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    Healing the Mind of a Child Soldier “I didn’t feel a thing for him, didn’t think much what I was doing…The prisoner was simply another rebel who was responsible for the death of my family, as I had come to truly believe” (Beah 124). In the Memoir “a long way gone” by Ishmael Beah, sees 12-year-old Ishmael trying to survive in the war stricken country of Sierra Leone. Ishmael is just an ordinary boy when the RUF (Revolutionary United Front) attacks his home of Mattru Jong, while he is away in a…

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    We have seen throughout history free nations become dictatorships. From the Chinese Revolution in the 40’s to the Vietnam War. We, as American citizens would want to stay as free as possible, but things like book banning limits that freedom. Schools and other places that have libraries are allowed to ban books because of the information they contain, and that is completely un-American. School boards and other organizations that ban books take away our freedoms and undermine democracy. To…

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    All through life, there is a continuous battle between having the capacity to trust different people, while surviving. Inside Ishmael Beah's record of his life entitled A Long Way Gone, he mourns how war has ruined the happiness regarding meeting individuals that he once had. Beah had to confront with new individuals often, which made him be wary of whether putting his trust in that individual could end up being the root starting point of his demise one day. As Ishmael meets diverse people for…

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    The Romanovs share their origins with a handful of other Russian noble families. One of the ancestors of the world-renowned dynasty was Andrey Kobyla – a boyar who lived during the middle of the 14th century. Kobyla was documented in contemporary chronicles only once, in 1347, when he was said to have been sent to Tver with the purpose of meeting the daughter of Alexander I of Tver. Later generations assigned other more illustrious pedigrees to Kobyla, however, they are highly unlikely to be…

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    very successful in art themselves. He later became very well known for his historical, mythological, and allegorical themed artwork. Art historians have enough evidence to believe that he may have been greatly influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Francken was a fan of painting smaller figures…

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    Peter the Great (originally known as: Pyotr Alekseyvich Romanov), was a Russian czar during the late 17th century. He was born on June 9th, 1672 in Moscow, Russia and passed away on February 8th, 1725 in Saint Petersburg, Russia after ending up with a fever due to attempting to rescue drowning soldiers in freezing water. Peter is famously known for positively modernizing Russia and Russian life in various ways. Peter essentially transformed Russia from "nonexistence" to "being". As a leader,…

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    piloted by tsars and tsarinas to rise as a modern empire. From its ambiguous beginnings in 1613, the Romanov dynasty was born from the boyar nobles of feudal Russia, bearing historically significant figures like Ivan the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Catherine the Great; these characters formed a foundation that Russia would stand on for centuries to come. With economic, social, and political evolution, Russia saw the continuity…

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    Peter the Great of Russia Peter the Great, starting his reign over Russia at a young age, almost single handedly moved Russia from a medieval, isolated culture to a major European power. He developed a modern military and, created a navy that the world feared. Peter was able to move his country towards a European culture . But much of his reforms were against the tradition of the Russian people. They did not want to be like Europe. They viewed Europeans as possible threats and a danger to the…

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    The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty became infamous by leaving a scar on all of its readers, with the horrific undergoing of a thirteen-year-old girl. The film, The Exorcist, directed by William Friedkin also captures the novel and the events with a chilling, yet superb cast and screenplay. The book and film begin with Chris, a successful actress that is dealing with a minor case of depression, divorce and a healthy, pretty child: Raegan. As the two progress, Chris notices a change in Raegan…

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    Job #1: In the beginning of the novel, Ishmael was a skinny, twelve year old African American boy that wore baggy jeans, long-sleeved shirts, and three pairs of socks that he pulled down and folded, which puffed up his sneakers (7). As the novel progressed, Ishmael became very scrawny with dirty, shabby clothes. Ishmael became extremely thin because he was not able to eat regularly. In the novel, Ishmael’s hunger ends up taking over in chapter 5, Ishmael and his friends chased after a little boy…

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