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(A)People often associate having hopes and dreams with child's play; that only the young and naive would mess with something as foolish as that. (B)However, movies such as The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty, the book Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, and the documentary following three Acholi children in Northern Uganda, War Dance prove that not only children should have hopes and dreams, but everyone. (C) There are many different reasons of why we need hopes and dreams and goals in our lives,…

The book entitled “A Long Way Gone” written by Ishmael Beah shows the reader a lot about keys to survival. It is an autobiography about Ishmael’s life. Ishmael is the main character, a teenage boy who grew up amidst the Sierra Leonean war. He experiences horrible things that many of us in Canada could not begin to imagine, such as Ishmael’s many brushes with death as well as his experiences as a child soldier. This book can teach the reader a lot about what is required to survive in situations…

Innocence is the lack of corruption, it is purity. One of the things that come to mind when you think of innocence is children. Children are unaware of the horrors of the world and they are still pure in mind and spirit. As kids in America we were very lucky to be able to have our innocence for as long as we can. However, in countries like Sierra Leone they are not given a choice, they lose their innocence at a very young age. Children in Sierra Leone and other areas around the world can be…

A Long Way Gone (2007) is a true story of Ishmael Beah, who unwillingly is forced to become a child soldier when a civil war breaks out in Sierra Leone. The story starts with Beah only 12 years old, who is away to perform along with his brother and friends when rebels attack his village. During all this chaos, confusion and ambiguity of war, all of them are left to wander from village to village in search of food and shelter and along the way commit to acts they had never thought of doing so…

John Singer Sargent was born in 1856 in Florence, Italy even though his parents were native to North America. He was provided with little schooling other than geography, math and reading, but learned to speak Italian, French, and German. His mother was an amateur artist and encouraged him to paint with her and after seeing the skill and ability he had his parents enrolled him in his first-documented formal art training at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence. In spring of 1874 his father…

There is a charming story tilted Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae. In the story, the giraffe is sad because he can't dance like all the other animals. That’s when the cricket shattered his perspective with this jaw dropping quote. He said, “‘ Excuse me’” said a cricket “‘ but sometimes when you’re different you just need a different song’” “‘ Listen to the grass and listen to the trees’” (Andreae). The cricket puts the message of the whole story into one simple sentence. He is telling the…

Even though Sargent was an accomplished artist of many genres, it was in portraiture that he achieved the greatest popularity and, subsequently, commissions in this genre were predominantly what he received. His talents as an artist of great versatility became, for the most part, marginalized, as he became known as not an artist, but a portraitist. Even today, he is celebrated for his magnificent portraits, and it is easy to understand his popularity in portrait painting after viewing even just…

If the United States and its allies try children, they undercut their ability to help kids around the world who have been in combat. One case of a child soldier being tried is Omar Khadr, who is accused of of throwing a grenade at an American Soldier. Ishmael Beah, who after rehabilitation, became a United Nations International Children 's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) representative for Sierra Leone says “His trial puts all former child soldiers in danger and undermines the tireless work that…

the budding life of others. “Love has a way of being infectious. Watching them, I forgot about my problems” (Kamara 82). Despite Kamara’s mental age from the grim scenes and events that she had encountered, she was still a young girl. Like any other female teenager her age, she found an attraction towards the topic of love. This pulled her away from her other worldly difficulties, and she was once again able to blush from a beautiful scenery. As a victim, she is still able to live a normal life…

Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Rwanda, here are only a few countries in which children are used to fight and endure war up close. Throughout history and many cultures children have been used for direct part ( actual soldiers), support roles (spies and messengers), and even political advantages ( human shields and propaganda). This is the cruel reality that these children face everyday. During their time in an environment like this the children are indoctrinated by many different tactics. In A…