Fleeing Her Home-Personal Narrative

It is full summer and upon the horizon, I see soldiers coming, they are forever coming, it seems. Though they will soon leave us alone. For some insane reason, crazy people, scare them away. This place, has become my haven. You would think, after a hundred and forty years, I would have grown tired of this place and moved on; but when my Henry, was killed at Vicksburg, I completely lost my mind.

Once she saw the news, her stomach sunk like the Titanic. “I got my son Jordan, home and I turned on the TV, and I just sobbed, because you were scared, I was scared.” She did not know where they were going to attack next, considering that a plane had flown into the pentagon. Silently, she was watching the news, worry washing over

In the novel The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi, Farah is in second grade when she steps on a landmine, and must be taken to Germany for medical treatment. Nearly 2 years later, at age 9 she returns home, with one prosthetic leg, and her other with permanent damage. Not too long after she returns home, her house is bombed leaving a majority of her family dead. Alone and scared, Farah and her mother try to find a way to America for a better and safer life. Months later, they are finally able to enter America legally and start over. Once they arrive, they begin to realize they are both scared to be in a new place that is so different from their homeland. Both Farah and her mother struggle to fit into this new world, as time goes, while

On July 20, 2017, at approximately 1507 hours, I responded to 1605 N John Young Parkway in reference to assisting Sgt. J. Ciola in making contact with Brandon Hiroshi Joseph (suspect). On July 19, 2017 at approximately 1545 hours, Sgt. J. Ciola attempted to conduct on a traffic stop on Brandon on Bill Beck Blvd, when he fled from him (see Sgt. J Ciola full report). Based on the aforementioned information Sgt. J. Ciola provided to me, Brandon was placed under arrest for Fleeing to elude with wanton disregard for the safety of the public under F.S.S. 316.1935(3)(a).

I am a 12-year-old refugee from War-Torn Syria. Bashar al-Assad, the ruthless president had caused a civil war. As soon as my family heard about it we were very nervous. It was me and my brother: Alex, and my 2 sisters: Adina and Aliza. I was the youngest, everyone was speechless but me, my dad said, “Go pack your belongings in your suitcase. Then come down as much food and water.” Everyone nodded and we burst up the stairs. My youngest sister, Adina, was first one first one down. She was packing the food. I immediately burst down the stairs, into the kitchen and immediately start packing the water. We got a lot of food and water. I then just remembered something. I sprinted up the stairs as fast as I can. "Where are you going?" Adina asked.

Maria Alfred, fourteen years old at the time, lives in Haiti. Unfortunately, Haiti undergoes a tsunami leaving thousands displaced with no electricity and no clean water. What makes matter worse crime is starting to increase due to scarceness of resources. About a week goes by and many people either grew sick or perished. There has been aircraft spotted as each day goes by. Maria was luck y to still have all of her immediate family still alive, however, they were starving. Then one evening several aircrafts landed need where Maria and her family were residing. A person with a microphone instruct those within distance to come their way if they could so that they can take them to refuge. As everyone made their way to the aircrafts Maris picks

Living a life with loving parents and two unfamiliar brave brothers fighting for their country, Laila’s childhood was nothing short of perfect, despite all the controversy going on in the country around her. She had two best girl friends, went to school, lived in a great community, was strikingly beautiful, and had one special friend named Tariq. Unfortunately, both of her brothers who were at war, were suddenly killed, causing her mother to go into a deep depression. The revolution in the country just kept getting worse and worse, and soon all of Laila’s friends and neighbors were leaving the country, including Tariq, whom she found a sudden love interest in shortly before he left. Laila’s mother refused to leave and put her family’s lives at risk until justice was received for her deceased sons. After a lot of convincing from Laila’s father, her mother agreed to move to safer territory. On the day of moving out, a bomb hit Laila’s household and killed both of her parents instantly. Luckily, or not so lucky enough, Laila was outside of the house and was kept alive with one deaf ear and a few bumps and bruises. She was

“I’ll be sitting by myself, watching some place being shelled and I’m thinking, ‘Why are they bombing this place?’ Sometimes I hear that someone has died because of their injuries and I ask myself, ‘Why did he die, what did he do? I don’t know”. This is the perspective of a girl in the middle of the war in Syria between Pro Assad forces and the government that has gone on for the past four years. Which includes living in harsh conditions, finding ways to live in this position and finding hope and positives from it.

