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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
A Longer Walk To Freedom
A Long Walk To Water takes place in Southern Sudan during the second Sudanese Civil War that takes place from 1983 to 2005. The war was between central Sudan's government and Sudan people's Liberation Army. Today, almost one-fifth of Sudan's population lives off of less than US $1.25 per day. Sudan has a federal presidential representative democratic republic government which is pretty much the same type of government the United States has. Sudan suffers from poor human rights most particularly dealing with the issues of ethnic cleansing and slavery in the nation even today. There are currently 7,600 United Nations troops stationed in Southern Sudan and they are planning to make it 13,000. If I was put into the main's characters shoes, I would have done the same things he did and I think I wouldn't have survived as well because I'm not used to going a couple days with little water and no food. If you were in Sudan for vacation or something during the Civil War, what would you have done?
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I am also reading the book along Walk to Water and it is very interesting. This book is very interesting but also very sad, because of how Salvas life started off.In southern Sudan it is very tough there for the people, especially because they have a hard time getting food and water on the table. People in southern sudan sometimes get diseases from the dirty water. I did some research and saw that there government is very poor and there have been some wars there lately that have been effecting the people and families of Sudan. Salva the main character in this book helped the the people of Sudan get clean water with an irrigation system. If I was on vacation in Sudan I would gladly help them out.
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