![]() The Birth of a Nation premiered in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where Fox Searchlight Pictures bought worldwide rights to the film in a $17.5 million deal (at the time the largest deal at the festival), and won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. The film's title is an ironic callback to the 1915 KKK-focused silent film. ![]() Parker also petitioned financiers to invest in the film, ultimately getting an $8.5 million production budget, and started filming in May 2015 in Georgia. ![]() The film stars Parker as Turner, with Armie Hammer, Mark Boone Jr., Colman Domingo, Aunjanue Ellis, Dwight Henry, Aja Naomi King, Esther Scott, Roger Guenveur Smith, Gabrielle Union, Penelope Ann Miller, and Jackie Earle Haley in supporting roles. ![]() It is based on the story of Nat Turner, the enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831. The Birth of a Nation is a 2016 American period drama film written and directed by Nate Parker in his directorial debut. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life. Read reviews and buy The Pocket Rumi - (Shambhala Pocket Classics) by Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (Paperback) at Target. ![]() By turns soaring, inspiring, lyrical, entertaining, and always full of profound guidance, Rumi’s transcendent words penetrate to the very depths of one’s heart, offering eloquent expression for what lies there. His compassionate insight into the nature of human existence, his joyful humor, his deep wisdom, and his ecstatic songs of divine union have endeared him to readers for more than seven hundred years. Selected from his most-loved works, this book contains the very best of Rumi’s poetry in superb translation. The renowned Persian Sufi mystic Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi (1207–1273) is one of the most widely read poets in the world today. During this period, Rumi also travelled to Damascus and is said to have spent four years there. He also served as a Molvi (Islamic teacher) and taught his adherents in the madrassa. A collection of Rumi’s best, most beloved poetry-presented in one pocket-sized volume for on-the-go inspiration Rumi's public life then began: he became an Islamic Jurist, issuing fatwas and giving sermons in the mosques of Konya. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Because for children like Omari, the stakes are as high as their mothers’ love is deep. ![]() For all its beauty and lyricism, Weatherford’s book doesn’t equivocate. But because Omari is black, his mother’s prayers take on a striking and sobering specificity: she asks for his safety in neighborhoods “beyond our own” and “as you cast a longer shadow,/ that you will be viewed as a vessel to be steered/ rather than a figure to be feared.” Pinkney (On the Ball) uses sweeping, expressive ink lines and radiant washes of color to create both an impressionistic mood and poignant immediacy. The next few years will be defined by an intense physical connection-“I kiss your scrapes and scratches/ and wipe your occasional tears,” writes Weatherford ( Freedom in Congo Square)-and then she will need to let go. A mother dreams about the future as she cuddles her newborn son, Omari. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was very fond of Billy and will miss him a lot. It’s comforting to know that Billy’s spirit will live on in his wonderful books. In the Christmas carols, he always sang the part of the Myrrh king in “We Three Kings.” (“Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying”-he loved that line.) He also cooked the Christmas geese, which were always delicious.Ī few years ago Billy visited us in Rochester and gave a talk at a nearby school we went along to hear it. Billy’s presence always added an extra level of fun and excitement. Some of my happiest memories are of gatherings with Billy and others in Urbana at Christmas time, with various assortments of friends and relatives. ![]() He would always compliment me and extol my virtues he always found ways of making me feel good about myself. Whenever I met him he always showed great interest in what I was doing. He was also extremely sensitive and considerate. He had an incredible variety of interesting experiences in his life, and he told about them with color and panache. ![]() He was perhaps the most entertaining person I’ve ever met. ![]() ![]() William Wordsworth S Preface To The Lyrical Balladsĭescription: Central to the creative process of the Romantic poets that followed him, Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has been both a gift and a thorn in the side of critics for over a century. ![]() ![]() No other edition on the market has such a wealth of key background information. This edition - based on the 1805 edition, but looking back on each of the previous publications - shows how this collection developed, how it was refined and added to by the authors. Lyrical Ballads was not a single phenomenon but a sequence of four editions spread over seven years its appearance in English literature was not a historical moment but a sequence of moments - 1798, 1800, 1802, 1805. and proving that, while there was no actual revolution on the ground, England could still be the most revolutionary of places. Written in the language of the common man and addressing the concerns of the common man, Lyrical Ballads was the first - and remains the most - truly revolutionary collection of poetry, paving the way for the great Romantic poets - keats, Byron, Shelley et al. Lyrical Ballads represented a movement away from the overwrought, highly formal and learned verse of the 18th century and in so doing ushered in a new, more democratic poetic era. first published in 1798, it marked a radical change in the direction of English Literature. ![]() Description: Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is a unique work of literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The look on Hastings’ face, the thousand-yard stare of a suffering man, says it all.