Naima always wanted to go to the United States and see something outside of the small town that she has always lived in. Her mother went through hardships when she was younger when she had to hide in a cave with a lot of other people. Her mother was hiding because there were bombs going off and people were taking their land. In Naima's home country there is a lot of violence going on and not many people would want to be around. (Push factor) Naima's older brother was killed in prison and one of her other brothers went to prison.
Affected by her experiences growing up during China’s Cultural Revolution and her move to the United States, Hung Liu’s recent exhibitions showed both adversity and perseverance. Hung Liu was only permitted to draw from life when she was trained in Beijing. Liu, however, was against these strict rules and secretly used photographs as an aid in her painting. Her father was captured and taken away to prison when she was six years old. Her family has to destroy most of their family photos because those personal items were prohibited during the Cultural Revolution.
Supreme Court Cases Tinker v. Des Moines 1968 John Tinker of 15 years of age, and Mary Beth Tinker, 13 years of age, brother, and sister, and Christopher Echardt 16 years of age all had parents who protested the war. In an attempt to copy their parents the teenagers come up with a plan to let everyone at school know what they thought about the war. In order to show their protest towards the war during the holidays they wore black armbands to school. Word of the armbands quickly made its way up the grapevine until finally, the principal found out. The siblings, and Echardt were asked to remove the armbands; consequences for failing to do so were suspension until after New Year’s Day, and confiscation of the armbands.
In Flint, MI a first grader brought a gun to school and shot a girl in his class. His mom was out of town for welfare to work. They had just moved into his uncle’s house which is where he got the gun. Why did his uncle have a loaded gun in the house and better yet to where it was accessible to the child? Why hadn’t his mother checked the house to make sure everything was safe for her children?
They planned on lynching his father Earl in front of their family. Louise the mother came out and told them he was away on business. The Klan was after Earl because he was an active minister at a local church. Fir the sake of his family they moved around a lot. Growing up Malcolm didn’t have much food so they got by off of friends or family.
The first conflict is between the parents and the children. George Hadley, the father, says: “I've taken a few machines from the house and threatened [the children], a month ago, with closing up the nursery unless they did their homework. I did close it for a few days to show I meant business”(109). Although this may not seem to be a major issue to the parents, the children end up killing their parents, because of their over reliance on technology. The author is trying to issue a warning that one can become too reliant on technology, and if it is taken away, one might over-react to the situation.
So King’s Sr. mother feared that he was going to be punished or killed, she made him get on a bus to Atlanta, Georgia (Sitkoff 7). In Atlanta he began working at a tire plant and became a pastor at a local church in the black community. At the Church he imitated the gestures of his child hood pasture, because he had an education of a fifth grade level. At the age of twenty King, Sr. went back to school and worked at the Rail Road Yard for income. King, Sr. obtained his high school diploma and became the assistant pasture of Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
We had been living in the south for about thirty years. I am married and have 4 children. My husband was a teacher and also a soldier because at that time my country need teacher to change to soldier. There was a big war again and many people died by the bomb. We couldn't count them, and the communist killed many people, and many houses burned.
My friend was arrested and left with some marks. Another incident, I remember back in August 2007 it was one night we were all at the carnival and a big fight broke out. Again everyone scattered everywhere. This time it was one of my best friends, she was trying to gather everyone so we can leave the carnival but two of us were missing. We all split up, me and her stayed around each other and the officers came telling us to leave we told him “Officer were just looking for our friend so we can leave” but he was not hearing us, he just kept yelling and yelling.
NAME PROFESSOR Eng 110 28 January 2013 Raining Grey How crazy is it to think that from one day to another, you have to pack things up, leave most of your family, all your friends, and move to another continent in two days notice? Pretty crazy. Especially if you’re nine years old and don’t understand how or why. Growing up in a country where communism was taking over isn’t easy. It’s even harder when your family is in war against the communist government.