" Chanda struggles with the existence of God and whether or not He's there for her throughout the book. ... Chanda's ultimate goal at the end of the book was to raise AIDS awareness, "Mama said I should save my anger to fight injustice. ... On a more personal note, this book taught me that each culture and society has a different way of dealing with death; "Funerals are for the living (162)," not the dead. ... In the book, Iris, Chanda's little sister, is caught drinking which shows that kids in Africa are likely to have more access to alcohol than we do. ...

• Word Count: 980
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Greg and Joao wrote a book about their lives as photographers; the bang-bang club. ... A quote from Kevin, taken from his suicide note written moments before he gassed himself: " I have got to a point where the pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy doesn't exist I am haunted by vivid memories of killing & corpses & anger & pain" ...

• Word Count: 816
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In a draft note for his speech he wrote "the aim of the conference is to found if possible the international work of the rest houses and scientific posts in Africa. ... Boulger, an enthusiast of the King's policies wrote in his book The Congo State'; "owing to the initiative of King Leopold, a settled form of government existed in the Congo Basin before the Berlin Conference, which merely gave its official recognition to what was already an accomplished fact."" ...

• Word Count: 2347
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Most contemporary foraging groups, such as the !Kung and other Bushman tribes, are viewed as a "primitive- people. Some have even gone as far to say that they are "the last representatives of the Stone Age."" While it is true that these people have the most similar culture to what we believe primitive persons to have had, the analogies they can provide us with the people of the past are very inaccurate. These comparisons are so unrivaled due to factors such as time and the wrong sense of view many people have on them. ...

• Word Count: 3399
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School