My grandmother Sirkka was born in 1926 and immigrated to Canada in 1938. She later got married and had two sons whom she named after her brothers Paul (my father) and Eric (my uncle). The Nazi’s had already started rallying support for their cause in 1936 in Finland so my grandparents felt it was time to leave Finland for the safety of their family because of the imminent war going to happen in Europe. Their oldest son Paul was killed at the age of 18 in the Russian - Finland War as a soldier. Shortly after his son Paul died my great grandfather, Matti Norppa, came to Canada on an Ocean Liner to Montreal and took a train to Kirkland Lake Ontario to become a gold miner.
Johnny Tremain Have you ever encountered any people of historical significance? In the book, Johnny Tremain, Johnny gets to meet several of them. The book is a historical fiction story, written by Esther Forbes. The setting is in Boston just before the American Revolution. Johnny Tremain, a silversmith, is drawn into the war after meeting Rab Silsbee who becomes his best friend.
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian Feminist writer. The openings to both these novels set the atmosphere that first introduces the reader to the dystopian setting, Orwell begins with a familiar idea for most people, "a bright cold day in April" this type of weather is accustomed with his readers so they immediately find something they can relate to. This is shattered strait away within the same sentence where it says, "the clocks were striking thirteen" suggesting even the system of time is different in this world. The idea of familiarity is followed through with the protagonist's name: Winston Smith, Winston would be familiar to readers in 1948 because of the recent Prime Minister who was considered a war hero, Winston Churchill; and Smith which is possibly the most common surname in England. The name suggests that the protagonist is an ordinary person sharing the surname of so many others, but also has the ring of a hero like Churchill.
One of the most moving accounts of this atrocity is Thea Halo’s Not Even My Name. In this book, Thea Halo shares the story her mother, Sano Halo, told her about the genocide of Turkish-born Christians. Sano Halo was a very young girl at the time. She personally experienced the marches, the death, and the loss that the Turks created for the Christians. She lost everything she ever had in her world: her home, parents, siblings, grandfather, aunts, uncles, cousins, and even her own name.
Harvey Firestone was born in Ohio on December 20th, 1838. Even though his parents were just farmers, they encouraged him to get a high school diploma and even go off to college. He completed college courses in Cleveland specializing in business. He then went off to work as a bookkeeper. One of his first jobs was working at the Columbiana Buggy Company with his uncle.
Their son was to remain in Chicago to care for his business. He was not able to go with his family again because of some reasons, he to stay in Chicago for some few days. His wife and their four daughters left America on board the S S Ville du Harve and not far from the coast of England on Nov. 22, 1873 the ship was struck by an English sailing vessel. The ship was badly damaged, and all the passengers were asked to assemble on deck. His wife got her four children on deck and knelt with them to pray.
Hunter was a Scottish man born February 13, 1728. The youngest of ten, he grew up on a farm with his siblings. Ironically, for the most part he disliked school and hated books. After his father’s death in 1741, John dropped out of school. At around 20 years of age he began to work alongside his older brother William Hunter, a well-known Obstetrician.
After a few years of school, Dürer started to learn the basics of goldsmithing and drawing from his father. Though his father wanted him to continue his training as a goldsmith, he showed such a precocious talent in drawing that he started as an apprentice to Michael Wolgemut at the age of fifteen in 1486. A self-portrait, a drawing in
2008). Genocide is also referred to as ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing refers to the attempt to completely wipe out entire ethnicities. My father was a native-born Hungarian and was one of sixteen children. When my father was around eighteen years old the Russians invaded Hungary.
Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921. He is older then 3 brothers and a sister. Haley lived with his family in Henning, before he returned to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old. Haley's father was a professor of agriculture at Alabama A&M University. The younger Haley always spoke proudly of his father and the stuff of racism he had overcome.