Dinka

A personal journey is a path that you travel that affects you. Salva from Along Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park when though a personal and physical journey. After hearing gunshots Salva has to run from home with people he did not know and walk to a refugee camp. He had to run from his home because there was a war going on in Sudan at the time. Throughout Salvas journey he change a lot or the better. Salva's personal journey impacted him by making him a leader, self sufficient, and confident.…

Salva is a young boy in a tribe called the Dinka tribe. They are enemies with the Nuer tribe. A war breaks out while Salva is in school and his teacher tells him to run into the bush away from home. Salva is a character in Linda Sue Park's novel, A Long Walk to Water. The book describes the struggle for Salva, who had to run away because a war broke out. The outline of the story shows that in reality, many kids face this trouble. Salva proves that people are capable of being able to survive on…

had become refugees. The role of the UN as mediator during the negotiations process and pre-negotiations was a large one that had ‘demanded’ the presence and role of other international organizations. As a result in 1995 a special envoy, Mr. Berhanu Dinka (Ethiopia) worked with the OAU, ECOWAS to try and negotiate and end the conflict. The negotiation process especially during a conflict period such as the civil war in Sierra Leone is often complicated and consists of compromises, some level of…

For instance, the Dinka of Sudan uses facial scarification to determine who they are. They scar around the temple area in order to determine which clan they come from. In southern Sudan, Nuba girls are marked on their foreheads, chest and abdomens when they reach puberty…

characteristics. But we could make an equally reasonable and arbitrary division by the presence of absence of a gene, such as the sickle-cell gene, that confers resistance to malaria. By this reckoning. We’d place Yemenites, Greeks, New Guineans, Thai, and Dinkas in one “race,” Norwegian and several black African people in another” a Quote from Jared Diamond (1994:191) that explains how humans can be characterized in different races by some arbitrary category decided by someone. Other ways to…

marked by civil war. Between the beginning of the war and the end of 2015 over two million people have been displaced from their homes. The constant fighting has been between the government forces led by current president Salva Kiir representing the Dinka tribe and a rebel group led by former Vice President Riek Machar. The war has terrorized many citizen centers and populations due to what many are calling an ethnic cleansing. They transformed from a political war to a tribal war specifically…

What is a personal journey? A personal journey is the way a person changes throughout a series of events that take place in their life. In the beginning of the book, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Salva was just a young boy who attended school daily and depended on his parents for food. But when war struck his village, he would have to be separated from his family and live on his own until he found them again. By the end of the book, Salva had grown into a much more mature person.…

government. The fighting between government troops and rebel factions has resulted in the death of thousands and caused more than 2.2 million people to be displaced. The conflict of South Sudan is aided by ethnic tensions placing President Kiir’s ethnic Dinka people against Machar’s ethnic Nuer people. The ethnic power struggle is not the only conflict occurring in South Sudan, there is also the issue of oil between Sudan and South Sudan, the insubstantial economy, and border disputes over…

“Marriage is a social and legal institution that carries with it certain legal rights and duties” (Boss 2008:371). The traditional marriage here refers to the natural or the normal way that people used to get married, based on the community norms and legal rights toward marriage. Defining marriage is not that easy, because the meaning of marriage changes from time to time. Different people give us different views and different definitions of what marriage is based on their understanding. The…

Food was seen as a gift during the war because it was in such high demand. Salva was extremly lucky to have encountered a memeber of the group who happend to follow a bird to their souce of nutrients. A bees nest. Their technquie of getting the bes out of the nest wasnt eaxactly the smartest but they had to do what they ever it took to get the one thing they desperattly yearned for." It was worth it, Salva thought as he touched his eye gingerly." Even though Salva has been stung by multiple bees…