The coldest winter ever, a best-selling novel written in 1999 by MC, and Activist Sister Souljah. This book place is set in the projects Brooklyn, New York. Winter Santiaga a pampered teenager, with a notorious drug dealing father, Ricky Santiaga. Winter’s world suddenly was turned upside down. On Winter’s 16th birthday, when ricky santiaga decides he wants to relocate his family, to the to the long island to start his business up to be bigger and better and to make more money than ever. Heartbroken winter was determined to not ever break ties with her projects of brooklyn. Shortly after the FBI arrived to the santiaga mansion, while winter was at a party and seized all the family's prized possessions. The FBI takes winter’s drug lord father …show more content…
Winter escapes child care by pretending to not be her parents child. Winter then stays with this man for a while until his girlfriend came back into town. The winter goes to live with one of her aunties. While with her aunt winters location was revealed by child cares services. Her location was revealed by natalie, winter’s former friend, who suspected that winter was trying to date her boyfriend. After winter was take out her aunt’s home. Winter starts living in a group home named, the house of success. Her new surrounding did not stop winter from hustling, she makes her money by selling clothes and cigarettes to her housemates, and she also does their hair winter was a hustler just like her daddy. She gets the gods she sell from a booster who steals the designer clothes for her. For a while winter continued making her money, until simone was arrested, once simone was released she found out she was pregnant, bt simone was looking for another way out so her and a group of girls tried to jump winter, but she once again escaped she ran and did not look back. Running after winter simone falls and miscarriage. Winter’s friend thinks she needs help and advise her to do so which winter does not know that the advisor is sista souljah. Inter hooks up with one of her old
In “The Coldest Winter Ever”, we meet Winter Santiaga, a Brooklyn born young girl. Who has never had to worry about where her next meal came from. Winter lives in the lap of luxury with her mother, three sisters and her king pin drug dealing father. Winter had it all, the finest clothes, her hair always done and friends who always had her back. Winter was her father’s pride and joy, she was always protected and guarded. No one dared to mess with anyone in Ricky Santiaga’s family, and if they did. Let’s just say it wouldn’t have been a pretty sight.
Sister souji has her participate in her meeting that she has for the young girls and older adults on how to make life better and fix the neighborhood talks some sense to them but winter seems to think it's just a waste of time and hates it there . She seems to feel sick and runs out the meeting and packs her stuff because she is tired of being there , goes into sister souji room and gets midnight file and see her file and it had newspaper articles of her father and mansion and her . She knew all along of who she really was and played it cool . Then stops by the Doctor room and steals money where she stashed her cash , steals it and puts it in her sports bag but they get switched up and noticed once she was already at the bus station that she had no money . Someone in her past seems to recognize her in a lexus which was bullet the guy she spent her seventh birthday with while her father was arrested
In "First Day of Winter," by Breece D’J Pancake stories, “First Day of Winter” is the twelfth and the last selection of them. The story is about the edgy circumstances of a West Virginia farmer called Hollis. A single man as yet still living on the farm of his family, Hollis battles to make ends meet as he watches over his weak parents. His decrepit mother declines to bathe, "her mind half gone from blood too thick in her veins;" on the other hand, his dad, "now coughing and blind," is "bent with age, with crying" (163, 168). The only sibling of Hollis, Jake, has left the homestead, wedded, fathered two youngsters and turn into a minister. Due to this Hollis’s parents hover over him and persistently remind him that his sibling "has done fine
Winter is brought up in the projects of Brooklyn with her three younger siblings. They live a very wealthy life and get whatever they want whenever they want it. Her mother is more of sister than the typical mother role model, since Winter looks up to her she ends up becoming like her from the shallow self-centered individual, being motivated by material possessions, attractiveness and to attract as many men as she can, especially if they have money. When the family is moved to a mansion in Long Island the ‘ghettoness’ isn’t taking out of Winter and her father 's 'empire ' collapses, her father is arrested and locked up; the FBI ended up taking everything they owned. Winter and her three younger sisters are put into foster homes, while her mother becomes addicted to crack.
Laurel Marie Cone sat curled up in a chair watching the water on Lake St. Allister. She liked to sit on the stone patio her late husband, Joe Cross, had built when they designed their mansion. She was lost in memories of her past. This summer she would be 43-years old and she could feel the changes in her body as well as the changes in her life. She came to Chicago from Catania, Sicily when she was 18-years old. She and her three-year-old nephew, Michael, were alone on that trip. Laurel was the only mother Michele knew since her parents and sister Monica, the boy’s birth mother, died in an epidemic that devastated their hometown. Laurel and Michael survived, and her half-brother sent them to the US to be with the boy’s father, Rizzo. Rizzo
Working as a teacher serving at-risk four-year-old children, approximately six of her eighteen students lived in foster care. The environment introduced Kathy to the impact of domestic violence, drugs, and family instability on a developing child. Her family lineage had a history of social service and she found herself concerned with the wellbeing of one little girl. Angelica, a foster child in Kathy’s class soon to be displaced again was born the daughter of a drug addict. She had been labeled a troublemaker, yet the Harrisons took the thirty-hour training for foster and adoptive care and brought her home to adopt. Within six months, the family would also adopted Angie’s sister Neddy. This is when the Harrison family dynamic drastically changes and Kathy begins a journey with over a hundred foster children passing through her home seeking refuge.
