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    Introduction One liner The Docudrama “Black Orphan” Features the life story of Sumaira, A dark skin orphan girl, who had been subjected to racial discrimination on the basis of her skin colour. As a child, she had to witness a lot of rejection from parents who were seeking out child adoption, just because she was a “black child”. Basic concept The Basic concept of this Docudrama is to highlight to behaviors of our society; the state of being an orphan and racism associated when it comes to…

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    the show was going to end. However, these are some of the greaest writters on televistion and I trust that they know when the timing to end the show is right. Orphan Black means the world to me and I thought I need to let who ever ends up reading this know how much it has affected me, as I’m sure it has affected many others. Firstly, Orphan Black got me through high school, which is a feat unto itself. I started at a new school my freshmen year and felt extremely isolated. Over the next two…

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    I would say the great effect of orphan trains were a milestone that making a positive change of society because the Children’s Aid Society Program provided a possible way to change the future of majority homeless or neglected children in urban cities. From the film, I am so happy and thankful to learn that some children lived with a satisfied life with the adopted family. With the positive outcomes, the program actually opened a new page American foster care history. However, it also has it…

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    Schlichtmann, Conway & Crowley. Schlichtmann, was obviously a very wealthy man and he was not afraid to show it. He did not want small cases, instead he wanted to deal with cases that promised great rewards and big investments. The title of this chapter “Orphans & Dogs” explains how they described certain cases. “Dogs” were cases that were not serious. One example of this was that a man was trying to “sue for bodily damages [he had] sustained as a result…

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    Christina Baker Kline the author of the novel "Orphan Train" was born in Cambridge, England, and raised there as well as in the Maine and American South. She has graduated Cambridge, Yale, and the University of Virginia. She has taught nonfiction and fiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale, Drew University, and NYU, and served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University for four years. Christina Baker Kline is the author of five novels,…

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    clones, I do know twins. My grandma had a twin but she died when they were little and my dad is a twin but his twin is locked up. While watching this show it has me interested in the science of clones, an after watching this I want to has a twin. Orphan Black gives the meaning girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. Most of the girl clones are pretty nice and the boy clones are just mean. I will be covering this interaction by using ethos, pathos, and privilege. In addition, I…

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    Molly, one of the main characters in Orphan Train, has to serve community service hours for a crime that she committed. In order for her to get those hours done, her boyfriend gets his mom to help her out. She assigned her to an old lady’s house, who wants to clean out her attic and needs some help. “Molly has decided to think of this job as indentured servitude” (Kline 52). She just wants to go in and get her hours done as soon as possible. As you continue to read the novel, you figure out that…

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    The common book, Orphan Train written by Christina Baker Kline, not only brought a realistic feature to the novel, but also made the story a touching and perspective changing one. Kline’s insisted on basing the book on real life occurrences and stories from people who experienced the orphan train first hand. By interviewing those who lived through the events first hand, Kline successfully made the book as real and true as possible. Vivian’s past allowed her to have a deep connection with Molly,…

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    “The Orphan Crisis isn't a Third World Mission, it's in your backyard.” 153,000,000 Children worldwide are orphans and that excludes some children. Not counted is 150 million street children, 1.2 million trafficked children, 10’s of thousands of drafted children. One in every six kids is an orphan. The most affected areas of the Orphan Crisis are in Sub-Saharan Africa with 56 million orphans, 27% of orphans resulting from HIV/AIDS, and in South Asia with 40.8 million kids and only 1% of the kids…

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    because of the social construct of race. Even more, if you are a woman versus a man you will earn less and receive less job opportunities promotions because today’s society is gendered which is socially constructed. Written by Christina Baker Kline, The Orphan Train follows a timeline of Vivian, an Irish immigrant who was soon orphaned after coming to the United States in 1929 and of the “present” day life of Molly who is a foster care kid who encounters Vivian…

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