Sumana Praharaju Mr. Clarke World Core 23 May 2013 Struggles At Such A Young Age In World War II, many countries such as Germany recruited child soldiers when they ran out of adult soldiers. Even today, countries in Africa and Sri Lanka recruit child soldiers. Many of these children are forced to become soldiers due to the long and everlasting civil wars that occur in their countries. Also many children join liberation groups or the government military to overcome economic or other hardships. These children deal with post-traumatic stress because of the ugly and horrific acts they are forced to do.
The women who was at their last resort was to send their children away to work and earn a small pay to buy food. The Great Depression in Canada was definitely a struggle for individuals; it also had a great impact on the family unit. Men, women, and children all struggled to survive and meet their basic daily needs. The Depression profoundly affected the family unit. Children found themselves in orphanages, working for a small pay, on their family farms and out of school.
I find it outrageous that we have spent millions of dollars for the well being of these children and to have mental care for them to not even do their job. In the 1970’s, mental illness and emotional disturbance in children was understood to be their form of disobedience. They thought that this behavior behavior was to be treated harshly with brutal and unjust punishment. At Gatesville in Texas, They were so worried about keeping the towns money in that they kept children for this purpose. It’s irrational of them to keep all of the staff when over half of the institutions populations were released just so that they can keep their jobs.
Mother Nature wrought her fury upon the poor farmer; through grasshoppers, floods, and droughts. But farmers placed the blame of their problems on two key areas: the money supply and the railroads. Deflation became a major problem in the 1800s for famers. Suffering more and more losses, year after year, many farmers were forced into foreclosure by their “Eastern Master (Doc D).” The main reason farmers were blaming this “Eastern Master” was that no one seemed to be aiding them in their plight apart from certain specific institutions, such as the Populist Party and the Grange. So they naturally turned to the Populist Party, who felt that silver was the answer, and the refusal to coin it a “vast conspiracy against mankind” across “two continents” and subsequently supported legislation such as The Sherman Silver Purchase Act, and a rebuke of the Coinage Act of 1873 (Doc A).
Poverty in America Poverty has been around for a long time now but hardly anybody has done anything to stop it all around the world. Child poverty is an indicator of the hard times the world is going thru. Families all over the world have the responsibility to guide their children to the right path by providing them with everything they need in order to succeed, but with poverty in their footsteps it’s making it basically impossible for many families in general to do so. Challenged with so many things like economic insecurity and unemployment parents have had to beg for money in the streets so that they could try and support their kids. The Children of this great world are the future but with the consequences that poverty causes every year
This physical trauma has scarred many, as well as creating distraught in the children’s minds of growing up not knowing their family nor true identity (Burns 2008). However, it is not just the individual child who was impacted, the families of the Stolen Generation suffered enormously. A report of ‘National Sorry Day’ showed a
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier In the world there are some kids who never get to have a normal childhood because their nation is so war torn and poverty stricken. These kids often not only lose their childhood but their innocence as well. A Long Way Gone shows how children are forced to fight in a war they do not want to be a part of. Although some of these child soldiers are fighting to save their nation, most of them are either programmed or forced to fight in a war that dehumanizes them. Young boys are taken from their home and families and forced to fight for the rebel forces.
Industrial Revolution Workers who had to work in factories was very difficult for them. They would come across things that weren't so easy but now things have improved to help workers. The Industrial Revolution made the lives of workers harder because of child labor, working conditions and factory accidents. Labor for children was very cruel. In picture A, its showing children with lost limbs while at work.
Many soldiers returning from the great war (expecting to get their old jobs back) caused a great surplus of workers. The farmers that didn't go to the city (to find work) go together to form the national progressives (third party for farmers) and they created the Maritimers rights movement to promote their interests. Not only were the returning soldiers faced with job loss but they were also faced with the rising prices, strikes, the new role of woman, and the prohibition (ban of liquor) making their settling in a lot harder. The strikes were pointless because it resulted in people getting charged, workers losing their jobs and nobody even payed attention to them. The ban of liquor didn't last long either.
Working children’s ages ranged from 7 years old to 14 years old. Lower class families, including their children, worked day in and day out to survive and meet their needs. In rural areas, the children worked on their family’s farm every day. The farmers work was never done so it was as if the children would not get any break from working. The children that worked in factories didn’t go to school.