Diamonds are Forever (from Sierra Leone)‚ Kanye West The famous song “Diamonds are Forever (from Sierra Leone)” is not only a good song that is sung by a legendary music artist‚ Kanye West‚ but it is a hidden message political song that is directly talking about the precious blood diamonds from the southern countries of the continent Africa. When someone hears the two words “blood diamond‚” most would probably assume that the diamonds are from Africa and that there are many people who die trying
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the moral and ethical dilemma of illegal “conflict diamonds” being stolen and smuggled by Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) there is an unethical and immoral business dilemma he must deal with through other characters he encounters during the Sierra Leone Civil War of 1999. Another character‚ Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou)‚ is a native of the region that has been captured and forced into slavery as a diamond miner/laborer that invariably comes into contact with Archer after he discovers a large and rare
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Beah starts his child life unaffected by what would soon become of his home‚ Sierra Leone. However‚ he is soon confronted by the terrors of war due to the rebel soldiers taking over the relatively peaceful country. Beah is soon forced to flee from his town with a few of his best friends and other acquaintances he encounters along the way. After he flees the village
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provides an intriguing perspective on the Sierra Leone Civil War. A Long Way Gone depicts the fascinating life story of a real person and is not simply summarizing a series of events. Ishmael Beah’s wrote A Long Way Gone to bring awareness to the many terrors of war‚ and to acknowledge the numerous people who aided him and he accomplished this by sharing an different perspective and a jarring story. Beah tells a compelling story because it allows the reader see the war from the inside; to feel all of the
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A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was one of the most shocking books I have ever read. I knew that there were many problems and civil wars occurring within Africa‚ but I never realized how much war truly affected the country and its culture. This is not a typical war that we envision here in the United States‚ this is a dismantling of a country’s way of life. Beah’s story gives detailed accounts of things that seem unimaginable in today’s world. The fact that governments around the world had an
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developed nation‚ he had the dreams and thoughts of any normal teenager from the west. It is heartbreaking to learn that such dreams of millions of children like Beah are crushed down and ripped apart by the institution of War. Ishmael Beah was 12 years old when the civil war in Sierra Leone entered his life‚ in 1993. When the rebels attacked
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Ishmael Beah was born on November 23‚ 1980‚ in Mogbwemo‚ Sierra Leone. In his critically acclaimed memoir‚ “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”‚ Beah bases his survival from abduction and terrorism on his recollections as an unwilling child soldier for the Sierra Leone Armed Services during Sierra Leone’s 1991-2002 civil war. They were fighting the Revolutionary United Front or RUF‚ also known as the rebels. Ishmael describes his circumstances in simple to understand language. He is also quite
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This autobiographical story tells a story about him and how he grew up in Sierra Leone during the country’s civil war. Sierra Leone descended into a brutal and chaotic civil war between Foday Sankoh’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and corrupt Action Peoples Congress (APC). The conflict lasted most of the 1990s and‚ in common with the civil war in Liberia‚ became intimately linked with the use of child soldiers. Sierra Leone is a former British colony in West Africa. This book was very interesting
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soldiers and utilized and direct participants of war. These children‚ are denied a real childhood or any real life other then the destruction and death that surrounds them‚ an estimated 200‚000 to 300‚000 children are serving as soldiers for rebel groups and the government in wars that are going on in the world today. All of these children‚ from a young age participate in modern warfare. They hold AK-47s and M-16s on the front lines of these wars‚ serve as human mine detectors‚ take part in suicide
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Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (2007) has done just that. In his novel‚ Beah chronicles his journeys in Sierra
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