Lost Boys of Sudan

Somalia, the U.S. might even be helping pay their salaries. By Jeffrey Gettleman in Mogadishu, Somalia Upfront Magazine (October 4, 2010) Prowling the streets of Mogadishu, the shattered capital of Somalia, Awil Salah Osman looks like all the other boys with torn-up clothes, thin limbs, and eyes eager for attention. But 12-year-old Awil is different in two ways: He is shouldering an automatic, fully loaded rifle; and he is working for a military that is substantially armed and financed by…

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. Throughout Salvas journey he became a leader and a person that people looked up to. He lead a group of 1,500 boys to the refugee camp in Kenya .In the text it states “ Crowds of other boys followed him. Nobody talked about it , but by the end of the first day salva had become the leader of the group of about 1,500 boys.’’…

Stanley Furniture Factory in Martinsville, VA in 1973, she had the American Dream in front of her. After being laid off in the fall of 2010, she could feel that promise crumbling around her. Mrs. Perdue is one of over 3.5 million US manufacturing jobs lost to China since 2001. The American Economy began to churn its wheels after the Industrial Revolution, and and rocketed to astronomical heights after World War II. Soldiers came home in droves, eager to to start new lives with their wartime…

Their family had a house boy and all she knew about that house boy and his family was they were poor, it was impossible for her to see them as anything else but poor, Poverty was her “single-story” about them. She understood her roommates’ response to her that if she didn’t grew up in Nigeria and…

of 1917 and the impact of world war one in America. In America the ww1 propaganda techniques of the creel commission used leaflets, movies, photographs, cartoons, pamphlets and posters to paint a terrifying picture of what might happen if the allies lost the…

genocides. When will it stop? When will we learn? When will we stop forgetting about the past and when will the history books end the patterns of genocide? When? The survivors share their stories, but do we listen? Elie Wiesel was a fifteen-year-old boy with a life ahead of him, when his religion; following Judaism, made him a target in Adolf Hitler's extermination plans. He had done nothing wrong, yet he was attacked. From Auschwitz to Birkenau to Buna to Gleiwitz and Gleiwitz to Buchenwald,…

lifestyle. In 1987, over 20,000 young boys, many only six or seven years old, fled their homeland of Sudan looking for refuge in a safe haven. The young boys gave up everything in order to improve their lives. In the documentary God Grew Tired of Us, it stated, “By the time the Lost Boys had crossed the border into Kenya, their numbers had reduced to 12,000. Having trekked thousands of miles on foot, the boys’ enduring 5 year exodus was over”. Despite losses, the boys continued to move forward…

Throughout time, the US has often been seen as a place of promise, hope and new beginnings. However, recently many have started looking at America as more of a sinking ship, a once mighty empire that has lost its direction. This simply is not true, the US, though, simply hard to see sometimes, is still moving forward and progressing as a united nation with events and acts that are seen as common occurrences today that would have only been seen as dreams years earlier. In addition to, this…

Joseph Kalema laid down alone for many nights on the streets of Uganda, hungry, alone, unloved, but with a dream for a better life. He was one of the lucky few who were picked up off the side of the street by a pastor and taken to an orphanage. Far too many children face even worse fates than Joseph. Many children live their entire childhood wondering if they will ever have a place to sleep or someone who will love them. Unfortunately, many will not get even the most basic of their desires.…

river nd Salva had to escape as soon as possible. But as he was crossing the deadly river, a boy had latchd onto salva causing him to dodge th bullet as the poor boy took it for him. " Stunned, salva realized that being forced down the water had probably saved his life" (78,79) While crossing the Gilo river the soldiers were shooting at the people going across it to speed up the process. If it wasn't for the boy grasping on to salva, he probably would've been shot and killed. Physical resources…