Research Paper On Usman Conteh

Saints have been depicted to be larger than life since the beginning of Catholicism. Over the past 2,000 years, we have plucked over 10,000 young, virtuous leaders from their average lives to answer to a higher calling. Saint Roch is amongst these men and women who over the years have guided the people of the Catholic Church to God’s word.

III.The organization that Colonel Coetzee operates involves the use of military force and monies through European agencies that help crate civil conflict in order to exploit the natural resources of the Sierra Leone. His goal is to provide cheap diamonds found by stakeholders, like Solomon, that wish to use the blood diamond to free his family and to stop the exploitation of his peoples. Danny Archer’s means to an end is to be able to find these diamonds to make the Colonel massive profits off of them. These “blood diamonds” are the result of creating wars that destroy African communities, so that Europeans can live in luxury. Is it Danny that must find these diamonds and find ways to smuggle them out of the region during military conflict, artificially created by men like Colonel Coetzee. Maddy is involved with the American media, as she is trying to find a

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and the recent 2006 film Blood Diamond both depict how it was living in Sierra Leone, Africa during the Civil War in the ‘90’s. While A Long Way Gone focuses on child soldiers and what they had to live and go through for many years, Blood Diamond focuses mainly on how the country is torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel forces. The film portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of people's hands to stop them from voting in upcoming elections. Both the movie and the book try to tackle major issues by asking the questions: how

The process of producing the diamonds so they could be sold on the market involved many steps which were illustrated in the movie, Blood Diamond. Smugglers like Archer would supply the RUF with guns. The guns would be used by the RUF to intimidate the people of Sierra Leone into working as laborers for them, we see this with Solomon and his son. These men would be forced to dig in the water mines for hours a day searching for diamonds of all sizes. Then the diamonds are mixed with other diamonds all around the world, mixing the illegal ones with the legal ones; this was explained in the movie by Archer to Maggie. When the diamonds are mixed in with the others, no one can determine for certainty where each originated from. It is then distributed to nations where they are made into necklaces and bracelets, and no questions are asked.

The controversial artist Kanye West has always attempted to make known what he thinks, no matter if he has to be disrespectful or graphic in his illustrations of said topic. So it wasn't a real surprise when he chose to focus his energy into reveling to the American public horrors happening that had a direct connection with the beloved diamond stone. West's 2005 music video “Diamonds from Sierra Leone” shows the corrupted underground diamond trade in the African country, Sierra Leone. From this groundbreaking video, West showed the devastated lives those who worked on the mining rivers live. However upon further investigation into the issue of diamond workers in Sierra Leone there emerged the true source of the situation, a violent

In conclusion, Colonel Connor's count of Indians dead revealed 224 bodies on the battlefield and 48 more at a curve on the river for a total of 272. Some other estimates state from 368 to 400, for Connor’s soldiers, fourteen died with four officers and forty-nine men wounded, of whom one officer and eight men died later and in addition, seventy-nine were disabled by freezing. After the battle, the troops crossed to the south side of the river and made camp for the night. Later that night, Corporal Tuttle stated, “The night of January 29th, 1863 I shall never forget (how can I). There we camped on the bank of Bear River with our dead and dying, wounded and frozen, 2 feet of snow on the ground. Nothing for a fire but green willows which burn about as well as snow. Oh, the

Writing down 500 words about the inspiration and impact of one African American, on our black history and I was a challenge. My rich African culture and heritage taught me important values: to explore the world with inquisitive eyes, to seek constantly, to learn and understand more about life, to understand the difference between opportunities and challenges, and to visualize what the essence of African American’s life should be. I came to read about an African American named Alexander Crummell. Alexander Crummell (Born in New York City on March 3, 1819 - died in New Jersey on September 10, 1898) was a 19th century Episcopalian minister, Educator, Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, Journalist, Missionary, who spent his life to defied the racism, to champion educational opportunities for African-American citizens and immigration to Liberia.

