by ccaligiuri2026 | Jun 8, 2023 | Stories (2023)
Visiting Brighton Beach was one of my favorite trips during this Spring Intensive because of the livelihood of this neighborhood in Brooklyn! As we walked through the streets we saw a variety of fresh markets, stores that seemed like they were stuck in time from the...
by dkarnaugh2024 | Jun 8, 2023 | Featured, Stories, Stories (2023), Uncategorized
“The Swimmers,” directed by Sally El Hosaini, is a Netflix film based on the true tales of Yursa Mardini and her sister, Yalla Mardini. The two girls are young Syrian Refugees, who escape the civil war in their homeland to flee to Germany and chase their...
by kdecroix2026 | Jun 8, 2023 | Stories (2023)
I interviewed Pernilla Royster. She grew up in the south of Sweden. She Immigrated from Sweden to the US when she was 18 years old. She came to the US for a college education. In school, she studied chemistry at Umass Boston and University of Michigan. She already...
by cackermann2025 | Jun 8, 2023 | Stories (2023)
This interview is between my grandmother’s cousin, Theresa, and my great-great-grandmother, Rose. Rose first came to America in 1895 and is interviewed in 1976. Rose speaks about her experiences making trips back and forth from Italy before finally immigrating...
by kdecroix2026 | Jun 8, 2023 | Stories (2023)
The country Myanmar is located in southeast Asia. Myanmar was under British rule from 1824 to 1948. At that time it was called Burma, however when it went under military power, the name changed to Myanmar. Since then Myanmar has had a lot of problems because the...
by ccaligiuri2026 | Jun 8, 2023 | Featured, Stories (2023)
When everyone in our Spring Intensive course was initially asked what they were most excited about for the first week, practically everyone replied ‘Chinatown!’ This neighborhood located in the Lower East Side in New York City is a huge hotpot of culture. The...
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