Orphanage

When you see a beautiful girl that became famous you would believe she had an easy life or she became famous because of her looks but it wasn’t that easy for Norma Mortensen. Her childhood wasn’t the best. She eventually became an actress. She died of a barbiturates overdose. She had a very difficult childhood but she didn’t let that get in the way of her success. Marilyn Monroe was born June 1st, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. Her mother was a film cutter at RKO studios who,…

“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…

The last hard copy piece of literature I read was the novel called “The Tiger’s Wife” by Téa Obreht. It is a 337 page literary fiction, involving magical realism, politics, and the supernatural. I read “The Tiger’s Wife” for english class and it took about one or two months to read the book. Although this is true, if I truly had time to read it without making annotations and journal entries, it would have taken only one day to read.The novel includes four important characters; Natalia,…

never fails to prove the reader wrong. In the beginning of this novel Jacob Portman tells the reader that in his younger years he used to idolize his grandfather, Abe Portman. Abe Portman has lived an extraordinary life, from being raised in an orphanage and fighting in wars to even preforming in circuses. Abe used to tell Jacob fascinating stories about peculiar children from his childhood. Jacob believed all his grandpa’s stories until…

sent home with Rasheed. He is so furious that he almost kills them. Few years later however, Laila and Rasheed have a son named Zalmai. After Rasheed's shop burns to the ground and the family goes broke, he forces Laila to send Aziza to a nearby orphanage to lighten the load on the family as a whole. One day, after visiting Aziza, Laila returns home to find a very surprising guest: it's Tariq. It turns out the man who had come by all those years ago was hired by Rasheed to trick Laila. Laila…

Troy Orphan Asylum (soon was renamed Vanderhyden Hall) in Troy, New York. This orphanage is where Brown's thought of her career took place. When Brown had her tonsillectomy at five, she had an immediate interest in medicine. She was never adopted until the age of thirteen, which was when her biological mother reclaimed her. Ever since her mother reclaimed her, Brown had runaway five times and was always found at the orphanage.…

Imagine a young child being abducted and forced into war before they even hit puberty. Imagine the war zone; the screaming, crying, the blood. The little one being hurt, lost, and alone. If someone could bring them home, would it really matter how they did it? Sam Childers, the main character in the film Machine Gun Preacher, was a drug dealing, gun wielding criminal who left his old ways when he found God. Sam focused all of the energy and anger he had into helping the lost, scared, and abused…

On May 12 1820, Florence Nightingale was born to wealthy English parents in Florence, Italy. Like her sister, Florence was given the name of her birth place. Florence’s sister, Parthenope was a socialite like her mother, while Florence favored her father’s love for books. Florence’s mother was very active and out spoken. Her father was known for being an avid reader yet lazy when it came to work. His wealth came from his uncle’s inheritance. A quiet man, Florence saw her father as an…

The crispy grass of a summer afternoon over a silky picnic blanket. Mathew was there sitting and eating his favorite peanut and butter sandwich. What is better than eating his sandwich was his family together. Father was setting up a game of football while mother was trying to find that sunscreen that she has sworn to have put it in her utility bag earlier in the morning. Mathew’s older brother, Robert, cried out to his distressed mother, “Mom! Where is that power bank charger? I have to make a…

government decided to spend billions of their funding just to make this ad campaign. A lot of current and past world leaders complained that what Russia's government did was unnecessary because this was taking billions away from their schools, hospitals, orphanages, etc. On the other hand, the chief editor of Russia Today, believed it was actually necessary part of the government's fund to influence the world’s opinion of the issue through controlled…