Child Soldiers Day 2

Child Soldiers on Trail in Guantanamo

In this article they talked about a former child soldier, Omar Khadir. I think that if Omar has not been exposed to the life of extremism and violence he wouldn't have become a murderer. What i noticed while reading the article is that Omar was proud to have killed a US Army Sgt and he also bragged about it. Omar clearly doesn't understand the value of human life and actively participated in violence and murder.

Analytic memo (Hope for Uganda Child Soldiers)

• At the age of 14 he was abducted 
• cutting off the lips ears and noses of innocent civilians to scare people
• he escaped by jumping in a fast flowing river
• both of his brothers had been abducted 

outline 

introduction

paragraph one 

why they are victims 
reason 1 
brainwashing and drugs

paragraph two 

reason 2 
all family lost 

paragraph three

reason 3
no other options 

conclusion 

Child Soldiers Day 1

                

I think that child soldiers are victims because children are vulnerable to manipulation and can easily be tricked by lies. child soldiers in my opinions are not perpetrators because they are not old enough to make the right decision and may not have enough life experience to do the right thing, children are known to be easily tricked into thinking what they are doing is okay but a child should not be a soldier but instead they should be going to school and enjoying their childhood instead of fighting in a war and risking their precious fragile lives. Children may not know right from wrong if they haven't spent their time learning. They may become numb to acts of murder this may distance them from society and have an impact in their future social development.

Armed & Underage

these children should not be held responsible for their actions because many of them do not have a choice or a say in what they do. in the article they talked about the children being easily manipulated and fearless which is proof that these people brainwash the children to such an extent that they no longer feel proper human emotions or morals.

Perpetrators

Innocent lives where lost
Some of them volunteer
menace to society
may seek revenge
participated in violent acts
inflicted pain on others


Victims 

They where threatened
Some where sold by their parents
Kids are easy to manipulate
No other options
No other family
Brainwashing
They are just looking for safety
To meet basic needs
Forced addiction
Lack of education 

Project X Blog Post #5

Maram and I worked very hard to create a slideshow that didn't have many words but lots of pictures so our audience wouldn't get bored. We also turned in our coloring book to the middle school library finally. In the end I am very happy with what this project taught us in working with other people and persevering when things got difficult like when I didn't have an Ipad pro but as a team we found a way out and we succeeded in our project. I think that success doesn't matter unless you learned something in the journey to success. The key things I learned where to always plan ahead but if you hit a roadblock there is always a way to solve a problem and if there is not a way to solve the problem their is no shame in failure as long as you learn from your mistakes.

Project X blog post #5

We are nearing the end of our project even though we still have plenty of things on our list of things to finish. We need to finish putting all of our images on the Ipad. That step takes a lot of time because the images that we put in our Ipads need to be trace over and they are our complete and final drafts so they have to be absolutely perfect. Our website is finished and all we need is to add the images in the end and that will be done and last week we finished all of our final sketches and they are ready to be put in the Ipad. I hope that our book ends well and that people will be able to benefit from our pages.

Project X blog post #4

We are doing great we have finished the format of our website and we will soon add all of the pages to the website as soon as we finish editing our drafts and digitizing them. I was working on making the pages more detailed while my partner made the website it worked perfectly since my partner likes to use the computers to make websites and I like to draw. As soon as she finished with the web site she started helping me with the drafts since we are a bit behind schedule. But overall I think we are doing great.

TEAM X Status Report #4

We already finished our final lander and today was the day of our drop. We were feeling confident in the beginning of the class and we had already started to put our lander back together for the final time ,to make sure that all the strings where in the correct place. We went out to the stairs and my teammates said that I should be the one to drop our egg, so I went up and got ready to drop ours. The time came to drop our egg and it survived. The lander bounced slightly but the straws absorbed the shock. We were very worried of the lander accidentally tipping to the side because we had one section of the straws where the edge was sort of out and it was too late for us to fix it. Then we dropped it from the rotunda and also survives the second drop, but it was far from the target but luckily it survived. In conclusion our project has been a great success and a lot of fun, we also learned a lot about the engineering process.

     

Project X Blog Post #3

We have been doing great so far and we are going on a good pace but we still have quite a few thing to finish until we are completely done with this project. We have completed the portfolio part of our website and the we are almost done with the front page of the website. We already completed our introduction and our drafts for the drawings and in the next couple weeks we are going to finish digitizing our drafts in the next week. After that we are going to publish our website and make a copy for the library. I think that our project is going smoothly so far.