Sentences with phrase «as emancipators»
Indeed, the simple state - versus - parents dichotomy fails to do justice to many educators» perception of themselves as emancipators of the minds of their students.
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I find that my own students are more than merely surprised to learn about the views of the author of the Declaration of Independence as well as the Great Emancipator.
Our identification of Lincoln as the «Great Emancipator» tends to erase memories of Lincoln's prewar positions on these points: He accepted them all.
In a far less villainous vein, Charles Middleton was cast as Tom Lincoln, father of the 16th president, in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940); he also portrayed the Great Emancipator himself on several occasions — while in 1937's Stand - In, Middleton was hilariously cast as an unsuccessful actor who dresses like Lincoln in hopes of landing a movie role.
Perhaps fittingly, the Anglo - Irish Day - Lewis has come to represent the schizoid heart of American history: as pioneer Hawkeye in The Last Of The Mohicans; wicked, flag - draped hood Butcher Bill in Gangs Of New York; soulless tycoon Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood; and now tin - voiced emancipator Lincoln.
Lincoln has two modes: the Great Emancipator as orator; and good ol' Abe as folksy Mark Twain storyteller.
This time, it's Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln, starring Daniel Day - Lewis as the eponymous Emancipator.
The rosy picture of the heroic Great Emancipator is probably not the full story, as high school social studies teacher (and rising YouTube star) Keith Hughes of HipHughes History explains in this excerpt.