anhelo ego plurimi

I am proud to be a member of the 2007 ThinkQuest International 19 & Under Team, which included me, David, Parth, and Tommy. This is a quick summary/teaser for our website, which can be found by clicking here. Our site is Young Blood: Children of War. I was responsible for the graphics and some of the content (solutions and the Rwanda and Myanmar dossiers).

The issue of the use of child soldiers is a tragic and pressing one. Please take the time to read this short summary of the extensive content on our website. Our website includes the following sub-sections: Country Dossiers (detailed descriptions of 20 countries using child soldiers), Causes, Impacts, Solutions, and Interaction/Media.

If you are interested in this issue, I suggest checking out the powerful documentary "Invisible Children," which tells of the use of child soldiers in Uganda. A special abridged version of this documentary is available for free viewing on Google Video. I highly recommend watching, it will change your life.

Also, check out the book "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah. This biography is a moving account of a boy lost in Sierra Leone's civil war and then as a child soldier.

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Amnesty International estimates that over 300,000 children are currently used by government
armies and militant groups to fight in some of the world’s more gruesome and deadly conflicts.
As soldiers, more than two million children have died in armed conflicts, leaving nearly six
million seriously injured and disabled.

Often after being drugged and brain-washed, children are used as minesweepers, guards, sex
slaves, cooks, port keepers, frontline warriors, suicide bombers, and participants in extrajudicial
executions. Many times children are forced to brutally abuse, murder, or rape other children or
members of their own family- all while being as young as six or seven years old.

Child soldiers are both forcefully recruited and willing volunteers. Some children are violently
tricked into joining an armed group, others join seeking revenge, an opportunity to rebel, or pay.
The proliferation of small arms, breakdown of family values, poverty, indoctrination, and civil
strife are major contributors to the use of child soldiers.

Recovering from the horrors of being a child soldiers is nearly unbearable for many children.
Most children suffer from acute diseases and disorders, including AIDS and Post-Traumatic
Stress Disorder. Some children have no family left, while other childrens’ families shun them.
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration programs help rehabilitate children.

In order to eliminate the use of child soldiers, the problem must be addressed at multiple levels
by a variety of programs. It is important that the United Nations, national governments, non-
governmental organizations, and individuals all work together to help end the use of child
soldiers. Do your part.

PLEASE DOWNLOAD PDF TO VIEW [link] - THIS JPG DOES NOT DO THIS PIECE JUSTICE!

Comments are much appreciated

This is quite possibly the hardest thing I have ever done.
It was extremely emotional to gather all of this information , and then assemble it. But I believe it has given me a better understanding of how I've gotten to where I am now.

This is the documentation of every intimate relationship I have ever had. The data spans 23 years.

This is my first shot at information design.

Total hours : round 80ish

Please take the time to download and view this, you may find it quite interesting.

The original is 32x24, so please zoom around the PDF to get the full effect.

As a note: I had considered removing the names before posting this, but decided it would not be proper of me to do so.

Notify me upon any use of this work.








_{Produced and designed with the help of my classmates and professor Phil Zelnar at Harrington College of Design in Chicago, IL}

It's not perfect, but I really liked the idea, maybe some day when I have time I'll make a better version

I didn't give credit where it was due, but it was one of the early Google searches for the image. Sorry >.<

Just something for cafepress. But I like the design
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In life. People always aspire to be famous for some ludicrous reason. Some people will reach to any height or stoop to any low to acquire fame too. Some people believe that talent will make them famous and while it should be the way of things that talent should make one famous, the truth of the matter is that talent does not make one famous.

You see. A musician may have written the best song in the world (as Tenacious D once did), but if that fat balding man at the desk who is not only someone who is not famous, but usually fat and balding says that he will not allow you to record, you will not become famous.

And so it is the way of things that the only time anyone will ever be famous, is when someone who isn't famous says that they are.

And they do it all the time. Some journalist for some high-flyer magazine says that this person will be the next big thing and - usually - they become the next big thing. Is the journalist famous? No. Is the owner of the magazine famous? No.

Just some thoughts.

Hippies in Power. Lord help us.

Globlization like everything, has both positive and negative sides in a natural world, but under the NWO it has only one side and one purpose ( to reproduce your way of thinking and understanding, your financial and social life, and your physical and psychological freedom. )

IN OTHER WORDS TO MAKE YOU READY TO SERVE THE ELITE.