Sentences with phrase «deep south during»

Set in the deep south during World War II, the quiet, intimate romance plumbs the hideous effects of racial prejudice and honors heroic efforts — all made by women — to make things right.

The latest feature from the American writer / director behind Pariah and Bessie is set in the Deep South during World War Two, and follows two families pitted against one another by a ruthless social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta.

Mudbound is an adaptation of Hillary Jordan's prize - winning 2008 novel of the same name, which tells the story of two families both at odds and tied together while struggling to get by in the racially divided Deep South during World War II.

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The power of their experiences during that long hot summer in the Deep South reverberates across the years.

In 1964 Benedict was instrumental in providing a used car for Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, the three young civil rights workers beaten and murdered in Philadelphia, Miss. — the most notorious crime committed during the Sixties» voting rights drive across the deep south.

During my stay in the deep south I acquired a taste for really good BBQ.

For example, the Israeli West Bank Barrier is called Geder Ha «hafrada, it means separation fence; and separation as a word is synonymous with segregation and this usefully points to another historical situation that casts some light here: the racist segregation policies of the USA concerning their black minority, particularly in the Deep South before they began to be dismantled during the era of the Civil Rights struggle under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luthor King.

Analysing new data from marine sediment cores taken from the deep South Atlantic, between the southern tip of South America and the southern tip of Africa, the researchers discovered that during the last ice age, deep ocean currents in the South Atlantic varied essentially in unison with Greenland ice - core temperatures.

During normal conditions, trade winds blow to the west across the tropical Pacific Ocean, piling up warm surface water in the western Pacific, and cold, deeper water rises up, or upwells, off the west coast of South America.

Director Daniel Barber's second film — after «OAP on the rampage» thriller Harry Brown — is a home - invasion tale, only it's set during the American Civil War when a trio of women on a farm in the Deep South are forced to fend off a pair of mercenary Union soldiers.

Director Luca Guadagnino follows up the excellent «A Bigger Splash» in another Italian location - moving from a deep south island to the north of the country during a langorous 1983 summer.

South says that if leaders want deeper learning and greater student engagement, then projects need to last longer, crossing over various periods during the school day to cover more than one content standard and provide in - depth experiences for students.

The Pulitzer Prize — winning author of All Over but the Shoutin» continues his personal history of the Deep South with an evocation of his mother's childhood in the Appalachian foothills during the Great Depression, and the magnificent story of the man who raised her.

Maldives liveaboard itineraries are just as varied with boats venturing south during the calm seas of the dry season to take advantage of the spectacular shark action in the channels with select boats even based in the deep south.

Mafia III is set in the deep South of America during 1968, New Bordeaux is a city with a mixture of ethnicities with French, Irish, Haitian, African, and American cultures.

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Their living legacy will better prepare the participating artists to respond to grant proposals, calls for exhibitions, and present their works to curators during studio visits; thus enabling them to further their careers by taking advantage of opportunities at home and outside the Deep South.

William S. Arnett, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, noted, «This collection documents a little - known tradition that began in the Deep South, likely during the earliest days of slavery.

This deep ocean warming in the model occurred during negative phases of the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO), an index of the mean state of the north and south Pacific Ocean, and was most likely in response to intensification of the wind - driven ocean circulation.

Evidence from ice cores and deep - sea sediment has shown that the Northern climate also cooled before the Southern climate during these abrupt changes, creating a «bipolar seesaw,» with the North cool while the South was warm, and the South cooling as the North warmed.

Zhakarov's model is conceptually simple: during periods of high precipitation when winter ice forms readily, summer ice cover increases, the atmosphere cools, the arctic front together with its associated rain belt shifts south so that freshwater input to the Arctic Ocean decreases, and winter ice cover is thicker, has a deeper draft, and so survives better in summer.

In the decades following the Civil Rights Movement, during which the city earned a reputation as «too busy to hate» for the relatively progressive views of some of its citizens and leaders compared to other cities in the Deep South Atlanta attained international prominence.