playground, playing cars and enjoying childhood while other ten-year-olds are being scarred for life with gruesome images of war. Child soldiers are robbed of their childhood and of their childlike qualities; one of the...
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...Child Soldiers still deserve to play a card game of war instead of fighting in a real with real guns.This means that child soldiers are still kids and deserve happiness even after what they have done or have lost their innocence. Child Soldiers can be scarred after committing terrible things, or from seeing horrific things,but that doesn't mean they are all monsters and bad people. In A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah on page 169 he says, “I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.” Ishmael Beah was forced to be a child soldier at the age of 12. He was in the war from the ages of 12-15. He spent time in a home to help him recover; this proves that they can regain happiness. Child Soldiers can be ‘reborn’,...
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...February 2017 Child Soldiers: Entering Society with a Broken Psyche Child soldiers: an image burnt into all of our minds. Young boys looking about eight-years-old, armed with assault rifles, and grimacing menacingly into the camera. Children are unanimously loved: even if you do not care for children, you will stop and smile at children as they pass. But what happens if that child is armed with an automatic weapon? Our attitudes towards them change tremendously. According to a study done between April 2004 and October 2007, child soldiers are found in 19 countries and territories (Denov 280). In global news circles, the hundreds of thousands of children that have been ripped away...
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...been found to be eight years old. Some kids are forced to fight, being abducted from their community. Others join in conflict, fighting back for what they have lost and hoping that fighting will resolve their issues. Either way, children shouldn’t be in these dangerous situations. The matter of child soldiers seems to be a major problem as of today, but children have been used in wars ever since 1998. In fact, at least 36 countries around the world have used child soldiers. Most countries that use child soldiers concentrate in Africa and South Asia. In conflict, kids are subject to abuse and, even worse, sexual assault. This shouldn’t be happening. It isn’t right...
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...children because they have been taken away to fight and wars against their will. I believe that child soldiers shouldn’t go to jail for their actions during war. Many people may not think the same way as me, but i have my reasons. They shouldn’t go to jail because some of the children think that it is going be a great place to live and stay there, but then other times you are going start getting treated bad. Many times you might get sent to jail for something you didn’t want to do, like drink alcohol, do drugs, etc. In The article Child Soldiers: victims or perpetrators “More often than not children have no say in whether they enlist or not and once recruited the children become brainwashed through the use of drugs and alcohol. The drugs and alcohol make the children become more compliant enabling them to commit atrocities which they never would have before.” They should not be getting hurt for crimes. In the article Child Soldiers: victims or perpetrators I found that “ Personally, I believe child soldiers should not be prosecuted for their crimes.” If they do something wrong they shouldn’t be getting hurt or anything. Many new kids that join Child...
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...Iraq, Nigeria, Syria and many other countries in the world there are still children being recruited to war. (according to Reliefweb) In fact, child soldiers are used for fighting. For instance, kids are forced to take part in wars, forced to kill, and commit other acts of violence. In addition,the children are used as cooks, porters, messengers, informants, spies or anything their commanders want them to do. Many people believe that child soldiers should not be given amnesty, however, I believe that these juveniles should because they are forced to take part in the military, are also not old enough to know how to make the right decisions. Also these adolescents do not have 100% control over their...
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...limit your research. Instead, develop a research question that lends itself to further exploration and debate—a question you genuinely want to know the answer to. Try to pick a research question that is neither too broad (covering too much) or too narrow (covering too little). It should be broad enough to be discussed in a short research paper. Part 1: Complete the Research Plan |What is your general topic or area of interest? |My general topic of interest is Drugs. I raise a child that was born | | |addicted, and feel this topic will be very helpful and insightful in | | |helping me raise this child properly. | | | | | | | |What is it about your general topic that interests you?...
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...Global Peace and Justice Begins at Home. Wars are everywhere. Wars define destruction. Not only does it destroy the Earth and whatnot but what a lot of us, naive people do not realise is that it also destroys the pure innocent minds of the little, chaste children. Many of us people misunderstand the concept of opening the minds of the kids to wars. The main reason why we do so is to make sure that the kids would not start any wars and let the peace on Earth sustain. Without realising the consequences, the erroneous thing that people do now is to open the minds of these children to the basic ways of starting a war. Global peace is a personal choice, hour by hour. Ask yourself, "Am I going to add to the fighting in the world? Or offer up something greater?" If you want to obtain peace, then start changing the world by changing the ways you teach these children. They are supposed to be playing hopscotch, filling in colouring books, having pets, playing hide and seek. What happened to that? I no longer see kids doing these things. Based on what I see on the Internet, parents are starting to neglect their responsibilities and instead of teaching their children good things, they are literally teaching them stuff like how to use a gun and how to use army knives. Despite the fact that these kids are still too small to be carrying out these type of activities, they are also too gullible to barely even think about the ramification of learning these stuff. Parents who train their...
