Tag: Civil war

“The Banshees of Inisherin” is Colin Farrell at his best

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As the Irish Civil War rages on, a local conflict of a small – if no less devastating – kind has erupted on the small fictional island of Inisherin in Inisherin from Inisherin (October 21), director/playwright Martin McDonagh’s fascinating drama about alienation, despair, and the physical and emotional devastation they generate. reunite in Bruges Leading men Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in a somber but surprisingly funny story about a friendship that falters in unexpected and heartbreaking ways, the latest writer/director proves a poignant and poignant picture of the consequences…

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Emancipation – Will Smith returns after the slap in Apple TV + Civil War Epic

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Just months after he won the Academy Award for Best Actor in King Richard– The only notable thing that happened that night, I’m pretty sure – Will Smith is back in the new trailer for the Apple TV+ saga, Release. The film, inspired by real events, follows the story of a enslaved man named Peter in the mid-19th century. Peter sets out on a perilous journey through the swamps of Louisiana to escape the ranchers who nearly killed him. Determined to reunite his family at any cost, he’s willing to…

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Americans are too spoiled and neurotic to fight a civil war

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“Tomorrow is War,” right-wing journalist Stephen Crowder chirp Monday night, after news emerged that the FBI had searched former President Donald Trump’s property in Mar-a-Lago. Bright and early the next morning, Crowder is back – with details. “Today is a war. That’s all you will get in today’s show,” he wrotefinished with the timeline and hashtag featuring political commentary and gifs of the late conservative troublemaker Andrew Breitbart say “war.” Crowder’s initial tweet was the first example cited on Tuesday The New York Times write follow Violent language rushes from…

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American students hardly know anything about Reconstruction

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Schools should be more honest with America’s students. If we don’t teach students about the past, we don’t provide them with the tools to succeed in the future. And any history of America is woefully incomplete without a deep examination of post-Civil War reconstruction. Disturbing, teacher at Illinois Middle School advertiser (In a report looking at Education Standards for American History), Reconstruction is “generally the most skipped and summarized unit” in the history curriculum. Theron Wilkerson, the Mississippi social studies teacher quoted in this same report, went further, say: “Because…

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