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Baruani Essay

A sixteen-year-old boy from Congo Republic lives in a refugee camp in Tanzania. Baruani at the age of seven living in Congo Republic soldiers burnt Baruani’s families’ house down and they were killed. “As I was small, I managed to escape through a little hole in the wall," he explains when soldiers raided his village in the Congo. He fled from Congo Republic and ran away to a refugee camp. When he reached the refugee camp he felt like an outsider like the other 60,000 people there, whom over half are children. Baruani knows personally how lonely people can feel when in refugee camps with no parents. Baruani decided to make a radio station that would help reunite families that would have fled from the Congo Republic and a to give a voice for all the refugee children without a voice.

                                                                                          

Baruani’s radio station helps families get reunited that have split up when the war in the Congo Republic occurred. He thought that something should be done for these people that should be with their families. Barauni helps many families get back together by making sure many people hear what he has to say using his radio station. When he was younger his family was separated because of the war in the Congo Republic he had to flee to Tanzania refugee camp to survive. He was alone and had no hope of family while others had hope of a family and the hope is the radio station. From his experiences with his family having died. “Furthermore, through his radio show Baruani contributes to reuniting children with their parents. The children use the radio show to call upon people familiar with them or their family”. Living in the refugee camp where many people miss their families and who have no hope. People from Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo have a chance to listen to his radio channel called 'Sisi kwa Sisi' (Children for Children). People can hear what he says and which children are looking for their rest of their family. He tries his best to make sure that nearly everyone has a chance to hear what he has to say.                                                       

Baruani and his radio station fight for a voice for many for people in different places in Africa. He was a boy with no voice and now he is a symbol of voice for child refugees like him. “The radio show and Child Voice Out program help identify these children in need, so that they can be assisted by one of the specialized organizations in the camp”. Children in refugees are often alone and he is a voice who talks to them, they can talk to him and for once they have a voice and can say in something about themselves. People in the refugee camps often are not part of the community because they have no identification or passport to say that they are from. The people at the refugees do not have the money to pay for identification and passports for all the children. That makes them feel like an outsider, and with no parents they really have no one to talk to other than each other. Many of the people who listen to the radio station are refugees that want a voice.

Baruani is a hope for people with no families and refugees with no voice. Baruani uses his life problems inspiration for his radio station, he knows what those people with no families feel like. So he talks to them about their problems make them feel like they are someone who is not lonely and that there is still hope. For some of the children he talks to are lucky because he helps those children find their family. It is important for him to have won the Children's Nobel Peace Prize, now he knows that people really need him and he can also have an achievement for what he has done. He is now known worldwide for being on the radio for people who need support and want to be reunited with their families. He is no longer a boy from the Congo Republic with no voice anymore.

Some information from 2009 Baruani Ndume

Some information from UNHCR

Some information from The Kids Millenium Right

Harrison Bergeron

Vonnegut Is stating that the world is not fair but also that the world is not a good place of equality and that there is no such thing as equality. No matter how equal you try and make the world it is never gonna be equal to every single person. People are hungry for power and strive fo power, the world will never change be equal. “Only, if I was Handicapper General, you know what I Would do?” said Hazel. Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the Handicapper General, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers. “If I was Diana Moon Glampers,” said Hazel, have chimes on Sunday just chimes. Kind of in honor of religion.” pg.131. This shows that There not always equality in the world even when the world is suppose to be equal. the ballerinas. They Weren’t really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. They were burdened with sash-weights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face" pg. 131. The ballerina's have a hanicaps so that is unfair Ballerinas should have the right to be as beautiful as they want and not to have a massive bag weighing you down so that you cannot be as good as possible.

Identities worthyness

colorful heavy shoes
brown eyes
brown hair
wallet in pocket 64rm in it
grey socks
wrinkly hands
clean shirt
clean pants
small tubby hands
double jointed bug teeth
birth on forearm
bruises on your legs
That’s me

Is a person’s identity worth fighting for? why or why not? And what would threaten someone’s identity?

A person's identity is worth fighting for if you had no identity you would not "you". Everyone has a right to have a life or to live. One of the things that you can change is your identity not like you can change what your arm looks like. Some things that can threaten you identity would be desperation it might change the way you think and will change what people think of you. 

Der Giftpilz

Ernst Hiemer created Der Giftpilz ( The poisonous mushroom)is illustrated by Philip Rupprecht. Der Giftpilz was distributed as a book intended for children of a young age as the Nazi party had said on their platforms speeches that children were to learn about "Science of Citizenship" at a young age.This photo has a picture of a rotten mushroom and other mushrooms surrounding the main one that has a big nose the same as the mushroom in the front. Nazi’s classified Jews are portrayed as people with big noses and very ugly and the beard is also a symbolization of Hasidic Jews. There is also a star of David which is the real sign of that person being a Jew. The mushroom is not just a mushroom but is a shape of a man. Hitler thought that gingers were not aloud to be together as their children would be ‘deviant offspring’. The beard of the Jew is ginger so that there would be a bright contrast against the green background.


The expression that the creator of this book is trying to show that even though a Jew looks like a nice person on the outside, they are the ones that caused German's to fall, they were the cause of depression and hyper inflation. Hitler had a main platform which was the most important and which he thought was the way to win and that was the extermination of all Jews and their religion.  The expression of the image also includes poisonous mushrooms as Jews there are normal mushrooms and they were described as Germans and they describe them in such a stereotypical way that it would not be hard to miss them. Children would be brain washed into becoming a soldier or supporter of Hitler and would start to hate Jews and others from an early age, the design of the book is short and has cartoons on it so that it makes it a an easy book for children to read. When Hitler fell some children might have noticed what type of antisemitic ideas he was proposing them with. The Nazi party believed that the influence of this book would make Germany a safer and better place. The idea of making a Jew a rotten mushroom is to exemplify the fact that Jews are all over an they spread just like rotten mushrooms.


This image has a lot of misleading information especially the Jews being the cause for the whole fall of Germany. Not all Jewish people have big noses and they don’t all have long beards and they definitely do not look that ugly. The Nazi party made Jews into a rotten mushroom so that they could understand it clearly and influence the hatered of Jews. The message clear as you can see the star of David on the mushrooms chest and Jews are poisonous. This image expresses negative message as this type antisemitic is a bad influence on children and they will grow up hating Jews but when they discover that they did nothing they will not know who to trust.

The Boy in Striped Pyjamas 2

The Boy In Striped Pyjamas was set in the past. Why should you care about the issues raised in the book? Should we continue to study this book in Grade 7? 


People of our time should care about this book as it is a way to understand what things people can do to each other and it can set that time as stage in history as a time of digrace and humiliation to the human race. If people do not learn about history there is no way for us to learn from mistakes we made in World War one and two. People of the new age have to learn about how people lived and what types of things people were thinking about at that time. They thought of power, honor and pride for their country. Germany's main hatred of the Treaty of Versailles was that they were to take full responsibility of starting the first world war, they lost 33$ billion dollars, land and most important honor. 


This book covers a subject that needs to be read every year through seventh grade people learn about the holocaust. This book tells you what happens in the holocaust but through a perspective of a nine year old boy. The view of this boy changes your thought of what people were like when the war happened. It shows how much discrimination and hatred was put towards the Jews even though they are the same people but just believe in different things. The friendship between a German and a Jew is no different from a German and a German. Hitler encouraged people to hate jews and gave them reasons why they should hate them when the citizen were most vulnerable, from there it was passed down to their children. They brought their children up to hate Jews and what better are they suppose to know.