My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

12 Years a Slave

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Topic

Slavery

Speaker

Solomon Northup

Actor

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Source

12 Years a Slave

Medium

Film

Genre

Historical drama (film) Drama (film) Historical drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Citation

12 Years a Slave. Directed by Steve McQueen, Plan B Entertainment/Regency Enterprises/ Film4 Productions/River Road Entertainment/Regency Enterprises, 2013.

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I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.

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Topic
Slavery Death

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Homer
Source
The Odyssey
Medium
Poem
Genre
Epic poem
Language
Greek
Time
700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 11, l. 489-491.

Current Citation

Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 11, l. 489-491.

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Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong silent type?

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Topic
Masculinity
Speaker
Tony Soprano
Actor
James Gandolfini
Source
The Sopranos
Medium
TV program
Genre
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Language
English
Time
2002 2000s 21st century
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"The Strong, Silent Type." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Terence Winter and Robin Green, directed by Alan Taylor, season 4, episode 10, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2002.