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Box office. $63.3 million [1] Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, [2] or simply Precious, is a 2009 American drama film, directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels. Its script was written by Geoffrey S. Fletcher, adapted from the 1996 novel Push by Sapphire. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique, alongside Paula Patton, Mariah ...
ISBN. 978-0-679-76675-9. Push is the debut novel of American author Sapphire. Thirteen years after its release in 1996, [1] the novel was made into the 2009 film Precious, which won numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards.
Sapphire is a 1959 British crime drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig, and Paul Massie. [3] A progressive film for its time, [4] it focuses on racism in London toward immigrants from the West Indies, and explores the "underlying insecurities and fears of ordinary people" about those of another race.
Sapphire is one of the two gem-varieties of corundum, the other being ruby (defined as corundum in a shade of red). Although blue is the best-known sapphire color, it occurs in other colors, including gray and black, and also can be colorless. A pinkish orange variety of sapphire is called padparadscha.
Student portal heating and cooling that uses mixed mode ventilation. When the external temperature is between 17 and 30 °C (63 and 86 °F) and the wind speed is less than 10 metres per second (33 ft/s), the Swanston Academic Building portals will operate in natural ventilation mode, opening the vents and windows to outside conditions.
A third-year student who leads the percussion section. He plays the snare drum and the drum kit. His nickname is "Knuckle". Raina Kitamura (喜多村 来南, Kitamura Raina) A third-year student who leads the bassoon and oboe section. She plays the bassoon. Shouko Hagiwara (萩原 笙子, Hagiwara Shōko) A third-year student who is the band's ...
The NCAA transfer portal is a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) application, [1][2] database, [3] and compliance tool [4] launched on October 15, 2018, [4] to manage and facilitate the process for student athletes seeking to transfer between member institutions. The transfer portal permits student athletes to place their name in ...
Unicorn School is a series of chapter books written by Linda Chapman and published by Puffin between 2007 and 2009. [1] The series is about a Unicorn boarding school in a fictional land called Arcadia. [2] The Unicorns in Arcadia go to school at nine years of age. When they leave school at 15 years of age, the best ones become the Guardians of ...