Sentences with phrase «family as a young boy»

Ballard was born in Shanghai, and following the Japanese seizure of the city was interned in Lunghua Camp with his family as a young boy.

In a recent article for the #JustJustice project, Darren Parker, a Ngunawal man and Phd candidate at Melbourne Law School, wrote about experiencing racism and violence within his family as a young boy.

In sharing some experiences of racism and violence within his family as a young boy, Darren Parker highlights the importance of the social and cultural determinants of health in any discussion about the over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

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Adopted as a young boy after getting lost and separated from his family in India, as a young man, Brierley used Google Maps to jog his memory, ultimately reuniting with his birth mother, who stayed in the same town where he was born.

When Xiao Wang emigrated to America from China as a young boy, his family exhausted five months of rent money on pricy immigration lawyers.

The kid asked to meet Luke Skywalker (notably not Mark Hamill), but after receiving the request through his agent, Hamill apparently gave the young boy's family his home address and hosted them for hours, fielding question after question from the kid, and answering them all as the famous Jedi.

We are treated to lengthyquotations from primary sources including eyewitness descriptions of the family home, unfinished stories Chesterton wrote as a very young child, a diary Chesterton kept as a boy and school report cards, right through to accounts of his wedding day and letters he wrote to his wife.

As a young kid a male cousin identified with the Pink Power Ranger when all the other boys in the family, including my own sons, related more to the other Power Rangers.

«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

Howard et al (2004), surveying 2000 mostly African American 8th grade boys found the vast majority willing to use protection: this resulted in the local hospital restructuring its teen family planning clinical services to give the same in - hospital clinical and counselling support to young males as to young females

On the Republican side, commercial litigation lawyer Sarmad Khojasteh, a man who as a young boy fled Iran with his family during the Islamic Revolution to come to America, has created a campaign account to run as a Republican for the same seat being vacated by George Latimer, who is leaving to become Westchester County executive in January.

As a young boy, he fled Iran with his family after the Islamic Revolution and during the Iran - Iraq War.

In fact, as a young boy, I even went so far as to view it as a retardant of happiness, since I would often wonder, who has time to play and be with friends and family when one is locked away in a room reading and writing?

The family fell apart and I was now a single mother of not only a severely disabled little boy but also his younger sister Alice whose life was also a complete misery as everything had to revolve around her brother.

I love spending time with my family (husband and two young boys): teaching my kids to love music, cooking and healthy food, and to enjoy exercise and the outdoors as much as I do.»

As a working mother of three young boys (ages 3, 5 and 6), Elizabeth unwinds by spending time with her family exploring the many pleasures of the San Francisco Bay Area.

I am the youngest as well as the only boy in my entire family.

The Breadwinner is the story of Parvana, a young girl living under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy and become the breadwinner of the family when her father is unfairly imprisoned for being an intellectual.

In flashbacks, we see Joe as the steady husband of a fragile wife named Elise (Gretchen Mol) and father to their young son, but after Joe and Elise's divorce, this death in the family leaves the adolescent boy virtually an orphan.

Set in Cheesebridge, where its namesake food is the most prized possession, the story is centered on young boy called Eggs, who the townsfolk believe was taken from his family as a baby by the feared Boxtrolls.

As a young man, Desmond (Andrew Garfield henceforth) is a good boy, who helps out his family's church and saves a stranger's life with a quick - thinking, improvised tourniquet.

As a young boy, his anger led him to perform great feats, such as bending the gates through which his parents were led, separating the family until an ambitious officer brought mother and son together again one last timAs a young boy, his anger led him to perform great feats, such as bending the gates through which his parents were led, separating the family until an ambitious officer brought mother and son together again one last timas bending the gates through which his parents were led, separating the family until an ambitious officer brought mother and son together again one last time.

Filmed over a five - year period, Hoop Dreams, by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates and their families as the boys navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while dealing with the intense pressures of their home lives and neighborhoods.

Unlike most King works, this is an adventure fantasy epic that is for the most part not set in our real world, yet the premise — a young boy in a dysfunctional family who dreams of a violent fantasy world — is as King as it gets.

«When I was young, Parvana, I knew what peace felt like...» GKids has debuted the full - length theatrical trailer for an animated film titled The Breadwinner, set in the heart of Afghanistan telling the story of a girl who dresses as a boy in order to work and provide for her family.

