Sentences with phrase «in middle passage»

The dominant theme of these works is the transport of African slaves to America in the Middle Passage — the second or «middle» leg of the triangular trade of manufactured goods, slaves, and crops that transpired between Europe, Africa, and the American colonies from the colonial period until the middle of the 19th century.

In Windward Coast — West Coast Slave Trade (2009 - 2011) a crescendo of piano keys swell in turbulent waves, recalling the lives lost in Middle Passage.

One act outside can be two inside; the artists in The Middle Passage will bring hope and light to dark spaces.

It's in this middle passage of the film that The Fault in Our Stars succumbs most to triteness, thanks to an overly moralistic twist that sends Hazel and Augustus into an emotional tailspin.

Not exact matches

The passage of Bill C - 377, part of the Harper government's broader attack on labour rights, speaks to the Conservatives» fundamental lack of understanding of the role of organized labour in ensuring shared prosperity and a thriving middle class.

Should anyone doubt the bishops» commitment to the sovereignty solution, he need only consult another passage in the document that advocates «Palestinian representation in Middle East negotiations leading to Palestinian territorial and political sovereignty.»

A couple of hundred years later, there is a passage in Physiologus that says the Unicorn is «a small animal, like a kid, but exceedingly fierce, with one horn in the middle of the head; and no hunter is able to capture him... he has a beard and the cloven hooves of a goat.»

As an interesting note, some scribes in the Middle Ages simply changed the passage to read, «as it is written in the prophets..»

A chiastic literary structure can be viewed as a sort of sandwich, with repetitive parallel elements at the beginning and end as the pieces of bread, similar repetitive elements within those, representing the condiments, and the meat — the main point of the passage — in the middle.

Kenneth Bailey, research professor of the New Testament and scholar of Middle Eastern history and culture, uses the term «chiasm» to describe the repetitive kind of structure used in this passage.

The most frequently quoted Bible verse about modesty appears smack in the middle of a passage about false teaching.

The middle concept is also expressed in the next passage (which initiates III.3.3).

The specific focus is religious practices and Christian engagement during the «Middle Passage,» the horrific middle leg of the slave triangle when Africans were tightly packed in slave ships and shipped to the AmeMiddle Passage,» the horrific middle leg of the slave triangle when Africans were tightly packed in slave ships and shipped to the Amemiddle leg of the slave triangle when Africans were tightly packed in slave ships and shipped to the Americas.

As a result, «ideas of purity and impurity» which were so pervasive in the lives of Hindus have become much weaker, and in the life - style of the middle class they are «becoming confined to rites of passage, pilgrimages and a few festivals».

The experience of capture, enslavement, the middle passage, and being sold to Anglo owners is not analogous to that of Europeans leaving their homes for better economic opportunities in the Western Hemisphere.

This passage comes in the middle of a dispute with those Jews who refuse to believe in Jesus.

Mohammed's successors, the caliphs, quoted passages like these to inspire Muslim armies as they advanced out of Arabia, imposing Islam by the sword upon a peacefully unsuspecting Middle East and North Africa, as I described in the previous chapter.

However, in the middle of this passage, there is a section where Jesus illustrates what he has been teaching.

I found occasionally that assigned passages began too late or ended too soon for the movement of the pericope, and once in a while odd excisions were made right in the middle of the text.

For example, since they all thought the Middle Ages believed the universe was small and cozy, we read the passage in Ptolemy's Almagest where he concludes that the universe is unimaginably vast, and calls the whole earth (which Eratosthenes had accurately measured as about 8,000 miles in diameter) a needle prick compared with the universe; and we read Boethius» Consolation of Philosophy, which popularized this idea; and even a typical sermon that used the idea to show how great God was to have created such an enormous universe.

It will also mean a more direct style of play, the standard «out - ball» will be the threaded pass through the middle and this will come earlier than we are accustomed to in any passage of play.

See in the Chelsea game when Moronwhore decided to shut down the passage to his goal completely by pairing Matic with Mikel, or the game against Southampton where Sneidelin and Wanyama were paired solidly in the middle.

At 11:45 a.m., state Sen. Sue Serino and advocates hold a news conference to urge the passage of legislation prohibiting insurance plans and pharmacy benefit managers from changing drug coverages in the middle of a coverage year, outside the Senate Chambers, third floor, state Capitol, Albany.

No one deserves praise for passing bills in the middle of the night out of public view,» said this morning after the Assembly's early morning passage of the single bill.

Recent Maritime archaeology and technology has found and excavated the remains of the Royal Navy ships Erebus and Terror sent in the middle of the nineteenth century to discover the northwest passage.

Also at 2 p.m., Sen. Tony Avella and Assemblyman Edward Braunstein officially announce the passage of legislation in the Senate and Assembly expanding the J - 51 tax abatement program for middle class co-op and condo owners, Glen Oaks Oval, 260th St., Glen Oaks, Queens.

He emboldens a passage that says «The US population in late middle age is less healthy than the equivalent British population for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, myocardial infarction, stroke, lung disease, and cancer».

ALBANY, N.Y. (CBSNewYork / AP)-- New York would be the first state to make tuition at public colleges and universities free for middle - class students under a state budget poised for passage in Albany.

