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	Orphans and Orphanages
		No distinction was observed between foundlings and orphans in the beginning of his work with the Association of Charity; nor was there any distinction as to the condition of the children that were aided, other than that they were orphans, or abandoned, or the children of the poor.
		It is probable that destitute orphans were cared for under this principle, but apprenticing and indenturing were the only solutions of the difficulties arising from the presence of orphans or dependent children.
		The same must be said of the asylums caring for the army of orphans found in the large cities, particularly since they serve as shelters during the period of observation, and in the case of handicapped children during a longer period.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/o/orphans_and_orphanages.html (2557 words)

	Jewish Orphans in Transnistria
		Later, when the gathering of some statistics was attempted, many orphans had perished before any data on their numbers or whereabouts could be compiled.
		Prior to the arrival of that commission, groups of aimlessly wandering orphans were gathered from the camps and from country roads.
		Eventually, a decision was taken to move the orphans from the different camps to a makeshift orphanage, where they would be sheltered in more hygienic conditions.
	www.nizkor.org /hweb/people/c/carmelly-felicia/jewish-orphans.html (1841 words)

	General Socio-Economic Impact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The household sample surveys aimed at estimating the size of the population of orphans, widows and widowers in relation to the rest of the population and identify the magnitude of the problem or the extent to which the Zambian households in general were affected.
		The study attempts to establish the magnitude of the problems of orphaned children, widows and widowers, evaluate the living conditions in which the orphans are being fostered and at the same time examine possible alternative assistance programmes for the orphaned children widows and widowers, in Zambia.
		The number of orphans (192) representing 21.1 per cent of the total child population of 909 is quite high and significant to explain the existence of the problem of orphans in Nkwazi compound.
	www.medguide.org.zm /aidsbibl/impact3.htm (2905 words)

	Orphans in Jane Eyre
		orphans in the novel Jane Eyre, is portrayed as the victim of charity.
		Orphans are seen by wealthy people as children who are in need of their charity, and also who lack in morals, ambition, and culture.
		Being among the other orphaned or one-parented girls, she has much more in common with them and she was better able to fit in than with "gentlemen's children," as John Reed put it.
	www.umd.umich.edu /casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/ORPHANS.htm (1308 words)

	Orphan's Court
		The Orphans' Court system is designed to provide ready accessibility, a jurisdiction under which entire probate proceeding can be conducted and supervised in one court, and the availability of the professional courts, including a jury, for the asking.
		The Orphans' Court was established under the first constitution of the State of Maryland in 1776 and has been part of our judicial system since colonial days.
		It is the responsibility of the Orphans' Court to ensure that the provisions of a will are followed, that the rights of heirs are protected in the absence of a will, that creditor's rights are preserved, and that the personal representative fulfills his duties.
	www.cecilcounty.us /orphanscourt (721 words)

	Save the Children of the Sub-Sahara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Estimates of the numbers of AIDS orphans in Zambia rose from 360,000 in 1997 (9% of all children under 15) to 500,000 in 1999 (about 13% of all children under 15 -- and some estimates are higher).
		The number of orphans is expected to double by the year 2010, because about 20% of Zambia's population is infected with HIV.
		According to the World Health Organization, of the estimated 13 million children orphaned by AIDS by the end of 2000, the great majority (10.4 million) will still be under the age of 15.
	www.savetheorphans.org /facts.htm (426 words)

	When we were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
		Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, When we were Orphans, is sustained by the firm voice of Christopher Banks, its narrator.
		Banks is an odd fellow and he recounts an odd tale, but he speaks with confidence, trying to maintain control of a world that continues to disintegrate around him, certain at least of his goal.
		There is mention of a first acquaintance with Sarah Hemmings, another lost figure (and also an orphan) who is, essentially, the love of his life but never becomes his life-companion.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/ishigk/wwworps.htm (2717 words)

	Orphans in 19th Century Victorian England
		However, orphans were also often treated with disdain and distrust, due to their reputation as “criminally prone” individuals.
		However, children were often considered “orphans” if they had one surviving parent, had been abandoned by their family, or were forced out into the world because of overcrowding at home (Cunningham, “Orphan Texts”).
		In 1861, it is estimated that 11% of children had lost a father by the age of 10, 11% a mother, and 1% had lost both parents (Czarnik).
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/agunn/teaching/enl3251_spring2005/omf/GREIG.htm (700 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Reviews for When We Were Orphans: Books: Kazuo Ishiguro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When we were orphans is a slightly weaker book than we have come to expect from Ishiguru.
		When We Were Orphans is less moving, sad, and nostalgic than Never Let Me Go and The Remains of The Day, and yet, similarly to The Unconsoled, Ishiguru is succesfully branching out into new territory.
		WWWO is a serious and harrowing book about war and the different experiences of those who are forced to fight it, those who are shunted around in order to escape it, and those who are caught in the middle of it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /When-Were-Orphans-Kazuo-Ishiguro/dp/customer-reviews/057120516X (1573 words)

