In order to survive, people have been known to go to great lengths and do things they wouldn't ordinarily do. Since humans are taught the skills needed to survive, thousands of Sudanies were given the chance to live. Eventhough they knew that going back to Sudan wasn't an option they were mentally, physically, and emotionally prepared to survive and thrive. In the movie The Good Lie Theo, Abital, Mamere, Jeremiha, and Paul escape from their, now nonexistent village in Sudan, Africa, which was attacked and burned to the ground. Sadly, the childrens parents have died and Theo now has to take over as chief. He and his siblings, all have to use there knowledge and survival skills in order to make it to Ethopia where they can take refugee. Along
In the movie Lila And Eve Lila suffers from a number of disorders. All combined is what makes her schizophrenic. What I would like to know is can or did her major depression trigger Lila 's schizophrenia? If so how does schizophrenia and major depression go hand and hand as well as how does one go about treating both.
Throughout many people that have died during this war, Salva were one of the individuals to survive the hazardous lands of South Sudan. Survival was possible for Salva through the help of his uncle, refugee camps, hope and luck. The first factor that contributed to Salva’s survival was his uncle. Salva had been walking for days until he found his uncle. Uncle had a gun, because he used to work in the military.
Linda Sue Park’s intriguing novel A Long Walk to Water reveals the impact of the devastation of war on Sudan's inhabitants and the ultimate struggle for survival. Even though giving up continues to be the easiest option, Salva Dut, an adolescent from South Sudan, fights for his life while holding on to the little hope he has. In spite of the devastation and conflict, Salva remains strong and continues to persevere to survival, saving numerous lives along the way. Salva, still with hope, struggles to survive while persevering thorough the countless hardships he encounters.
People need water to survive in challenges. In Nya’s village located in Southern Sudan during 2008, there isn’t a lot of water during the dry season. They know of a lake some ways away, but it’s in an area that they try to stay away from because of another tribe. “There was a big lake three days’ walk from Nya’s village.”(26). This shows that they were willing to take time to migrate over to a different part of the country, willing to risk their safety to survive. To get water for their village to survive the challenge of the dry season, this village decided to move to another location for a while.
In the novel “A long walk to water” by Linda Sue Park, Salva, a young man that lived in South Sudan throughout his childhood to his young-adult years, had faced many difficult challenges the young age of eleven. Salva had to flee from home because of Sudan’s civil war. He soon experienced a horrifying and dreadful life, his family gone, no resources in his group, he watched people die, walked for months, and lead twelve hundred boys to a refugee camp in Kenya. Salva survived this terrible life with the help of three factors, perseverance, luck, and relationships with others. Without any of these factors, Salva might not have been able to survive or possibly become the leader he is today.
The client is a 26 year old, single, male, African American. He is an active duty ship’s serviceman seaman serving in the United States Navy, aboard the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3). Seaman (SN) Fisher is residing on board the USS Belleau Wood (LHA-3) that is permanently stationed at San Diego Naval Base, 32nd Street in California. SN Fisher was given orders to report to Navy Mental Health Services Department on base as Involuntary Command Referral for diagnosis and treatments, to get an evaluation and expert psychiatric recommendation about whether the service member is mentally fit to stay in the United States Navy. SN Fisher is unwilling to begin counseling,
“End of Watch” is a fusion of great performances and amazing action. Director David Ayer did amazing job in both directing and script writing. Ayer is perhaps more known as the director to Training day. He is a proven writer, his previous movies.
