#freedom

#freedom

There is a point during Tamara Stepanyan's My Armenian Phantoms when the documentary cuts to the final scene of the 1980 Soviet film, A Piece of Sky, in which the orphaned lead character, joyfully rides a horse and cart through the town that had long shunned him and the sex worker he married as social outcasts. A flock of birds are then framed gliding through the pristine blue sky above.

I don't think we'll ever reach freedom. I think that it's a thing we sometimes get closer to, and sometimes we move further away from. Some people believe that freedom is an individual matter. And they may have a lived context that allows them to believe that they are free. But something always happens that makes it clear that we are never completely free; we have moments of freedom. Freedom is a desire. Achieving it requires us to move towards it.

Since 1990, there have been numerous documented animal escapes from zoos, showcasing the desire for freedom among these creatures. The data catalogued by Born Free USA provides insights into these events.

As summer approaches, parents often express dread for the break, longing for routine. However, summer can be a freeing time, filled with fun and flexibility.

To be sure, addicts typically suffer impaired control. But substance misuse doesn't involve tropisms and reflexes. The addict believes, and believes correctly, that there are ways, often requiring help and support, to regain and leverage the power of self-control, and to act and be different in the future than they are now.

Around the world just as it should be. It was a nod, subtle but firm, to the international students who are part of the lifeblood of Harvard.

Turnage's flight from Mobile, despite multiple failed attempts and brutal punishment, underscores the determination of enslaved individuals to seek freedom against overwhelming odds.

"Estelle feels not only a pity for Malcolm, her paralyzed husband, but also resentment and a sense of entrapment, questioning if other wives face similar despair."

Freedom is a vital, underlying right. These students have exercised their freedom in a thoughtful way that should be a model for all of us.

Religious liberty is often seen as a fundamental right, derived from an historical context of fleeing persecution, yet it demands limits to ensure collective freedoms.

The centerpiece of the Passover meal includes traditional and symbolic foods such as bitter herbs and charoset that evoke memories of slavery and hardships.