When it came to role models, Diana Ortiz said her mother, Marcia Dominguez, was the "hero". Ms. Dominguez came to the United States from Cuba in 1979. She went to college and got a job as a social worker --- all the while raising three children in America mostly on her own.

"It was always school first," Diana said, "My mom had us in a straight line. If we got out of line, she corrected us. She was a perfect woman. She was beautiful, she had the education and she had everything --- but the illness took over. When I was 11, it frightened me to see how quickly my mother's health was ruined by cancer. A week before I turned 14, my mother died at age 50. I had tried to prepare myself, but on the first morning I woke up without my mother, the sense of loss was painful."

Diana had not seen her father for five years, who refused to provide for her. Diana then entered the city's foster care system. She has spent about four years in foster homes.

Despite Diana's hard teenage years, the values her mother had planted in her mind inspired her to go after higher education. Since August 2010, she has been a fulltime student majoring in law. A public organization offers her tuition but she has part-time jobs to help people like her and earn more life experience. Her goal is a job in the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

For now, Diana works 20 hours a week as a cashier at Marshalls, earning $7.25 an hour. In November, she moved into her own public housing studio apartment on the Lower East Side. She pays $236 a month in rent. Although she is out of foster care, Diana has been speaking at workshops for foster youths. She emphasizes that nothing should get in the way of their success, not the trials of their lives or what they may have lost.

"I tell the young who have the similar experience like me, 'Why are you going to let what happened to you affect you in the long run?' " Diana said. " 'Why are you going to sit there and feel sorry for yourself? You're wasting precious time.' It is a message my mother would approve of. My mom taught me that everything is not given to you. You have to go out and get it." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who died young?
2. How old was she?
3. Where did she come from?
4. What happened to the girl?
5. For how long?
6. Why?
7. When had she last seen him?
8. What is her goal?
9. What does she do for now?
10. Where?
11. Where does she live?
12. Does she have a house?
13. Where?
14. What else does she do?
Answer: 1. Diana's mother
2. 50
3. Cuba
4. she went to foster care
5. four years
6. Her father refused her
7. five years ago
8. work for Federal Bureau of Investigation
9. works as a cashier
10. Marshalls
11. the Lower East Side
12. no
13. an apartment
14. speaks at workshops

Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. Its name translates to "White city". The urban area of the City of Belgrade has a population of 1.23 million, while over 1,68 million people live within its administrative limits.

One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinca culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region, and after 279 BC Celts conquered the city, naming it "Singidun". It was conquered by the Romans during the reign of Augustus, and awarded city rights in the mid-2nd century. It was settled by the Slavs in the 520s, and changed hands several times between the Byzantine Empire, Frankish Empire, Bulgarian Empire and Kingdom of Hungary before it became the capital of Serbian king Stephen Dragutin (12821316). In 1521, Belgrade was conquered by the Ottoman Empire and became the seat of the Sanjak of Smederevo. It frequently passed from Ottoman to Habsburg rule, which saw the destruction of most of the city during the Austro-Ottoman wars. Belgrade was again named the capital of Serbia in 1841. Northern Belgrade remained the southernmost Habsburg post until 1918, when the city was reunited. As a strategic location, the city was battled over in 115 wars and razed 44 times. Belgrade was the capital of Yugoslavia from its creation in 1918. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is the main subject?
2. What culture developed in the 6th millenium BC?
3. Where is it a capital of?
4. In terms of size, what's it ranking?
5. What's its population?
6. From what era was the Vinca culture?
7. Who lived there in antique times?
8. Until when?
9. What was it called then?
10. When did the Romans take over?
Answer: 1. Belgrade
2. Vinca
3. Serbia
4. 1.23 million
5. 1.23 million
6. 6th millennium BC
7. Thraco-Dacians
8. 279 BC
9. Singidun
10. during the reign of Augustus

Jimmy didn't eat breakfast. Because he didn't eat breakfast he was very hungry and could not stop thinking about food. He was thinking about all of the things that he liked to eat the most. He was thinking about breakfast foods like bacon and eggs but he was also thinking about lunch and dinner foods like pizza and macaroni and cheese. Jimmy was even thinking about some of his favorite desserts like chocolate cake and cherry pie. He was even thinking about vanilla pudding and he doesn't even like vanilla pudding. Jimmy was so hungry that he was having a hard time playing with his friends. Jimmy was playing with Tommy, Timmy and Suzy. Timmy chose not to play. Jimmy wasn't having any fun because he was so hungry. Jimmy was playing hide and go seek with Tommy and Suzy but he could not find any good places to hide. Jimmy did not want to play hide and seek. If he had to play a game he wanted to play tag but what he really wanted to do was eat lunch. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who didn't eat breakfast?
2. Who was he playing with?
3. Who wasn't playing?
4. What were they playing?
5. who didn't want to?
6. What would he rather do?
7. and?
8. Was he having fun?
9. Why not?
10. why?
11. Did he think about eating?
12. what foods?
13. like what?
14. Was he thinking about other foods?
15. what kind?
16. Did he think of any others?
17. What category?
18. How many desserts?
19. Did he think about foods he didnt like?
20. what food?
Answer:
1. Jimmy
2. Tommy, Timmy and Suzy
3. Timmy
4. hide and go seek
5. Jimmy
6. play tag
7. eat lunch
8. no
9. he was so hungry
10. he didn't eat breakfast
11. yes
12. breakfast foods
13. bacon and eggs
14. yes
15. pizza and macaroni and cheese
16. yes
17. desserts
18. unknown
19. yes
20. vanilla pudding