Until, one day after a night out with her friends, Winter was coming home when her father talks to talk to her. He explains to Winter that they would be moving to Long Island far away from Brooklyn. News about moving left Winter heartbroken. She loved Brooklyn with all her heart all her friends and family lived there. Santiaga, her father told winter that the new house was bigger and that the community was secure. Winter didn’t like the idea at all she knew
Do you believe in Witches? Back in the 1600’s they started to think that people were witches. I am not sure why, but they did specific tests to see if you were a witch. There were many different theories to why people started accusing people of being witches. You tell me are there witches or are they fake?
The Warmest December is a story of a young girl and her family as they move through an abusive past with an alcoholic man. Kenzie struggles through childhood only to find that she has started to become her father, Hy-Lo. She visits him daily and relives painful moments from her past at his bedside. The book is filled with difficult accounts of her physical and emotional abuse as she grows up. This paper will discuss the topics of recovery and forgiveness after a troubled past as it pertains to both The Warmest December and other books we have read, specifically Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Dandicat.
For Winter, in her mind, if this is the way her father maintain the family by selling drugs she could do it too. She wanted to propose a business deal to one of her father’s workers “I’d offer him a partnership since he already knew the business. He’d go for it as long as he got his cut” (Souljah, 1999, p. 90). While trying to find connections with people who she thinks will help her make some fast money, her aunt turns her into the child services and is placed in a group home for teenage
Eden tries to console her separation from Andrew by thinking of several ways to escape. She takes advantage of a worker and convinces him to run away with her. They arrive in Las Vegas. Eden runs away from him. Seth begins living with an older man in Las Vegas. Whitney comes to a bitter reality when she discovers Brin is not who he portrays himself as. Ginger and Alex move to Las Vegas together. They find a low level of work, together, bringing in minimal income. Whitney and Ginger meet; Ginger keeps an eye on her after seeing how ghastly she looks. Cody takes a wrong turn and begins doing drugs and working for the wrong crowd.
Troy and Gabriella meet at a New Year's Eve party while both are at a ski lodge during winter break. Troy is the captain of East High School's basketball team, and Gabriella is portrayed as shy and academic. At the party, the two are called upon to sing karaoke together. They seem to be attracted to each other, and exchange numbers before parting. After break, Troy sees Gabriella in his homeroom, and she explains that she just moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico and transferred to East High over break. Troy shows Gabriella around the school, and they pause in front of the sign-up sheet for the winter musical auditions. This alarms Drama Club president Sharpay Evans, who assumes that Gabriella is interested in auditioning. Wanting to eliminate competition, Sharpay investigates the new girl and arranges for the scholastic decathlon captain, Taylor, to find out about Gabriella's past academic achievements.
Her imagination starts going wild and she begun to visualize this amazing home that turns out to be just another creepy house in a new neighborhood that she does not feel to be her own. As the situation unfolds, we see Sadness want to take over, but Joy refuses to give her the commend as he wants to keep Riley happy by letting her visualize how her room can look like ones the movers come with all her personal belongings, but this soon come to a scratching stop as her mother informs her to the mistake that the movers have done. This sends her in a down word spiral witch affects her way of thinking and begins to changer her
It was his first, a winter so cold that he would joke about dying rather than experiencing it, but this season's winter would change how Takash felt about that. He was a hard working laborer, just like all the other men in the village, working at the field sunrise to sunset. He had a wife, two children; his hut was one of the first to be hit by the sun's ray in the morning, which he liked. But none of that mattered much once the winter rolled around. Food was scarce, even the rich and schoalrs were barely holding on.
Season one began its original airing on October 3, 2004 and introduces the four central characters of the show: Susan Mayer, Lynette Scavo, Bree Van de Kamp and Gabrielle Solis, and their families and neighbors on Wisteria Lane. The main mystery of the season is the unexpected suicide of Mary Alice Young, and the involvement of her husband and teenage son in the events leading up to it. While Bree tries to save her marriage, Lynette struggles to find time and energy to cope with her children, Susan fights with Edie Britt for new neighbor Mike Delfino’s affection, and Gabrielle tries to prevent her husband Carlos from discovering her affair with their underage gardener.