Many of our troops kept notes, diaries -- some pithy, some very meticulous -- wrote letters, drew sketches and kept other accounts of their struggles, suffering and sacrifices, but also of their moments of triumph and even the off-chance romance.
But I do think that Obama, as standard-bearer of what he calls the Joshua Generation — the generation that gained so much from the struggles, suffering, protests, and even martyrdom of members of the Moses, or Civil Rights, generation — signals a real and historic advance in race relations in the United States.
A story of the emergence of a personality and a talent, with its implicit motifs of struggle, conflict, suffering, and success, has an inevitable appeal for the novelist; many first novels are autobiographical and attempt to generalize the author's own adolescent experiences into a kind of universal symbol of the growing and learning processes.
Over lunch recently with his daughter, Ellen Rogovin Hart, Mr. Rogovin opened his picture notebooks as if they were family albums, to take another visitor through an exceptional half-century record of struggle, suffering, determination and hope.
But how wondrous it is to know that over the course of billions of years, life has been wiggling, worming, struggling, suffering, surviving, reproducing, changing and working its way to its astounding present diversity, including those most mysterious of creatures, ourselves.
My wish would be that people were able to overcome the struggle, suffering on a daily basis, and create amazing careers and energy shifts.
The triumph of "Growing Up Trans" is that it makes viewers feel the struggle, suffering and some of the victories for the children and their parents even as it provides a world of information on coming-of-age transgender.
As he lay there struggling, suffering from internal bleeding and holding on for dear life, he tried to communicate but was having difficulties according to witnesses I found on my own.
These are the struggles those suffering from addiction face on a daily basis.
Pride often prevents families from being open about their struggles, and suffering in silence is often preferred to letting your hardships be judged by the world.
We need to make everything about de-colonization and liberation, but when it comes to sexuality, too many of our gente revert back to some archaic Iberian/patriarchy/homophobia.There's a lot we need to change, but things change when we start to pay attention and address the root causes of people's struggles and suffering.
