Children in war

Homeless individuals throughout the city of Chicago are scattered in the streets. Their signs are unappealing to those they’re trying to receive money from. However, a Chicago art student named Ian Todd constructed a project that required him to create hand lettered signs that took about 10 hours each to complete. His goal was to capture people’s attention and as a result it would increase the amount of money homeless people are receiving. In addition, more people would begin to talk about the…

Lauren Cartwright Mrs. Goodwin Senior English 13 November 2017 Feral Children There have been many cases of “wild children,” this term refers a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age where they have little or no experience of human care, behavior, or, most importantly, of human language. Children that were raised by animals gain the traits of the animals. Consequently, early childhood influences are usually permanent. There are some certain characteristics…

With No Direction Home: Homeless Youth on the Road and in the Streets by anthropologist Marni Finkelstein, is an ethnography that studies 50 “street kids” between the ages of 15 and 20, living on the streets of East Village, New York, in Tompkins Square Park, during two consecutive summers. Finkelstein chooses to interview homeless kids on their own territory; the streets. To be able to see what they do in their everyday life, see the world as the way they see it, what they have experienced and…

Globally, war has detrimental effects on children. Children of war often find themselves expatriated and separated from their families. Children can experience loss of essential life needs. War can cause children to form a negative attitude towards life in general. War can also introduce, and result in, a desensitization to violence, says Smith, 2001 (as cited in Argosy University, 2016). When faced with the aforementioned challenges during a war, the aftermath is discouraging. Children can…

The article by Sonia Nazario, “The Children of the Drug Wars; a Refugee Crisis, Not an Immigration Crisis” is the article that caught my attention the most this semester. The passage talks about a different but very similar couple stories about children’s living in very dangerous places in Central America where gangs are one of the biggest problems. Christian’s story, Was one of the stories that caught my attention the most. His story starts when he was 11 years old. His father was killed by…

Forced labor is illegal, yet so many people are subjected to it. The majority of those people are migrants and indigenous people. There are about 168 million children around the world who are victims of forced labor. Over 85 million are working in hazardous environment. Nobody is around to ensure their safety because their employers know that they can always find someone else if that child dies ("Forced Labour, Human Trafficking and Slavery"). All of this people are vulnerable and taken…

choose to fight to support their country, but were forced to fight or stolen from their families to become a soldier. In the article Child Soldiers, Prosecution, some say that “children are often forced into fighting and have little choice over whether or not the enlist.” Many towns are destroyed by an army and take the children with them for fighting. They have no say in this cause, and if they do, death is upon their short lived lives. But why would people want…

homes have been demolished. For example in the article To What Extent Should Child Soldiers be held Accountable for their Crimes? It writes “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.”. And then in the article Hope for Uganda's Child Soldiers?…

but, in a span of ten years, 19 million children have been scarred by a war they were in (Child Soldiers: Invisible Children 1). This dates back to WWII, when the Nazi’s got desperate, then in Iran in the 1980’s, boys were made to clear minefields, and even right now, the Tailban uses them as suicide bombers (Gettleman 2). If most children play on soccer fields, then why should some of them have to clear minefields? One side feels they’re victims of war, while the other side feel they’re child…

earth, Nepal. Human trafficking especially, young women and children for prostitution and underground sex industry across the border has become one of major social and…