"War orphans" refers to children who have lost one or both of their parents due to a war. These kids have no one to take care of them or provide for them because their parents died in the conflict.
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By introducing the twins Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch (Aaron Taylor - Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen),
war orphans who have almost become nihilists, Whedon turns up the angst.
Another landmark set of studies regarding the fates of
British war orphans led him to conclude that infants raised in institutions without stable and continuous relationships with caregiving adults grew up with deficits in cognition, language, attention, and the capacity for durable interpersonal relationships.
I recently just finished reading Michaela DePrince's memoir «Taking Flight:
From War Orphan to Star Ballerina,» (see review here) and Keep Reading
Instead of picking classes this time around, you play as three
war orphans who are almost killed by the forces of the empire of Palamecia.
Harlow recognized that it would be extremely important to note what happened to these infant monkeys as they developed, especially in the context of John Bowlby's observations of
British war orphans.
Einstein, then little known, became a global celebrity and was able to sell pictures of himself to journalists and send the money to a charity for
war orphans.
She chooses a girl from a photograph — who appears to be six years old — and talks Robert into adopting
the war orphan.
Sue Storm (Kate Mara) is introduced as the adopted member of the Storm family and randomly is made
a war orphan for no reason that will ever matter, f*ck you.
Munyurangabo (Unrated) Ethnic cleansing drama about
a war orphan (Jeff Rutagengwa) who travels from Kingali to the countryside in search of justice, 15 years after the gruesome genocide which consumed close to a million lives in just 100 days.
And then the script introduces the Maximoff twins, two
war orphans that have a grudge to settle with Tony Stark.
CANINE CELEBRITY He was
a war orphan found on a French battlefield in 1918 who became a movie star, a TV star and an American icon whose most devoted friend believed he was immortal.
In Albom's most sweeping novel yet, the voice of Music narrates the tale of its most beloved disciple, young Frankie Presto,
a war orphan raised by a blind music teacher in a small Spanish town.
It's the first in a duology (duologies are so hot right now) and stars Lazlo Strange,
a war orphan and junior librarian who's obsessed with a mythic lost city called Weep.
Guess that makes me what you'd call
a war orphan.