	Magnifying Memories: Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans
		In Kazuo Ishiguro’s recently published When We Were Orphans, which was short listed in 2000 for the coveted Booker Prize, the narrator remains constant; however, his often distorted perception of events, of himself, and of how others perceive him reveals his skewed interpretations of the past.
		When Christopher is orphaned at the age of nine, he is returned to London to live with his aunt.
		He is orphaned socially, as well, for he never quite assimilates with the “in crowd,” although he believes he does.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_literature/61686 (778 words)

	support for the Orphans
		It was at that point the term orphan film became officially part of the archival language and the scholarly language in general.
		The movies that become orphans as soon as their owners, parents, filmmakers, producers, exhibitors decide that they are no longer of use and throw them away, or make a VHS tape copy and discard the originals.
		The digital age is going to create a new massive generation of orphan films, and because of the digital age, a cyclical conception of history is going to find a pretty good justification because all the prints will be orphans more or less in the same way they have been orphans before 1908.
	www.sc.edu /filmsymposium/archive/orphans2001/usai.html (2718 words)

	Orphan Train, a special project of IAGenWeb Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This method of providing homes for orphans /children was the forerunner of foster care as we know it today.
		However, if you are ever privileged to be in the presence of an Orphan Train Rider and hear about their journey they are pleased with the outcome.
		Protestant "Orphan Trains" and Catholic "Mercy Trains" or "Baby Cars" have long since made their final trips to the West but their legacy lives on in the hearts of those they carried to their new homes and lives.
	iagenweb.org /iaorphans (1514 words)

	BookBravo.com - When We were Orphans, by Kazuo Ishiguro, ISBN 0375724400
		Despite their location on opposide sides of the planet, it has often been remakred that Japan and Britain bear an uncanny resemblance to one another, culturally speaking: two island nations that sit, somewhat defensively, off great continents.
		"When We Were Orphans" is a subtle book that captures the mystery of memory, how we know things, as Christopher Banks -- the not entirely likeable narrator -- comes to terms with the incomplete remembrances of his childhood, and tries to discover what really happened.
		In the end, he returns to Shanghai in 1937 to solve the mystery of his parent's kidnapping, discovering a Shanghai that is vastly different from the one he left as a child.
	www.bookbravo.com /week9_09042002.html (611 words)

	Special Session fact sheets: Orphans and children in a world of AIDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		• At the end of 1999, the estimated number of orphans living in some of the worst affected countries were: 211,000 in Burkina Faso, 900,000 in Ethiopia, 53,000 in Namibia, 970,000 in Nigeria, 371,000 in South Africa, 447,000 in Zambia, and 623,000 in Zimbabwe.
		• Although the orphan crisis is located mainly in Africa at the moment, countries in other regions (especially the Caribbean and Asia) are expected to experience large increases in the number of children orphaned by AIDS.
		It is better to devote resources towards strengthening the abilities of families and communities to care for orphans and other vulnerable children.
	www.un.org /ga/aids/ungassfactsheets/html/fsorphans_en.htm (746 words)

	"When We Were Orphans" by Kazuo Ishiguro - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But in "When We Were Orphans" when Ishiguro allows his style to recede so that the story can take over, it sometimes feels like the Creamsicle has fallen off and you're left holding the stick.
		But with "When We Were Orphans," it goes a little bit one way, then a little bit the other way, with a regularity that suggests Ishiguro is doing it on purpose, just to get you good and dizzy.
		As it is, "When We Were Orphans" is less than a proper mystery because you couldn't have figured it out ahead of time, and it doesn't end with enough of a Kafkaesque, mythopoetic wallop to make the surprise worth wringing your hands over.
	dir.salon.com /books/review/2000/09/19/ishiguro/print.html (957 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
		Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances.
		Christopher's voice is controlled, detailed, and detached, its precision unsurprising in someone who has devoted his life to the examination of details and the rigors of objective thought.
		The function of memory is already a major component of the narrative in the opening pages of the book: Christopher is writing in 1930 about something that happened in 1923, and within that memory are the memories of even earlier events.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375724400&view=rg (1319 words)

	Amazon.de: When We Were Orphans.: English Books: Kazuo Ishiguro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When We Were Orphans is an astonishing book, rich and profound on many levels, and one that will live clearly in the memory of all who read it.
		In When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro uses the conventions of crime fiction to create a moving portrait of a troubled mind, and of a man who cannot escape the long shadows cast by childhood trauma.
		When We Were Orphans is an extraordinary feat of sustained, perfectly controlled imagination, and in Christopher Banks the author has created one of his most memorable characters.
	www.amazon.de /When-Were-Orphans-Kazuo-Ishiguro/dp/0571205623 (2130 words)

	Orphans Baseball
		The Orphans finish the 2006 regular season with an overall record of 17-7, 12-4 in the NSL.
		Heber threw 7 strong innings in the loss for the Orphans.
		The Orphans have an uphill battle in the final weekend of the
	www.orphansbaseball.com /index.html (414 words)

