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Image of a time that never really was. Its something beautiful, romantic and exciting and they can get away from how much their lives absolutely suck. Thats why the movie industry does incredibly well during the great depression. You wouldnt think it does well, but it does incredibly well for that reason. So we are to the point where we talk about what the movie does right. 12 minutes left. How does the movie measure up historically speaking when dealing with some of the elite white characters and their lives. Better or worse than how they deal with africanamericans . Hard to be worse than the...

Amistad and the moment in the film where, which is certainly taken from the case. They throw them over board. The slaves are shackled and thrown overboard is one of the most visually powerful, arresting scenes. When i went to the International Museum of slavery in liverpool they had their own version of that so it is something that we deal in words and powerfully in telling stories but its something that we now in the 21st century back to media have to grapple with. Whos going to look at it . How is it going to feel . I think we have to bring our students and public to understand stories can b...

Location and at the very end she says, tara, home, i will go home. Right . So thats going to fix it. Thats an incredibly powerful sense. I think this adds an element that these people werent fighting so they could keep people in subjugation. This is where they grew up and had a right to fight for their homes. It makes them feel more look crusaders rather than the version that they wanted black people to keep working for them so they could keep sipping their tea. What are some of the other ways that we see the time period affecting this particular version of history . So paige points out when t...

What is that . Rain. You happy to see it . Yeah. The close call on capitol hill. 911. Tree limb into car. The final score, tree 1, car 0. Driver and passenger, they escape injury. All of a sudden i saw a cloud of leaves, and so im like a tree that fell so. Im putting on my brakes and its nowhere for me to move. To maneuver around it. It fell on top of us. Reporter virginia rain. It usually starts there and then well, comes our way. This is what it was like on i66. Today we got rain. Thats interesting. We did. We did get rain. We desperately needed the rain. Reporter maryland rain and Prince Ge...

Are going to get all of their pay anyway, why not just settle this and bring them back. Steve handelsman, news 4. Thank you. At least 26,000 furloughed workers have filed for unemployment in d. C. And in maryland. D. C. s Department Employment says it had more than 10,000 claims and in maryland the number is 16,000. Thats nearly four times the number of claims maryland gets in an entire year. Virginia did not release numbers. The trickle down effect is forcing some local companies to make cutbacks and many firms that have not started furloughs are getting ready to. One business in Tysons Corne...