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        If you read " Beatles and Angles, written by Mawi Asgendom" and " Fleeing Terror, Finding Refuge Millions of Syrians escape an apocalyptic civil war, creating a historic crisis. By Paul Salopek
Photographs by John Stanmeyer." They seem pretty similar, they both talk about refugees except in Beatles and Angles it's a autobiography memoir. Now both of them are talking about refugees but in different times and different places, but they both show the same hostile actions of people against refugees. As the article " Fleeing Terror..." States " They were running from the bullets and knives of the Islamic State." and from "Beatles and Angles" it states, "   Sudanese rebel groups wage their own war against the Sundanese government and though the fighting never reached our camp, the Sudanese armies were always looking for new soldiers. They didn't they didn't hesitate to draft refugees.
They both tell us how everything was for the refugees.

        In the Article "Fleeing Terror..." It doesn't really talk about a specific person but it does explain what the refugees do during situations. The 2 sources have roughly the same idea, refugees. In "Beatles and Angles" it talks about the authors family from first person. The other source is third person point of view from millions of people. As the article states " All told, perhaps 12 million souls are adrift across the larger Middle East. Like the refugee crisis that festered during and after the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s—a Cold War contest that displaced and then utterly ignored millions of angry, hopeless people, spawning years of transnational Islamist terrorism—the political fallout in the region is unfathomable and will be lasting." In the article it compares the refugee crisis and the 1980s crisis.

        I think that war creates an uneasy environment for individuals or societies, it can cause total chaos. Different people have different feelings about war but most parents are afraid of their children getting hurt or being emotionally scared. They never know so then people will try to leave. By the end of the war the whole town might be a total ghost town. In some cases individuals might go through the depression and can commit suicide. The society could have diseases, and during the war medicine and doctors will be scares due to soldiers needed the care. In all everything will just be mayhem.

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Hello, welcome to my blog. I am a 7th grader who loves learning new things. School

is fun but also stressful, so I'm a mixed about school. Some of my hobbies is playing basketball ( or any other sports.) I play the trumpet at school and it's my second year playing, I think I'm good at it.

I mostly enjoy writing when I am able to write about anything. I hope this could build my interest in writing, maybe even write a small book.

My goal will be 20 stories or just basic writing.