Sentences with phrase «aftermath of the civil war»

Profiles in Courage, for which Sen. John Kennedy received the 1957 Pulitzer Prize, revisited the aftermath of the Civil War.

Made from real cola nuts grown in the Gola Rainforest of Sierra Leone, proceeds from each bottle of Karma Cola go to the growers» families to re-establish their lives in the aftermath of civil war and ebola.

Still, a world where amputees will have limbs that allow them to feel what they are touching, and to have movement and capabilities much like an organic limb, if you will forgive me, is within reach, an accomplishment that could have never been foreseen way back in the aftermath of the Civil War.

And in the aftermath of Civil War, this could be a way of protecting his family from any fallout or persecution from the authorities.

A mildly pedestrian opening animation explains how in the aftermath of the Civil War, African - Americans moved away from the Southern plantations where they found work and into northern cities at the promise of better civil rights.

Dealing with the aftermath of Civil War, Scott Lang is now trying to cope with the small matter of being both a superhero and a father.

When DeVos addressed HBCU leaders directly the next day, she struck a different tone, saying: «Your history was born, not out of mere choice, but out of necessity, in the face of racism, and in the aftermath of the Civil War.»

In the aftermath of the Civil War, many young women had lost a sweetheart to the battlefield and others still waited for their first chance at love.

Suddenly finding herself in the aftermath of the Civil War, Kelly comes face to face with an uncanny clone of her husband who died too young, while Daniel sees in her the wife he lost.

In the USA, on the other hand, Mother's Day has its roots in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War when Julia Ward Howe wrote a call for peace and disarmament known as the Mother's Day Proclamation.

In this groundbreaking historical expose, Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history — an «Age of Neoslavery» that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, watercolor painting became more popular.

It traces a sense of Angola's colonial past and maps its present, touching on issues such as the aftermath of civil war, AIDS and oil production.

Not exact matches

«In the aftermath of «Captain America: Civil War,» Scott Lang grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a Super Hero and a father.

«These impacts are from increasingly severe droughts and eventual agricultural land - use recovery in the aftermath of the Syrian civil war.»

The situation would be exacerbated by increasing Syrian agricultural water use in the aftermath of the country's prolonged civil war, which could further diminish flow to the Yarmouk River, the largest tributary to the Jordan River.

In the aftermath of a brutal civil war, a majestic natural landscape teeming with exotic wildlife is being threatened by a British company that wants to drill into its heart — with the blessing of a compliant government that has granted the company permission to explore.

The complex event and its aftermath can also be further illuminated via discussions of larger themes in social and political history, such as balancing national safety and civil rights — comparing reactions to 9/11 with those following the attack on Pearl Harbor, for example — or the grounds for overseas military interventions — such as the recent U.S. engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan as compared with the U.S.'s position on the League of Nations after World War I. «These themes put a light on it,» Brodsky Schur says, giving teachers and even parents a way to integrate such a seemingly unteachable event.

Aptly named 13th, for the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery, this documentary follows the aftermath of the American Civil War for African Americans, and how slavery has only been perpetuated by different practices throughout the years like disenfranchisement and mass incarceration.

Black Panther picks up in the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, where audiences were first introduced to Chadwick Boseman's Prince T'Challa and his superhero alter ego Black Panther.

Director Ryan Coogler begins Black Panther in the aftermath of 2016's Captain America: Civil War, a story that introduced Wakanda into the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy - drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom.

In the aftermath of Captain America: Civil War, Scott Lang grapples with the consequences of his choices as both a super hero and a father.

Jacques Audiard)- North American Premiere Winner of the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes, this powerful drama from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet, Rust & Bone) follows a former Tamil Tiger soldier as he flees from the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war to begin a new life in a Parisian suburb.

«Inspired by real events,» The Whistleblower visits Bosnia in the rubble - strewn aftermath of the Yugoslav civil war and finds power, corruption and liesnot just among the bribe - taking, uncaring local authorities but also the U.N. officials and American contractors assigned to train the Bosnians in the ways of democracy.

In this tale, first serialized in 1912 and set in the aftermath of the American Civil War, we meet the title character (played by the unfortunately named Taylor Kitsch of Friday Night Lights), a former Confederate captain whose search for a gold - filled cave has him leaping through time and space to the planet of Mars.

Meanwhile, over on Channel 4, New Worlds has proven itself to be the poor man's Game of Thrones, more attentive to reality (it's set in the aftermath of the English civil war) but with characters that are not so much cartoonish as simply dreary.

Set 500 years in the future in the aftermath of a universal civil war, F...

«Ant - Man and the Wasp» centers on Ant - Man (Scott Lang) as a global fugitive, and deals with the aftermath of «Captain America: Civil War».

While her new novel deals with many of the themes typically explored in Li's writings — assimilation to American life, the lives of everyday people in China, and the damage wrought in the aftermath of China's civil war and turn to Communism — Kinder Than Solitude also contains a suspense element.

Pearl does not have to exaggerate the effects of the Civil War, for even though Boston of 1868 is far removed from the physical battle scars of the war, evidence of the painful aftermath is everywheWar, for even though Boston of 1868 is far removed from the physical battle scars of the war, evidence of the painful aftermath is everywhewar, evidence of the painful aftermath is everywhere.

She reconstructs an era of domestic terrorism not seen since the Civil War, and untangles the threads of racist fears, anti-Semitism, and social change surrounding the bombing and its aftermath.

Fallen Land is set during the end of the Civil War and describes a landscape in the aftermath of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's clamp - down of Georgia through which he delivered one of the definitive end points of the war between Union and Confederate forcWar and describes a landscape in the aftermath of Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's clamp - down of Georgia through which he delivered one of the definitive end points of the war between Union and Confederate forcwar between Union and Confederate forces.

Varina by Charles Frazier For fans of: News of the World by Paulette Jiles and The Son by Philipp Meyer A deeply moving and majestic portrait of the Civil War and its aftermath from the bestselling author of Cold Mountain — inspired by the adventure - filled life of Varina Howell Davis, the second wife of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America.

It's unknown what Tony Stark's status will be in the aftermath of «Civil War II,» which has found Stark pitted against his longtime Avengers teammate and friend Captain Marvel.

In 1938, Talladega Collage commissioned Hale Woodruff to paint a series of six murals depicting the Amistad uprising and its aftermath and the founding of the Alabama college after the civil war.

Both pieces inherit from the ignominious monarch who they place respectively in the aftermath of the South African Apartheid and at the time of the Spanish Civil War.

He's been too busy carting his large - format camera around the world to document the aftermath of events like the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Hurricane Katrina and the Lebanese Civil War.

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, as in week one, two, three and so on Ansari in his columns speculated on endless war, the identity of the war makers, the civil liberties crisis, race, surveillance, garrison state, action movies, the intersections of our foreign policy with our domestic scenes, and how bad could it all get for him.