Sentences with phrase «immigrant family story»

Grounded in Parlá's personal first - generation Cuban American immigrant family story and an ever - evolving practice that concerns exiled communities and their contribution to America, Roots offers a new visual relationship with its pictorially contemplative environment in order to consider connections between local history and the past, present, and future.

Not exact matches

An excerpt on The Berghoff's official website says its history is the «quintessential American success story of an immigrant who built a hugely successful business that has stayed in one family for more than a hundred years.»

Independent Street takes a look at a story from the Richmond - Times Dispatch that claims that the values immigrants learned about «being thrifty, avoiding excessive debt, and relying on family support from native countries» are helping them ride out the recession.

I watched from our fifth - story, pigeon - sooted windows the wrecking ball crush the brick facades of the tenements that once housed the dreams and dramas of countless immigrant families.

It's a lady - and - the - tramp story, as the orphan immigrant Hamilton courts a daughter of the wealthy Schuyler family.

New holiday play dramatizes the bittersweet story of a family who brought Christmas trees to immigrant families in Chicago.

The stories include those of the son of Holocaust survivors, Puerto Rican and Chinese immigrant families.

Seizing on the optical disparity that had the W.F.P. worried, Wu released a statement last week that said in part, «Kathy Hochul made her name based on her anti-immigrant policies; my family story is an immigrant success story.»

The event will feature a video introduction from national DREAM activist Jose Antonio Vargas and a Town Hall forum with Assemblyman Francisco, lead sponsor of the New York State Dream Act, to bring together undocumented New Yorkers to share their stories, ask questions, and learn what the next Public Advocate can do to empower immigrant families.

Shot on location with handheld cameras, La Promesse used a stripped - down, realistic visual style to illuminate the harsh conditions of immigrants forced to work illegally, within an intensely personal story of a teenager who is forced to choose between morality and family ties when one of his father's exploited immigrant employees dies.

As dishes are served up, so are stories of immigrants whose secret family recipes are like sacred offerings pledged for the opportunity to build their American Dream.

While the story of the immigrant family and the somewhat intolerant climate to outsiders might suggest a serious political film, Hallstrom's treatment is rather benign, and accentuates more in terms of positive relations and the ability to overcome ones prejudices instead of dwelling in the ugliness of racism and chauvinism.

● GOD»S OWN COUNTRY, a feature debut by Francis Lee, beautifully conveys how passion can transform lives, telling the rich and sexy story of a hard - drinking Yorkshire lad who keeps his emotions in check until an irrepressible Romanian immigrant comes to help out on the family farm.

If it's a useful corollary to The Wrestler, it's a stern condemnation of The Visitor, discussing rather than exploiting — through story rather than through dialogue — what it means to the immigrant to come to the United States, as well as the family and dreams left behind.

Rooted in the filmmaker's interest in capitalism and colonialism, Happy End offers an indictment of Western hypocrisy on refugees through the story of a self - absorbed industrialist French family in the immigrant hub of Calais.

But the story certainly involves Gruber's great love for his grandfather, a Hungarian immigrant who put him to work in the family's first deli when Ziggy was just a boy.

Based on the novel by Colm Toibin and adapted by Nick Hornby, it's an immigrant story, which makes it a quintessentially American story, with points of connection for anyone whose family arrived at Ellis Island.

Through their stories, viewers gain insight into situations and challenges faced by immigrant students and their families.

For example, in our Book Club Plus work in third grades, this played out in an author study of Patricia Polacco, a prolific Michigan author who through her autobiographical fiction shares family stories of her Russian immigrant and her Michigan farmer ancestors.

The stories explore the strengths and failings of Dominican - American love and relationships, from cheating men to struggling immigrant families.

Such a beautifully written, un-putdownable story of a Ukrainian immigrant family struggling to settle a homestead in the prairies of Alberta.

The New Odyssey tells the story of the current crisis in chapters that alternate between a «big picture» overview and a riveting focus on the struggle of one lone immigrant, a Syrian refugee named Hashem al - Souki, who fled his native Damascus in search of a permanent place to resettle with his family.

Simultaneously rooted in a particular immigrant experience while remaining completely accessible to others, it is an immigrant story, an American story, a coming of age story, a story about family journeys, and, ultimately, a story about hope, loss, and change.

But in her fourth novel, The Spy Lover (Thomas & Mercer), she pulls from her Alabama - born father's family history to tell a gripping Civil War story about three complicated, suffering people — a nurse who's spying for the Union behind enemy lines, a Chinese immigrant who escapes his conscription into the Confederacy to fight for the Union instead, and a wounded Confederate cavalryman.

The story of a family of Korean immigrants to Japan, Lee's family saga explores the shifting status of the Korean nation and the way its people are viewed in the countries they settle, as well as being an addicting story of family secrets and estrangements.

In this nuanced story filled with well - developed characters, three eighth - grade girls from immigrant families face prejudice in their affluent New Jersey suburb.

Diaz's powerful, inventive, and big - hearted family saga takes measure of the Dominican Republic's cruel history as he tells the story of immigrant «ghetto nerd» and boy of conscience Oscar Wao and his wild and heroic mother and sister.

She skillfully manages multiple points of view to tell the story, among them Claire Burwell, jury member and widow of a wealthy investment banker killed on 9/11; Sean Gallagher, the brother of a firefighter victim, who becomes an angry spokesman for survivor families; and Asma Anwar, a Bangladeshi immigrant, widowed herself on that terrible day, whose dignified appearance at a climactic public hearing provides the story's moral anchor.

Part memoir, part family story, part immigrant fable, Yolen's book weaves together historical facts and family truths as she chronicles her family's immigration from the Ukraine through Ellis Island to Connecticut.

Filled with a cast of unforgettable characters more richly drawn than any Lehane has ever created, The Given Day tells the story of two families — one black, one white — swept up in a maelstrom of revolutionaries and anarchists, immigrants and ward bosses, Brahmins and ordinary citizens, all engaged in a battle for survival and power.

It is important to stress though that readers looking for a story dealing primarily with immigrant angst won't find it here in Family Life.

2016 Participating organizations: Association of Personal Historians, Bongo Java Roasting Company, Center for Refugees + Immigrants of Tennessee (CRIT), East Side Story, Family of Abraham, FiftyForward, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Gordon Jewish Community Center, Lipscomb University, MNPS, Nashville Jazz Workshop, Oasis Center, The Porch Writers» Collective, Ride for Reading, The Stone Fox, Tennessee Brew Works, TSU, Turnip Green Creative Reuse, Vanderbilt University

*** FIRST PLACE WINNER of the Florida Writers Association 2014 Royal Palm Literary Award for Biography - Published *** Begotten With Love is a sometime turbulent, sometime rollicking story spanning 150 years of American history and five generations of an immigrant's family.

Over a candid conversation, George shared his story of growing up in an immigrant family, his decision to pursue a law degree and his insight into the future of the legal profession.

She comes from a family of immigrants and grew up listening to stories about how her great - grandparents came to the United States.

I'm getting all the people with sob stories, who barely make the minimum 3X rent, have past bankruptcies, have unreliable rental history (renting from family, or other «landlords» that seem questionable), people who smoke, illegal immigrants who work under the table and don't have verifiable income, etc. (the list goes on).