Word: speakes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...women live in a different emotional arena. At some point I just let go and I began to view these two women, not as Afghan women, but rather just people and focused on their humanity rather than their femininity. Suddenly a really transformative thing happened. These women began to speak for themselves, and I kind of became a mouthpiece for them rather than me speaking through them. The novel almost wrote itself after that...
...both layers and intentionality. And so the culture lost its focus. In truth though, the ideals of disco never truly went away, they simply remained dormant, assuming alternative aliases. There was simply too much uncharted territory, too much potential, not to keep exploring. So the style-that-dare-not-speak-its-name came to be known as house music, or simply dance music. Sampling and DJ culture immediately found refuge in early rap and hip-hop, and schism genres like dance-punk and techno emerged. From Prince’s “1999” and Madonna?...
...Oscar winner Sean Penn, is a man disturbed by the discrimination he experiences after coming out of the closet in New York City. Milk moves to San Francisco with his boyfriend, Scott Smith (James Franco). In California, the two become politically active, enlivening and inspiring the gay community to speak out against injustice. Throughout the film, Milk is shown making a recording, which he says should be played only if he were to be assassinated. On the recording he says, “I tried to break the dam of major prejudice in this country.” Although Milk...
...play is an inversion of Shakespeare’s while similarly dealing with existential crises: “Stoppard’s play both interprets and upends ‘Hamlet.’ It is ‘Hamlet’ inside out, so to speak, seen from the green room or the wrong end of a telescope.”Garber’s breadth of knowledge of the themes and characters in these plays can even make the readers feel as if they have met the playwright himself, although she reminds us that we mustn?...
...something this important I really hoped the turnout would be greater,” he said, adding that the School Committee discussed holding additional meetings for the public to speak directly with committee members...