...War. It is a major problem society faces every day. Throughout history, the United States has been involved in many illustrious wars in and out of the country such as Civil War to Afghanistan War. With respect, the country’s capital, Washington D.C., honors these wars through memorials such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and through parks such as the Korean War Memorial Park. One of many wars in which the United States honors is the Vietnam War, a war with heavy outcomes. One of many outcomes of the Vietnam war was Amerasians. Amerasians, or also known as Vietnamese Amerasians, are children of the Vietnam War. They were not labeled towards all children; rather, they were specifically children who had one American parent, who was most likely...
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...How does the author define “child soldier”? When examining the use of child soldiers and children in warfare it is important to know what exactly defines a child soldier. The author of Children at War, Peter Singer, defines a child soldier as any person under eighteen years of age who is engaged in deadly combat or combat support as part of an armed force or group This definition may be acceptable for certain cultures, but in many others, the eighteen-year cut-off is simply the upper limit and the number of soldiers whose ages range from ten to seventeen is a much larger percentage. This barbaric war technique not only takes away the adolescence of the kids, but it also changes the scope of their remaining adulthood life. One boy from Sierra...
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...Children that are affected by war crimes have their lives turned upside down but they never give up to reach the peace they always sought. Looking back at Disney’s Peter Pan the lost boys were those who fought off pirates and crocodiles before flying off to Never Never Land. The same goes for the youth in Africa where they sought refugee, and fled the camps by whatever means necessary. In the book What Is The What Valentino describes his journey to America to be a miracle, having gone through a dark road which he finally reached the light of. It was because of The Lost Boys Foundation that many lives have been turned around and children have been saved. During the civil war in Sudan in which over 2 million people had died, children were left orphaned; and were living in camps that weren’t run efficiently. Nearly 30,000 children left the camps on a journey to find a place to call home, they faced attacks from animals, starvation, illness’s, even attacks from Soldiers their, yet approximately 11,000 survived. The foundation has made dreams come through one change at a time. Many of these adolescents have not been exposed to what is so accustomed to us; spoons, forks, cell phones, and TV’s. “It’s a group that’s lost in time,” says Sasha Chanoff an American at the camp who prepares the children for their journey to America. The articles show that The Lost Boys Foundation is an effective organization that does their best to assist refugees. According to Mary-Jayne Mckay CBS reporter...
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...During World War II, fear and panic was rampant in Europe. Many people, Germans included, were terrified of Adolf Hitler. Many people were very worried about children, especially Jewish children, who were living in these Nazi-occupied countries. Adolf Hitler a German ruler who grew to power in response to Kristallnacht, a committee called The British Jewish Refugee Committee appealed to and asked to provide safe transport and passage for Jewish children to England. From Britain they could then travel to America, Belgium, or Holland, or stay in England. The British Jewish Refugee Committee arranged for the children to live in England with sponsors. The Kindertransportation Association exists Now to help raise awareness of the Kindertransport and also connect survivors and their children to other survivors and their host families.As Hitler's power grew, so did his...
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...Hi babe In the graphic novel, “Persepolis”, Marjane Satrapi brings to light the devastations in her life in Tehran during the Iranian revolution of 1973 as well as the eight year war with Iraq. She was forced upon a life surrounded by Middle Eastern conflicts and policies that became unavoidable. After Satrapi and her parents came back from their vacation one day, they later find out from her grandma that Iraq and Iran were at war with one another, having the country’s strict government policies, military forces, and eliminating all those who protested against it. Because we can see what is happening from an innocent point of view during Satrapi’s life, the pain and violence that was expressed throughout the novel is based upon the real suffering...