In one passage of the written transcripts from June 2015, Astorino says «HUD is trying to change the rules of the agreement in the middle of the game... as part of the settlement the county has to build 750 units of affordable housing in 31 eligible communities... In the middle of the game we get a letter from HUD saying, «not good enough, not good enough, we want you to do X, Y, Z.»&raquIn one passage of the written transcripts from June 2015, Astorino says «HUD is trying to change the rules of the agreement in the middle of the game... as part of the settlement the county has to build 750 units of affordable housing in 31 eligible communities... In the middle of the game we get a letter from HUD saying, «not good enough, not good enough, we want you to do X, Y, Z.»&raquin the middle of the game... as part of the settlement the county has to build 750 units of affordable housing in 31 eligible communities... In the middle of the game we get a letter from HUD saying, «not good enough, not good enough, we want you to do X, Y, Z.»&raquin 31 eligible communities... In the middle of the game we get a letter from HUD saying, «not good enough, not good enough, we want you to do X, Y, Z.»&raquIn the middle of the game we get a letter from HUD saying, «not good enough, not good enough, we want you to do X, Y, Z.»»

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo scored a major policy victory in this year's budget with the passage of his Excelsior Scholarship program, which most news accounts described simply as free college tuition for middle - class students.

In their goodwill messages, representative of the veteran journalists in Osun state, Kayode Adedire and retired Justice Moshood Kunle Ajeigbe expressed worry over the situation whereby budgeting in Nigeria is overshadowed by political interests leading to delay in budget passage by the National Assembly till middle of a year with reference to 2018 budget proposalIn their goodwill messages, representative of the veteran journalists in Osun state, Kayode Adedire and retired Justice Moshood Kunle Ajeigbe expressed worry over the situation whereby budgeting in Nigeria is overshadowed by political interests leading to delay in budget passage by the National Assembly till middle of a year with reference to 2018 budget proposalin Osun state, Kayode Adedire and retired Justice Moshood Kunle Ajeigbe expressed worry over the situation whereby budgeting in Nigeria is overshadowed by political interests leading to delay in budget passage by the National Assembly till middle of a year with reference to 2018 budget proposalin Nigeria is overshadowed by political interests leading to delay in budget passage by the National Assembly till middle of a year with reference to 2018 budget proposalin budget passage by the National Assembly till middle of a year with reference to 2018 budget proposals.

In the middle of the gateway is an opening, a passage so low that we have to crawl into the next chamber.

For example, the Dolphin - Union caribou, which live in the Canadian archipelago in the middle of the Northwest Passage, rely on ice bridges to get into mainland Canada for food in the winter.

I loved the passage and verse on the sides and the cursive last name that also happened to be ours in the middle.

In fact, his seminal work proved that, quite to the contrary, black folks arrived with a rich heritage which remained readily reflected in the many Africanisms which had somehow survived the Middle Passage and centuries - long ordeal of slavery and subjugatioIn fact, his seminal work proved that, quite to the contrary, black folks arrived with a rich heritage which remained readily reflected in the many Africanisms which had somehow survived the Middle Passage and centuries - long ordeal of slavery and subjugatioin the many Africanisms which had somehow survived the Middle Passage and centuries - long ordeal of slavery and subjugation.

But some of its middle passages have been saggy and exhausting, only coming back to some of its old energy in the past two «episodes» (The Force Awakens and Rogue One)

But star Amy Adams» role calls on her to spend a lot of time staring thoughtfully in the distance after reading a passage from her ex's tome, all while Ford piles on mean - spirited observations about the heroine's crumbling upper - middle - class lifestyle.

Tucked into the middle of the book, in a chapter about teacher evaluation, is a passage that gets to the crux of the debate on accountability:

Seidel cites a passage from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in which Douglass recalls the impact of hearing fellow slaves singing in the middle of the night.

Write a topic sentence from a nonfiction passage in the middle of your screen, and show students how to jot down supporting details in a web radiating from this main idea.

One of our middle schools went from being «accredited with warning» in math for two consecutive years to earning Virginia's second - highest accreditation rating and achieving a 100 percent math passage rate.

In history class, students choose from two dozen topics to brainstorm, such as the Middle Passage (the longest section of the trans - Atlantic trade triangle), field work, beatings, and biracial children.

But Professor Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot, eminent sociologist and educator, urges us to look with fresh eyes at what that passage may present: unique opportunities for learning, growth, and reconciliation, which can enrich our middle and later years in unexpected and deeply fulfilling ways.

Location: Middle Tennessee / Nashville Priority: Appropriate and Equitable Resources and Supports Topic: Teacher and student voice on reducing discipline disparities Summary: The funding for the Oasis Center, MNPS, and PASSAGE builds on the previous grant cycle of work that focused on educating current MNPS teachers on cultural competency, and implicit bias in order to promote the equitable treatment of students in MNPS schools.

By the same token, the major passages that students make in schools — for instance, into middle school, high school, or college — typically depend on students accumulating seat time and credits.

A few years ago, a middle school in rural New York State decided to institute passage presentations as a graduation requirement for 8th graders.

Because of an 8 percentage - point decline in Washington's 2011 middle school passage rate on state standardized tests, the state placed the school on its intervention list — despite a 15 percent jump in its high school test scores.

I decided to get it for 2 reasons: 1) the included CD - Rom makes it much easier to print the reproducible pages that I need for testing and 2) this edition includes an extra two hundred pages... Those 200 pages include a word list and passages for upper middle school and high school (which were absent in the QRI - II).

Accessible free verse and dramatic acrylic - and - watercolor illustrations combine in this unique perspective on the Middle Passage, told from the point of view of a blacksmith whose son becomes one of the Taken.

Sugar promises Sophie «the nicest softest bed» after a «very long journey»... now I have to go back and find a reference somewhere in the middle of the book about a trans - atlantic passage.