SOS Children's Villages

people of their home country in order to fight for power. As for the Viet Cong, they abused three traditional loyalties that influenced the life of a Vietnamese individual: family, village, and religion (Tovy 220). Since Vietnamese tradition was based around the Confucian philosophy, the Viet Cong knew that family, village, and religion were particular weak points in the Vietnamese philosophy. As stated in the article, “Concepts such as nationalism and nationality are foreign to Vietnamese…

in 1948 for blind residents of Pennsylvania. Today they accept residents with varying physical disabilities and mental challenges. “Beacon Lodge is special, because many of the campers don’t normally have the opportunity to leave their group homes, so it is great to see how excited the campers get and you can see it on their faces when they arrive at camp,” said the camp coordinator, Kristina Brockman. The…

reader on a journey through love, loss, passion, and drive that really instills a sense of inspiration. The book reflects on Greg Mortenson and his mission to not only change the lives of thousands of muslim children, but to change the lives of the children’s children as well. It starts off with Greg Mortenson and his traveling mountaineering friends on a mountain called K2, also known as the tallest mountain in the world other than Mount Everest. K2, located in Baltoro and Karakoram is…

Snow White (Schneewittchen). Their first assembly of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in book form in 1812. The typical fairy tale contains the following elements, which we can clearly see in Cinderella. Set in the past, and generally use some form of "Once upon a time”. In the original version of Cinderella, the Grimm…

since I can remember, I have always wanted to do something special in life. I was born in a small village in Mexico. Public health and education there were very limited. One of the best memories I have is of my mother sweeping the “patio”, while I was sitting on a stone nearby with a pencil and notebook asking questions as I worked on my homework. My mother was the closest person to a nurse in the village, she learned everything she knows from my grandmother. I am grateful to live and study in…

disregarded, and a group of children hold absolute power. This was the state of Salem, Massachusetts from the spring through the fall of the year 1892. During this time, a witch hunt was happening in Salem, led by the niece of the Reverend of the village, Abigail Williams and her band of friends. Early in the play, Betty who is the Reverend’s daughter is ill due to some type of unnatural cause. She is found to be struck down the spirits of witches, spurring the hunt of said witches. None of the…

situations they may find themselves in and so is it in the novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), written by Chinua Achebe. Achebe is a Nigerian, born in 1930; he also writes short stories, essays and children’s books by which we wins honorary awards and fellowship. While growing up, parents expects children to make better lives for themselves than they (parents) live, however, this novel has such twist to it as the protagonist (Okonkwo), father did not live a good life so that his son could follow.…

Okonkwo is the leader of Umuofia and brought Umuofia to glory among all the other Ibo villages. This book is divided into three sections. The first section and the rising action of this novel introduced Okonkwo and his desire to be manly and not to be his father. His father was a coward, so Okonkwo devoted his life to making sure he did not become his father. “Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear…

Many Mandan and Hidatsa people had their interactions with mortality at birth. Infant and maternal mortality were high as disease and post-natal care fluctuated with the seasonal movement during hunts and village relocations. Gilbert Wilson, an anthropologist who interviewed indigenous individuals at the Fort Berthold Reservation recorded, “women often died in childbirth when overtaken in labor while on a deer hut or where assistance was not readily available.” Even when women were home in…

house facing his children’s room while wearing nothing but underwear. Although different scenarios these stories by George Saunders tell us that the fathers of the house are the protectors and that they will do what it takes to ensure the safety of their family and community. After all they do…