Sentences with phrase «country as a young girl»

I started traveling around the country as a young girl in my early twenties.

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In countries like Pakistan, there is a tradition called «vani» in which girls as young as 4 are forced into marriage.
Perfectly healthy girls and boys as young as four worry about being fat while a vast number of people in our country overeat to the point of morbid obesity.
As a young country girl trying to make it in the city, budgetary constraints meant her daily practice involved her mat and one Rodney Yee DVD.
This dressing theme is known as the hottest chic fashion statement of young girls over Pakistan and many other countries like India, Bangladesh, and some European countries.
Luckily, the task of finding a Russian beauty as your soul mate is no more a challenging job, with all credit to RussianBrides.com, where more than 25,000 young girls from Russia, Ukraine and other countries of the CIS have uploaded their profiles, for enlisting themselves as mail order brides in this most efficient website.
We sponsor and take young boys, girls, men, and ladies out of Nigeria to European countries such as ITALY, FRANCE, SPAIN, SCOTLAND, NORWAY and GERMANY where you will be.
Authentic and affecting, this drama about fighting against the Ethiopian tradition of abducting young girls into marriage is potent enough to be that country's official Academy Award submission and gain the support of Angelina Jolie as an executive producer.
A coming - of - age story with a difference, Persepolis follows Marjane as she grows from a feisty, Bruce Lee - loving little girl living in Iran at the time of the Islamic Revolution to a disaffected outsider (first in Austria and then back in the country of her birth), to a young woman who knows too well that freedom and adulthood have their price.
It tells the dark tale of a 16 - year - old girl named Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, age 21, played a similar role as an Ozark girl in the Winter's Bone), who volunteers to take the place of her fragile younger sister (Willow Shields) who is selected by a lottery to be the teenage girl contestant for her District 12 in a country - wide annual fight - to - death event.
Woodstock has motored down to his country home when he meets a young continental girl called Alma (Vicky Krieps), who's working as a waitress in a cafe.
As a country, we stand to gain a lot by exposing young girls to STEM fields and encouraging those who are interested to follow their hearts and minds.
Across the board, in every country studied, what they found was that women retain the literacy skills they learned as young girls in school — even when they attended lowquality schools only for a couple of years — and then use those skills later, as mothers, to understand and connect with public health information disseminated through the media and through healthcare workers.
Harnessing the potential of young girls is a stated goal of the MDGs, as helping empower women brightens the future of not only themselves but also their families, communities and countries.
Ironically, while many so called third world countries have categorically banned the practice in recent years, apparently in all states in the US it is possible to legally get married younger than 18 in special circumstances such as with parental consent and / or the girl is pregnant.
Read more >> A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Algonquin, $ 22.95, 304 pages In her humorous and poignant memoir of a wedding and an earthquake in the Dominican Republic, novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) attempts to answer this question as she tells the tale of a young worker on her coffee plantation, Piti, and his efforts to make a life by traveling from his home in Haiti to work in the neighboring country.
About the artists and their work: The late Anthony Ballard, known for his precise pen - and - ink drawings of erotic subjects and geometrics, has garnered significant critical attention in recent years; Mercedes Kelly's fanciful depictions of canine and feline subjects have been a crowd - pleasing fixture at the Fair over many seasons; Lawrence Pujol's refreshing country landscapes are becoming increasingly popular with collectors; Angela Rogers's «poppets» --- magical assemblages wrapped in brightly - hued yarn — incorporate intriguing mystical symbolism; Robin Taylor's «Jenny» paintings affectingly portray a young girl so bashful that her face is represented as a mop of bright orange hair; Alyson Vega's intricate fiber works, shown to great acclaim in a 2016 solo exhibition at the prestigious venue White Columns, surprise and enchant.
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