Freetown

Ethnicity; a form of classification that’s primary focus is birth place, but is nonetheless based upon all aspects of social background including national identity, language, and in broader terms, sharing essential cultural values. Although, the prospects for which it is based upon are objective facts, in this essay we will be critically analysing: to what extent is ethnicity socially constructed? In order to answer the question, we will look what is a social construct; how’s and why’s ethnicity…

Inhuman Traffick In 1791, the uprising of slaves in St. Dominque inspired similar movements all over the world. The United States fought Great Britain a second time for independence. In South America centuries and old colonial empires began to unravel in Spain. The Revolutionary war subsided in 1815 in Europe. Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo helped prevent future outbreaks of revolution. Great Britain wanted to change after the war. In the 1780’s a powerful antislavery movement rose, which was…

Rehabilitation is painful. Individuals are consumed with frustration, withdrawal, and anguish. In the memoirs, Bite of the Mango and A Long Way Gone, both narrators, Ishmael and Mariatu, experience this agonizing escape from addiction and trauma. Fortunately, they are blessed with the kindness of social workers and nurses that provide them with opportunities to live a life of purpose. Those who assisted both victims inform them of their circumstances and the condition of their country; these…

Children should never be victims of a war caused by man. Children of war experience horrendous situations which have the ability to scar them for life. In the Sierra Leonean Civil War, many children experience lack of food and shelter, the death of family and friends, as well as the loss of their innocence. In The Bite of the Mango, the main character, Mariatu Kamara is captured by the rebel forces fighting against the government in civil war, who maliciously cut off her hands. Mariatu learns…

to Western priorities. Since 1991, international relief agencies have become an even bigger presence, bringing aid to Sierra Leonean refugees and internally displaced people who have fled the violence surrounding their homes.Many schools outside Freetown (both primary and secondary) have been closed since the beginning of the 1991 conflict. There has thus arisen some social concern over what the effects may be of a generation raised without access to formal education. This is one advantage…

Power is defined as ‘the ability or capacity to do something or act in a particular way’. Foreign intervention is when nations, or organizations are able, or obliged to intervene in the affairs of another nation. Responsibility is defined as ‘the state or being accountable for something’, and means that a state must behave what is deemed as ‘morally right’. Why must ‘great power’ be wielded with ‘great responsibility’? If not done so, this power may have severe repercussions, and the potential…

Types of Illegal Fishing The act of illegal is very well diversified in character but every act of fishing not carried out in the right way is illegal. Also, the illegality of the act can carried concerned with the species caught or the type of fishing gear used and they are as follows: • Fishing without valid permit: A fishing license is a documentation that grants a person the right to catch a specified number of fish of certain types in a given period of time without exceeding this agreed…

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…

Ishmael and Mambu, his friend, find a way of selling the given school supplies and hopping on a bus to Freetown. “we laughed and clapped for the dancers” (Beah 146). They had fun, they had un violence influenced fun, something that is not just healthy but that influences them in a way that lets them know that there is a way out, or something other than the…

The concept of humanity is quite broad. However, it has its different perspectives, although it can be narrowed down to human beings as a collective along with their character and cooperation. With two literary works ‘The Book of Negroes’ and ‘A Raisin in the Sun’, both having the perspectives of institutionalized racism and religion with one having an implicit bias and the other having an explicit bias, these literary works generate an understanding of humanity and afford greater insight into…