Debaters competed at prestigious tournaments at Stanford University, Harvard University, The Bronx High School of Science in New York City, and the Montgomery Bell Academy Round Robin.

Thornhill Debaters have placed first, and in the top 10 at most major University-level tournaments in Ontario, Quebec and in the National Championships.

Debaters may also present opp-choice cases, in which the government team offers the opposition team the chance to choose which side of a topic the government team will defend in the round.

" Holy Thursday " was also sampled in its entirety by Skyzoo for the track " The Definitive Prayer " on his mixtape The Great Debaters.

Core CCAs comprise all sports, uniformed groups and performing arts, as well as Raffles Debaters while merit CCAs consist of all other clubs and societies.

* 2007, a movie biopic, The Great Debaters, based on his work with debate students at a predominantly black college, Wiley College, Marshall, Texas, was released.

Debaters often, in an attempt to make sure that their advantages / disadvantages outweigh the advantages / disadvantages of the other team, will impact these arguments with a very high magnitude result, such as the extinction of the human race or a global nuclear war.

In 1935, the Wiley College debate team defeated the reigning national debate champion, the University of Southern California ( depicted as Harvard University in The Great Debaters ).

Madly Off In All Directions became a weekly national forum for regional sketch and stand-up comics, a practice that continues in the more recent series The Debaters.

Washington directed and starred in the drama The Great Debaters with Forest Whitaker.

** Forest Whitaker -( Phone Booth, Phenomenon, The Great Debaters )

Aspects of his life are chronicled in the film The Great Debaters, in which he is played by Forest Whitaker.

Lincoln University has an impressive list of notable alumni which includes: U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall ; Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes ; musical legend, Cab Calloway ; the first President of Nigeria, Nnamdi Azikiwe ; the first President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah ; song artist and activist Gil Scott-Heron ; Tony Award winning actor Roscoe Lee Browne ; and architect of the debate team portrayed in the film The Great Debaters, Melvin B. Tolson.

The film The Great Debaters was partially shot in Mansfield and released on December 25, 2007.

Canadian panel games include Front Page Challenge and The Debaters.

Tolson was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the film The Great Debaters.

The success of the 1935 Wiley College debate team, coached by professor and poet Melvin Tolson, was the subject of a 2005 AMS Pictures documentary The Great Debaters, The Real Great Debaters of Wiley College which received heavy play around Texas followed by 2007 movie The Great Debaters, directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

His part in its winning performance was portrayed by Denzel Whitaker in the 2007 film The Great Debaters, directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

* The Great Debaters Major Hollywood movie about Farmer's youth and his participation on the all-black Wiley College Debate Team in the 1930s.

The film, The Great Debaters, portrays him as having been a possible Communist.

Tolson is a central character in the movie The Great Debaters ( 2007 ), directed by and starring Denzel Washington in the role of Tolson.

Debaters below eighth in their chamber are usually left unranked.

Debaters then elect a Presiding Officer via secret ballot.

In 2007, Whitaker played Dr. James Farmer Sr. in The Great Debaters, for which he received an Image Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor.

The company produced made-to-measure period costumes for Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters.

Cary Dale Allred ( February 7, 1947 – December 10, 2011 ) was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's sixty-fourth House district, including constituents in Alamance County.

A former teacher and government relations executive, Dorrel served on the Cary Town Council from 1999 through 2007, representing Cary's District D, where her prominent role has placed her among the most important figures of the late 20th century Cary Town Council.

In addition to Bogart, Lazar became the agent representing the top tier of celebrities, including Lauren Bacall, Truman Capote, Cher, Joan Collins, Noël Coward, Ira Gershwin, Cary Grant, Moss Hart, Ernest Hemingway, Gene Kelly, Madonna, Walter Matthau, Larry McMurtry, Vladimir Nabokov, Clifford Odets, Cole Porter, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, President Richard Nixon and Tennessee Williams.

The Louisiana Academy of Medical Psychology ( LAMP ), currently the largest organization of psychologists with prescriptive authority in the world and the only organization representing practitioners of medical psychology in Louisiana as defined by Louisiana statute within any jurisdiction in the United States, no longer recognizes the Academy of Medical Psychology as an adequate certifying body for its practitioners, and its members have resigned from the Academy of Medical Psychology en masse.

