Sierra Leone Civil War

highlighted in the book, I would say it’s not a great book for teaching a lesson. However, with the great characterization and way of immersing the reader into the setting, it is definitely a great book to read just for the sake of reading. The civil war between King Stephen and Empress Maud had been waging for years. It is the summer of 1138, in Medieval England. This makes the process of solving a murder more interesting, as there is no modern CSI. There are, however, good old…

Syrian Civil War has been a controversial issue for a while now. According to CNN Student News, the war has been going on for almost five years. The article, “Syria: The story of the conflict,” on www.bbc.com, states that more than 250,000 Syrians have been killed in the conflict, “which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full scale war.” The story of the Syrian Civil War, starts from that point in time. After the protests intensified, and became a full blown civil war,…

Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in March of 2011, it has claimed nearly 470,000 lives, 12,000 or more were children (Sinha 1). Within a span of five years since the war began, nearly 3.7 million children have been born in Syria, meaning, 3.7 million children grew up only knowing war and violence (Rasha 1). They weren’t given the opportunity to a good life or a happy childhood. These children are starving and in dire need of outside help. They are going through and seeing things…

(Why Is American Sniper Banned?) The ALA bans books for bad language, sexual themes, and so much more. Some are reasonable and some are not. Religion is a big part of banning also, people go crazy over religious things too. The “American Sniper” is banned for many different reasons, mostly violence and foul language. Violence, foul language, and religious beliefs are the top reasons of banning this novel. Violence is the main reason for banning this book. “I pushed my finger against the trigger…

encountered anyone which shows that there was no point of trying to kill the sniper because it did not advance anybody. The man and woman who planned to kill the sniper did not affect the plot, their plan did not solve any of the problems causing the war. Violence is not the solution, it just causes more issues and chaos in the world.…

represents the family is dying, because the connection between the two brothers are gone since they are on two different sides, and they have to fight each other. The theme of the story is about the separation of family, and all these are caused by wars. Behind the tree, there is a long bandage that is untied, coloured mostly in red. This represents that in order to be alive, the snipers cannot give up, no matter how painful it is for them, they have to get over it. It shows that without…

Civil wars have played an increasingly important role in the global conflict map. The quasi-disappearance of interstate wars has led scholars of international relations and international security specializing in the study of war to shift their focus to the one instance of war primarily practiced today, namely the intrastate war, of which the largest category concerns civil wars. This article follows substantial literature on the effects of natural resources on these kinds of wars by reviewing…

The birthplace of modern western democracy endured decades upon decades of civil war, but this same civil war that savaged Britain for so long also spurred the growth of democracy. The Wars of the Roses helped shape the future of Britain and the wider the world, and it also helped form the basis for William Shakespeare’s King Lear. Shakespeare lived in a time in British history only a century after the conclusion of this brutal conflict, and it had a powerful impact on his writing. Conflict over…

economic growth in 41 African countries during 1981–99, to conclude that “growth is strongly negatively related to civil conflict: a negative growth and that the impact of growth shocks on conflict is not significantly different in richer, more democratic, or more ethnically diverse countries” (p. 275). For example in the case of Rwanda a country that has suffered the consequences of civil wars for decades, Serneels and Verpoorten (2012) using micro level data estimated that during the early…

The realistic fiction story “The Sniper” by Liam O'Flaherty occurs in Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. It begins with a sniper on a roof during the night and there was hardly anyone on the streets. He is hidden on a rooftop eating a sandwich and scouring for threats. The author creates an eerie environment and also uses irony to create the theme that a person needs to think before acting. The Sniper, not thinking about his actions, results in consequences for himself. An example of this…