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Bull Durham is a 1988 romantic comedy sports film, based upon the minor league experiences of director Ron Shelton and the players and fans of the Durham Bulls, a minor league baseball team from Durham, North Carolina. The film stars Kevin Costner as "Crash" Davis, a veteran catcher brought in to teach rookie pitcher "Nuke" LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) about the game in preparation for reaching the Major Leagues. Along with Annie (Susan Sarandon), a baseball groupie, who at every season, finds one player

Patillo-McCoy, whose work in Black Picket Fences1 delves into the intricacies of the Black middle class in Groveland, Chicago. Subsequently, Leslie Brown's analysis in Upbuilding Black Durham2 sheds light on the capital of the Black middle class: Durham, North

Union was suggested by Lord Durham, a wealthy politician who was sent to investigate the troubles in Lower and Upper Canada (Lower Canada became Canada East, Upper Canada became Canada West). The Canadas had various uprisings concerning the fact that they wanted a Responsible Government. When Lord Durham got back to Britain, he gave the famous Durham Report. He said that the Canadas should be granted a responsible government, and that they should be unified into one. Durham wanted the Canadas to be

Women in Slavery As I consider the experience of women in slavery, I believe they had a less difficult time than enslaved men because in the narratives of the former slaves, Charity Anderson (Mobile, Alabama) and Tempe Herndon Durham (Durham, North Carolina), they portray the scenes that men had a harder time during the slavery rather than the enslaved women. Douglass doesn 't talk about women very frequently in this narrative, but when he does, he usually links them with suffering. Possibly because

The scent of fried food and sugary cotton candy drifts through the sticky summer air. The crack of the ball against the bat rings through the stadium, as the crowd leaps from their seats. This barrage on the senses encapsulates the experience and feeling of a baseball game, a feeling that is nearly impossible to transfer onto the big screen. However, over the course of film’s short history, several pictures have stood out amongst the rest when depicting America’s favorite pastime. A great baseball

I can’t think of a nicer place to live than a museum. Fifth grade English included a class reading of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, a junior fiction about Claudia and Jamie Kincaid, pre-teen siblings who run away from their suburban Connecticut home to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The children tour the galleries, bathe in mosaic fountains, sleep in Louis XIII’s bed, and obsess over the marble sculptures of classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance. The renowned

Abortion has been a controversial topic in the past few decades, and will probably continue to be an ongoing debate whether it is ethical or not. An abortion is defined as when a pregnant woman decides to terminate her pregnancy before the fetus is able to survive outside of the uterus on its own. Not only are abortions done before the fetus is considered viable, there have been cases when abortions have been performed late into the pregnancy. I will be discussing the stages of fetus development

surgical procedure, there are risks associated as well. Risks related to the surgical procedure are complications related to anesthesia, injury to the uterus, bladder, and or bowels, hemorrhage, infection, or formation of a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) (Durham and Chapman,

meetings to research specific aquatic environmental issues and prepared short summaries and presentations. o Assisted other officers and supervisors with the planning of projects focused on remediating contaminated sediment. - I have worked with Durham Region as a Student Public Health Inspector and as a contract Certified Public Health Inspector. Duties I have performed as an inspector are:

Catherine Russell, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999), 16. Patricia Aufderheide, “Public Intimacy: The Development of First-person Documentary,” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism 25, no. 1 (1997): 16–18. Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), 133–34. Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), 2. Gilles Deleuze, “The Actual and the Virtual