Sentences with phrase «as young survivor»

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But the experience inspired him to launch the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults in 1997, which is how, as the oft - told story goes, he came to be discovered by Armstrong, another young cancer survivor who had just launched what was then known as the Lance Armstrong FoundaYoung Adults in 1997, which is how, as the oft - told story goes, he came to be discovered by Armstrong, another young cancer survivor who had just launched what was then known as the Lance Armstrong Foundayoung cancer survivor who had just launched what was then known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation.

Over the past two decades, Soul Survivor has established itself as the definitive Christian festival for young people.

The Soul Survivor gig brings young people together for worship, teaching and ministry over 5 days with topics as varied as preparing for leadership, sexuality and justice.

And I've had the honour to meet Croydon resident and Holocaust survivor, Janina Fischler - Martinho, and to listen to her hold an audience of several hundred young people spellbound as she described what happened to her and her family.

The coalition can count on Maastricht survivors, such as Ken Clarke and Sir George Young.

From Arizona to Washington, young people walked out of schools in support of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors who mobilized behind an emotional movement calling for a ban on weapons such as the one used to kill their friends and teachers.

As a young teenager, she'd met several survivors, and while working at her local library, she pored over the survivor testimonies she found, struggling to wrap her mind around the immensity of the Nazis» crimes.

A study conducted by researchers at LSU Health New Orleans suggests that age is an important factor in the association between cancer and sugar - sweetened beverages and recommends that intervention programs to reduce consumption of added sugar be focused on lower socio - economic status, young males, as well as cervical cancer survivors.

The Children's Oncology Group Long - Term Follow - Up Guidelines for Survivors of Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancers were developed as a collaborative effort of the Nursing Discipline and the Late Effects Committee.

It has been observed that as the population ages, the percentage of left - handed survivors decreases from 10 per cent of young adults to only one per cent of 80 - year - olds.

As the night goes on, more zombies slowly approach the farmhouse and our survivors» inability to work together leads to their ultimate downfall with the young couple dying first in an explosion after a gas run falls apart.

Invited along as an advisor, Ripley predicts disaster, and sure enough, the aliens have infested the colony, leaving a sole survivor, the young girl Newt (Carrie Henn).

An extended cut of the film's previously - released trailer (see above) offers a better look at Hazel's daily life, via a talk with her parents - one that's rather different than the conversations most teens have with their mom and dad - as well as an extra moment or two between she and the young Augustus Waters (Elgort): a teen amputee and bone cancer survivor, whose thirst for life and upbeat personality make it all but impossible for Hazel to be immune to his charms (or so the trailer informs us, anyway).

It's reminiscent of old - school apocalypse fare like «Survivors,» «When The Wind Blows» and even «Grave Of The Fireflies» as well as the more recent «28 Days Later,» and the young cast — which also includes «The Impossible» breakout Tom Holland — have a lot of promise.

Gabrielle's passion for acting is rivaled by her involvement as an Ambassador for the Susan G. Komen Foundation as well as her support for the Young Survivor Coalition (YSC) and the Rape Treatment Center (RTC) at UCLA.

Young survivors of Typhoon Haiyan brave December rain as they ask for gifts from residents in the streets of Tacloban, the Philippines.

The film moves back and forth between the survivors in the present and their younger selves (Annalise Basso and Garrett Ryan) 11 years ago, as they and their parents (Katee Sackhoff and Rory Cochrane) move into a new house and start to drift into madness (Never, ever attempt to cut a bandage with a staple remover; that device's purpose is in its name).

Small parts in TV movies, recurring series roles («Ravenswood,» «Recovery Road»), a flurry of indies that showcased her versatility — post-apocalyptic desert teen in «The Last Survivors,» student with issues in «The Young Kieslowski,» comic gymnast in «The Bronze» — and noticeable supporting turns in acclaimed, bigger movies such as «The Edge of Seventeen» and «Split.»

With Greta Gerwig as an aimless but pleasant young college graduate who feels sorry for him, and Rhys Ifans and Jennifer Jason Leigh as survivors of his troublesome past.

The film's flash - forward / flashback conceit, scripted by Charles Leavitt, is that, 30 years later, the young novelist Herman Melville bribes the Essex's sole living survivor, Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), to unload to him the true story, as opposed to the whitewashed official version, of what happened aboard the Essex and its aftermath.

Alison Chernick's documentary looks beyond the sublime musician to see the polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel, and the young man who struggled to be taken seriously as a music student when schools saw only his disability.

Daft thriller starring Jon Voight as Peter Miller, a young West German newspaper reporter who's investigating the whereabouts of missing war criminals when a Holocaust survivor's suicide leads him to a sinister association that protects former Nazis.

Fuentes is among the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who have made a point of reaching out to other young shooting survivors as they campaign for gun controls.

From Arizona to Washington, young people walked out of schools in support of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors who mobilized behind an emotional movement calling for a ban on weapons such as the one used to kill their friends and teachers.

The lives of the various characters, like the daughter adopted out of Romania who saw her parents shot by soldiers before her as they tried to flee the Nazis or the young survivor of a raid on a Jewish home who was only saved when the housekeeper took him in and raised him as a Christian, are so interwoven with the struggle to remain true to their Hasidic beliefs while living in a world that is trying to move forward following the Holocaust.

Just as she did in her recent Caldecott Honor title, Dark Emperor and Other Poems of the Night, and Ubiquitous: Celebrating Nature's Survivors, Joyce Sidman challenges young readers to look at their environment with fresh eyes in Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature.

A young orphaned girl, a holocaust survivor, finds herself living as an adopted child in proximity to them.

The game follows a young man named Hyde, a survivor of one of these attacks, as he becomes involved in the goings - on around the Hollow Night phenomenon.

As the story begins, Randall splits from a small group of survivors in search of his wife and young daughter.

Survivors of the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, took center stage at a town hall hosted by CNN as thousands of community members cheered on the young people thrust into the national spotlight by a massacre that killed 17 people.

From Arizona to Washington, young people walked out of schools in support of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High survivors who mobilized behind an emotional movement calling for a ban on weapons such as the one used to kill their friends and teachers.

About Blog This is a blog about my struggles as a young stroke survivor.

Her research was based on clinical samples of men and women (ranging from batterers to battered women and incest survivors seeking services to parents at risk for child abuse) and samples of women recruited from the community (such as adult female incest survivors and mothers with young children).

Over the last 10 to 15 years, there has been increased recognition and focus on working with younger trauma survivors in developmentally appropriate ways to more effectively reduce or eliminate the need for dissociative processes as an ongoing coping mechanism.

As a cancer survivor (I was 32 when it was diagnosed and a young mom) I have learned what it means to slow down and enjoy solitude, joyfilled moments, and to balance life.