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    The Girl On The Train

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    THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN an original screenplay by Larry Brand 8180 Films P.O. BOX 975 Leland‚ MI 49654 Copyright 2011 Larry Brand THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN WHITE SPACE and the distant WHOOSH of the WIND. A few beats‚ then: MAN’S VOICE (OVER) You’re not real.... WOMAN’S VOICE (OVER) How do you know? MAN’S VOICE (OVER) Weren’t your eyes blue? A WOMAN’S EYES HOVER huge and luminous before us. Light brown. Haunting. THE MAN is OUTSIDE and VERY HIGH UP. A distant matrix of BRIDGES frames him like a

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    Tweleve Years a Slave

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    While reading this novel‚ I often thought about what I learned about slavery in school and the many films I’ve seen on the subject‚ most notably‚ the television series Roots ‚ which is probably most of our first visual representation of a slaveslife – but I thought‚ "Noooo‚ they got it wrong! Slavery was 50 times worst than any representation I’ve ever seen on a film." 

Solomon Northup‚ was a free born‚ African America man living in New York state in the early 1800s. He had a wife‚ three children

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    North American Slave

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    American Slave Revolts: The Creole Affair Although Northern newspapers no doubt give much attention to slave revolts and rebellion during the period of slavery little attention has been given by historians to the most interesting of all‚ The Creole Affair. To revolt means to detach from or rise against a higher authority for whatever reason. A slave revolt was when slaves rose against their mastered and tried to gain freedom anyway possible. A slave revolt is technically slaves having

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    derived from the master to slave morality‚ which Nietzsche focuses heavily on in this essay. Although‚ he states earlier that in a different form‚ it would be the priesthood despising the nobility. Mainly this would be due to a buildup of hatred towards the nobility‚ because of the vows that the priests have taken.

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    Girls are better

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    According to the National Association for Single S ex Education‚ there were only about twelve singlegender classrooms in 2002. However‚ ten years late r‚ in 2012‚ there were more than 500 public school s that offered single sex classrooms in the United States of America. Single sex education is quickl y taking over as the new ‘norm’ in education. Howe ver‚ separating males and females leads to gender stereotypes and inequality between women and men. Even though some students perform better

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    Goalie Stick Incident

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    The Incident of the Goalie Stick I had just finished my hockey game‚ one which we lost by far. I slowly skated my way off the ice‚ as everyone looked at the “losing team” in disappointment. I stepped my way over to the locker and to my surprise‚ a couple of kids had found a broken goalie stick‚ and the floor was a mess with splinters. It looked as if a volcano had erupted in the left side of the tiny locker room. These kids swung it back and forth‚ trying to break it‚ but had no luck in doing so

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    Education and Girls

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    Girls’ education: towards a better future for all Cover photo: A schoolgirl in Surinam. (© Ron Giling/Still Pictures) Girls’ education: towards a better future for all Published by the Department for International Development January 2005 ii Foreword by the Secretary of State for International Development ‘To be educated means… I will not only be able to help myself‚ but also my family‚ my country‚ my people. The benefits will be many.’ MEDA WAGTOLE‚ SCHOOLGIRL‚ ETHIOPIA

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    Slave Ad Essay

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    Slave Ad 1 After reviewing the three slave ads‚ the first one stuck out the most because of its subtlety and descriptive profiling. In the first slave ad it describes a runaway African-American slave that goes by the name of Will and the reward for his capture is 10 dollars. The time stamp of the article is 1774‚ a few years before the north American colonies declared independence from England. This ad was unique to the other ads in being more descriptive of the said slave than the second ad‚ as

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    Atlantic Slave Trade

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    The origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade were products of Western Europe’s expansion of power that began at the beginning of the 1500’s through the 1900‘s. The main contributing European countries to the Atlantic Slave Trade were Portugal‚ Spain‚ the Netherlands‚ France‚ and England. Portugal lead the movement during the 1400’s and arrived in Western Africa in hopes to find Christian allies to spread Christianity against the Muslims of Northern Africa. But they soon became more interested in trade

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    American Slave Garden

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    E. At the beginning of Chapter 3 of Narrative of the life of an American Slave (1945)‚ Douglass writes: ()By paying careful attention to Douglass’s language‚ consider this description as an allegory or as multi-layered story—what does it tell us about how power works in slavery; what is the fantasy of control that this garden suggests? In your essay‚ you might consider the symbolic meaning of the ‘’garden’’ and/or of the “tar”. The short paragraph gave information about the master of Douglass

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