FLYIN’ WEST by Pearl Cleage A Guide for Study Montclair State University Theatre Department Feb 24– 27‚ 2005 Flyin’ West Study Guide Prepared by Catherine Rust‚ Dramaturg TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction …………………………………………………………………1 Play Synopsis ………………………………………………………………..1 Historical Context A Country Divided ………………………………………………….2 Slave Life ……………………………………………….…...3 Seminole Culture ……………………………………………4 Emancipation Proclamation …………………………………………4 Reconstruction ………………………………………………………5
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West African Slave Trade The West African Slave Trade was a global event that focused on West Africa. It was the sale and ownership of another human being that was put into slavery. It was a “forced Migration” that lasted 300 years. It was an event that forced 15‚ 000‚ 000 people into slavery for a lifetime. From 1551 – 1850 about 15‚000‚000 people were brought into the slave trade it is said that roughly 5‚000‚000 did not survive‚ and may have immediately died before making through the shock
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The American west was perceived as a land of opportunity and success for many people of different racial and financial backgrounds during this specific era. However‚ the extent of success from opportunity varied on one’s race‚ willingness to take chances‚ and federal involvement. Farmers‚ miners‚ and indigenous people predominantly appeared in the west for opportunity. Farming dominated the West beginning in the 1870s‚ but the decline of agriculture economically immediately followed during the mid-1880s
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The Belleville West volleyball team are the first team so far this season and last season to have given Althoff a loss after having a winning streak of about 20. After a slow start in the beginning Maroons defeated the Crusaders Tuesday night. The Belleville West volleyball team were thrilled to hand the Crusaders an L after an amazing winning streak. Kaylee Hanger‚ Katherine Koch‚ and Nisha Quarles all played major roles in beating the Crusaders. Hanger made 13 kills with 17 assists‚ Koch proceeded
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MODERNITY AND WEST: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. Modernity and West are two closely tied terms. We often even use these as synonyms; in place of one or the other. The reason why these two words are so closely related is that modernity is part of the new identity that the West built for itself after having found the Americas. In sociology‚ the first and foremost clues of modernity are found in Europe‚ and it has been seen that modernity developed under the banner of Europe all along‚ therefore‚ it is
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Yr 12 Shakespeare Essay: Masculinity- ‘Gender and Power’ Masculinity is associated with certain character traits‚ and every time masculinity is mentioned‚ violence soon follows. Discuss this statement in relation to the male characters in the play Macbeth. William’s Shakespeare’s Macbeth tells the story of a man who allows the questioning of his manhood along with his ambition to lead him into a spiral of committing brutal and senseless acts of violence. The characters in Macbeth associate
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Georg Simmel‚ a sociologist and a philosopher born in 1858 in Germany‚ is best known as a microsociologist who played a significant role in the development of small-group research‚ symbolic interactionism and exchenge theory. There are four basic levels of concern in Simmel’s work. First are his assumptions about the psychological workings of social life. Second is his interest in the sociological workings of interpersonal relationships. Third is his work on the structure of and changes in the
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Faith Basketball is basically a game were it is two different teams of five players on a rectangular court. In the very beginning the color of the basketball was brown‚ but later it was changed into a brighter color‚ that is now orange. The first basketball game took place in 1982‚ where the court was half the size of today’s courts‚ and only one point was scared during the match. The NBA was founded in 1949‚ after the combination of the NBC and the BAA (basketball association of America). Basketball
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The making of West Side Story contains multiple aspects that fascinate me. Part one of the 3-part radio series explains the interesting original plan for the show‚ the use of cinematic movements‚ and the illusion of tough talk. The producers originally devised a plan that involved parties‚ Catholics‚ and Jews on the east side of New York City. However‚ the papers filled with juvenile delinquents and gangs inspired them to change the plot to the gangs of the west side. I find their inspiration for
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The documentary of Women of the Wild West is all about incredibly independent‚ out of the norm‚ women from the wild west. Many people had the gold fever‚ to move west for gold‚ for opportunity. The trip was a long hard one‚ in which originally it was thought that women would not go. Women knew the men would be gone for a very long time‚ which started the common travel of women and children with the men. Women began to receive more credit for themselves because they were forced to travel in this rough
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