12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released. The first scholarly edition of David Wilson's version of Northup's story was co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon.[5]
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Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised it as "a new movie landmark of cruelty and transcendence" and as "a movie about a life that gets taken away, and that's why it lets us touch what life is". He also commented very positively about Ejiofor's performance, while further stating, "12 Years a Slave lets us stare at the primal sin of America with open eyes, and at moments it is hard to watch, yet it's a movie of such humanity and grace that at every moment, you feel you're seeing something essential. It is Chiwetel Ejiofor's extraordinary performance that holds the movie together, and that allows us to watch it without blinking. He plays Solomon with a powerful inner strength, yet he never soft-pedals the silent nightmare that is Solomon's daily existence."[93] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone, gave the film a four-star rating and said: "you won't be able to tuck this powder keg in the corner of your mind and forget it. What we have here is a blistering, brilliant, straight-up classic." He later named the film the best movie of 2013.[94]
Second only to decorating the tree, my girls love the annual appearance of our basket of beloved Christmas books at the beginning of the holiday season. This basket includes lots of holday themed books that we have collected over the years, including board books, picture books and, more recently, Christmas chapter books.
Whether you have a book basket like we do, or count down to Christmas with a book advent calendar, adding a few new Christmas books to your collection each year is a great way to keep your children reading over the holidays. And if you are looking for new Christmas themed chapter books for your tween then this collection includes lots of fabulous possibilities for your holiday reading pile.
Following its best team performance in eight years at the SEC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, the Vanderbilt track and field team will send 11 competitors (12 entries) to the 2013 NCAA East Preliminary Round in Greensboro, N.C.
nnWhen I think about what books have influenced my life, I havento go back to my childhood u2013 when they first became a predominant interest innmy life. Many of my favorite books are childrenu2019s books. I think if a love ofnbooks develops early on, it will continue, and Iu2019m lucky that my Mom and othersnin my life inspired me to read.nnnnMy all-time favorite book, u201cCharlotteu2019s Web,u201d was given tonme by my neighbor, Sarah Hutchison. She and her husband Joe had no childrennof their own, and Sarah was an avid reader. When she gave me my own copy of EBnWhiteu2019s u201cCharlotteu2019s Web,u201d in the 1960s, I was hooked. nnnI even have a favorite passage from that award-winningnchildrenu2019s book, published in 1952. Itu2019s a description of the barn where Wilburnand the farm animals lived and where Charlotte, the spider, would soon reside. u201cItnsmelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath ofnpatient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell, as though nothing badncould happen ever again in the world.u201d Something about that description makesnme feel happy and safe. I smile every time I read it.nnnnI still read all the time u2013 there is never a night when anbook, or my Kindle, isnu2019t beside me on my nightstand. Itu2019s the way I fallnasleep u2013 has been for as long as I can remember. I keep anlist of books on my Blackberry, so I never have a shortage of titles. nnnnAnother favorite childrenu2019s book was u201cThe Boxcar Children,u201dnby Gertrude Chandler Warner, first published in 1942. Itu2019s about fournsiblings u2013 Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny u2013 who run away and live in a trainu2019snboxcar after their parents die. They think their grandfather is mean, but ofncourse, he turns out not to be. My first-grade teacher, Frances Durham, read itnto us every day right after milk break (I always had chocolate, by the way).nShe read a couple of chapters at a time, and I could not WAIT for Mrs. Durhamu2019snstory time. She died several years ago. I wonder if I ever told her how muchnthat meant to me. I hope so.nnnnThe first book I recall is a small Golden Book-sized booknthat my Mom and sister read to me, over and over again u2013 Dr. Goat by Georgianan(yes, she went by her first name only, kind of like Madonna). This 1950 booknwas about a goat who was a doctor (like my father), made house calls to thencommunityu2019s animals (a mouse with mumps; a frog with the jumps), and then gotnsick himself. You can see it here: -goat.htmlnnnnIu2019d love to know what books have influenced the lives of othersnat Vanderbilt.nnnu00a0nnnu00a0nu00a0nn
Richard Warch, who served as president of Lawrence University for 25 years, passed away peacefully after a battle with cancer Saturday morning, Sept. 14, 2013 at his home in Ellison Bay, Wis. He was 74 years old.
Slowik, 64, was an NFL coach from 1992 to 2013. He was also an Alouettes guest coach during the 2018 season. During his twenty-one years of coaching, his teams qualified for the playoffs eight times. He started his coaching career in the NFL with a Super Bowl win as a Dallas Cowboys defensive assistant in 1992. He then joined the Chicago Bears as a defensive coordinator. 2ff7e9595c
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