	Committed and Abused: Were Quebec's Orphans Used as Guinea Pigs? by Christine Hahn
		As a result, Orphans say, one key group never held accountable for its fundamental role in their abuse may now get away with it too: the psychiatrists who signed bogus orders labeling them “mentally ill”, committing them to a living hell.
		The Orphans’ medical records and recollections of the Orphans themselves suggest the children were exploited as human guinea pigs for a new drug, chlorpromazine.
		Duguay and other Orphans say that while the province failed to provide them with records from their first years at their institutions, the drug they received was the same one all along, identified as chlorpromazine in later records.
	www.freedommag.org /english/press/page07.htm (1914 words)

	Amazon.ca: When We Were Orphans: Books: Kazuo Ishiguro (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The story is not about Banks¡s investigation of a shrewdly planned murder or a cunning theft; he is attempting to solve the greatest mystery in his life: the disappearance of his parents when he was a boy in early twentieth century Shanghai.
		In "When We Were Orphans" it also sometimes takes a very long time to get to a nearby point but this is because the path goes through an urban battleground, so the laws of nature are formally preserved, yet the eery feeling of irreality lingers on.
		Overall "When We Were Orphans" is more mature and less romantic work than "The Unconsoled" (and very different and not directly comaparable to "The Remains of The Day").
	www.amazon.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /When-Were-Orphans-Kazuo-Ishiguro/dp/067697306X (2903 words)

	CRITIQUE :: When We Were Orphans
		When We Were Orphans is the story of Christopher Banks, an orphan and a detective.
		In Orphans, the author’s clarity and a light touch have been replaced by a grid of pointless and repetitive language.
		Perhaps this is why the sections of Orphans that show Christopher as a young boy in Shanghai are among the best in the novel.
	www.critiquemagazine.com /article/orphans.html (854 words)

	Vintage Catalog \| When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
		Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents.
		Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own, painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him.
		Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one’s past.
	randomhouse.com /vintage/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0375724400&view=rg (321 words)

	When We Were Orphans is available from Bestprices.com Books!
		When the book moves from England to China, when Ishiguro brings to the fore the themes he has carefully nurtured, events and people become too programmatic and, at times, implausible....The canvas here is far larger than the one Ishiguro employed in THE REMAINS OF THE DAY.
		Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances.
		Within the layers of the narrative told in Christopher's precise, slightly detached voice are revealed what he can't, or wont, see: that the simplest desires -- a child's for his parents, a man's for understanding -- may give rise to the most complicated truths.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/0060824891BT.html (727 words)

	When We Were Orphans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When We Were Orphans is the story of Christopher Banks, an English child growing up in pre-World War One Shanghai whose father is in the opium trade.
		The only characters we really believe in are seen only fleetingly, and the narrator we are forced to live with is so dotty or distant or both that it’s difficult to grant him enough humanity to feel what he feels, however much he’s been through.
		Along these lines, When We Were Orphans can be read as a parable of English colonialism, with Christopher playing out the desire of Ishiguro’s adopted land to cope with both its colonial heritage and the loss of the colonies in which it was enacted.
	www.akst.com /when_we_were_orphans.htm (915 words)

	Book Review: Kazuo Ishiguro, When We Were Orphans
		It is less a story than an examination of themes of memory and nostalgia, loss and longing, which figure more as characters than the orphaned souls who drift unhappily through the narrative.
		When We Were Orphans is billed as a mystery, but it doesn't unravel as a whodunit, and there are no twists, turns, clues or surprises to provide the reader with the sense of urgency and suspense requisite to the genre.
		Here, in other words, at the heart of the maelstrom threatening to suck in the whole of the civilised world, is a pathetic conspiracy of denial; a denial of responsibility which has turned in on itself and gone sour, manifesting in the sort of pompous defensiveness I have encountered so often.
	www.movius.us /articles/chinanow/orphans.html (1470 words)

	Warm Blankets Orphan Care International
		Warm Blankets Orphan Care is a non-profit Christian mission, dedicated to the rescue of orphans and widows through third world church planting and orphan rescue and care.
		View our photo gallery showing the smiles and excitement of our most recent trip to Cambodia where hundreds of orphan children went on a trip down to the South China Sea where many of them were baptized.
		In the realms of its serene surroundings and rich, deep cultural traditions, there exists senseless violence, terror and repression, With increasing numbers of orphans from war, poverty and the Tsunami we strive to serve the orphans of Indonesia.
	www.warmblankets.org (540 words)

	The 50-Year War: Troops helped orphans
		They were orphans — tens of thousands of children left wandering, aimlessly looking for food, shelter and someone to take care of them.
		The orphans often had to be left behind when a unit pulled out.
		Some orphans were found in back alleys sleeping on straw in the mud, while some managed to find shelter.
	www.stripes.com /orphans.htm (1024 words)

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