Rachel Smeed Biography

At two years old, her family moved to the United States. A few years later, Gloria’s father became seriously ill. Gloria took care of him and her sister while her husband worked.

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

When they arrived in America a cowboy helped them settled into their new house. He paid the rent three months ahead. Mother could not believe his generosity until Brother Quang says the American government gives sponsors money, she was even more amazed by the generosity of the American government until Brother Quang says it’s all to ease the guilt of losing the war.” Ha and her family will now have to adapt to her new surroundings because it’s different from Vietnam. Most of the things will be unfamiliar to Ha because she has to learn English. Ha then started school at first it was ruff because she was getting bullied, “They pulled my arm hair, they threw rocks at me, they promised to stomp on my chest.” It twisted inside out, for her at school. The first person she told was brother Vu, she then asked him to teach her defense. After he taught her defense her life came back again, she started to understand English much better and no longer gets

“Once we lost our credit at the commissary, we quickly ran out of food.”(Walls 67). Jeannette goes through life differently than kids her age. This book is about Jeanette's life and what events led her to be who and how she lives today. She has a different life than most

Ronita had returned to school, 2 years after Katrina, when she went into labor. The local schools, overwhelmed by thousands of children displaced from New Orleans did not welcome more students, especially with babies, and her help with her youngest brother was needed at home. She liked high school and had hoped to graduate, baby and all, but worried her mother and grandmother could not manage without her.

Raicine Rodriguez was born in San Bernardino California; she was the middle daughter of three girls. Her siblings and she had all different personalities; Raicine was the one who always seemed to think things through, perhaps a little too much. She lived her life as full as she allowed herself, while always thinking about the “what ifs,” before she gave her one-hundred percent. It was a very cautious act, but it held her back in many ways as well. Once in college it took her several years to decide what she wanted to major in. In her mid-twenties, she moved to Nashville for a job. Here was able to figure out the kind of person she wanted to be in life. All of her friends and family were in California so she was able to concentrate solely on

Dorothy McCormick graduated high school in 1960, but couldn’t go to college because her brother already was going. Her family did not have enough money for the both of them to go so McCormick went to work right out of highschool. She remembers one day, driving to work,

TreVon was rushing to get out the door. He knew if he missed the buss one more time he was going to be in big trouble. He’s older brothers Luther and Jaron never favored him anyway. So they did not care if he missed the bus. TreVon was very smart kid but he wanted to be cool so he did not care about his grades. The boy's mother worked 13 hour shifts at a old mill house. His mother Mary did not like TreVon outside during the late hours of the night. Today was the day he probably wished he

The Unites States entered World War, Frank sent a telegram to the president, Woodrow Wilson saying that he is coming and if he doesn’t know how to use a telegram to tell him and he would show you. Frank did motion study training so he had to go to Fort

ALLEGATIONS: R/s Samuel (10) and Bradley (8) haven’t been in school for seven days. R/s Brandi (mom) and the children were staying with Jeanne (a friend). R/s Brandy left the children with Jeanne for two days. R/s on last Saturday, Jeanne dropped the children off to their grandmother’s house. R/s Brandy returned with a man to Jeanne’s house. R/s the family moved to Clover, SC from Myrtle Beach, SC.

1. What were the circumstances of the family’s move to the United States? Firoozeh’s family moved to America because the company her father worked at had given him to a two-year assignment to a location in Whittier, California. The family arrived with virtually no knowledge of the country, culture, or language.

Children And Military Moves In this story I will be telling you about the person I interviewed. This story i’m going to be talking about is worth telling. Why ? Because of all the interesting facts and details that’s going to be shared. Kim Hollinshed is the person I interviewed. She explained to me that the most important moment in her life is when she had her 5 kids. But the interesting thing is she had her kids in different locations. Her and her husband were both in the military when they had their 5 children. Kim’s first two children were born in Washington , but when they got assigned to different stations that’s when they had kids in different locations.

In the 1960’s the author was growing up with her mother and five other siblings, moving from place to place in search of a home where the

Sometimes opposites do attract. In the book The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines they are on a show called “Fixer Upper” where they fix houses up and flip them. Chip and Joanna meet when Joanna was working at her dad's shop in Waco, Texas. Throughout

Background information Her father brought Ah’Lexus and her family here to Virginia. Back in 2005, he received orders to PCS to Virginia, from St. Louis, Missouri. Her family made the journey across the country. It was not an easy transition. The family endured lots of hardship, especially having Ah’Lexus, move from school to school with her father being in the military. It was not easy for her as she was an only child in the family.