Introduction The following paper will specifically address how children are being forced into serving as soldiers‚ what they do as soldiers‚ and how citizens are trying to put an end to it. The children of Uganda are being kidnapped from their families to become soldiers and sex slaves by the Lord’s Resistance Army. The paper will help to explain when‚ where‚ how‚ and why Joseph Kony is stealing children from their families in Uganda. It will also explore what the children do as they serve Kony and
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The use of child soldiers is an unpardonable crime. Anybody with the authority to make this decision must have the highest integrity and morals‚ and using child soldiers simply goes against my and any respectable persons conscious. Their morals would simply forbid them from using child soldiers. The definition of child soldier according to https://www.dosomething.org is “a Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by a state or non-state armed group and used as fighters
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invisible wound among soldiers .Many soldiers believed that in order to come out of the war those that are claiming to have PTSD are lying. PTSD is socially or culturally constructed. American physicians said many soldiers came to them about physical abnormalities who actually had none. And that is a sign of PTSD. There is a difference of PTSD in today’s soldiers and soldiers from the Civil War. Soldiers from the Civil War showed disturbance of the heart and today’s soldiers show disturbance of their
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Professionalism A soldier is measured by his ability to do his job successfully‚ tactfully‚ and professionally. Being a professional at everything you do will help you succeed in every aspect of your life. The definition of professionalism as by Merriam-Webster is the conduct‚ aims‚ or qualities that characterize or mark a profession or professional person. Being in the army as soldiers we consider ourselves professionals. How we hold ourselves to the army values and the soldiers creed shows how professional
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A Soldiers Nightmare: PTSD War is not glorious‚ nor is it merciful and with every generation of men who encounter the hardships of protecting our country‚ we also find that some of them are returning and suffering from reoccurring acts of violence and trauma they’ve ensued while being overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s become a debilitating and all too common disorder that is in dire need for the necessary aid before it manifests and becomes too late for anyone to help. It’s been an ongoing
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Social Studies: Soldier’s Heart Assignment The Civil war was an awful war‚ it was very devastating. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers lost their lives on both sides.The survivors who live through the horrific war were left with post traumatic stress or PTSD. The amount of mental damage done to the soldiers was unmanageable. It drove soldiers crazy! Being in a battle was bad enough‚ but re-living it everyday would just be too much for most people to handle. In this novel‚ Charley lied about his
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to you all about my experience. Throughout my investigation into the life of a U.S army soldier‚ I soon figured out how the soldier’s daily life and the way they lived their life before the war drastically changed when they enlisted. The Union soldiers were so eager to fight for their country‚ they all then signed up to fight for the union. Also many were also drafted to fight. While talking to many soldiers of the division I was at most of them said that the biggest challenge for them was getting
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The issue regarding child soldiers is one that is familiar to most persons‚ yet the progress in the process of addressing such problem moves at a very slow pace due to its increasing depth in the past twenty years. According to past reading‚ women and children were involved in many battles conducted during the time of the American colonization (Camacho‚ 2003‚ 5). However‚ it was a case in February‚ 1999 that truly opened the public’s eye towards the issue of child soldiers for it was regarding a 17-year
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The Effects of War on Soldiers War is the most powerful threat we have on the earth today. War can accomplish a variety of things in a variety of ways and it is entirely up to the government to decide a country’s war status. It is up to people that will never have to experience what they create‚ but what happens to the soldiers they send in to battle for them. For the soldiers they are stuck with an experience unlike any other known to man‚ stuck with memories and images of what it’s like to be
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children as soldiers‚ popular images have too often sensationalized the issue‚ with counter-productive consequences. Ubiquitous media images of boys with guns as the epitome of child soldiering and girl sex slaves as ’victims’ of conflict obscure the fact that many other children and young people‚ both male and female‚ play a variety of different‚ and often simultaneous‚ roles in conflict. In recognition of these multiple roles‚ and concerned that some of the less visible child soldiers were being
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