Sentences with phrase «life during the civil war»

After learning about the plight of these children, can you still do nothing for them while at the same time thinking that if you had lived during the Civil War, you would have been on the side of freedom?

Students use library or provided online resources to create a museum exhibit or a fictional journal or newspaper account about life during the Civil War era.

Life During the Civil War Era Students create a museum exhibit or a fictional journal or newspaper account about life during the Civil War era.

Based on the true history of Town Line, New York — the only town north of the Mason Dixon line to secede from the Union — readers are treated to a heartbreaking and redemptive story that captures both the ugliness and beauty of life during the Civil War.

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Matthew McConaughey stars in this historical epic that tells the story of a real - life farmer who helped lead his own rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

From: A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War, by Parthenia Antoinette Hague.

The Naper Settlement, a «19th - century living history museum,» becomes a Civil War battleground during Civil War Days.

«Dr. Brown was a trailblazer who fought heroically for his country despite segregation during World War II and improved the lives of countless New Yorkers and Americans through his work in the Civil Rights Movement and the education field.

This describes someone with an unfortunate set of buck teeth.On Tuesday, the reality TV starlet shared this sneak peek (below) of their 25 days of Christmas starring none other than almost all the females of their clan!With Kimmy, Kourtney Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, grandma Mary Jo, and most of the grandkids featured, it wasn't hard to notice the only two missing: Kylie Jenner and Kendall Jenner!Legend tells that he lived on the Mason - Dixon line — the border between the North and South — during the Civil War.To avoid the draft on either side, Cooter decided to stay drunk throughout the entire war, making him ineligible for battle.They speculate it's a colloquial perversion of «cater - corner.»

The story concerns the lives of four New England sisters — Jo (Katharine Hepburn), Amy (Joan Bennett), Meg (Frances Dee), and Beth (Jean Parker)-- during the time of the Civil War.

The Devil's Backbone and Pan's Labyrinth, on the other hand, are genuinely beautiful pieces of cinema: films that respectively use ghosts and monsters to explore the physical and psychological impact of living under a repressive regimes (both are set during the Spanish Civil War).

«testing...» is based on a passage from the Gettysburg Address delivered by Abraham Lincoln at the battlefield commemorating the more than 51,000 soldiers that lost their lives during the three days of battle at Gettysburg during the Civil War.

With a focus on the trials of three young women as they work to maintain their lives and their home during the final days of the American Civil War, The Keeping Room shines by focusing not on the war or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to enduWar, The Keeping Room shines by focusing not on the war or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to enduwar or those who fought it, but on those left behind, and the struggles, both physically and emotionally, that they had to endure.

Based on a true story, «Free State of Jones» will star McConaughey as Newton Knight and Mbatha - Raw as Rachel, a slave whose relationship with Knight played a central part in his life and in his armed rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Over the past two decades, their collaboration has yielded some of the most powerful works in contemporary British cinema, including The Wind That Shakes the Barley (now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck in a limited engagement), which chronicles the lives of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and last year's Palme d'Or — winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which skewers the brutal bureaucracy of the British welfare system.

Bay is no stranger to action movies, and 13 Hours does a decent job of showing the dangerous situations that the Americans faced in during the Libyan civil war and portraying the heroism of the security force that protected and saved American lives.

Woe to Live on, in contrast to the Southern crime backwoods noir novels, is set in Kansas and Missouri during the American Civil War.

Dramatisation of Louisa May Alcott's novel about the lives of the four March sisters during the American Civil War as they learn to navigate love, loss and the trials of growing up.

He lived through the Qing dynasty, the early republican years, the northern conquest [by the government against warlords], the fight against the Japanese [during WWII] and finally the exodus to Hong Kong [during and after the Chinese civil war between 1945 and 1949].

The first — and more involving one — is simply observing how a group of Sri Lankan refugees, after their displacement during the final part of a 25 - year civil war within the island nation, adjusts to living in France.

One of the films for 2013 that I'm most intrigued by is Steve McQueen's Twelve Years A Slave, based on the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free man living in New York during the mid-1800's that was kidnapped and sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War.

Apparently, the bad blood created during the events of Civil War spilled from the screen into real life and RDJ conveniently forgot to invite his old pal Chris Evans to lunch.

He makes the argument that Custer was a reckless, egotistical officer who had made his military reputation during the Civil War by taking unnecessary risks with the lives of his men.

The scanned images and transcripts present a picture of the lives of women during the American Civil War, revealing not only the vital role women played in the war but also the personal characteristics of those heroic womWar, revealing not only the vital role women played in the war but also the personal characteristics of those heroic womwar but also the personal characteristics of those heroic women.

