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Recent Examples of reform school
Combining that experimental approach with Whitehead’s gripping text (based on real-life reform schools and the bodies that were discovered and exhumed from their grounds decades later) was the challenge of Nickel Boys.
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Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
But few people know the history — and horror — of the real-life reform school both the book and film are based on: the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024
Elwood experiences some of the usual rigors of prison and reform school: the bullying, the joshing around, the discipline, the abuse.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
Words fail to really capture the unique, harrowing ride that is seeing the horrors of the 1960s Florida reform school the two young protagonists are trapped in, quite literally through their eyes.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
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Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Dec. 2024
But few people know the history — and horror — of the real-life reform school both the book and film are based on: the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.
—Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2024
Elwood experiences some of the usual rigors of prison and reform school: the bullying, the joshing around, the discipline, the abuse.
—K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
Words fail to really capture the unique, harrowing ride that is seeing the horrors of the 1960s Florida reform school the two young protagonists are trapped in, quite literally through their eyes.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reform school
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The GoFundMe raised more than $67,000 over its first two days, including large donations from the Idaho Medical Academy, emergency training school Idaho CPR Plus, and Meridian, Middleton, Star and Kuna firefighter unions.—
Sally Krutzig,
Idaho Statesman,
7 Jan. 2025
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Today, women have successfully passed almost all military training schools, subject to the same physical standards as their male counterparts.—
Matt Robison,
Newsweek,
20 Nov. 2024
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In World War II, the invading Germans sent the owners to labor camps and incinerated the farmstead.—
Ellen Ruppel Shell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2024
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On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Nov. 2024
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Numerous Soviet enterprises, operating under dozens of ministries, used POWs contracted out by prison camp officials.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
7 Jan. 2025
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This would move more people out of expensive prison camps and into prerelease custody, a much lower cost option.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
6 Jan. 2025
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Marcy Thompson: Not long after being transported to Theresienstadt, Margarethe was sent to Treblinka, a concentration camp.—
Marcy Thompson,
Scientific American,
23 Jan. 2025
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While some managed to flee, many were deported and killed in concentration camps.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
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On the cusp of college, he’s instead sentenced to time at a notorious reformatory.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
2 Jan. 2025
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Ross’ novel approach tells Whitehead’s tale, based on true events, about two young Black men stuck in a wretched juvenile Florida reformatory school, the site of relentless and sometimes fatal abuse.—
Randy Myers,
The Mercury News,
31 Dec. 2024
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