Blood Diamonds: The Real Cost of Diamonds Sierra Leone is blessed with some of the world’s richest resources such as titanium‚ gold‚ and diamonds. Despite these rich resources‚ Sierra Leone ranked last on the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Index in 2001‚ making Sierra Leone the poorest country in the world at that time. (Renner‚ 2002‚ p. 22) So how can a country so rich in resources be so poor? Sierra Leone’s extreme poverty level is caused by the diamonds they mine and
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A Long Way Gone is the story of a man who was formerly a child soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war. The civil war lasted from March 23‚ 1991 until January 18‚ 2002. This civil war tore families in Sierra Leone apart‚ and A Long Way Gone is an amazing representation of what it was like to be there during this time. In Chapter 12 of the memoir‚ Ishmael‚ the main character‚ and his friends from his village arrived in the fortified village of Yele after a gruesome experience just before they were shipped
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were burned alive by the rebels. Laura Simms She is the woman Ishmael meets in New York City who helps children of war by being a storyteller‚ a cultural aspect of Sierra Leonean society. Ishmael is drawn to her because of this and she takes him under her wing while he is in America. Later‚ when he is able to escape Sierra Leone‚ she helps him get to America and becomes his mother.
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paid the consequences. Luckily‚ Saidu never got to become a child soldiers like his friends traveling with him. Of course‚ because of the current state of his country‚ Beah is worried after the UN conference that he might be killed returning to Sierra Leone. Nonetheless‚ Beah feels leaving that if he died on the way back that he would die happy because he spoke up to try to help the practice of child soldiers. Given the young age of Beah when he is enlisted as a child soldier‚ it is understandable
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Tris had to choose between her and her friend will in order to survive at gun point. During war‚ it is know that people living in it will do anything to survive. At the age of 13 Ishmael Beah was forced to become a child soldier for the Sierra Leone government army. He fought rebels in the civil war for almost three years. During that time he had to kill a lot of people in order to survive. He would snort brown-brown‚ a mix of cocaine and gunpowder that made him even more violent believing
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desire to escape the war. Ishmael Beah had the want‚ the need‚ and the desire to escape the war that was happening in Sierra Leone. He had to escape those who turned on the country and became rebels. Running away became part of his life for many years until he join the soldiers. There he would fight for his country to escape from the cruelty the rebels were bringing to Sierra Leone. Ishmael was a very brave child to be constantly escaping and running away from guys who were setting villages on fire
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Journal #1- Character For my character selection I chose Ishmael Beah. He was like any normal child‚ he played sports‚ soccer to be more precise‚ listened to music‚ and hung out with his friends. He had heard of the war going on in Sierra Leone‚ but it didn’t seem realistic to him. until his village‚ Mogbwemo‚ was raided while his brother and himself were it Mattru Jong to participate in a talent show. He was hopeful that his family would come‚ but to his distress‚ they didn’t show up. “For more
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changed when several The Australian’s reporters claimed that Beah’s story was folly and said there were multiple things wrong with his account on things - namely the timeline. In one instance‚ the reporters visited the school in Beah’s home in Sierra Leone in the article Beah’s credibility a long way gone. There‚ they interviewed several of his teachers and former pupils who insisted that Beah was present at the school throughout the years 1993 and 1994 which contradicts Beah’s
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Asia‚ Africa & Latin America 3-ASN-1 Regine L. Medenilla Blood Diamond Blood Diamond is a movie that portrays the brutalities experienced by the people in Africa especially those who work in the diamond fields. It was set during the Sierra Leone Civil War in 1999. A fisherman named Solomon Vandy was captured by the rebels and was force to work in a diamond field. While working‚ he found a very rare pink diamond. He decided to hide it but the leader named Commander Poison saw him. Luckily
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I’m not the kind to read sad stories about someones life. I praise Ishmael Beah‚ the author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a boy solider. He put the unthinkable into words that were carefully crafted in order to make them perfectly flow from the text‚ to my head. The boy who was between the ages of 12 & 16 at the time‚ lost everything he thought would be his forever. His village was attacked by a notorious group‚ his parents were killed and his childhood was stolen from him. At his age‚ he never
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