In the novel A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah describes to us what it was like to live in the terrifying times in Sierra Leone‚ South Africa. A civil war started from the want of mass diamond production‚ Streets were filled with chaos. Children traveling the streets from town to town were exposed to traumatizing and life changing events. In Beah’s novel the traumatic effects of war‚ drug addiction‚ and mass murder all lead to the experience of PTSD. A post traumatic stress disorder that not only affects
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afraid to fall asleep‚ but staying awake also brought back painful memories… These days I live in three worlds: my dreams‚ and the experiences of my new life‚ which trigger memories from the past” (Beah 19). Quoted from Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone‚ is an example of post-traumatic stress disorder‚ one of the many themes and effect of war and violence present in this book. According to the Journal of Controversial Medical Claims‚ post-traumatic stress disorder is an anxiety disorder that
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Suicide and humor are two words not often associated with each other‚ but Nick Hornby takes the pair on in his novel A Long Way Down‚ a dark comedy about suicide and life after a failed attempt. The book is narrated by four characters taking turns telling the story in their voice. The resulting hodgepodge gang includes Martin‚ a quasi celebrity who loses everything after an affair with a fifteen-year old girl; Maureen‚ the middle-aged mother of a severely disabled son; Jess‚ an obnoxious teenager
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The age of the actor has long gone: we are now in the age of stage effects’ We have moved towards more modernised performances‚ but this does not necessarily mean ‘the age of the actor has long gone.’ It means audience members now expect more from the performance‚ rather than just rely on the actor as they did in Elizabethan times. Still in our 21st century‚ we would not like to go to a play whereby the actors are poor at acting likewise an Elizabethan audience would not like that either. The
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Where Have the Boys Gone? “The chief was sitting there‚ naked to the waist‚ his face blocked out in white and red. The tribe lay in a semicircle before him. The newly beaten and untied Wilfred was sniffing noisily in the background” (189). This savagery is a perfect example of the savagery experienced throughout the book. In the novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ a private school of young boys are sent by plane to a safe spot to get away from war. On the way to their destination‚ the plane crashes and
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The Innocent: A Misleading Label A first look at the title of Graham Greene’s story “The Innocent”‚ may give people a sense of purity and a feeling of bliss. Even those who have read the story can see the association between innocence and childhood‚ which is exactly what the author intended. Any reader can plainly look at the surface of what is happening in this story and see the narrator as an average man who is revisiting the town he grew up in‚ while having flashbacks of childhood memories
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are either found innocent or guilty. This is the basic idea of justice and it is what many feel needs to happen if someone has done something controversial. In the play The Oresteia by Aeschylus‚ the story of Clytemnestra guilt or innocents is questioned. She does many things that people are not too happy with and those controversial actions throughout the story‚ mainly in the first part Agamemnon get her into the trouble. As we explore the case that builds against her innocents by exploring the
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The Long Way Home an American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War‚ written by David Laskin‚ who graduated at Harvard with a degree in history and journalism. After he graduated at Harvard‚ Laskin went to Oxford University to receive an MA in English. The United States welcomes many immigrants from different countries. In the book‚ The Long Way Home‚ Laskin talks about twelve soldiers immigrating to the United States‚ and gives a background information on their lives‚ leading to them becoming
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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to The Great War is a riveting tell-all of the hardships twelve immigrants endured on their journey‚ arrival‚ and duration in America during the Great War. Author‚ David Laskin‚ a Harvard graduate with a degree in history and literature‚ expresses his take on the “forgotten” war‚ justly representing the traumatizing immigration over to America‚ the fight to survive upon arrival and the milestone in their journeys‚ with the conversion into a
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There are several important ways in which humans can slow biodiversity loss‚ although there is no way to bring back the species that have already gone extinct. Protecting Areas Creating protected areas where human activity is limited is the best way to prevent deforestation and exploitation of organisms and the resources they need to survive. In order to truly make a difference‚ much planning needs to go into the creation of a protected area. It needs to consider all elements of the ecosystem
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