Revolutionary United Front

A long way gone by Ishmael Beah criticises drug abuse, the use of child soldiers, civil war, and child abuse. When Ishmael is twelve he travels to a neighboring village with a group of his friends to perform with a group of his friends to rap. While he’s away his village is attacked and destroyed. After this Ishmael and his group of travel around the country looking for food and water even resorting to stealing food and money. While wondering Ishmael is take and forced into his country's

far and few between. The decision whether to convict a soldier, not just a child one, should be if said person was forced into the war or not. It should have nothing to do with age. The time someone becomes an adult varies from state to state in the United States. The three ages of consent in the US are 16, 17, and 18. Some children that have been in war were those ages when they got “recruited” So that means they should face their crimes, right? Well they were forced into it anyway why should their

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

Brianna Selhorst Glenn Ames Contemporary World History 5 December 2007 A Long Way Gone vs. Blood Diamond 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

War is horrific no matter where it takes place. Mothers, fathers, elders, and children are all affected by war. In fact, there are many memoirs depicting life in war torn countries. Two such memoirs are A Long Way Gone written by Ishmael Beah and The Bite of The Mango written by Mariatu Kamara. A Long Way Gone depicts Ishmael’s life running from the civil war in Sierra Leone and becoming a child soldier. The Bite of The Mango recounts Mariatu’s journey of losing her hands and escaping to different

Every nation has a responsibility to its citizens to improve the economic, political and social well-being of its people. However, in the film Blood Diamond it is made clear that there is an exploitation of the people in Sierra Leone. This economic problem is fueled by three main concepts; poverty, production/resources and demand/supply. Through the analysis of the three main concepts it will be shown how the economic problem was the result of each sub-concept. Poverty In Blood Diamond we see

Africa in Cinema- Final Paper Professor Rice May 2010 Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone This semester, the topic of Child Soldiers presented a very interesting dilemma that several countries in Africa continue to face today. Sierra Leone, in particular, has struck an interest because of the many films and readings that try to depict this story of the civil war. In class, we have viewed two films representing the problems with child soldiers in Sierra Leone which include films titled Blood

and persistent poverty issue. Although Sierra Leone is one of the few countries that is rich in some precious natural resources such as diamonds and rare minerals, this country has been continuously dealing with poverty-related issues . Based on the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Index (HDI), Sierra Leone was listed as one of the poorest countries in the world in 2006 and remains among the world’s poorest countries, ranking 180th out of 187 countries in the HDI in 2011

In the world today, there are over 250,000 child soldiers fighting for their lives (Goodwin).During the Sierra Leonean civil war in 1991-2002, the United Nations estimated that there were over 7,000 child soldiers being used on both sides (Maclay). The conditions during the war were terrible and in 2002 over 50,000 people were dead, however nobody came to help and put troops on the ground. There were over 2.5 million citizens in Sierra Leone forced to leave their homes which is almost half of the

in 1999 (Synopsis for Blood Diamond). The movie portrays the events that transpired between the government soldiers and rebel forces. (Synopsis for Blood Diamond). As the Movie opens Solomon Vandy is taken away from his family by RUF (the Revolutionary United Front). Among other Solomon is set to work to find diamonds that will later be sold for a profit that Solomon does not get to keep. Solomon hides the diamond inside the ground where Captain Poison sees him and demands that Solomon hand it over