Although the documents are organized chronologically as the years just before or during the Civil War, the archive contains rich material for teachers and researchers interested in exploring other important themes in American History, such as slavery, immigration, ethnic groups, women's lives, reform movements, economic development, and political culture.

Students researched individuals who lived during the American Civil War and created their own digital storyboard of Humans of the Civil War.

During the Southern Festival of Books, Karen Abbot was able to sit down and chat with us about her latest book, Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy, which details the lives of four women who bucked societal convention, risked their lives and became spies during the CiviDuring the Southern Festival of Books, Karen Abbot was able to sit down and chat with us about her latest book, Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy, which details the lives of four women who bucked societal convention, risked their lives and became spies during the Cividuring the Civil War.

During Nashville's Southern Festival of Books, Karen Abbot was able to sit down and chat with us about Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy, a book that details the lives of four women who bucked societal convention, risked their lives and became spies during the CiviDuring Nashville's Southern Festival of Books, Karen Abbot was able to sit down and chat with us about Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy, a book that details the lives of four women who bucked societal convention, risked their lives and became spies during the Cividuring the Civil War.

If you want a real - life heroine, try The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, a novel based on the life of a woman named Carrie McGavock; her Tennessee plantation home was used as a Confederate hospital during the Civil War.

It can be a hellish experience for a writer when no amount of work on a project pays off in terms of the story taking flight, and that was the case with my draft about a middle - aged woman living on a farm during the Civil War.

The plot primarily follows two trajectories: life during and just after the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 — January 1970), and the protagonist's growing sense of sexual identity in a conservative Christian culture.

Well - mannered Samuel and his mischievous younger brother Joshua are free black boys living in an orphanage during the end of the Civil War.

There is so much history in that town, so much Civil war history with the big names like General Lee and others who lived or stayed in the area during the war.

Her life began in former Yugoslavia during a decade long civil war.

It was used as a healing dressing on wounds and infectious sores in Biblical times, and it is credited with saving the lives of thousands of soldiers during the Civil War.

There is a fantastic range of marine life, the reefs are in pristine condition due to the fact that they were untouched during the 17 - years civil war.

Here, among other things, you will be able to climb the battlements dating back to the 1590's when Sir Walter Raleigh was governor of Jersey, explore the grounds which gave refuge to King Charles II during the English Civil War and marvel at the hermitage where St Helier is thought to have lived around 550AD.

Born in Beirut in 1952, Hatoum's life experience has thus far been one of double exile: first as part of a Palestinian family in Lebanon, and subsequently manifest as her own move to England during Lebanon's Civil War of the 1970s.

Now living in the US, Raad's work The Atlas Group (1989 - 2004) is rooted in his experiences as a teenager in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil Wars.

Although Armstrong sadly did not live to become an RA, he produced a stunning body of work that took inspiration from both the English landscape and the major conflicts that took place during his lifetime, such as the two World Wars and the Spanish Civil War.

Over 150 years ago, during the Civil War, the great American abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave a speech titled «Pictures and Progress,» which spoke to the ways in which images shaped our understanding of life.

[3] He lived in Greece during the Second World War and Greek Civil War before he moved to Rome in 1956.

The Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist Joan Miro travelled around Europe for much of his life, and was exiled from his homeland during the Spanish Civil War.

The title of the exhibition derives from the story Sitt Marie Rose by Etel Adnan, which reflects on the life and execution of Marie Rose Boulos during the Lebanese Civil War.

Mounira Al Solh (b. 1978, Lebanon) grew up in Beirut during the civil war and lives currently in the Netherlands and in Lebanon.

Krishnapriya Tharmakrishnar (b. 1987) （ Image: Impression 2 - 1, 2015, Nail drawing on tracing paper ） is an emerging artist lives and works in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, which experienced fierce fighting during the civil war from the early 1980s.

Namely, they lived during the modern age of extremes and catastrophe that encompassed — among other terrible historical events — two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, atomic devastation and the ensuing Cold War.

From Philadelphia, the location of many events during the Revolutionary War, to Gettysburg, the most famous battleground in the Civil War, to the commercial / industrial importance of cities like Allentown and Pittsburgh, the state plays an important role in the life of the U.S. Likewise; PA residents face the same financial issues as other Americans, which is apparent whenever they look for a Pennsylvania car insurance quote.

Recently I read Charles Frazier's, Cold Mountain; an achingly beautifully tale of two lonely hearts living through a separation during the American civil war.

The cemetary there is a labor of love by the owners of plantation during the civil war for thr confederate soldiers who lost their lives in the Battle of Franklin.