Committee: UNICEF

Country: Sudan

Topic: Child Soldiers

Name: Cristian Maldonado

Children have every right to be free and have a good life, but war and violence doesn’t let this happen. Armies that force young children into fighting for them are taking their freedom and ruining their lives. Many child soldiers between the ages of 7 to 17 are forced to fight. They are forced to kill their own relatives. Also half of the child soldiers are girls, and many of them are abused, raped or become sex slaves. There are more deaths from child soldiers than of those that are adults during the outbreaks that occur. Although many of the children get set free many of them get rejected by their own families or are not able to find them. During this time in their life they live with the horrid memories.

There are over 12,000 child soldiers located yet alone in northern parts of Sudan. The LRA sells many of the abducted children for more arms; there has been a report saying that Bin Laden was a main buyer, forcing the children to work on marijuana farms located in some areas of Sudan. Many of the child soldiers are linked to the militias in the government, rebel movements, and even the Sudanese army. Now many of the children have been slowly demobilized from the SPLA, and over a thousand have been able to go home and put into rehabilitation. The demobilization still continues up to this date, posing a great sign of progress in the work this was put onto.

In conclusion, the Delegate of Sudan believes that if we continue to try and get as many children free, we will eventually succeed. Although, the Delegate of Sudan would also like to hear the opinions of other countries in what is helpful to solving this issue. Any ideas of how to demobilize more child soldiers and help them with any problems regarding their mental health will be appreciated. Sudan would also like to imply our work ethic to other countries with issues such as these. The Delegate of Sudan would like to thank all the countries that help Sudan with this issue.

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The most important thing I learned in MUN was to be able to speak in front of others without fear. It helped me through out my 9th grade year with many other classes when I had to present certain work. It made me become a greater person since i was able to talk easily and work with my classmates and show my opinions to other. With the skills I learned in MUN I will be able to talk to more people outside of the class if i were to speak to a group about a certain topic. I can teach people about whats going on in the world and what are some great ways to solve the problems. The skills will help me debate on certain things and could convince people to look at my point of view of things other than just them looking at their own view.

Cristian Maldonado Art 2^nd Period

For my final project in my art class I will be using my piñata, mosaic and monochromatic painting. These are the three projects that I have chosen since I really do like them. I enjoyed working on them because of the techniques we used to create them. They were very interesting to do, especially since they were new ways of looking at art to me. They made me use more creativity than what I would normally use on any other project. They were some amazing projects to do in art.

My piñata is a very balloon covered with Papier-mâché and shaped into Boo from Mario bros. The Papier-mâché is paper dipped into glue with water. After it dries out the paper hardens, and it takes the form of the balloon. The monochromatic painting was made using only one color with different shades and tints. We were supposed use a color we liked and change the shade and tint to match a picture we used. For the mosaic we just had to tear pieces of paper and put them into a certain area to make a picture.

The projects are the same in many ways including color usage. They are also the same in the effort we put into completing the projects. All the effort put in it is quite similar since it shows how hard a person worked on it. They are very similar in showing how creative a person can be with different practices of art.

With the similarities the projects also have differences. They all use different techniques to make something very amazing and interesting. The plans that were used makes the projects different, as in a piñata, a monochromatic painting and a mosaic were made. They all have a certain style to them, a piñata has a few values while the mosaic is a technique for art and so is the painting. They all derived from different people which give them their own personal differences.

To my conclusion these three projects were the best I could have made. They gave me new techniques to make art and to look at what is art. They showed me that I can as creative as I want without any judgments. It has made me think that there are many different ways to create art using different styles or combining a few. Well art was really fun and it was nice having some awesome projects done.

Committee: UNICEF

Country: Sudan

Topic: Child Soldiers

Name: Cristian Maldonado

Children have every right to be free and have a good life, but war and violence doesn’t let this happen. Armies that force young children into fighting for them are taking their freedom and ruining their lives. Many child soldiers between the ages of 7 to 17 are forced to fight. They are forced to kill their own relatives. Also half of the child soldiers are girls, and many of them are abused, raped or become sex slaves. There are more deaths from child soldiers than of those that are adults during the outbreaks that occur. Although many of the children get set free many of them get rejected by their own families or are not able to find them. During this time in their life they live with the horrid memories.

There are over 12,000 child soldiers located yet alone in northern parts of Sudan. The LRA sells many of the abducted children for more arms; there has been a report saying that Bin Laden was a main buyer, forcing the children to work on marijuana farms located in some areas of Sudan. Many of the child soldiers are linked to the militias in the government, rebel movements, and even the Sudanese army. Now many of the children have been slowly demobilized from the SPLA, and over a thousand have been able to go home and put into rehabilitation. The demobilization still continues up to this date, posing a great sign of progress in the work this was put onto.

In conclusion, the Delegate of Sudan believes that if we continue to try and get as many children free, we will eventually succeed. Although, the Delegate of Sudan would also like to hear the opinions of other countries in what is helpful to solving this issue. Any ideas of how to demobilize more child soldiers and help them with any problems regarding their mental health will be appreciated. Sudan would also like to imply our work ethic to other countries with issues such as these. The Delegate of Sudan would like to thank all the countries that help Sudan with this issue.

Cristian Maldonado

The beginning of the year as a 9^th grader was pretty slow. It felt weird, because I did not know many people here, and I was at a new school with a new principal and people. But it didn’t really bother me since I was able to get used to the feeling. When I got my schedule, I was surprised at the classes I got. I had no clue what a few classes were about, like MUN and AP human geography.

I found out that those classes were in fact very interesting. MUN was the most interesting, people talked about world issues and ways to solve them. It was a class based on a real organization, the United Nations. I liked this class because they talked about issues in the world. AP human geography was also my favorite, even though it was an advanced class. I had good grades in that class, and I felt that if I passed a college level class I could pass any other class. Hopefully with all the hard work I put in that class I did pass my AP exam. I liked my other classes too, for example I got guitar and it was one of the best classes this year. I learned to play and I still want to become an amazing guitarist. When I went to my Chinese class I found out it was hard to learn a new language again, but I didn’t want to fail at something I haven’t done, in a while though.

The teachers were pretty friendly and did help a lot. They taught very well and explained everything clearly. If we didn’t understand a certain topic they would go over it individually with us, which made things simple. I did expect to get strict teachers, since of what I have heard about this school. But things turned out okay, and I was glad. If I had a strict teacher it would have been harder for me to concentrate since I cannot work well under pressure. I hope that my teachers next year are the same as this year, a bit laidback and calm. It would certainly help me a lot.

During this year I have changed quite a bit, physically and mentally. I went from being a dark minded and lone person, to a nice different guy. Although a bit of my dark mind exists in me. I don’t really feel like changing completely. I never really liked change much so I try and keep on being the same type of guy for most of my life, even if there are things that could make me change. I want to stay with the same personality I have, it’s for the best since it helps me be nice.

My expectations for next year are to work harder, get good grades for all my classes and keep most of them as A’s. I want to graduate from high school to set out an example to my siblings. I want to be the first one in my family to go and graduate from college. It will make me feel that I’ve accomplished what my parents couldn’t back then. This is how my 9^th grade went, with many random moments and others that went the way I wanted it to go.

Child Labor

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