I haven’t had any time to write as I’ve been preparing to miss this last week of the school term to attend the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) as a youth delegate with SustainUS. Two thousand (2,000!!) women from around the world come to CSW at the U.N. headquarters in New York. The…
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A Long Way Gone; Memories of a Boy Soldier
I am taking a Comparative Lit class on child soldiers around the world. I just finished A Long Way Gone and am desperately trying to take it all in. Here is the excerpt and a quick explanation about Ishmael’s Beah’s amazing book. You should definitely read it! At the age of twelve, he fled attacking…