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...from Achebe’s book Things Fall Apart. Also, state why Europeans were so determined to bring changes to this society and what kind of action Okonkwo took to defend his village.) 4. Examine the decline of the Ottoman Empire. What factors explain this process? What attempts at reform did the Ottomans undertake? (Bentley & Ziegler, chap.31) 5. Learn how and why Japan became industrialized (make sure you review your notes on the movie; Meiji Transformation). Learn also about hollow modernization of the Latin American countries. (Also Bentley & Ziegler pp. 724-728, 634-636 & chapter 30) 6. Definition, causes, and geopolitical scope and the result of the New Imperialism. (Class notes and read also, Bentley & Ziegler, Chapter 32) 7. African and Asian responses to Western Imperialism: Armed resistance and modernizing efforts. (Class notes) 8. Learn about the causes of World War I. How was it a global and modern war? Major consequences of the war for both Europe and the wider world. (Class notes and also, Bentley & Ziegler, Chapter33) 9. Learn about the rise of Fascism in Europe. (Review your class notes and read also, Bentley & Ziegler, chap.34) 10. Examine the causes and implications of the Great/Global Depression. Why was the Depression so widespread and so devastating? How did different countries respond to the Depression? What would be the long-term consequences of the...
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...I don’t like that rule because the government is not giving young people a choice. What if the young people don’t want to be associated with the military? If young people want to do something else with their life then they should do it out of choice. You can’t force someone to do something if they don’t want to do it. Some of the main points of why I don’t particularly like this rule are: what about the young person’s family and friends, what if they want to do something else, and what if we don’t want to join the military. When someone says that you had to fight in war you would be pretty worried and scared. Also when they force you to join you also get mad. You especially get mad when you have to fight in a war that your country...
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...There are child soldiers throughout the world that no one knows about, who are forced to fight in wars with no cause like Ishmael Beah. The memoir A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah is appropriate for the Sterling High School English IV curriculum because the content of the text has connections to the real world and the text is complex enough that the reader has to infer information about the circumstances Beah is in and the ability of humans to come out of the devastating effect of war. Throughout the memoir, the reader has to connect Beah’s scenarios with the outside world for a better understanding of the content in the memoir. In general, while Beah is in New York with other child soldiers he states, “Some of the children had risked their life to attend the conference” (196). Here, Beah connects his circumstance with others to portray that there are child soldiers all over the world fighting battles and risking their lives for a cause they do not believe in. The reader gets a better understanding of the outside world from the content of the book because they have to make connections with what is happening outside of their comfort zone. This is appropriate for English IV curriculum because the reader begins to understand the world from Beah’s explanations of what he has been through to understand the reality and toll of war. Furthermore, during the beginning...
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...consciousness, including depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. Include in this explanation what happens to the neurotransmitters and body chemicals as well as how you might recognize whether a person at work or in your family is in an altered state of consciousness due to the influence of drugs. There are many stimulates that can alter a person’s state of consciousness. Some of these altered states can be caused by drugs. Alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine are some of drugs that change the state of a person. Stimulants can be used to speed up the central nervous system making a person feel more alert and aware of their surroundings. The drug marijuana normally has this effect on a person because it heightens their senses and an individual normally notices things they normally would not on a normal day. Depressants are the opposite and reduce the activity of the nervous system and produce a feeling of calm. Alcohol is generally is associated with this feeling. Most people consume alcohol when they are under stress or feel depress. Alcohol is said to take the edge off and makes the individual forget their issues. Hallucinogenics can be used to make an individual have hallucinations which causes them to see things that are not there or even see things that are there but not in the same way they normally would if not under the substance. LSD which was popular during the Vietnam War was a drug that induced visions and hallucinations. Using drugs can excite serotonin and dopamine...
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...Lesson Introduction - “Before”: Think about everything you know about the Civil War. Think about all you have read in textbooks, learned in younger grade classes or from watching television. What do you know about the Civil War? What do you want to know about the Civil War. The goals of these activities are to build an understanding of the chronology of the Civil War and to explore key people, places and events in the history of the war. Students should also gain a deeper understanding of the causes and consequences of the Civil War in American history. Students should be able to analyze and explain the social, political and economic effects of the Civil War. Learning Activities - “During”: We will be discussing causes of the war, North versus...
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...Child Soldiers: Criminals or Victims? Children are known as the innocence of society. The ever growing problem of child soldiers is a saddening and striking one. They are clearly victims of a much larger game ran by militias and corrupt governments, they are not wrong, but are wronged. Children are pushed and nudged into taking up arms through different ways .In war torn regions, Children are grown up and raised with the plague of war, it is all they know. They are not accustomed to regular childhoods, and they have no opportunities, so children tend to follow what they see, which is war and bloodshed. Militia leaders in third world countries tend to drug children and force them into being soldiers, upon refusal they even threaten and kill...
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