«The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara» Release Date: TBD Director: Steven Spielberg Starring: Oscar Isaac, Mark Rylance and Isaac Eshete Synopsis: «The Kidnapping Of Edgardo Mortara» recounts the story of a young Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy in 1858 who, having been secretly baptized, is forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian.

This female - directed, female - driven film adapted from Deborah Ellis» novel tells of a young girl in a Taliban - controlled Afghanistan, who is forced to disguise herself as a boy to provide for her family and spring her father from prison.

Kirsten Dunst gives another powerful performance as the young boy's desperate mother, while the cast is rounded out by Sam Shepherd as the cult leader and Joel Edgerton as a state trooper supporting the family in their bid for freedom.

A young girl in Afghanistan disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family in this Oscar - nominated animated drama based on the best - selling novel....

Just like in nearly every other Pixar and Mouse House animated movie this Century, someone dies early on in «The Good Dinosaur» and Arlo must prove his worth as he battles enemies and the elements trying to make it back home to his family with the help of a new friend, a young cave boy.

«Sand» reveals Max's cruelty as a young boy — he tries to bury his younger brother alive — while «Family» shows the two brothers meeting again as adults, with the balance of power between them shifting dramatically.

I have not seen the original film, but on her own merits (despite a distracting accent, which also marred her otherwise strong Last Dance work), Stone delivers an appropriately steely but warmly comedic turn as the title character, a gangster's (Jeremy Northam) ex-girlfriend who takes under her wing a young boy (newcomer Jean - Luke Figueroa) whose family was killed by the gangster's crew.

When his father was young, the boy says, he expected to live his life as a subsistence farmer, like his family had for generations.

Born in Jamaica, he moved to the United States as a young boy and became the first member of his family to attend college, graduating from Harvard University and earning an MBA from Northwestern University.

I'd found family records in Italy going back two centuries, found my grandfather's emigration to the United States as a young boy, found his father's naturalization papers, then unexpectedly, found a record from late in 1920 listing a marriage between my great - grandfather and, of all things, a second wife.

In The Underground Girls of Kabul, award - winning journalist Jenny Nordberg investigates a practice she discovered while pursuing a story in Afghanistan: that of parents dressing their young daughters as boys and allowing them to fill the role of sons for their families.

A young boy in a rural village in Guatemala in 1981 is caught between the violence of guerrilla soldiers and local rebels as he tries to defend his family.

And then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy, Paul.

Phillips intertwines her modern narrative with the childhood of one of literature's most enigmatic lost boys, as he deftly conjures young Heathcliff, the anti-hero of Wuthering Heights, and his ragged existence before Mr. Earnshaw brought him home to his family.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

Family members comfirmed to KSLA News 12 the indentity of the young boy killed in a shooting Thursday night as 4 - year - old Messiah Murphy.

Ethan, being played as an adult by Dennis Quaid, is a young boy when Bailey joins their family.

Humphrey Bogart married his first wife here and as a young boy, John F. Kennedy resided on the second floor with his family for several months.

There are teenagers who perfectly fit the stereotypical image that the media loves so much of comic - book fans, little kids who love anime, young boys and girls out with their confused parents, cosplaying parents out with their confused children, entire families dressed up as the cast of Firefly or as Star Wars characters,, bemused grandparents being lead around with a smile on their face that suggests while they are a little baffled by the entire thing they're having a good time, middle - aged men and women who look like they've just come straight from work and enjoy a good comic and every other type of human in - between.

Players start as a young boy who escapes a savage attack on his town and is recruited by the Heroes Guild to avenge his family.

In particular, Lemus brings focus to the influence, positive and negative, adult men have over young boys, either within families or as men in society.

Other figures include neighbors and acquaintances, such as a ballet dancer; a young art student; a taxi driver; a traveling businessman; a local boy (Georgie Arce) who ran errands for Neel and who sat for her on several occasions; and other children and their families.

He started with the reminder to himself and the court as to the limits of the courts powers in relation to mature children: «A further and central element of the situation is that the children of this family are in fact young persons, being boys now aged 17 and 15.

We are acting for the family of a young boy who sustained a significant brain injury as a result of a compound skull fracture requiring excision of a significant component of his left frontal lobe.

As a mother of two young boys, she loves working for children and their families, many of which have sustained catastrophic injuries or losses (including the loss of a loved one).