Įxton also added moments to emphasize Poirot’s characteristic self-confidence and habitual desire for order. Only the sound of a projector being cranked by an orderly can be heard. In a London hospital, Hastings passes the time recovering from his war wounds by watching newsreel footage of the fighting. Screenwriter Clive Exton conveyed the high points of the novel while paring away unnecessary scenes and adding new ones. To Americans used to large houses, fluorescent lights and central heat, seeing Styles Court with its crowded rooms and quiet, expansive lawns where its residents take tea and play tennis, can feel as exotic as visiting Middle-Earth. This fidelity to Christie rewards viewers unfamiliar with how people lived in Britain at that time. The British TV show is noted for remaining faithful to the stories and taking pains to use authentic props and locations. Fortunately, it was from the excellent Agatha Christie’s Poirot series starring David Suchet as the Belgian detective. There is only one film adaptation of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. ![]() ![]() Consistency is important to children with special needs. It will give the parents great comfort to know their child is in good and consistent hands. The buddy will know the child’s church schedule and parents’ cell phone numbers, and seek to discover how to help the child when he or she is in need. Locate volunteers who will be buddies to children with different abilities. A buddy is the person who is always with that child while on campus.Perhaps you don’t have a large number of families with special needs children, but you want to minister and meet the needs of even one. If this is a ministry need in your church or community, it would be great to find someone who can train your teachers to teach children in the special needs ministry. ![]() ![]() Many families that have a child with special needs may not attend church because they feel their child is a burden or because churches are ill-equipped to take care of them. This question can be touchy and difficult. ![]() ![]() ![]() He talks about what Parkinson's has given him: the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career, and the opportunity to help search for a cure, and spread public awareness of the disease. Most importantly however, he writes of the last 10 years, during which - with the unswerving support of his wife, family, and friends - he has dealt with his illness. Now, with the same passion, humor, and energy, that Fox has invested in his dozens of performances over the last 18 years, he tells the story of his life, his career, and his campaign, to find a cure for Parkinson's.Ĭombining his trademark ironic sensibility, and keen sense of the absurd, he recounts his life - from his childhood in a small town in western Canada, to his meteoric rise in film and television which made him a worldwide celebrity. ![]() Fortunately, he had accepted the diagnosis, and by the time the public started grieving for him, he had stopped grieving for himself. In fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years. ![]() Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease - a degenerative neurological condition. ![]() ![]() ![]() In sharply personal prose, Mo Yan depicts a world of desperate families, illegal surrogates, forced abortions, and the guilt of those who must enforce the policy. She decides to prove her allegiance by strictly enforcing the one-child policy, keeping tabs on the number of children in the village, and performing abortions on women as many as eight months pregnant. ![]() But when her lover defects, Gugu's own loyalty to the Party is questioned. In her youth, Gugu-the beautiful daughter of a famous doctor and staunch Communist-is revered for her skill as a midwife. Frog opens with a playwright nicknamed Tadpole who plans to write about his aunt. In his much-anticipated new novel, Mo Yan chronicles the sweeping history of modern China through the lens of the nation's controversial one-child policy. A NEW YORK TIMES TOP BOOK OF 2015 WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK The author of Red Sorghum and China's most revered and controversial novelist returns with his first major publication since winning the Nobel Prize In 2012, the Nobel committee confirmed Mo Yan's position as one of the greatest and most important writers of our time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Regions emphasize distinct types of prejudice with varying degrees of Terminology is a global phenomenon starting early post-2010 in pioneeringĬountries yet mostly worldwide ubiquitous post-2015. We find that increasing prominence in news media of so-called wokeness News and opinion articles across 124 popular news media outlets from 36Ĭountries representing 6 different world regions: English-speaking West,Ĭontinental Europe, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Persian Gulf region andĪsia. ![]() Quantify the prevalence of prejudice-denouncing terms and social justiceĪssociated terminology (diversity, inclusion, equality, etc) in over 98 million Here, we extend previous analysis to the global media environment. Increasing perceptions of prejudice severity in society as the Great Awokening. These institutional trends and related shifts in US public opinion about racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia,Īnti-Semitism, etc) in US and UK news media content. Download a PDF of the paper titled The Great Awokening as a Global Phenomenon, by David Rozado Download PDF Abstract: Previous research has identified a post-2010 sharp increase of words used toĭenounce prejudice (i.e. ![]() |