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Letters from a 1990's Bush Doctor

***** purpose of this p*****per is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the essay Letters from a 1990s bush doc*****r by Theresa Andrews. Specifically it will contain a historical analysis of the excerpt. The document was written in ***** 1990s during a coup in Sierr***** Leone. ***** author is a woman doctor who works for the humanitarian group World Vision in Africa, and the intended audience is anyone interested in African history, politics, and ***** history of African coups ***** their nature. The essay is short, but it conta*****s qu*****e a few details is th***** short account, and it makes the situation come alive for the reader.

The ***** wrote this document to illustrate the drama of living in the middle of a coup in Sierra *****, but ultimately, ***** ***** is an homage to God and God's blessing on the family. Throughout the article, the author notes her belief and faith in God, and she bases her feelings of safety and security ***** that *****. She wrote th***** essay to give an eyewitness account of the violence and fear that came with the coup, but ultimately ***** theme of the ***** ***** hope and faith, rather than a close view of *****.

***** author ***** many basic assumptions in this essay. She assumes the reader knows about Sierra Leone and Freeport, and why a coup would occur, and how coups work. She also makes the assumption that everyone reading will share her view of faith and *****, and that her revelations will touch a cord in them like they ***** on her. She ***** assumes the reader will understand the layout of her home and the surrounding area, because ***** does not really spend to much time giving descripti*****s of their home ***** surroundings, instead simply relying on sentences like "It turned out ***** an intruder had shot through the garage door ***** gain entry" (Andrews, p. 340). The ***** ***** the garage is attached to the house, and that the intruder would have ***** access to ***** house, ***** this is implied, rather ***** described. ********** may be details that would have take away ***** the s*****ry, but *****y are assumptions on the author's part, nonetheless.

The historical change in this society is *****d quite vividly ***** this essay. Clearly, ***** is a country undergoing political change, ***** there will ***** unrest for some time. The coup has removed law and order from the streets and replaced it with looting ***** violence, and it has sent ***** officials of the ***** packing, so *****re will be disorder and ***** for some time to come. This is a drastic change in *****, and ***** is made clear ********** th***** essay. ***** au*****or makes ***** quite ***** they are fearful, that the country is undergoing ***** change, ***** that things will not ever be quite the way they were before the coup. It reveals that politics in many of these developing nations is volatile