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    Cry Freedom Cry freedom is a real life drama recorded as a movie. The movies main character is steve biko (played by the actor Denzel Washington)‚ a man in his early thirties who has the ability to lead his people; the blacks againt the South African injustices. He’s most recognised point or view was „we don’t want to be forced into your society...I’m not going to be what you want me to be.” Biko was able to show what apartheid has done when he meets a white journalist

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    SONNET 116 | PARAPHRASE | | Let me not to the marriage of true minds | Let me not declare any reasons why two | | Admit impediments. Love is not love | True-minded people should not be married. Love is not love | | Which alters when it alteration finds‚ | Which changes when it finds a change in circumstances‚ | | Or bends with the remover to remove: | Or bends from its firm stand even when a lover is unfaithful: | | O no! it is an ever-fixed mark | Oh no! it is a lighthouse | |

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    CRY FREEDOM. 1‚ THE BEGINNING: Start at the East London and there is the newspaper editor Donald Woods is the newspaper‚ suddenly arrives and gives Ken Robertson five photos that giving out police beating blacks‚ Woods decided to see them in the first page of his newspaper even though he knows that this is illegal. In one of the photos you see an image of a black (Biko) is a revolutionary. Biko had not let out of a given area. Woods wrote a story on Biko say q is the head of a black consciousness

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    Bookreport:“Cry Freedom“ by John Briley Author: John Briley was born in Kalmzooo‚ Michigan. After obtaining a BA and MA from the University of Michigan‚ he studied for a PhD in Elizabethan Drama at the University of Birmingham. There he wrote for television and films for MGM‚ UK. He also wrote the screenplay of the film "Ghandi". He is married and has four children. Now he lives in Spain. Date of publication: 1987 Characters: Donald Woods: he is a white man in his middle ages and is

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    A main character in the film ’Cry Freedom’ directed and produced by Richard Attenborough was Donald Woods. Donald Woods is a 41-year-old white Afrikaan editor. He is married with 5 children‚ 2 girls and 3 boys. They all live together in a huge mansion with a pool in the yard. They also have an African maid named Evelyn. He has greying hair‚ glasses and a cheerful personality. He also considered himself a white liberal. At the beginning Donald Woods was blind and ignorant to what Stephen Biko‚ black

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    Cry Baby Review

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    Cry-Baby is a 1990 American teen musical film written and directed by John Waters. The film did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release‚ but has subsequently become a cult classic and spawned a Broadway musical of the same name. John Waters first went mainstream with the 1988 classic Hairspray and then defied fans’ opinion. They complained he had gone all lame and mainstream by daring to follow it up with a full-on musical comedy. The film is a parody of teen musicals (particularly

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    The movie the cry for freedom is all about apartheid in South Africa. The main staring characters in the movie are Denzel Washington and Kelvin Cline. The movie is based on a true story. In this story‚ Denzel is one of the black leaders who are working to make things convenient for the blacks. On the other hand‚ Donald is an editor to the local newspaper. Biko teaches woods how to live the lives of the black people woods understands the way the black people are struggling to make ends meet. This

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    The book Cry‚ the Beloved Country is an interesting navel about apertide in South Africa. It talks about a man from a small village named Ndotsheni who travels to a large city to help his city. The theme of the movie Cry Freedom is a lot like the book. The movie is about a reporter who goes to South Africa to find out what it was like in the apertide. The book and the movie have many parallel themes One of the biggest themes found in the movie and the book is fear. In the book the first sigh of

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    Cry Freedom Steve Bantu Biko was born December 18th 1946 and died September 12th 1977. He was an apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s till 1970s. He did founded the Black Consciousness Movement‚ which would empower much of the urban black population. And he became famous for his slogan "black is beautiful"‚ the meaning of it was that you should be happy as you are and begin to look upon yourself as a human being. Steve Biko wanted to be a doctor and ergo is the reason why he studied

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    Cry Freedom The opening sequence depicts a South African police raid on an illegal shanti-town. Quick cuts create a sense of chaos‚ panic and confusion as uniformed police bludgeon Africans who run in fear. Close up shots of a vicious barking police dog are juxtaposed against a terrified baby screaming in order to shock the responder. Other quick cuts reveal policeman raping women and assaulting black Africans who are not resisting. The following scene depicts a young woman listening to

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