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    Salva Character Analysis

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    Salva. He was once just a regular kid in southern Sudan but, he didn’t know his life was about to change forever. His struggle for survival is his village is attacked while he’s at school and he has to go out into the “bush” alone and survive through all his hardships throughout this novel. It changes his struggle by having to cope with his friends and family dying and also getting to refugee camps.In this time of war, Salva has to keep dealing his group leaving him twice and on his third group…

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    “‘At our age, it’s more complicated for the rebels. So they use stronger stuff, like drugs or money, to bait us and to make us march…I remember the attack on Njola-Kombouya village, in the south of Sierra Leone. They made us wake up at 1 in the morning and we marched until 7. A doctor came. He had a small bowl of cold water, and, every two injections, he rinsed his needle in the water. It was always a small vial with red liquid. At first, I constantly felt weak and then after, I had a sense of…

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    A plane full of celebrities has crashed due to an explosion and it has killed all the celebrities, in the plane. However, one of the celebrities was murdered an hour before the explosion and empirical and molecular formulas are key to finding out who killed who and who was the cause of the explosion. A molecular formula gives all the atoms in the compound and an empirical formula is the lowest whole number ratio of the molecular formula. Both of the formulas are used to discover what compounds…

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    Summary Of Fool's Crow

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    Luka Zuschlag 12/21/16 Fool’s Crow Review Mr. Maggid Sourcing Fool’s Crow was written by James Welch and published by Penguin Books in 1986 featuring 393 pages. James Welch is the son of two native Blackfeet parents. He is considered as the first great popularizer of Native American literature. His writings may be biased in favor of the Blackfeet as he is one. Summary of Book Fool’s Crow is a book about coming of age and of change. It's shows changing culture, people, and entire ways of life…

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    Is #13 always unlucky? Ask Martina McBride! Her new 13th studio album “Reckless” debuted #2 on the country charts, so apparently not. Upon first listen to this album I thought it was mediocre; however, when I heard it a 2nd time I decided I loved it! How can you not love anything Martina sings? Her voice can be soft and beautiful as well as loud and just as beautiful! She has been nominated 17 times for CMA's female vocalist of the year and won 4 times! Her almost 25-year career speaks for…

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    Going Solo, Roald Dahl's memoir of his work in East Africa and his service in the RAF, covers much of the buildup to World War II. In the book mention is made of the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal plays a large role in the memoir as a sea level waterway running across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt to connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. Dahl states that, "The voyage from the Port of London to Mombasa would take two weeks and on the way we were going to call in at Marseilles, Malta, Port said,…

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    Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk to Water and is demonstrated by Salva in this story. The first example is Salva, he had to persevere through many things. The first thing he had to persevere through is getting away from the rebel soldiers. Salva had to run away from his home and family in the hope of seeing them again. Salva encountered many occasions where the rebel soldiers killed many people around him and Salva had to keep persevering through these tragedies. In this story…

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    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah is a narrative of survival of a 12-year-old boy separated from his family and caught in the mess of the Sierra Leone civil war in the early 1990s. His story reveals his traumatizing and shocking experiences as a soldier driven by anger and revenge for the loss of his village and his culture, only later able to overcome everything that had happened and the things he’d done. Ishmael’s cultural connection to storytelling was ultimately what…

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    Ishmael Beah's Innocence

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    “A war is when the government tells the people who the enemy is, a revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.” This was not true in the case of 12 year old Ishmael Beah who not only had to figure out who the enemy was, but also had to escape the trials of danger that came along with being at both ends of an AK-47. No child at that young age would deliberately put themselves in a situation where kill or be killed was their daily life motto. I think the child soldiers were highly unaware…

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    Child Soldier Sociology

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    Ishmael’s experiences of being traumatically separated from his childhood family, becoming a child soldier for his own survival, and his experience with re-socialization after being rescued by UNICEF is possibly quite similar to the traumatic stories of many of “about 250,000 children employed in armed factions worldwide” (Taylor 869). Sociology of the life course effectively assesses what happens to these children when they are separated from their familiar families and surroundings. I believe…

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