Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cuomo fired up the packed audience with a personal anecdote to begin what he promised would not be a speech. He recounted that in his 12 years as governor of New York, his own mother never acknowledged his success "because it wouldn't show the other children respect...
Williams, a 36-year-old mother of two, also stressed the importance of showing ex-prisoners how to make changes in their lives...
...night a young woman hung herself in the max-unit, many others cried...She was a frightened and confused person who needed help. Instead she was locked in a room, the door shut. Put in seclusion. She was a new mother...The officers couldn't or didn't save her. They tried to run things as if nothing happened that night. Something had--a little piece of everyone died with the realization of how fragile reality is, how cruel it is to lock human beings up as if they were animals." So wrote a woman in prison in the book...
...boss Chung lost his job and his status, he and his wife were worried that they would be scorned by their three children. The kids surprised them. The Chungs' teenage son helps his father with deliveries. When Mrs. Chung fretted about their drop in status, the teenager reminded his mother of a story she told him as a child about how the local cleaning man was not born a cleaning man but was just playing the hand fate had dealt him. The Chungs' daughter, 20, a sophomore attending Yonsei University in Seoul, comes by to help her mother dish...
These sites are attuned to specific patterns and customs, such as the Habsburg and Russian mandates that Jews adopt national surnames, the early Jewish tradition of passing on the mother's maiden name in a religious marriage rather than the father's in a civil one, and the tendency among early Jewish immigrants to Americanize their long, ethnic-sounding names. Begin your search at www.jewishgen.org or www.yad-vashem.org...