Freetown

STEREOTYPICAL IMAGES ON AFRICA Most Americans, Western people in general have different stereotypes on Africa. For decades, centuries, Africa has been viewed as a non-civilized place, where endless poverty, diseases, conflict and violence exist. In addition, Americans think that all Africans practice voodoo or known as “Black Magic” considered as morbid and violent religion. First of all, most Americans consider Africa as a huge jungle or rainforest. When they think of Africa, they…

In parts of the world, children are often surrounded by the ever growing obstacle of war. While in these situations, the concept of youth can become an imaginary idea. Most children are scouted into armies or placed into refugee camps where immediate maturity must be learned. “Since the mid-1990s, the world has watched in horror as hundreds of thousands of children and young teenagers have participated in nearly 50 wars, mostly in Africa and Asia” (Felton 1). Often times, these young ones never…

Fair and effective governance are crucial components to preventing civil strife within any modern society. Unfortunately, in most instances where gross negligence and misappropriation of government resources occurs, the sovereign state will typically lose its ability to effectively conduct policy at nearly every level of infrastructure. In the end, the Hoi Polloi are often the ones who bear the largest brunt of the instability generated by those who mismanaged a nation’s available resources. The…

All through life, there is a continuous battle between having the capacity to trust different people, while surviving. Inside Ishmael Beah's record of his life entitled A Long Way Gone, he mourns how war has ruined the happiness regarding meeting individuals that he once had. Beah had to confront with new individuals often, which made him be wary of whether putting his trust in that individual could end up being the root starting point of his demise one day. As Ishmael meets diverse people for…

1. Legitimate Trade was the replacement of the slave trade. It was established in the late 1800s and it incorporated products like ivory, coffee, and rubber. The significance of legitimate trade was it decreased the amount of violence occurring in-between states, spread wealth to people other than rulers, and it transformed the public opinion of African men to actual men and not just items. 2. Fante Confederation was a union formed in 1868 and proposed John Africanus Horton as its leader. It was…

the exposition—the description of war-torn Imperi and its destitute inhabitants; the rising action—the arrival of the mining company; the climax—Benjamin’s death; the falling action—Bockarie and his family’s migration to Kono and subsequently to Freetown; and the resolution—Bockarie and his family ending the story in a relatively auspicious…

The Sierra Leonean Civil War from 1991 to 2001 affected every citizen of Sierra Leone, including children. Ishmael Beah is a man who was caught in the war as a child, and forced to both witness and commit acts of violence as a child soldier, as expressed in his memoir. The role of violence in the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is to portray the theme of loss of innocence through the comparisons and contrasts of violent acts while Ishmael was running from the rebels, during his time as a…

Integration is the elimination of barriers and enclosures that may limit free mobility and set up of positive non-hierarchical relationships (Marcuse, 2005). It means that spatially distributed resources and assets such as neighbourhoods, public facilities (schools, recreation areas and health facilities etc.) are shared by the members of different groups (Hartman & Squires, 2010). Many studies (Balbo & Navez-Bouchanine, 1995; Deffner & Hoerning, 2011; Kempen, 2007; Madrazo & Van Kempen, 2012)…

The film The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete and the memoir A long way gone have many similarities and some differences. The main character of the film is Mister, a boy whose mother is an addict and is taken to jail. While his mother is gone Mister must take care are a young boy and survive with no food, no money, or sufficient shelter. The main character of the memoir is Ishmael Beah, who is a boy that has to become a child soldier to survive during the war in Africa. These events take…

experience during this time. Although, these women were raised in two different places, they both attended school and had jobs to help maintain their daily lives (Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies, 1994). Jessie Lee Chassion was born in Freetown, a town…