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Book Our Immigrants  Son

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Francis Patrick Murphy
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-08-14
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Our Immigrants Son written by John Francis Patrick Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on faith and woven with Christian, ecumenical, and patriotic themes, Our Immigrants' Son is an exploration and celebration of family. The genres of prose poetry and historical fiction very cleverly takes you through the author's rich Irish American history. It begins in misty Ireland and takes you through generations of the Murphy clan while also teaching you how to write your family story. The storyteller is US Navy Captain, John Francis Patrick Murphy, Retired, a direct descendant of those past Murphys whose lives he, with his family and a team of researchers and historians, documented in both the factual sense as well as adding artistic license to make this history a rich and emotional journey. Our Immigrant's Son opens in 1845 with ancestor Michael Joseph Murphy's parents, Patrick and Mary, undertaking a dangerous ocean voyage across the Atlantic to a new land. It then follows and documents Michael's journey from birth, to Civil War private at age sixteen, to Lawrence police chief and beyond. This riveting story is the tale of all immigrant families, regardless of nationality, race, ethnicity, heritage, or culture. It reveals the undeniable truth that immigrants are our past, present, and future. It affirms that those who come to our shores to join us and aspire to our best ideals are courageous, noble, and visionary. Part two of this book follows the author's carefully outlined research, step-by-step writing strategies, and his use of history as a touchstone. Our Immigrants' Son invites you to join Captain Murphy on a journey to write your own family story and share it with those you love.

Book The Immigrants  Son  an American Story

Download or read book The Immigrants Son an American Story written by George Trebat and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A slice of my life from 1927 to the first decades of the 21st Century."--Cover page.

Book My Boy Will Die of Sorrow

Download or read book My Boy Will Die of Sorrow written by Efrén C. Olivares and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER - The Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer—whose work on the front lines of the fight against family separations in South Texas intertwines with his own story of immigrating to the United States at thirteen—reframes the United States' history as a nation of immigrants but also a nation against immigrants. In the summer of 2018, Efrén C. Olivares found himself representing hundreds of immigrant families when Zero Tolerance separated thousands of children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Twenty-five years earlier, he had been separated from his own father for several years when he migrated to the U.S. to work. Their family was eventually reunited in Texas, where Efrén and his brother went to high school and learned a new language and culture. By sharing these gripping family separation stories alongside his own, Olivares gives voice to immigrants who have been punished and silenced for seeking safety and opportunity. Through him we meet Mario and his daughter Oralia, Viviana and her son Sandro, Patricia and her son Alessandro, and many others. We see how the principles that ostensibly bind the U.S. together fall apart at its borders. My Boy Will Die of Sorrow reflects on the immigrant experience then and now, on what separations do to families, and how the act of separation itself adds another layer to the immigrant identity. Our concern for fellow human beings who live at the margins of our society—at the border, literally and figuratively—is shaped by how we view ourselves in relation both to our fellow citizens and to immigrants. He discusses not only law and immigration policy in accessible terms, but also makes the case for how this hostility is nothing new: children were put in cages when coming through Ellis Island, and Japanese Americans were forcibly separated from their families and interned during WWII. By examining his personal story and the stories of the families he represents side by side, Olivares meaningfully engages readers with their assumptions about what nationhood means in America and challenges us to question our own empathy and compassion.

Book My Name is Not Refugee

Download or read book My Name is Not Refugee written by Kate Milner and published by Barrington Stoke Picture Books. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching, timely and tender exploration of refugees and migration for the youngest readers.

Book Lucky Boy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shanthi Sekaran
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 1101982241
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book Lucky Boy written by Shanthi Sekaran and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two mothers are bound together by their love for one boy.

Book A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant s Son

Download or read book A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant s Son written by Sergio Troncoso and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mexican-Americans grapple with their roots as their ambitions take them far from home.

Book Dreamers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Yuyi Morales
  • Publisher : Holiday House
  • Release : 2018-09-04
  • ISBN : 0823440559
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Dreamers written by Yuyi Morales and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are resilience. We are hope. We are dreamers. Yuyi Morales brought her hopes, her passion, her strength, and her stories with her, when she came to the United States in 1994 with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed. From the author-illustrator of Bright Star, Dreamers is a celebration of making your home with the things you always carry: your resilience, your dreams, your hopes and history. It's the story of finding your way in a new place, of navigating an unfamiliar world and finding the best parts of it. In dark times, it's a promise that you can make better tomorrows. This lovingly-illustrated picture book memoir looks at the myriad gifts migrantes bring with them when they leave their homes. It's a story about family. And it's a story to remind us that we are all dreamers, bringing our own strengths wherever we roam. Beautiful and powerful at any time but given particular urgency as the status of our own Dreamers becomes uncertain, this is a story that is both topical and timeless. The lyrical text is complemented by sumptuously detailed illustrations, rich in symbolism. Also included are a brief autobiographical essay about Yuyi's own experience, a list of books that inspired her (and still do), and a description of the beautiful images, textures, and mementos she used to create this book. A parallel Spanish-language edition, Soñadores, is also available. Winner of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award! A New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Book A New York Times Bestseller Recipient of the Flora Stieglitz Strauss Award A 2019 Boston Globe - Horn Book Honor Recipient An Anna Dewdney Read Together Honor Book Named a Best Book of 2018 by Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, NPR, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, Salon.com-- and many more! A Junior Library Guild selection A Eureka! Nonfiction Honoree A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon title A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year A CLA Notable Children's Book in Language Arts Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase

