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Analysis

1.Identify their Character: Joseph Kony

2.Identify the character's previous occupation and other pertinent background information: Joseph Kony represents Uganda. Uganda is a country that is in east Africa. It is a landlocked country by the countries Sudan, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda. It is about twice the size of the state Pennsylvania. This country is on the equator making it have a warm environment, with swampy and desert regions. In the southern part of the country is lake victoria. Uganda has a democratic government with the president Yoweri Museveni. Uganda is a country that has enough fertile land and natural resources to be very wealthy, but with with bad politics and economics they are one of the poorest countries. It has a population of about 32 million people. Uganda is mostly a christian country, with a little bit of #|muslim religion.

3. Identify the character's previous occupation and other pertinent background information: Early life Joseph Kony lived in a small village in Uganda. Both of his parent were farmers and very involved in their #|christian religion. As a kid Joseph was an altar boy in his church until he was about 15 years old. He then dropped out of school and stopped being an altar boy. He #|became a witch doctor for his village under his brother Jamie Brown. Currently Joseph Kony is 51 years old and has 88+ wives and 45+ children.

4.Identify 3 references that reflect your character's ideas: Joseph Kony does not have that many people who support him for what he does. The country of Sudan is a support for Joseph Kony, because in the beginnings of his army Sudan’s government supported Kony with troops to help grow his army. Other than that people that support Kony and believe what he does is correct is his very own army, that he had brainwashed.

5. Safety and Rule of Law: How Joseph Kony measures against Safety and Rule of law is bad. He kidnaps children, and turns them into sex slaves and child soldiers. These kids are then forced to kill their own parents so they do not have a home to go back to. They commit violent crimes and mutilate people with at no cost. This group known as the LRA has over 30,000 kids in it who are continuing to kill everyay

Participation in Human Rights: Joseph Kony denies all his army of human rights. He would turn #|the children that he had kidnapped into child soldiers. They would discriminate certain people within their country and kill them. Joseph Kony gives them orders and they will listen to him because he is the leader of the LRA. Children in Uganda do not know if they will be able to wake up in the morning because of the fright of being kidnapped by this army the LRA

Sustainable Economic Opportunity: People in Uganda are very poor, but Uganda is a country that has many natural resources. They have a weak economy that fails to get the people they need to #|make money in the their country which has earth minerals, rich soil, and other good items to make money. The Joseph Kony stops other countries trying to give aid to Uganda, because of how much power he currently has in that country.

Human Development: Currently human development is increasing in Uganda. Although ranked globally they are very lowly ranked compared to a lot of other countries. Uganda is ranked 22nd in Africa on the chart The average #|life expectancy in Uganda is 53 years old. Uganda had been improving on getting #|clean drinking water from previous years. 90% of all children go to school normally. Deaths at birth have decreased over the past 5 years. Overall Uganda is a country that is heading in the correct direction, but have social issues that are in the way of it, such as Joseph Kony and the LRA.

Works Cited:

"BBC News - Joseph Kony: Profile of the LRA leader." BBC - Homepage. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2013. 

"Invisible Children – Home | Invisible Children." Invisible Children – Home | Invisible Children. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 Mar. 2013. .

Wikipedia contributors. "Joseph Kony." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 21 Feb. 2013. Web. 1 Mar. 2013.

Wikipedia contributors. "Lord's Resistance Army." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 24 Feb. 2013. Web. 1 Mar. 2013.