Sentences with phrase «about confederate»
Upstairs McArthur has more brown billboards, while photographs by An - My Lê present Louisiana as contested territory — flooded by storms, bearing a monument to a Confederate general, and serving as the set for a film about a Confederate Army deserter.
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The Beguiled is a new take on the 1971 Clint Eastwood drama about a Confederate soldier imprisoned in a girls» school, told this time from the girls» point of view.
Listen to this short podcast from WNYC's «United States of Anxiety» about the Confederate Flag in the north.
Even within the family of Robert E. Lee, there are divisions over what should be done about Confederate monuments and what their ancestor stands for now.
The poll also delved into how New Yorkers feel about Confederate statues and memorials.
On Friday, DeMarcus Cousins told TMZ Sports about confederate statues: «[They should] take all them motherf ---- s down.»
He's not afraid to clap back at critics on Twitter or in interviews, whether it's about the Confederate flag, or an opponent's grandstanding.
Then he decided to preach his philosophy during the debate about the Confederate flag being removed from the South Carolina capitol.
Don't give me some BS about the Confederate flag.
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As Confederate statues and memorials are being removed across the U.S. following the violence at a weekend rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va., President Donald Trump took to Twitter Thursday morning to complain about the actions, calling it «sad» and saying the «culture of our great country [is] being ripped apart.»
But researchers gave participants the option to send people playing the game (who were really experimental confederates) notes about anything they wanted, and about half chose to write notes conveying information about the cheater's devious ways.
«There is no place for the Confederate battle flag in the iconography of the nation's most visible faith community,» explained Dean Gary Hall in a news release about the windows that include small Confederate flags as part of their interpretation of Lee and Jackson.
«It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.»
He once wrote this when asked about building Confederate monuments at Civil War historic sites: «I think it wiser moreover not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavoured to obliterate the marks of civil strife and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered.»
Some of you know what I'm talkin» about «cuz you is it — t «bacca spittin», Confederate - flag - wavin» rednecks!
Yes, this is about DACA and the Dreamers, taking down Confederate idolatry, combating 45 and the goons wearing his red hats, but it's also about a movement bubbling for a year to make a typically conservative sports fanbase care about progressive issues.
I realize I'm not supposed to get in the political arena as a football coach, but if anybody were ever to ask me about that damn Confederate flag, I would say we need to get rid of it.
It would be just about typical of the seemingly superhuman physical attributes of the Arsenal and Chile international if he was somehow to be fit enough to play some part in the Community Shield contest against Chelsea this weekend, despite the Confederates Cup delaying his summer break and then a bout of sickness meaning he did not get back to north London until this week.
In about 1864 (during American civil war between the Union side and the Confederates), President Abraham Lincoln, through an executive order / decree, suspended the legal «writ of summons», made a law that was back - dated (retrospective effect) and used it to try some detained saboteur suspects, and those convicted were executed within days after the review of the judgment.
Reps. Adriano Espaillat, a New York Democrat, and Dwight Evans, a Pennsylvania Democrat, penned a joint OpEd about the need to remove confederate symbols from their «place of reverence on federal public land.»
Staten Island Assembly member Matthew Titone also expressed concern about the «slippery slope» of a review that was sparked by opposition to Confederate monuments.
Trump on Thursday defiantly opposed the removal of Confederate memorials and revived a debunked story about a World War I era general.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D - NY), speaking in Syracuse Monday, said a national conversation about the inspiration of the attack and the meaning of the confederate flag is needed.
Washington (CNN)-- Senate Democrats pushed back en masse against one of President Barack Obama's federal court nominees on Wednesday, questioning Michael Boggs of Georgia about his past statements and beliefs about abortion, gay marriage and the Confederate flag.
The confederates were trained to make the study participants feel excluded by talking about stereotypically masculine topics (sports, video games and a class in business statistics) or stereotypically feminine topics (shopping, yoga and Pilates, and a class in child development) and by subtly excluding the participants from the conversations.