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...PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AMONG WAR-AFFECTED ADOLESCENTS IN POST-CONFLICT NORTHERN UGANDA Introduction This research journal conducted by John D. McMullen, Paul S. O’Callaghan, Justin A. Richard, John G. Eakin and Harry Rafferty is to measure the effect after 4 years end of war in northern Uganda on the prevalence and consider of mental health of children and adolescent. During the war against insurgent (Lord’s resistance army), a large number of children and adolescent are been a victims on extreme war violent and they are reach for traumatic experience same affected by adult. The psychological distress is the serious impact for them and almost of which directly involved in war found for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) dispute for longer duration after war when they recall back the bad memories on their horrific moments on the war. Some of them been abducted and recruited as soldiers and some of girls forced to involved in non-combat role and being subjected to sexual violent. They are continuously exposed to atrocities which influence them to suffering with psychology disorder. Summary The conflict in northern Uganda is most tragic conflict with the death victims reach a numbers of 1000 per weeks. A children and adolescent is affected group which up to 60000 of them recruited as soldiers and some being sexual violent with almost of them suffer with post-traumatic stress symptom. Significantly, most of them effected due exposed to war due traumatic events witness such...
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...Linking War Child to Globalization and the Marginalization of Refugees Throughout the year, there have been several discussions and research on various specific events that have all resulted with the displacement of a group of people from a specific region or country. The world labels these people as refugees, which has started a trend of marginalization and inequality of refugees. Refugees are unable to stay in their homeland due to economic, social, and political problems that are consistently taking place in developing countries. When looking more in depth into specific displacement events, more times than not, these issues are very radical such as mass genocide or civil war. With no stable form of government or homeland, refugees have no say in whom or how an outside force(s) deals with their rights. Through the internet and other forms of technology, the spread of information is and has been at an all time high. The stable increase in the ease to access knowledge has drastically increased the awareness of human rights violations and displacement of people. Steger states, “Globalization is a set of social processes that lead to the social condition of globality, through the growing consciousness of global connectivity.” This idea of “globality” ties in the creation of global networks and how this has expanded social relations between countries. In these global networks, there are non-government organizations that have been established to assist refugees with...
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...and her Children in an Australian setting while still conforming to the original social and political commentary of the play. In the modernised Mother Courage Enoch made crucial decisions in order to comply with the variety of techniques used by Brecht, he has incorporated music, narration, gestus, frequent change of character, the stage was minimal, as were the props and amount of characters. The play, like the majority of Brecht plays, has a strong moral, social and political meaning, which provokes a reaction amongst the audience; Enoch has reinforced this message throughout the play leaving the audience with a similar impact and the questioning of their own morality. The Wesley Enoch version of Mother Courage and Her Children focuses on an aboriginal woman and her three children during a war over land and minerals. At the beginning of the play the advantages of the war are highlighted; Mother Courage is with her family and to her the war is a profitable event, which does not effect her as long as the ‘Bungoo’. In the beginning scenes, although Courage tries to hide it, it is evident that she has a strong relationship with her children; she is very protective, loving and attached to her three children. Throughout the play as the families desire for money increases their strength and independence decreases and her children’s vulnerability results in Mother Courage losing her children to the ongoing war, deep sympathy is felt throughout the audience and the anti-war message...
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...“I would like to give you a message. Please do your best to tell the world what is happening to us, the children. So that other children don’t have to pass through this violence.”-Mary, Age 13. Children, like Mary, from Northern Uganda, have fough tin wars for centuries.They are forced to become soldiers in a war that they rarely understand, let alone believe in. These children are labeled as criminals because murder is murder, but the effect of war causes people, and especially children to do unspeakable crimes. That is why is is important for readers to understand what happened how children are forced to be soldiers and why their story’s need to be told. First off, it is important to know how children are manipulated into picking up a gun....
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...until the RUF invasion, the group was relatively unknown. The increase in RUF activity was largely due to both the fight for control of Sierra Leone’s mineral resources (a dominant factor driving the RUF for most of the war), and the impact of external influences, especially the spread of the Liberian civil war into Sierra Leone. The military strength of the RUF was increased by considerable support from the NPFL, formed by Charles Taylor, one of the warring factions in the Liberian civil war, Burkinabè mercenaries, and the provision of military training to RUF fighters from Libya. Liberia, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Libya reportedly also provided the RUF with military equipment. Much of the RUF’s original ideology was lost among RUF fighters themselves, since a large proportion were in fact Liberian rebels fighting for their own cause. Moreover, any initial popular support that the group had enjoyed in the past was undermined by its use of intimidation and terror tactics. The RUF carried out massive forced recruitment and numbered over 24,000 by 1999. A large number of RUF officers were under 18 and most of the higher ranking officers shared very little of the group’s initial ideology. For most of the war the RUF’s leadership was personalized in its founder, Foday Sankoh, who controlled all RUF policies...
