Summative Essay - Child Soldiers: Invisible Children.
Child Soldiers: Invisible Children. For years the use of children in both conflicts between states and civil wars has been evident. Children are forced by commanders through false promises, drugs and things which you can’t even imagine, to kill innocent civilians, other children and even their own families.Invisible Children About a year ago, I was at a normal Sunday church service at The Crossing Christian Church. At the time I was seventeen and attended the youth service. However, on that particular day, the service was different. They had all of the kids watch a special presentation from a group called Invisible Children.Invisible Children have the greatest impact on helpless children in Uganda because an education, life skills and an end to the war all in all is provided. For the young children and teens that make it through the fearful nights that are taken in to our shelters, a new life is in their not too distant futures.
Invisible Children. “Invisible package of unearned assets” is how Peggy McIntosh defines invisible privileges. Invisible privileges are special rights or advantages that one expects when they inform someone of their religion, race, or a group they are involved in.The video gained 31 million views in a single day and since has gathered almost over 99 million view on YouTube. The campaign was a 30-minute video made by filmmaker and Invisible Children co-founder Jason Russell can be considered a political documentary by traditional standards.
The Invisible Children non-profit organization set goals to receive support from twelve celebrity icons that they believed formulated popular culture and social belief (Invisible Children 2012). The expansion of the “Kony 2012” film was due, in part, to participation in the dissemination of the film by a number of the Invisible Children-targeted celebrities.