Ryan Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager, born in 1923, grew up in West Virginia. He was a curious kid who spent most of his time wandering the outdoors, which he developed a love for. Chuck would often spend his time hunting or fishing. His father owned a natural gas drilling business, offering him many opportunities to help his dad with equipment

Frankenmuth is located in Saginaw County, Michigan. It is actually located within a township of the same name, but it is politically independent and self-sustained. Frankenmuth is one of the largest tourist attractions in Michigan simply because of all the things a person can do there. It has shops, historical significance and much more. The name Frankenmuth is derived from “Franken,” which refers to the Province of Franconia and “muth” refers to courage, which collectively means “the courage of the Franconians.” Frankenmuth is also considered a sister city of Gunzenhausen, Bavaria.

+Thomas Ussher Yeah I certainly would be embarrassed too if my name was apparently Thomas Ussher since you did say that you and myself were the same person.

It was in 1973, that a young, brazen and ostentatious Donald Trump, met one of New York’s most notorious attorney: Roy Cohn, whose name was synonymous with the rise of manipulative political power acts. Roy was known to be a ruthless prosecutor who had mastered control over all the loopholes in the law and had become the premier practitioner of hardball deal making, offering his help to defend even the mafia networks. Cohn became a business mentor and nearly a second father to Trump. Trump first hired Cohn to sue the federal government. The allegations that Trump faced had accused him of renting his prime apartments only to White people thereby showing a racial bias. This was clearly against the fair housing act which the congress had passed.

The first scene of Blood Diamond is brutal to watch although it is fake violence it is portraying something real, the civil war in Sierra Leone. A war that is described as being funded by the illicit diamond trade. Leonardo Decaprio plays a South African mercenary, smuggling diamonds to sell back to the diamond industries in wealthy countries. A Mende fisherman played by Djimon Hounsou was taken from his home and separated from his family is forced to mine for diamonds. Djimon and Leonardo join together to try and recover a rare gem that Djimon lost in an attack. Jenifer Connelly plays an American journalist that helps the two men throughout their journey and also documents it. Jennifer Connelly goal in the movie can be summed up in the statement she says to Leonardo's character

Not only does this issue involve the politics of the diamond trade and the involvement of outside parties, but it is also a devastatingly serious human rights violation to the civilians of Angola. “There is an average of 52 land mine incidents per month and approximately 1 out of every 356 Angolans is an amputee as a result of these bloody conquests”[4]. It was determined in a United Nations Security Council meeting that “there are clear and major weaknesses in systems for controlling diamond trading, which no single country can address effectively because of the many alternative routes available to illicit diamond traders”[5]. Therefore, in order to combat the civil fighting between UNITA and the MPLA, we must educate ourselves about UNITA’s diamond trade, prohibit the sale of blood diamonds, and achieve a commitment from diamond dealers that their diamonds originate from conflict-free mines.

The movie "Blood Diamond" was released in 2006 and featured Leonardo Di Caprio as an arms smuggler whose main goal is to obtain a seemingly priceless diamond from a villager during the civil war in Sierra Leone. The film, although it has been called mild in comparison to reality, depicts the brutality that inhabitants of diamond villages were subjected to. The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, and won numerous other awards.

Blood diamond are “diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed to legitimate and internationally recognized governments, and are used to fund military action in opposition to those governments, or in contravention of the decisions of the Security Council”. Blood Diamond is a story about the precious gem acquired through blood and sufferings of common people. How much blood is spilt for each pieces of this luxury, how many tears dried into the very ground it is gathered from. Except from the people that are involved in the whole process of stealing or smuggling a nation’s natural wealth. Sierra Leone, where the storyline takes place, gets nothing. Its people are suffering through extreme poverty, hunger, illiteracy and diseases. Adding insult to injury, there is a fast emerging brutal terrorist group called RUF, destroying the system, collapsing government, killing innocents and taking children as soldiers. Making sure the country never progress and prosper or never grow the backbone to stand on its feet ever to use the valuable diamonds it holds on the ground. For example, when the illegal and unethical blood diamond trade was brought to light, it was ignored by the most potentially influential global players because of economic interest. What resulted was that the situation snowballed over the duration that it has occurred over and when the issue finally came to a head