Sentences with phrase «cotton pickers»

After seeing his father (David Banner) shot dead for objecting to the land's owner (Alex Pettyfer) having his way with Cecil's mother (Mariah Carey), young Cecil gets upgraded from cotton picker to house servant.

Just as impressive in a smaller role is the relatively unknown Kenyan actress, Lupita Nyong «o, who plays Patsey, Epps» pet «property», who is not only the best cotton picker on the land, but also has the affection, for better or worse, of Epps, to the point where his jealous wife (Paulson, Game Change) commits her own wicked acts against her.

Dorothea Lange Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940 Lange's work from the permanent collection at Oakland Museum.

Seed grants were awarded to 15 startup initiatives including projects focused on advancing labor rights for cotton pickers in Pakistan, promoting equal treatment for women soccer players in Brazil, developing an open - source, online civic participation platform, and more.

It is also perfectly choreographed so that the poor black cotton pickers of Thomas Hart Benton appear in direct contrast to Grant Wood's cheerful white sharecroppers, say, and the gothic windows in Paul Sample's Church Supper speak straight to the window in Wood's American Gothic.

But that theory discounts the fact that African - American cotton pickers had their own tradition of barbecue that was imported from the Deep South.

The Kenyan actress plays gutsy cotton picker Patsey in 12 Years a Slave but can she rival likely competition from more - established stars such as Jennifer Lawrence?

I much prefer the lightness, lyricism and invention of a drawing like «In the Roosevelt Time: Penned In» (2003), with its gray cotton picker dwarfed by green and blue - white plants.

Cotton pickers tend a suffocating Mother Earth.

His use of such evocative materials as bales of raw cotton, rope, and canvas bags like those of cotton pickers evoke black life under slavery; rusted debris found on city streets connotes urban degeneration.

Perhaps we can't change entire industries, or entire government systems, but every choice we make of where to shop, what to wear, what to purchase and what to eat has an absolutely direct and powerful impact upon life situations for children dying of starvation, pre-pubescent girls and boys working 18 or 20 hour days in toxic sweatshops, cotton pickers suffering from pesticide induced cancers, suicidal farmers, and upon the health and balance of Mother Earth.

But little in the film is more chilling than his relationship with his best cotton picker, Patsey (Lupita Nyong» o), a young woman whom he beats and rapes constantly.

Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940.

Ethical fashion is generally fashion and clothing produced with the whole production line and supply chain in mind, from cotton pickers to those who seal up, package and deliver.

Should this proposal prove to be practicable, its social implications might be of great moment because of its direct effect upon the cotton farmer and the cotton picker.

In the first comprehensive retrospective of Evans's photographs, 175 images are on display, including his indelible portraits of coal miners, cotton pickers, and subway riders.

Born in Jim Crow - era Birmingham, Alabama, as the seventh of 27 children, Holley traveled across the South and held a wide array of jobs (grave digger, cotton picker, and short - order cook at Disney World) before making his first artwork at the age of 29.

Bruce Silverstein took his usual seat on the bench at the back of the room, no doubt watching the sale of his consigned Dorothea Lange photograph of a cotton picker sell for $ 37,500 — around the low estimate plus fees.

The use of raw cotton bales point to the plight of the cotton pickers of the South, as the artist states: «I hope when I am no longer here these pieces will stand out as statements on black historical memory which demanded attention: not in a direct way, but in a way that allows everyone to participate and react».

Duties performed were spray arcing, flux core, metal core and short arcing, with fitter duties on trains and cotton pickers.

Fabrication duties: layout, fit and position weldments sequentially to create trains and cotton pickers.