The good lie is a movie about a refugee family from war ridden Sudan. They begin as children trying to fight for their lives on the way to safety, losing a brother along the way to a group of soldiers. When they finally reach the refugee camp they find: a safe place to stay, warm food, and new clothes. Shortly after their arrival they lose yet another brother. They patiently wait for a plane ticket out of Sudan, and after thirteen long years, they get their chance. They bored the plane excited to see what is in store only to find out their sister will not be staying with them. The three brothers depart from their sister with a lady named Carrie Davis. They face many new challenges together along with any
In the movie A Better Life, the Main Character Carlos Galindo is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who started working as a day labor worker when he first arrived in the country, however he has had steady work from Blasco Martinez who owns a gardening business which he tries to convince Carlos to buy from him as he says he is moving. The idea of being self employed is very appealing to Carlos but he knows he can never afford to do so and the risk of getting caught and deported is very high. Carlos has a son Luis who is reluctant to go to school on a daily basis and gets into trouble as he is influenced by his friends who are part of the
During his time in the war, Dr. Seuss learned so many things, uncovered so many talents, that he didn’t really know how and when to use them. He tried several different career options before he finally settled: he wrote articles for Life magazine, monthly children’s story for Redbook, submitted advertising concepts for Ford Motors, created film strips, drew political cartoons for The New Republic, lectured on children’s literature and produce animated cartoons.
In Sudan the communities condition is very poor, from the lack of food to the dangers of animals preying on what can soon be you! Over 5.1 million Sudanese people are in need of some type of aid. There are poor architectural conditions such as their homes, which they refer to call them mud huts are one of somethings that can kill them because of the unstableness of the mud huts it can collapse on them while doing simple things such as sleeping or purifying the water that they walked 8 hours for.
Life takes a strong toil when war strikes. People start to lose hope in survival and start believing in the wrong source of power. Revenge and world domination. It takes one to realize what truly matters, and that is life. But there are factors to lead to one’s survival and hope for a better path. In the novel that Linda Sue Park had written; a Long Walk To Water. Tells a story of compassion, bravery, and a little bit of luck, during one of the worst times in Southern Sudan. Told from a perspective of a young boy named Salva. Throughout the book, Salva had many factors that made survival possible for him, they include; Marial, Uncle, some luck on the way. These are the factors that helped him survive, even when tomorrow did not seem
Salva’s journey began with facing many difficult challenges. When the second Sudanese Civil War first broke out, everyone heard gunshots outside of the school.“ Everyone Down! The teacher shouted” (5). On that fateful day, Salva was told to run and to “stay away from the villages- run into the bush” (6). As night began to fall, Salva had stayed overnight in an old woman’s barn. The following morning, Salva woke up realizing the group he originally started to travel with had “...left him. He was alone” (13). Although this looked like a terrible situation for Salva, he had soon met a new, smaller group. Now traveling with this group he had discovered “ These people were Dinka, too!’ but he couldn’t help but ask himself, ‘Could his family be among them?” (19). He soon found out his Uncle was among them and the leader of the group for his military background and having a gun. The group had soon come across a tough challenge, “ The Nile, Uncle said” (42). Collecting reeds and weaving them together, the group soon found themselves paddling to the other side of the river. Finally making it across, the group had found themselves at their “. . .most difficult part of their journey: The Akobo desert” (50). Though the journey was tough, Salva had his Uncle there to help get him through, for many times Salva had wanted to quit. “ Do you see that group of bushes? … You only need to walk as far as those bushes” his Uncle suggested, giving him landmarks to walk to each time to get across the arid desert (53). Being able to overcome these challenges, it made it easier for Salva to be able to adapt to new situations.
Born into Brothels, shares the chaotic lifestyle of eight children and their mothers from the Brothels of Calcutta, in the perspective of the director, Zana Briski, and the deprived children. Using the basic techniques of photography, Briski teaches the children to document their lives through photos, which are then used as a baseline for the documentary. Born into Brothels revolves around Briski’s attempt to gain awareness and education for a small group of children whose lives are filled with tragedy. Being identified as a ‘white-privileged’ female from the United States of America, Briski carries a completely distinct perspective of the life in the ‘red light’ district, than the children themselves. She sympathizes with their situation
I don’t know where to start? Firstly, “EASY RIDER”, is one of the movies I love, it represents the eternal question about us as humans, it is bright example of an existential movie, conveying in an unmatched way, the message: “Existence precedes essence”. Moreover, the existential message, here is displayed in a perfect way in front of all viewers, related to some other masterpieces: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979); Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979); Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999); Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936), The Killers (Robert Siodmak, 1946), Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952), Taxi Driver (1976), directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader, stars Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle, just to mention few, of many