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about the history between the Nuer tribe and the Dinka tribe? What is the cause of their problems? At the end of the book, how does Salva work to repair the relationship? We learn that the history between the Nuer tribe and the Dinka tribe isn’t that great. They have a bad relationship with eachother. They have a bad relationship because the Nuer men killed Uncle and stole all the items the travelers had. They fought over scarce water. Salva offered wells for the Nuer and Dinka tribes, which…

What if you were forced out by rebels and had to leave your own family behind? A Long Walk to Water, by Linda Sue Park, is a realistic fiction novel. This story is a dual narrative. In the first storyline, Nya is a eleven year old girl, who is in the Nuer tribe, she lives in South Sudan. She must fetch water two times every day. In the second storyline, Salva, who is also an eleven year old boy, part of the Dinka tribe, and lives in South Sudan. Salva is forced to leave South Sudan, because of…

calling for the overthrow of Kiir as he jailed several respected South Sudanese politicians for their supposed plan. In other words, a civil war emerged in December of 2015 and a clear ethnic divide between the Dinkas who widely support Kiir and the Nuers who mainly support Machar lead to mass ethnic killings with over 500 people dead as civilians are often targeted. Due to the political differences causing the civil war, South Sudan has passed…

What if one day, a big boom occurred just outside your house, a plane flew low overhead, and smoke and dust blocked your view? What would you do? Salva Dut was faced with this decision in Southern Sudan in 1985, and many others were as well. The International Rescue Committee, a program in which a board of directors and overseers puts volunteers to work in effort to help refugees and others from foreign countries that are having a tough time. In one of their articles describing the Second…

Journal Two One important aspect in the book Mistakes Were Made but not by me is irrevocability. I conclude that irrevocability is an important aspect of the book because it explains dissonance in the book which is when two of your beliefs collide and put you into a state of mental discomfort. Irrevocability is when you have made a decision that is irreversible, this supports the theory of dissonance because when you make a poor decision you try to release that tension in your thoughts and…

Although the movie “A Good Lie” and the book “ A Long Walk to Water” are very similar, they also have many differences. The stories talk about different perspectives of the war and how each of the characters went through that war and what they did when the Northern Governments destroyed their villages. They were forced to run away from their burnt villages in essence that if they stayed there, they would be killed. The characters are part of The Lost Boys in both stories and are on their way to…

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.…

In America, it is understood that one exchanges their time and labor for money, and the amount of money they receive it for determines their status in society. Many people believe that all other economies are moving toward this capitalist economy because they are under the impression that such an economy is the most advanced a nation could possibly become. A popular type of economy that currently coexists with capitalism is a gift-giving economy. Though now they exist in a kind of symbiotic…

Confucianism and the Han Chinese of 1450: Confucian ideology and beliefs played a major role in who the Han Chinese were as a people, specifically in the area of education through the civic examinations. The impact of Confucianism was far reaching with effects displayed in art, literature, social rank, and education. To do this I am going to first provide an insight into the Han Chinese culture as a whole during the Ming Dynasty, including a view point from Europe at the time; then I will…

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 having his only people he’s close to being killed. Nya. She is a girl also in Southern Sudan but, she is in the Nuer tribe and also she lives in a different time. Her village struggles to get water so, her struggle for survival in some ways is close to Salva’s struggle. Nya each day has to travel back and forth once a day to get water at the pond(we don’t know…