Word: motherism
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...little technical for my mother,” Bharat P. Das ’08 said, gesturing to the woman beside him. “I might go and read it myself later, but I’m not going to stand in the rain and listen...
...story begins with my mother’s improbably quest to achieve the American Dream. In 1985, my mother immigrated to the United States from South Korea. She knew very little English and had little money. The accomplishments, the status, the connections that she had back home meant nothing here. The college degree for which she labored so hard in Korea was useless. So, my mother started all over as she held on to a simple conviction—that with determination, she would be able to provide her two sons the opportunities these new shores had to offer...
...King, Jr.’s fight for a nation healed and restored. And each night as I fell asleep listening to the dream of Dr. King, his dream became my own. His vision for the future seeped into my own understanding about what was possible. Just as my mother would go on to receive her Ph.D. and become a professor, she invoked these stories to teach me that with faith and determination, anything is possible...
...Kristine M. Boehm ’08 shopped for a wedding dress at Filene’s Basement in downtown Boston, her mother back in Guatemala sent invitations for her daughter to approve. The two were preparing for Boehms’ upcoming wedding in Guatemala, an affair in which the 12 bridesmaids will hail from all over the world—Alabama, Cuba and Puerto Rico, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Montenegro, and Peru. Boehm, 24, will wed Christian Móller, 32, on Sept. 6, two years after they met through mutual friends. Soon after meeting, they discovered that their...
...networking site that brought them together has led to a wedding of international proportions. Kristine M. Boehm ’08 and Christian Móller As Kristine M. Boehm ’08 shopped for a wedding dress at Filene’s Basement in downtown Boston, her mother back in Guatemala sent invitations for her daughter to approve...