Book Immigration and Children   s Literature

Download or read book Immigration and Children s Literature written by Wilma Robles-Melendez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the issues faced by immigrant children through the lens of children's literature. The authors employ the UN convention of the Rights of the Child, the lens of equity, and Freire's principles of critical consciousness as a framework for analysing children's literature and immigration. They focus on circumstances and experiences of immigration from the perspective of young children who are leaving their homelands and growing up as immigrants. The book focuses primarily on children from birth to 8 years old but with crossover and implications for older children. The chapters reveal the social, economic, and political issues faced by child immigrants, refugees and asylees throughout the global context, viewed through and alongside children's literature. The book provides suggestions for the implementation of children's literature in the curriculum and provides tools for educators and researchers working with immigrant and refugee children, showing how they can better understand their students and families. A variety of children's literature is covered, including analysis of works by Jairo Buitrago, Yanksook Choi, Sandra leGuen, Rosemary McCartney, Bao Phi and Jeanette Winter.

Book Son of Six Brothers

Download or read book Son of Six Brothers written by Gert Wolfsohn and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gert Wolfsohn, born in Windhoek now Namibia, in 1924, was the only child of wonderful parents who, I know, did not have a happy marriage but stuck it out as best they could though the ups and downs of life to give me, their son, the very best start in my life that they could. As I grew older I felt very deeply about that and my own aim in life was to be lucky enough to find a wife that I could love, respect and lean on at all times and who would love me. Although I got to know my Little girl when she was 6 years of age there was friendship but nothing more, I well remember her pushing her little blue dolls pram around her garden while we boys climbed the bordering trees ignoring her pleas to join us. Young boys just had to show off even at 9 years of age. You will read about what happened in my later life in this, my book of my life's memories. I am very, very proud of my own family whose love and togetherness has held us together so wonderfully well over so many years. I was fortunate to achieve the love in marriage that my parents did not have. My deep respect and thanks to my air force buddies who gave us all the courage to stick together through both the horrors and the few good times of WW2. WE "carried 'each other always, with a deep companionship using the skills that our instructors had drilled into each of us. WHY CAN WE NOT DO IT IN TIMES OF SO CALLED PEACE ...

Book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Should America Remain a Nation of Immigrants

Download or read book Should America Remain a Nation of Immigrants written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of Isaias

Download or read book The Book of Isaias written by Daniel Connolly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a green town in the middle of America, a bright 18-year-old Hispanic student named Isaias Ramos sets out on the journey to college. Isaias, who passed a prestigious national calculus test as a junior and leads the quiz bowl team, is the hope of Kingsbury High in Memphis, a school where many students have difficulty reading. But Kingsbury's dysfunction, expensive college fees, and forms printed in a language that's foreign to his parents are all obstacles in the way of getting him to a university. Isaias also doubts the value of college and says he might go to work in his family's painting business after high school, despite his academic potential. Is Isaias making a rational choice? Or does he simply hope to avoid pain by deferring dreams that may not come to fruition? This is what journalist Daniel Connolly attempts to uncover in The Book of Isaias as he follows Isaias, peers into a tumultuous final year of high school, and, eventually, shows how adults intervene in the hopes of changing Isaias' life. Mexican immigration has brought the proportion of Hispanics in the nation's youth population to roughly one in four. Every day, children of immigrants make decisions about their lives that will shape our society and economy for generations.

Book The Ohio Bulletin of Charities and Correction

Download or read book The Ohio Bulletin of Charities and Correction written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Proceedings of the Ohio Welfare Conference and the Convention of Infirmary Officials of the Ohio; Reports of the Board of State Charities, and the Childrens Welfare Department of Ohio.

Book Paper Son  The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong  Immigrant and Artist

Download or read book Paper Son The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong Immigrant and Artist written by Julie Leung and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Library Association's 2021 Asian/Pacific American Award for Best Picture Book! An inspiring picture-book biography of animator Tyrus Wong, the Chinese American immigrant responsible for bringing Disney's Bambi to life. Before he became an artist named Tyrus Wong, he was a boy named Wong Geng Yeo. He traveled across a vast ocean from China to America with only a suitcase and a few papers. Not papers for drawing--which he loved to do--but immigration papers to start a new life. Once in America, Tyrus seized every opportunity to make art, eventually enrolling at an art institute in Los Angeles. Working as a janitor at night, his mop twirled like a paintbrush in his hands. Eventually, he was given the opportunity of a lifetime--and using sparse brushstrokes and soft watercolors, Tyrus created the iconic backgrounds of Bambi. Julie Leung and Chris Sasaki perfectly capture the beautiful life and work of a painter who came to this country with dreams and talent--and who changed the world of animation forever.

Book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

Download or read book Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Immigration

Download or read book Immigration written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 1 and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illegal Immigration Issues

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 62 pages

Download or read book Illegal Immigration Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: