Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other Americans. It is simple and safe to curtail a group's rights if that group is reduced to a bunch of flighty deviants who abide by a parallel and distinct version of morality. Such tactics have been used for centuries, to a far more extreme degree by slave-owners and Nazis. Both oppressor groups justified their persecution and slaughtering by reducing their respective objects of hatred to the sub-human...
...dance seems as useful as a photograph of a symphony. But tap dancing is percussive, rhythmic, noisy. To hear Glover's feet banging away is to feel his passion, his intent; visuals would be nice but aren't necessary. Noise/Funk is a historical work, tracing the black experience from slave times to the present through tap dancing, and much is expressed in the songs that Glover dances to. Gospel/Hip-Hop Rant is one of the best tracks here, deftly juxtaposing the pleading, lamenting sounds of gospel with the rougher, younger sounds...
...American market is flooded with Chinese goods. This year Louisiana fishermen were severely hurt when the Chinese undersold Louisiana-harvested crawfish 40% to 50% per lb. At the supermarket, people wondered aloud how the Chinese could possibly make a profit. I fear they are using political prisoners and virtual slave labor. MARTA MCCARRON Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Links to other sites provided students with access to the nearly 3,000 original slave narratives that are published on-line, allowing them to search the texts for key words or phrases for subjects they were researching for papers, he says...
...only to an art historian who has never been near a live shark.) On the horizon, a square-rigger sails indifferently by, and we see the waterspout of a coming tornado. There will be no rescue. The painting refers back to other images of marine disaster, notably Turner's Slave Ship and Gericault's Raft of the Medusa, in an image of total pessimism. This, Homer says, is what the voyage of life comes down to: hanging on and facing down your death when all hope is gone and there are no witnesses. It is a grim and hard...