World’s Balance There was a magnificent kingdom called “Sierra Leone” and it was so big that it occupied almost the whole planet.Since it was big,it was hard to control everything and to organize things.Centuries later the great kingdom of love and glory turned to a place of dirt and poverty.Everything was messed up besides the capital-it was a paradise like place with Kadupul flowers and buildings made of gold.After the election Ronald the fool came to power.He was a little bit dumb but people thought that he would be a fair leader whose decisions are based on humanity.So he came to power and first thing that he did is he made everybody somehow equal and spreaded capital’s architecture to all regions and outskirts. After a short time of Ronald
being an Emperor,he decided not to waste his time and rewrote the constitution and laws of his land.His first major change was to make everyone rich and to give them a lot of land,so they don’t have to worry about about shortage of funds and wasting their time on boring job.It was great for the first time-all people got huge manors and they could afford anything they want.All people were healthy and contented as never before:they forgot about sorrow and griefs like it was only because of money. Unfortunately it did not last long- since people got everyting they want,they stopped working and respecting others-they already had everything they need.After King Ronald saw what he did to his empire,he decided just to escape and not to do anything.After he left,the great empire looked as miserably as never before.Even people were rich,they were jealous and wanted more and more.They lost their moral values and stopped respecting each other.But it did not last long either.There still some people who did care about others and did their best to save the world. First thing that they did is they made people pay taxes for everything:food that they eat,things that they use,and land where they live.The bigger the land was-the more you pay.They created very harsh rules and started taking money for anything:”you breathe too much-you pay for it,you don’t breathe-still gonna pay.” This rules made people work,and people that didn’t work became poor again.Their rules brought a lot of grief and poverty back then,but senate's coped with their goal-they brought desire and purpose for people to work and to interact with others. By creating the harsh rules back then people created the political world balance where in order to get what you want you got to work hard.
While it takes a lot to build up a society, it doesn’t take nearly as much for it crash and burn. One simple flaw can weaken it, and three added together will ruin the whole thing. Even the greatest societies can fall as the result of political corruption, war, and social injustice. These three have negatively affected Rome, Greece, Uganda, and even the fictional society in Matched by Ally Condie.
During the author’s life in New York and Oberlin College, he understood that people who have not experienced being in a war do not understand what the chaos of a war does to a human being. And once the western media started sensationalizing the violence in Sierra Leone without any human context, people started relating Sierra Leone to civil war, madness and amputations only as that was all that was spoken about. So he wrote this book out o...
Think about how your life was when you were ten. For most people, the only worries were whether you finished your homework and if you’ve been recently updated for new games. Unfortunately, in Sierra Leone, kids at the age of ten were worried about if that day was the only day they’d be able to breathe. The cause of one of this devastating outcome is Sierra Leone’s Civil War. This war was a long bloody fight that took many lives and hopes of children and families.
In the past, lives were controlled by European imperialism the practice of a country extending its political power, over conquered territories. The country and the lands it controls were called an empire. The empire enforced its rule on people of different cultures, ethnic backgrounds, and different political systems. The empire had one supreme ruler; sadly, the conquered territories lack effective representation in the empire’s government. Therefore, the conquered countries natural raw natural resources were exploited and their economic growth suppressed. This was evident in Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and North America countries.
...ion of imperialism has evolved. In both Heart of Darkness by Conrad, and The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver, Africa is invaded and altered to conform to the desires of more “civilized” people. While this oppression in the Congo never seems to cease, the natives are consistently able to overcome the obstacles, and the tyrants, and thus prove to be civilized in their own regard and as capable of development as the white nations. As Orleanna says herself: “Call it oppression, complicity, stupefaction, call it what you’d like…Africa swallowed the conqueror’s music and sang a new song of her own” (Kingsolver 385). Kingsolver illustrates that though individuals may always seek to control and alter the region, the inhabitants and victims of the tyranny and oppression live on and continue past it, making the state of the area almost as perpetual as the desire to control it.
War-ravaged Sierra Leone had trouble maintaining order, many still unclear what type of government they were living by. For years, the government of Sierra Leone had “made repeated commitments to...
