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    half-orphaned‚ others abandoned- but all in need of families- traveled west by rail as part of a “placing out” program started by Charles‚ called the Children’s Aid Society.(Warren‚ 4) This dream exploded around the U.S into what is now known as The Orphan Train Movement; a movement that sparked opportunity and new life for underprivileged children. Early on in American History‚ children who were left by their families were usually left to be cared for by their relatives or neighbors. There were very

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    English "Orphan Trains"� The "Orphan Trains"� was a charitable organization to provide homes and a better way of life‚ for orphans and neglected children on the streets of New York. Charles Loring Brace‚ who was a young minister in New York‚ founded the Orphan Trains (1855-1929). The children were taken off the streets of New York (many whom had no homes)‚ and brought to the Midwest to be adopted. The children were prepared for adoption the closer they came to their destinations. They were made

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    Kinyamaseke Town Board‚ Kasese District in the Rwenzori mountain region about 7km to the Mpondwe Customs Ugandan border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)‚ to implement activities and programmes which were affecting the ever increasing number of orphans and vulnerable persons due to Civil wars‚ HIV/AIDS‚ Malaria‚ STIs and other Communicable diseases rampant in our localities. Death of parents and guardians as a result of the fore mentioned has been coupled with natural catastrophes such as earthquakes

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    The themes poverty/children/orphans Introduction 19th century English literature is dominated by people like Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens‚ who raised concerns about the great indifference of many Victorians towards the plight of poor orphaned children. Dickens had a personal insight to poverty‚ his father was unable to pay off the family debt. Dickens was sent to work in a factory‚ he was left without a proper education and so spent his childhood and most of his youth in poverty

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    ------------------------------------------------- FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- “THE CONTRIBUTION OF COMPASSION INTERNATONAL UGANDA TO THE WELFARE OF ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN: ------------------------------------------------- ACASE STUDY OF BUSINYWA CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE‚ BUSIA DISTRICT’’ ------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------

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    Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline and Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd are wonderful summer reading novels for incoming freshmen‚ but which is the better book for incoming Trinity Hall freshmen? Orphan Train brings the reader back to U.S. immigrants’ lives during the 1920s and what it was like to live as an orphan in that time period‚ compared to how foster children in the present day are treated. Secret Life of Bees brings the reader to a different era‚ 1960s South Carolina‚ when people

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    The Orphan Train Quotes

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    The Orphan Train is a novel written by Christina Baker Kline. Kline’s novel illustrates the lives of several different children who were among the many thousands traveling West looking for a family. Vivian and Molly are the main characters in Kline’s novel‚ Vivian is a “rider” on the Orphan train and Molly is a child in foster care that meets Vivian at an older stage in her life. The Orphan Train portrays the struggle‚ endurance‚ and success that Vivian went through in order to survive as a young

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    The Tube Train

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    Espinoza September 21‚ 2010 ARTS 1301 Essay #1 “The Tube Train‚” by Cyril E. Power is a color linocut painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. As the title suggest it’s a painting of the inside of a train filled with elegant people from the early 1900’s. The first thing that caught my eye when looking at this painting was the vantage point in the front of the train‚ which the artist used to illustrate the view of the train as if you are sitting in the back looking forward. The feeling

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    Orphan Train Quotes

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    “…tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable…” this came from Vivian in the novel‚ Orphan Train. This quote made me think of my energetic‚ quirky dad‚ Dean Dahlhauser. He is the toughest person I know and he has remained my best friend for as long as I can remember while also making a giant impact on me. My dad is so important to me because he has taught me lessons‚ taken me on trips I’ll never forget‚ and he has shown me what it is to be a strong individual. My dad has taught me

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    Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). The increase in AIDS‚ which orphans many children‚ is one of the major challenges in many countries. According to HIV/AIDS Perspective (2004)‚ one of the worst consequences of AIDS is the large number of children orphaned as a result of parents dying from AIDS. By mid 1997‚ 10 million children under the age of 15 had lost their parents to AIDS worldwide [and] at the end of 2000‚ there were more than 13 million orphans worldwide (Deame 2000). Presently there are 15 million

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