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"Can't take the train to the job, there's a strike at the station"
"A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind"
"The places you play and where you stay
Looks like one great big alleyway'

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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message (Official Video)

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"That first morning in New York City, we learned about each other’s lives for hours. Some of the children had risked their life to attend the conference. Others had walked hundreds of miles to neighboring countries to be able to get on a plane." These experiences in new York city gave him the strength to tell his story.

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“Our job is a serious one and we have the most capable soldiers, who will do anything to defend this country. We are not like the rebels, those riffraff's who kill people for no reason. We kill them for the good and betterment of this country." Beah spent two years fighting in war. Leaving emotional scars on his memories. A fight that was not his own.

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"But after several doses of these drugs, all I felt was numbness to everything and so much energy that I couldn’t sleep for weeks." This had such a negative affect on Ishmael due to the fact it numbed his brain. Allowing him to murder.

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“Tell me,” he said, turning to me, “how did you get this foreign music?” I told him that we rapped. He didn’t know what rap music was, so I did my best to explain it to him. “It is similar to telling parables, but in the white man’s language."
This is an important event in Ishmael's life because his music saved his life multiple times. The music proved his innocence as a child.

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"  There, people were arriving from all over the mining area. Some we knew, but they couldn’t tell us the whereabouts of our families. They said the attack had been too sudden, too chaotic; that everyone had fled in different directions in total confusion." This was such an significant event because this is when his life first changed forever. He has lost his home and his family all at once.

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Ishmael Beah the Author of A Long Way Gone: memoir of a boy soldier. At as young as the age of twelve years old Ishmael's village is attacked by rebels. After Fleeing from the war separated from his family Ishmael is recruited into the war. Leading to him fighting for the government forcefully for three years. Leaving the questions how are these in humane acts allowed, and how can we work together to raise awarness and stop them.

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I chose this background because it depicts the relationship between adult soldiers and children. These children are in line being trained for battle. Just like Ishmael's friends, his brother, and himself were. " They ordered everyone to line up: men, woman, even children younger than I.They walked up and down the line trying to make eye contact with people." Chapter 5 Page 34.