4/11/2023 0 Comments Face2face comic![]() It was directed by Matthew Toronto from a script by him and his brother from a story the duo created with Toronto’s wife Jordan. This flick in particular is called Face 2 Face. Perhaps that’s a compliment to its craft: when a film can inspire discussions on this level, it has succeeded at penetrating the human consciousness. Throw in the aforementioned issue of having not known the person you’re talking to for years and you see the dilemma I’m describing.įour paragraphs in and I have not once mentioned the movie I am reviewing. Even with Poe’s Law we’re at an inherent disadvantage. The computer had hands clasping the boy’s head with a caption that read something like “I can analyze what you’re typing, but I can’t read your mind.” I feel the same applies to our communications over the Internet. ![]() I recall seeing a hand-drawn meme featuring a computer and a boy. But some things are better left out in the open, especially if they’re causing a problem. Look we all have secrets: that’s just human nature. However, this in turn brings up the problem of secrecy. In a way online accounts bridge the gap between these two ideals: we can put on a false face to the outside world while still residing in our same routine. ![]() We get comfortable staying in one place and resist alternating our lifestyle. In our individualist western society, we often talk about how good change is: graduating classes, advancing in your communal circle, and moving forward in the socioeconomic ladder. Childhood friends even moreso courtesy of puberty, peer pressure, and social engineering. When one of the students asked the teacher why they were acting like they would never see each other again, the teacher responded that it would be near-impossible for them to get back in touch without modern-day technology.Īt the time she was only talking about texting and calling, but in today’s information age her statement has grown to include all social media outlets: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Skype…these have allowed us to reconnect with people we may have lost touch with.īut is that necessarily a good thing? People change. One of these was the underrated Al Pacino film Revolution, which ends with Pacino and his son parting ways following the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War. In sophomore year of high school, I took a course called “history through film” which consisted of watching historical movies for the purposes of learning about the past. Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret. ![]() She was much celebrated in north Florida, Cuba and Haiti but hated by the westerners.Starring Daniela Bobadilla and Daniel Amerman. Anna returned to Florida to fight for her property and won after a few years of battling in court.Īnna Kingsley amassed more wealth and helped set several slaves free in north Florida by purchasing their freedom and giving them work to do on her several plantations. She also purchased slaves and set up a colony for free Blacks.Īnna’s husband died in 1843 and left a will leaving all his property for her and his sons. While in Haiti, Anna set up a new plantation with the help of her husband and started new businesses. Anna thus became a wealthy former slave in a matter of 5 years.Īnta and her family relocated to Haiti after the Spanish sold Florida to the Americans who made their marriage illegal and their life difficult because Anna was left in charge of his businesses. Many of Zephaniah’s friends were against his marriage to Anna and many laws in Florida at the time did not permit that a white married a slave but Zephaniah went ahead with a traditional wedding in Cuba and granted Anna her freedom giving her authority over his property in his absence before moving back to his plantation in Florida. By then, Anta was 18 years old and was now known as Anna Kingsley. Zephaniah fell in love with Anta, and by 1811 they were married with four children.
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