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...During wars, everyone is affected, but mainly children are affected. Children have to move their location. There will be limited resources for children. Also children's education will be affected. Children are affected more by dramatizing events. Children might have to move location. One of the main reasons children would have to move is because they could live near where the war is taking place. Also family could play apart in the war. Another point is children could end up being separated from their family. This can change how the child looks at things. Children would also have limited resources. The water could become contaminated or there is no water around. The food that farmers grow and factories produce would go to soldiers to...
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...A Civil War in Syria Syria is a dangerous place to live right now as the country is in the middle of a civil war. Syria's army is under the control of Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, who is providing troops to fight the rebel groups. These rebel groups want him out of office. Syrian citizens are caught in a war zone and desperate to leave the country. In Syria, half of the school-age children are not able to get an education. They are prevented from going to school because of the fighting in their country. Many European countries are actively supporting Syrian refugees by giving money and providing shelter. Syrian refugees are fleeing their homeland and traveling across Europe because of civil war, while many people are wondering why other rich countries, like Japan, are not supporting this global issue....
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...World War II was the most significant period in the 20th century. It caused the breakdown of the european empires, it cost more money, damaged more property far more than any other war in history. The Cold War was a state influenced by geographical factors after World War II causing striking out for advantage or expansion not only in Europe but all over the world. How is LOTF informed by the politics of the time during which Golding wrote it? Golding wrote LOTF in a noteworthy period of time that our world went through. The Cold War was influenced by World War II, from 1947 to 1991 the world experience the probability of a nuclear war. Why is this event still important today? The Cold War was the first time the world could have been destroyed...
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...say – “GO!”” During the First World War posters were used as a way to spread propaganda. It was meant to encourage men to go to war, and women to help on the factories while their husbands were fighting for their country. One of these propaganda posters is called “Women of Britain say – “GO!””. It was painted by E. J. Kealey in 1915. E. J. Kealey was an artist for the First World War British army recruitment campaign. Description of the poster The poster pictures a woman and her two children, standing in a window and watching as a group of soldiers leaves for war. The woman holds the older child’s hand over her heart and the younger one holds on tight to his sister’s dress. Their facial expressions are painful and their eyes are filled with longing. The woman and children is placed centrally in the photo. They are standing inside the house while the men is outside and with their backs turned to the woman and the children. For the viewer, this creates a sense of being inside the house with the woman and the children and it makes us feel more related to them. Women’s role in war The message of the poster is directed to both women and men. It is meant to encourage men to join the army and go to war. It pictures the greatest motivation for enlisting: protecting women and children. But also, it is directed to the women of the British soldiers. The propaganda posters were meant to entice women to join the factory industry in the war. Of course it did not represent the dangers...
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...another to establish power. More specifically, Americans have been involved in many wars over the years. Some of these wars have been about nothing more than a power trip, but more recently there has been an ongoing war against terrorism. When thinking of a war and the violence that comes along with it, it seems as though all measures should be taken to prevent such a tragic resolution. When those measures are not successful, or an attack is made on an opposing country, war is usually inevitable, especially when there is terrorism involved. The question arises: Is war on terrorism ethical and just? Using the utilitarian and deontologist theories, I will demonstrate how war on terrorism is in fact justified. Utilitarianism is the theory that the consequences of an action determine the morality of the act; it is also focused on an outcome that appeases the majority (Mosser, 2013). For example, if my children both like pepperoni only on their pizza, and we are a family of three, it would make the most sense to order a pepperoni pizza rather than a deluxe since the pepperoni appeases both children. Since utility is based on consequences, this scenario works because while I enjoy deluxe pizza and it would please me, my children are the majority and pepperoni isn’t bad at all. When applying this ethical theory to the topic of war on terrorism, Americans can be considered just in fighting the war because the vast majority of Americans can agree that terrorism must be stopped. The...
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