people. It begins in a small Solomon Vandy’s village is attacked by rebel forces and his family is put in danger. RUF slaughter many of the village people‚ and because killing isn’t enough‚ there are scenes where villager’s hands are cut off to prevent them from voting in elections. Solomon is separated from his family becomes a slave‚ forced to work in RUF diamond fields. The diamonds are used by the RUF to trade for weapons and fund other things. Working‚ Solomon finds a rare pink diamond of
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Blood Diamond This movie begins as a man named Solomon gets captured when the rebels of a war that’s going on‚ invade Solomon’s village. Solomon becomes enslaved and is forced to work in the diamond fields under the command of Captain Poison. When he got captured he got separated from his family. The rebels group that captured Solomon is called the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The RUFD use the diamonds to support and fund their war effort. They trade the diamonds for guns and armed weapons
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Twelve Years A Slave Solomon Northup 22 Chapters Chapter 1. Solomon describes his life as a free man‚ in a free state in which he were born and free for thirty years‚ married with children‚ telling the time he spends with his family and making a living through his many trades‚ including farming‚ lumberjack‚ and mostly performing on the violin. Chapter 2. Solomon had been asked with pay‚ to play his violin for the circus with a pay of four dollars a day. Without speaking to his wife first about
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have divided the animal kingdom into about 35 phyla (Solomon et al.‚ 2011). Out of these‚ phylum Annelidia composed of about 15‚000 species which is further divided into 3 main classes – the Polychaeta (marine worms)‚ the Oligochaeta (earthworms and freshwater worms) and the Hirudinida (leeches). On the other hand‚ phylum Arthropoda is the largest animal phylum which is composed of millions of species with more than a million being described (Solomon et al.‚ 2011). This phylum is further divided into
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Wednesday‚ 6-9pm The film starts out as Solomon Vandy and his son‚ Dia‚ were on their way home and notices that a group of rebel forces were bound for their town. Many people were killed‚ some who were lucky got out (including Solomon’s family) while some unfortunate ones got captured and made to work in the mines like Solomon. They were made to mine for diamonds‚ blood diamonds. These gems are used to fund wars throughout the country. While working in the mines‚ Solomon chanced upon a huge pink diamond
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Except for a few minor inaccuracies‚ 12 Years A Slave is very historically accurate in its portrayal of the characters and events Solomon Northup faced during his journey of serving as a slave. At the beginning of this movie the phrase‚ “based on a true story” was depicted. Because the film as a whole portrayed Solomon’s true journey as a slave‚ one may say the movie is genuinely based on true events and historically accurate. The movie began as though there were flashbacks to events that took
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our rights? Good morning to Mr Philip and my friends. On this glorious morning‚ I would like to take this opportunity to share a movie entitled 12 Years a Slave. It was a dreadful incident that based on real story of Solomon Northup‚ a free black man who lived in Saratoga Springs (Coyne‚ J.‚ 2014). He suffered 12 years for being a slave and treated cruelly by the slave handlers as a result of abducted by few white men and forced into slavery (Yareah Magazine‚ 2014). He
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One might define journalism as the act of putting into writing the happenings in the world at large. Events occur in the world and are relayed back to the world by reporters. Reporters are named such due to their effort to objectively report the facts‚ and objectivity is the key. To remain completely impassive‚ to transmit occurrences in the world back to the world unaltered and exactly as they were‚ is the main goal of journalism. In fact‚ this goal is so central to journalism that one might call
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story. It’s about an African American freeman‚ Solomon Northup who was taken in Washington and was sold to be a slave in 1841. Solomon Northup used to work as a violinist and was living in a happy family in New York. There were two white men that tricked Solomon; they invited Solomon to a dinner. Solomon got dunked because of them. When he woke up in the morning‚ the two white men bring him to a slavery place. He didn’t know what was going on. Solomon
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11/15/12 Solomon came into this role after a long career in non-profit and faith-based work‚ including work with the United Council of Catholic Bishops. Solomon grew up in Ethiopia‚ during the reign of Haile Selassie. Solomon’s family was part of the ruling class in Ethiopia. However‚ his father instilled a strong sense of service and justice in all of his children. All that was passed on to his children came from the tenets of Catholic Social Teaching. Solomon attended a Catholic college
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