In The Looting Machine by Tom Burgis, the author discusses corruption and the effects of corruption on Africans living under the resource curse, or Dutch disease. He also talks about a system responsible for the looting of Africa’s natural resources to benefit individuals and companies from Chinese, French, American, Brazilian, British, Israeli, and African elites. Burgis suffered from PTSD, which stemmed from the aftermath of the Jos massacre and other events he experienced in Africa. To cope with his PTSD, Burgis wrote down what he saw during his research, experiencing tremendous guilt in the process. Instead of his initial reasoning that the Jos massacre occurred due to “ethnic rivalries”, he started to see the real reason and how the massacre
During the 1900’s two deadly wars were raging on, the civil war in Sierra Leone and the genocide in Rwanda. The civil war in Sierra Leone began in March 1991, while the genocide began in 1994. Combined these two wars killed upward of 1,050,000 people, and affected the lives of all the people that lived there. The conflicts in Sierra Leone and Rwanda occurred for different major reasons, but many little aspects were similar. Politics and Ethnicity were the two main conflicts, but despite the different moments rebellions and the murder of innocent people occurred in both places.
Many countries around the world experience great poverty, maybe because the country has little amounts of natural resources or it has never gotten out of a slump that dragged down the economy. The people of the country are affected greatly by this, almost directly, if there are no resources available, people can’t work to refine the resources, make or use them. So instead of using the resources available, the country buys the materials needed. This puts the country in debt, along with the people. In order to get out of debt, taxes are raised and people slowly lose their jobs and their money. The affect of that is turmoil, some people blame their misfortune on a certain race or culture, some on a religion. In the case of Germany in 1938...
Uganda, formally known as the Republic of Uganda, is a poverty stricken country plagued with economic instabilities. Since the 1980’s, the economy has remained on a fairly steady climb, but many have doubts about the continuation of growth. Uganda will never achieve a stable economy if they do not establish changes to their infrastructure. To implement these modifications and maintain economic progression, Uganda will need 1) better government determination to end corruption, 2) commitment to improve the weak educational reforms, and 3) a decrease in their export vulnerabilities. Fortunately, the country is experiencing a much needed evolution in telecommunication which could be the single most contributing factor for an improved economy.
An example of this is that during this time people were tired they had just gone through a world war and are going through a great depression so people at this time are tired, angry, and just really want a government that will work. This is backed up by Document 7 which says “People are already worn down by the struggle of daily life….more ready to submit”. Document 7 is showing that these people are tired and ready to quit, they just want something to work and help them. Also like the picture “Toads of Property” shows there was the high up people and the lows. You can see the high up people who are just fine and betting money playing games, where as the poor people are standing around all sad and look as if they are defeated. If people in your country are feeling defeated and don’t have faith in what is going on the government isn’t going to last long. Like shown, people overall weren’t really happy. They were tired and beaten down from what has went on already and were just defeated in
The war in Sierra Leone was hideous. Everyone in the country was affected in one way or another. Whether they personally were injured, had a loved one killed or got recruited to fight, no one was left unscathed. Many of the effects will affect the families financially. Sierra Leone needs funding to help families stay out of poverty and to rebuild their country after the war.
Over a period from 1960-1965, the first Republic of the Congo experienced a period of serious crisis. There was a terrible war for power that displayed senseless violence and the desperation to rule. There were many internal conflicts among the people. The country eventually gained independence from Belgium. For many countries this would be a time for celebration. Unfortunately for the people of the Congo this became a time to forget. Almost immediately after independence and the general elections, the country went into civil war. Major developed cities like Katanga and Kasai wanted to be independent from the Lumumba government. Different factions started to fight the government and Katanga and Kasai tried to secede from the rest of the country out of fear of the mutinous army that was out of control looting and killing.
Civil wars have been a part of world history since before 130 BC when the Crisis of the Roman Republic took place. The Crisis of the Roman public was a extended period of social unrest in Rome that lasted from 133 BC to 30 BC. Civil wars happened back in 133 BC and still happen today. Many studies have been conducted on how wars and conflict affect the social outcomes and ideals, but few have been conducted on how they can and do effect the environment and the animals that live in it. This research paper will take a close look at the Sierra Leone civil war, the “blood diamonds” that funded the rebels, and how they effected the environment and its inhabitants.
Acemoglu, Daron, and James A. Robinson. Why nations fail: the origins of power, prosperity, and poverty. New York: Crown Publishers, 2012. Print.