Her family’s home was attacked and turned to rubble. Just as her town’s people were massacred. This small girl has seen fighter planes, artillery, and missiles. Nights that are spent trying to forget her brother and sister’s death, become reminders as she listens to bombs falling. Danger is everywhere in her life. Shahad is in the midst of a war zone. A four year old’s days should be filled with laughter, instead Shahad fears for her life. Her mother may be their physically but the trauma has taken her mentally. Part of her family is dead, and her remaining family is fighting just to survive one day at a time. The trauma Shahad has lived through will haunt her for the remainder of her life. She will most likely experience post traumatic stress disorder, which will never let her mind rest. Her thoughts will always be in fight or flight mode if she is lucky enough to keep fighting with her family to survive (UNHCR). So much has been busy stolen from this child and the United States should offer Shahad and her family relief. Her past and current situation may be horrific but Americans can give her a future. Shahad is not the only one and her story is just a glimpse into the refugees’

Despite it being two o’clock in the morning, I can’t sleep. I’m restless from the screams ringing in my head; they’re flashbacks. It’s hard to forget all of the love ones that I’ve lost, their voices and faces haunt the little dreams I have. I lie there next to my small daughter while flutters of cheap drones fill the sky above, I have trouble about thinking of ways to protect her. The war in Syria has gone on for far too long, I desperately think of ways to escape. We must leave our home and become refugees, I say to myself. As a direct result from violence and war in the Middle East, an estimated 11 million Syrians have fled their homes in hope for a new life; becoming refugees. (Syrian Refugee)

“Please, if you know of anyone who is willing to help, even if it’s a long shot, tell them about us. If they can’t take us on, just let them at least take my daughter’s case. I don’t matter, but she does,” begged the young man. By then, Rose has a good understanding of what was going on. These two people were refugees who came into this country from Syria with hope that they could avoid persecution in their home country. Rose had an instant desire to help these people. This man was willing to give himself up in order for his daughter to have a better life in America. Stepping out from behind the counter, she walks straight up to her uncle and the two refugees.

To do so accurately, UNHCR reporters interview an eight-year-old Syrian refugee named Aya and her father. Aya is very optimistic and bright. She loves to learn and seems to have a lot of friends. She lives in a refugee camp in Lebanon, sharing a tent with her six siblings. While she still gets a limited amount of education from her father and her siblings, she has not been to school in two years and it is unlikely to go back soon. Instead, she works around the house, helps her disabled sister, and plays with the other children in the camp. Most of the children in this camp have seen war and fled into other countries to escape it. Many of them will not get a proper education, and will have to work from a young age or marry

“Will you take these earrings?” I ask, “They’re real diamonds, I’m sorry but I guess that’s all I have.” I look down at my Louboutin heels and Versace dress not believing that I’m giving away my diamond earrings for a thirty-dollar cab fare.

"They snatched him from my arms... He was just a kid…" These two lines are excepts' from The Crossing. The Crossing is a novel by Samar Yazbek and published in 2015. This book recounts the various crossings Ms. Yazbek undertook to see for herself how her homeland has come under attack during the Syrian war, and to learn more of the various groups, with her ultimate goal being to aid the woman still living in these sullen areas. Within this novel we are introduced to the shelter stories of various individuals from which the above two quoted sentences were taken. Through these stories of the innocent women who have seen and been harmed by the raging Syrian war, we can empathize with their situations. Stories that had never made mainstream media until now, we see just how dire the situation was and

Jonathan’s pursuit of the perfect flight took everything from him. He lost his health, his family, his friends, and even his home. Although he struggled at times