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Aaron Mast

Ms. Gold

English 103

27 September 2009

Child Soldiers (revised by Aaron Mast and Kyle G.)

Beah, Ishmael. Editorial. The Making, and Unmaking, of a Child Soldier. The New York Times, 14 Jan. 2007. Web. 6 Sept. 2009. .

The author, Ismael Beah, is an actual survivor from being a child soldier in Africa so you know he is a primary source. It was published September 6th 2009 so it is fairly up to date and has little chance of being irrelevant due to the fact that it is outdated. The publisher is The New York Times which is a nationally accredited and re veered newspaper. The rhetorical stance in this piece is based on his own experiences so there is no unfair biased. The audience for this work is people who are aware of current events who read the newspapers daily. This is very relevant to my paper because it is directly related to my topic of child soldiers, it is an actual child soldier talking about his experience of being a child soldier.