OBAA Comparison to AOW Sep. 24th

  

Both the book, Of Beetles and Angels and the AOW, "Refugees stuck in no man's land between Croatia and Serbia", have the idea of determination within it. On page one and two, he discusses a specific woman that  had perseverance to continue to Sudan. According to Mawi, "she pressed on and on, and soon her limp became a crawl,...,but still, she kept on crawling. For what choice does a refugee have?" This shows determination and perseverance greatly because, the woman he talks about in the book was so determined to continue to Sudan that she sacrificed her health to go to a better place. In paragraph two of my article, Patrick Kingsley states, "Refugees hoping to reach the safety of the EU faced a fresh obstacle on Tuesday morning,...,more than 2,000 refugees were stranded overnight on Monday in no man's land..." This shows great determination because, just like the woman in the book, they would risk their safety to just get to a safe zone. They are that determined to make it to a refugee camp or seek refugee that they would camp out overnight, and possibly week to make it there. 

       

       In Of Beetles and Angels, and Refugees stuck in no man's land between Croatia and Serbia, both Haileb and Ahmed are doctors. Before the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea broke out, Haileb was a doctor. In the chapter 'Coffee Tales', Tsege explains just how loved Haileb was for his intelligence in medical related topics and issues. Tsege recalls, "..village folk came to my husband on mules and took him back to their village to help their woman give birth ... sometimes they would bleed after they gave birth. Village folk did not understand, they would let the woman bleed. But my husband would come ... no one taught him how to treat all of their different sicknesses..." Tsege essentially states that Haileb was a doctor known and treated by everyone. That he wasn't taught his abilities, but he just had the mindset to figure this out. Although the article does not talk much about the doctor's [Ahmed Twaij] medical abilities, it does say, ..."who has travelled to the Croatian border to help the aid effort...The situation here is dire. We have women and children crying because they're scared and confused.”"It's very cold now, people are fighting over blankets because there weren't that many to give out. Police didn't want it to become another refugee camp." Ahmed Twaij is a doctor, like Haileb, who traveled great distance, Britain to Croatia, to help people in desperate need. 

      War can have its toll on people in an abundant amount of ways. It can turn a nice, sweet person, into a violent, hateful person. It can also turn a physiologically healthy person, into a physiologically sick person with disorders. The effect war has on a person just depends on how the person deals or copes with it. Witnesses to war can have the same effects as an army man on the front line. Just like army men, the lucky ones come back honored, traumatized, violent, and the unlucky ones do not. It can make children and parents confused as to where is a safe place that they will not be harmed.