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blackboards
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n. (plural of blackboard English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: blackboard)
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Blackboards (, Takhté siah) is a 2000 Iranian film directed by Samira Makhmalbaf. It focuses on a group of Kurdish refugees after the chemical bombing of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War. The screenplay was co-written by Makhmalbaf with her father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The dialogue is entirely in Kurdish. Makhmalbaf describes it as "something between reality and fiction. Smuggling, being homeless, and people’s efforts to survive are all part of reality... the film, as a whole, is a metaphor."
The film was an international co-production between the Makhmalbaf Productions of Iran, the Italian companies Fabrica and Rai Cinemafiction, and the Japanese company T-Mark.
Black boards — synonymous with "boards of infamy", were an element of agitation-propaganda in the Soviet Union, and especially Ukraine in the 1930s, coinciding with the Holodomor, the artificial famine imposed by the Soviet regime as part of a policy of repression.
The policy was part of the collectivization process and the fight with kulaks (kurkuls). The "black boards" were installed at entrances to a settlement and identified the residents that were accused of counter-revolutionary activity and who were the enemies of the people, allegedly trying to undermine the process of collectivization. The fact of nominating of such settlements was published in the oblast newspapers listing the names of collective farms that resisted collectivization and the Soviet regime.
However some of the archives reflect that "black boards" were used precisely as a repressive element in the fight not only against the collectivization resistance, but also against the nationality factor of the local population. For example, in 1932 the Vinnytsia Oblast Communist Party Committee suggested the local village of Mazurivka to be nominated to "black boards", because there was born one of the Petlyura's generals Khmara, while the village of Karpivtsi (Chudniv Raion) in Volyn was known as one of the Petlyura's. The village of Turbiv (Lypovets Raion), for example, deserved such a penalty for its "high infestation of the Petlyura element and participation in the Plyskiv affair in spring". Each settlement or an administrative unit with black boards was encircled by armed squads and was subjected to complete food requisitioning.
Such repressions were conducted towards the half of all raions and municipalities of the Ukrainian SSR except for the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast where such regime occupied territories of all administrative units without exception. Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is situated right in the middle of traditional lands of the Zaporizhian Cossacks.
Usage examples of "blackboards".
The teacher was covered with chalkdust and the blackboards were covered with simple additions and subtractions, by multiplicands, multipliers, and products, by dividends, divisors, and quotients.
All the tables and desks in the squadroom were occupied and two blackboards on wheels had appeared overnight.
He pointed to the blackboards then and worked his way through the questions which several of the policemen put to him.
Keating stood, moved to the blackboards and talked his way methodically down the lists.
Hoey, his copies in his hand at the blackboards, wrote in the sighting at Dalkey train station on Sunday.
Having heard about the fight, she laid off a border around the top of the blackboards for him to fill with animals, and, when he had completed his parade, she bought with her own money a huge drawing pad and a soft pencil.
The professor, who was barking for his own course, had in his hand a mechanized collapsible pointer with which he tapped the blackboards for emphasis, as the pointer kept shooting out and returning to its pencil size.
Isaac’s laboratory had been a factory and a warehouse years ago, and its huge, dusty floorspace swamped the little benches and retorts and blackboards that perched in its corners.
Noted names from Berkeley and Caltech spent pleasant months scribbling on blackboards while outside, the General Atomic squirrels and rabbits lazily foraged for their handouts.
In dry, precise tones he told of their precautions against outside signals, of the waxing and waning of the "spontaneous resonance"–now he used the term archly, pausing before and after the words as if to put verbal quotation marks around them, smiling very slightly–and he paced back and forth before the blackboards, trying to remember the measured way Dyson had done it, head tilted down.
Brad continued, having taken advantage of the break to move to one of the blackboards, and now erasing the complex "sprouts" diagram there, "we might visualize space as a taut elastic fabric, and the masses in our universe as assorted objects resting upon it.
Julie was supported against the writing-desk, surrounded by blackboards covered with infantile drawings and gigantic letters of the alphabet distributed by the class.
Five of the blackboards were washed clean, although it was possible to see the ghost of previous messages, of jobs long filled and now lost forever as far as we were concerned.
Standing against the wall were two school blackboards, completely covered with charts of some kind.