Sentences with phrase «write about immigrant»

A more traditional format would not have encouraged Anastasia to write about the illusion of color - blindness, Jun - Jie to write about immigrant struggles, Alex to write about sheltered schools, or Imani to write about social media and the new sense of identity.

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Liuan Huska wrote an excellent piece for Her.Meneutics about how her Spanish - speaking immigrant church treats childcare as a community calling, especially considering the fact that many of the mothers and fathers in that community are working hard just to make ends meet.

In her book The Immigrant Advantage, journalist Claudia Kolker writes about an amazing Mexican tradition known as the cuarentana.

Dick Lugar says he misunderstood a question about the budget, Jane Corwin says she never hired an illegal immigrant nanny, Nikki Haley is writing a memoir and Indiana politicians are now fighting over Abraham Lincoln.

What a Forgotten Kids» Book Reveals About U.S. Publishing — Pooja Makhijani examines the poignant children's novel Gay Neck, which was written by an Indian immigrant who became the first person of color to win the Newbery Medal.

It's a definite possibility, but probably more likely is another Fox Searchlight pickup: John Crowley's «Brooklyn,» an old fashioned love story about an Irish immigrant making her way through 1950's - era New York that has Oscar written all over it.

Chandor had written a script for a film about an up - by - his - bootstraps Latino immigrant who ran a heating - oil company, setting the movie in the...

There's also not one, but two airings of «Immigrant Song» (a classic - rock needle drop as inevitable, and obvious, as Iron Man's use of «Iron Man,» thanks to that line about the hammer of the gods), and somehow they both work like gangbusters, as though the iconic anthem was written with these good - versus - evil brawls in mind.

Directed and written by newcomer Morgan Knibbe, Those Who Feel the Fire Burning is an unusual and powerful documentary about the lives of immigrants stuck in Europe.

Though I am primarily a food critic, I have written a book about the traditions of American cooking (which included a chapter on school lunches) and can tell you that hot lunches in public schools were originally produced, with a few exceptions, early in the 20th century by local charities because immigrant children were coming to school hungry.

Students from Alhambra, California — a predominantly immigrant Los Angeles suburb — write about how they'd spend a new influx of funding for the state's schools.

Find creative writing activities about the immigrant experience, historical time lines of the civil rights movement, slideshows of famous women suffragists, art activities for celebrating community helpers, lesson plans for learning more about wars and the soldiers who fight them, and much more.

She has written extensively about the situations of immigrants and English - language learners in a number of settings, and she co-produced and directed Living Undocumented: High School, College, and Beyond, a documentary about the challenges that undocumented students face.

Invite students to take a virtual immigrant voyage and then write diary entries about their trip.

In the beginning, when I was trying to sell my first novel, I had a weird experience of editors really wanting me to write, sort of magic realism set in the Caribbean, or about recent immigrants with a magical ability (I've had two editors actually give me that logline and ask if I'd be interested in writing that story, but it's just not there for me, I've got other stories still to tell).

It is such a beautifully written book about Irish immigrants who come to America, and about the misunderstandings and secrets that can tear families apart.

Whether writing about the adjustments of immigrants to a foreign land or the accommodations families make to the disruptive differences between generations, Divakaruni poignantly portrays the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.

Rhys currently writes two mystery series, the atmospheric Molly Murphy novels, about a feisty Irish immigrant in 1900s New York City, and the funny and sexy Royal Spyness mysteries, about a penniless minor royal in 1930s Britain.

The horrors of Tiananmen Square, a faltering marriage, and a poet's need to write complicate the already daunting obstacles facing immigrants striving to achieve the American dream in this tender and penetrating novel about a Chinese family reinventing home.

It is chilling to consider what the consequences would have been if Rent had been written by my real estate partners, if An American in Paris focused on the landed immigrant issues or if My Fair Lady were about talented women on the bench.

She regularly speaks about migration, refugees and immigrant children and has written op - eds for the Boston Globe and appeared on NBC News online.

I wrote this column about 11 years ago about a couple of immigrants who chose Canada.