Southern Sudan

In 1985 war in South Sudan caused many people to starve, dehydrate, or get sick from the water. Salva Dut faced most of these throughout his life. In the book A Long Walk to Water Linda Sue Park wrote about Salva’s journey away from the war, and everything that happened during his trip to safety. It talked about everything from him leaving school because the war to him moving to New York. Salva went through so much throughout his life one major issue being war. “CRACK! POP-POP-CRACK!…

One controversial issue over the past couple of years has been the topic of child soldiers. On one side, people argue that child soldiers should be prosecuted. On the other hand, others contend that they should be given amnesty. My own view is that child soldiers should be given forgiveness for what they have done because they were forced into killing, they were manipulated, and they only had one choice once they entered the army: Kill or be killed. When villages are attacked and families are…

and a whole new life. In the book The Joy Luck Club, the main character, Jing-mei, experiences feelings of a lost identity until the end of the novel. The sense of identity that Jing-mei feels when she visits China is comparable to the Lost Boys of Sudan starting their new lives in America. Jing-mei experiences an identity change when she learns of her Chinese heritage. As a child, Jing-mei never felt that she lived up to her mother’s expectations. "Why don’t you like me the way I am! I’m not a…

vengeance against the ethnic groups. They killed, looted villages and burned them as well. These acts of violence led to the formations of many rebel groups from the previous Uganda amy. Many of the groups made peace treaties with Yoweri Museveni. “the southern-dominated army did not stop attacking civilians in the north of the country. Therefore, by late 1987 to early 1988 a civilian resistance movement led by Alice Lakwena was formed.” (Wikipedia, Lord’s Resistance Army. Par 4) Her objective…

culture of Northern Africa. More specifically, who were the Nubians, and where did they go? identify any biases in the video. There are always biases. Your review must identify them. In this film, Gus Casely-Hayford, travels throughout Northern Sudan, on…

Connected Life Journeys In “A Long Walk To Water” written by Linda Sue Park. There are two stories, one of a boy named Salva, and the other of a girl named Nya. They both lived in Southern Sudan; although at different times. Salva’s taking place in 1985, and Nya’s taking place in 2008. Salva and Nya’s life journeys both involved war, walking, and family. In the end their lives connected each other together in a beautiful way. Salva and Nya’s journeys are alike because they both had to…

and trading influences all over the ancient world and exports from The Land of Punt, probably located in Eritrea or Somalia, which included gold, ivory, and myrrh. By 2000 B.C.E., there were strong ties and frequent trade across the Red Sea into southern Arabia…

about their wants. Some people sadly never get the opportunity to even begin to think about the things they want because they hardly have the things they need. A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park follows the stories of two people growing up in Southern Sudan in different timelines. They both face struggles beyond what people growing up in first world countries could imagine. Nya and Salva hardly get to think about the things they want because they are struggling just to maintain the things…

against him as well as other international groups that fought his regime in 2012. Around that time the United States provided more than $560 million in humanitarian assistance specifically benefiting LRA-affected populations in Uganda, CAR, the DRC, and Sudan, in addition to countrywide assistance in the affected countries that could benefit individuals affected by LRA violence. On November 22, 2011, the African…

Uganda is a landlocked country, located in East Africa. Kenya borders Uganda to the East, South Sudan to the North, to the West by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and to the South by Tanzania. The current population estimate is 37,873,253. Ugandans can be classified into several broad linguistic groups: The Bantu-speaking majority, who live in the central, southern and western parts of the country; and non-Bantu speakers who occupy the eastern, northern and northwestern portions of the…