SOS Children's Villages

Once upon a time there lived a Merchant in a small village. The Merchant was going through hard times and he stole from the Townspeople. One day The Merchant was feeling extra greedy that day and wanted more than what the Townspeople had, he wanted the sacred necklace from The Enchantress. He heard that the necklace was worth more than 10,000 pieces of gold. If he took the necklace he would never have to steal again he would be rich. So that same night he plotted his plan and according to…

Skill: Infer and Support the Main Idea PILSEN 7th Grade Nonfiction Center for Urban Education ©2007 Pilsen is an old community in Chicago with a long history. This part of Chicago started small and got bigger, as most neighborhoods in the city did. Its cultural history is about moving, changing, and connecting. Many people have moved there over the decades. This movement started when immigrants chose to settle in this part of the city when Chicago was growing rapidly. An immigrant is a person…

Princess SZA and the Queen of Sidechicks. After battling it out, Princess SZA sings into song singing “my man, is my man, is your man, heard that’s her man too.” When the Queen of Sidechicks heard this lyric, she quickly realized that she is not the so called “queen” of side chicks, but rather being played by…

The meaningless ceremony in “ The Lottery” In 1940s, a ceremony has been hold for long times among some villages in America. The ceremony was meaningless and silly. People in that time was ignorant and numb. The story “ The lottery” written by Shirley Jackson perfectly described the special ceremony during that time. In “The lottery”, Jackson told us how the ceremony looks like in details. The story shows us how the ceremony is meaningless, and what people act in that ceremony, which reflect…

poorest countries in the world. When we were beginning our descent on the airplane, I thought about how little roads and how poor the housing was. We drove through chaotic roads and rubble filled alleys, until we reached the orphanage. New Life Children’s Home is a safe haven for kids who lived in the mountains a couple miles north. These kids were neglected, sick, beat, starved, etc. and they were saved to live here. Once we got arrived, we met a very joyful little kid named Moise.…

Gangxia village is an urban village situated in the central part of Futian CBD, Shenzhen. The urban village comprises two parts, as shown in Figure 4.2, Heyuan and Louyuan, the case study here only covers Heyuan block, which takes up a population of approximately 68,000 (only 900 are indigenous villagers, the other 67,000 are migrant tenants) and an area of approximately 151,600 m2 (Futian Government Online, 2007). Regarding the large size of redevelopment and the complex interests among various…

which makes him and inadvertently the community suffer from the Company’s ignorance towards the law. Not only is he beaten for his troubles, but because of the callous and lackadaisical execution of the law by the Company, he is forced from the village and society as a whole. This causes him to not only be apart of a devolved society but also be further devolved to the point of a isolated and primitive human existence. If any society considers itself moral, it is be able to rise above man’s…

nothing explicit (MINGHAO IS MY SON) He was always the really quiet child in the background. So when I got asked out by him, as the most popular female in school who rarely got asked out on dates, well I was immensely flattered. The redness of Minghao’s cheeks that particular lunchtime was so adorable. I was ready to go out with him then and there. Of course I, Rae King, had to maintain some posture, so I coolly responded with a “Yes” and the date and time had been set. Exchanging numbers with…

Surrounded by an escort of the horsemen of King Alric’s Royal Guard, Larah and Riasean rode for an hour before she broke the silence. “So, you are an assassin?” Riasean gripped the reins of his horse tighter. There is no point denying the fact. “Yes,” he admitted. “How did that happen – I mean how do you find yourself in the business of killing?” Where to begin? Best keep it simple, and as close to honest as possible. “One has to do whatever it takes to survive – in my case, growing up in Tamor…

languages including elfish, tinkered with magic a bit and practiced sword fighting with a gnome. “So what you do?” He wicked at me. “I bolted through the trees.” “Did I ever tell you that when I was your age I caught a fish the size of a small whale with my bare hands.” His green eyes sparkling as he let slip his strange secrets, odd revelations about his shadowy past. “That same day I found a fairy in the…