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What the film is saying about goodness (or ugliness or badness) is unclear as the «good» is just as bad as the «ugly,» but I can imagine that it's attempting to show that morality is more contextual than absolute, creating, as it does, an environment in which everybody is immoral even the Union and Confederate troops, who seem to be passing through this film on their way to another.
He has a sagelike quality, spinning yarns about a woman on trial for murdering her husband or invoking Euclid to make moral sense of how to handle the Confederate delegation en route to Washington, using these ostensible digressions to illuminate truths he presents as self - evident.
The past few weeks have revitalized debates across the country about what role Confederate monuments play in commemorating U.S. history.
John Carter (PG - 13 for violence and intense action sequences) Screen adaptation of «A Princess of Mars,» Edgar Rice Burroughs» sci - fi novel about a Civil War Confederate veteran (Taylor Kitsch) who is magically transported to Mars where he rescues a desperate damsel in distress (Lynn Collins) while on the run from a horde of 12 - foot tall green creatures.
In that regard, it is reminiscent of Willmott's own C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a brilliant, alternate - reality comedy which speculated about what the country would be like today if the South had won the Civil War.
Sofia Coppola remakes Clint Eastwood's Western thriller about a wounded Union soldier taking refuge in a Confederate girls boarding school, leading to rivalries and sexual tension.
After about five minutes of grandiose solemnity, Park drops the charade, revealing that the titular handmaiden, Sook - hee (Kim Tae - ri), is actually a master thief who's been assigned to persuade a Japanese heiress, Hideko (Kim Min - hee), to marry Sook - hee's confederate (Ha Jung - woo), who poses as one Count Fujiwara.
The trailer, and the final poster (also below), feature quotes from Martin Scorsese praising the «audacious» concept of this thriller about Civil War confederates who end up trapped in a field filled with mushrooms.
Leading the crew is Krystal (Keough), a young woman who is serious about sales, but who also advises her employees while getting lotioned up in a Confederate flag bikini.
I don't really buy the «Hollywood coastal elites» stereotype, if only because everyone in Hollywood is from everywhere else, but I do wonder how many of these voting groups are thinking about it as a depiction of a place that's fraught with controversy, both with police violence in Ferguson and controversies about tearing down Confederate statues.
Ishmael (Charlie Cox), who famously narrates the book and is mostly an observer of events once at sea, is made, unconvincingly, a favorite of Ahab's — they are forever hanging out, talking about things, collaborators and confederates.
«Max» is mostly about Max saving the Marine's younger brother (Josh Wiggins) and father (Thomas Haden Church) from his duplicitous former service buddy (Luke Kleintank) and his gun - dealing Mexican confederates.
Among them: an administrator called meetings to decide what to do about students wearing Confederate flag apparel; a principal banned the student newspaper from covering a controversial issue, only relenting when the local media reported the story; and a student Bible group, prohibited from distributing fliers on campus unless the word prayer and any Biblical quotations were eliminated from the flier, filed suit against a principal.
My «Rewriting American History» column, about the dismantling of Confederate monuments, generated considerable mail.
But in her fourth novel, The Spy Lover (Thomas & Mercer), she pulls from her Alabama - born father's family history to tell a gripping Civil War story about three complicated, suffering people — a nurse who's spying for the Union behind enemy lines, a Chinese immigrant who escapes his conscription into the Confederacy to fight for the Union instead, and a wounded Confederate cavalryman.
I was just shocked by the Confederate flags on the lawns and the jokes about the «War of Northern Aggression.»
Of the 40,000 Confederates and 30,000 Federals about to come face to face along the banks of the Tennessee River, these four soldiers will experience fear and questions of faith for what lies beyond.
Asch arranged for groups of five to seven confederates to meet in a room with a single real experiment subject and answer questions about the lengths of lines on cards...
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday about whether banning a license plate with a Confederate flag on it violates free speech.
The Nigerian email schemers had a U.S. - based confederate, an existing client of the lawyer, help them convince the lawyer that the client was about to inherit $ 18.8 million from a long - lost Nigerian cousin.
About... Frederick first gained notoriety as a Civil War crossroads through which both Union and Confederate troops once marched, and serves as the county seat.