1. Child Soldiers By: Ian Martin
10th honors literature/ composition
4th period

2. Innocent youth
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3. Mayhem Arrives
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4. Broken family
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5. “…each time I accept death, part of me
dies.” (pg. 70, A Long Way Gone)”
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6. Their father was war
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7. Treated like animals
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8. Broken and Worn
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9. Scarred for Life
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10. Relief of the United Nations
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11. Future in Question
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12. Deprived
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13. Credits
• "AK-47: the Sierra Leone child soldier." BBC news. BBC news, 6 Dec. 2005. Web.
22 Oct. 2010. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4500358.stm>. This
article was very interesting. It is a newspaper article about how modern
weapons improve the efficency of children soldiers. It also provided
specific details about the issue. The newspaper proved its self reliable.
• Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone. New York: Sarah Crichton, 2007. Print. We used
this book to provide the basis for our informatiuon. It helped use come up
with questions and some answers. It is a first hand acount of what
happened.
• "Child soldiers." war child. N.p., n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2010.
<http://www.warchild.org.uk/issues/
child-soldiers?gclid=COKZ0Zr28KQCFc9a7AodEmbm1A>. This resource gives a
lot background imformation. It is not specificaly children soldiers in
Sierra Leone, however it provides information about how the children are
treated and used. It provieds alot of facts. We checked the publising
organization to back up the source. This organization proved to be a very
crediable source.
• Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone. 2003. Zenger Media. DVD. This DVD was provided
by Ms. Hamilton. It was about the UNs efforts to help children that have
been rescued from life as a child soldier. It provided background
information to about the issue. It told us how they are helping the
orphaned children, and how they are trying to find their family.
• Jones, Lynne. "The boys of war." Globe & Mail 3 Mar. 2007: n. pag. Gale Opposing
Viewpoints in Context. Web. 22 Oct. 2010. <http://infotrac.galegroup.com/
default/
cant48040?cause=http%3A%2F%2Fic.galegroup.com%2Fic%2Fovic%2FNewsDetailsPage%2FNew
sDetailsWindow%3FdisplayGroupName%3DNews%26prodId%3DOVIC%26action%3De%26windowsta
te%3Dnormal%26catId%3D%26documentId%3DGALE%7CA160065469>. This Article
was conecting the book "A Long Way Gone" to the real life
scenarios relateing to the issue at hand. It was a good summary of the book
and touched bases on our issue greatly. as far as evaluating this article,
I trust Gale database. I also know that this is a legitimate newspaper in
Canada. This will help increase my understanding of the book and will help
me conect the book to my research.It also gave me another opinion on the
issue and how it relates to the book.
• "Military use of children." Wikipedia. N.p., 18 Oct. 2010. Web. 26 Oct. 2010.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_use_of_children#Sierra_Leone>.
This source provided a very broad over view of the issue. THis gave us a
better understanding of where to focus our research to find specific facts.
It also told us specificaly about children soldiers in Sierra Leone. We got
this source from wikipedia there were no flags on the page ,but we still
check some of the information to make sure it was reliable.
• Richards, Paul. "Sierra Leone." Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against
Humanity. Ed. Dinah L Shelton. Vol. 2. Detroit: Macmillan Reference
USA, 2005. 946-954. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 22 Oct. 2010.
<http://go.galegroup.com/ps/
i.do?&id=GALE%7CCX3434600309&v=2.1&u=&it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w>. This source
provided information about the civil war in Sierra Leone. This was helpful,
because it gave us a good background to why the war is going on. The
reasons why they rebals and millitary use children as warriors. This source
was an article from an encyclodidia. We checked this source and it proved
its self reliable.