When Gérôme exhibited For Sale ; Slaves at Cairo at the Royal Academy in London in 1871, it was " widely found offensive ", perhaps partly because the British liked to think they had successfully suppressed the slave trade in Egypt, also for cruelty and " representing fleshiness for its own sake ".

Academy membership is divided into 15 branches, representing different disciplines in motion pictures.

In 1769 he was awarded the first gold medal for sculpture given by the Royal Academy, for a bas-relief representing the escape of Aeneas from Troy.

There are statues representing him at St Paul's Cathedral, Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Academy of Arts and Victoria & Albert Museum.

Vasari states that Ghirlandaio was the first to abandon, in great part, the use of gilding in his pictures, representing by genuine painting any objects supposed to be gilded ; yet this claim is not applicable to his entire oeuvre, since the landscape highlights in, as an example, the Adoration of the Shepherds located, in modern age, at the Florence Academy, were rendered in gold leaf.

At Somerset House, also built by his friend Chambers, he prepared the decorations for the interior of the north block, including the rooms into which the Royal Academy moved in 1750, which now house the Courtauld Collection The central panel of the Royal Academy's ante-room was painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds but the four compartments in the coves, representing Allegory, Fable, Nature and History, were Cipriani's.

He played in the New South Wales Youth League representing the under-13 to under-15 Marconi Stallions teams, coached by Stephen Treloar, while also attending other specialised training with the NSW Junior Soccer Academy, coached by David Lee.

Walls: long, thick ; more than 100 tons of highly polished " Academy Black " granite from California: more than 2, 500 photographic, archival images representing the land, sea and air troops who supported those who fought in the war are sandblasted onto the wall.

The CPC's voting members are the ASM officers, the chairs of the 6 major program units or boards, the chair of the American Academy of Microbiology and 6 at large members representing the two Society constituencies: divisions and branches.

Bold and having full confidence in the duelist representing Duel Academy, Chazz Princeton, Kaiba agrees to an unfair set of stipulations that place Chazz at a great disadvantage.

L ' Académie Internationale d ' Héraldique ( known in English as the International Academy Of Heraldry ) is a prestigious body that was founded in Paris in 1949 to bring together experts in heraldry representing the various areas of the world.

* American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit – The Award of Merit, a medal and $ 10, 000, is given each year, in rotation, to an outstanding person in America representing one of the following arts: Painting, the Short Story, Sculpture, the Novel, Poetry, and Drama.

* The American Academy of Physician Assistants, the organization representing physician assistants in the United States of America.

The council consisted of twelve members: two representing the High Commissioner, one from the British Academy, one from the British Museum, one from the French National Academy, one from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, two from the Antiquities Departments of the Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese, Iraqi or Transjordanian governments ; one from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one from the Royal Swedish Academy, one from the American Institute of Archaeology, and one from the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Anne Yeats trained in the Royal Hibernian Academy school from 1933 – 36 and worked as a stage designer with the Abbey before taking up painting full time in 1941 ; she had a touching naive expressionist style and was interested in representing domestic humanity.

He also served for many years on the board of directors of the Screen Actors Guild, as well as representing the actors branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences board of governors.

The International Press Academy ( IPA ) is a large and diverse association of professional entertainment journalists, representing both domestic and foreign markets in print, television, radio, cable and new media outlets.

In Sweden, the Swedish Language Council is similarly funded by the Swedish government and may be said to have a semi-official status as a regulatory body being a joint effort that includes the Swedish Academy, Swedish Radio, Swedish Broadcasting Corporation and several other organizations representing journalists, teachers, actors, writers and translators.

In 1813, having exhibited " Miranda and Ferdinand with the Logs of Wood ," he was elected as an associate of the Academy, and in 1820 as a full academician ; his diploma-picture representing Ganymede.

A major educational drive, called " The Hopea sangal Tree: Sculpture Symposium ", was organised by The Sculpture Society ( Singapore ) in partnership with the National Parks Board and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, and with the support of the Nature Society ( Singapore ) and the Urban Redevelopment Authority, representing a government-NGO combined effort to raise awareness towards the conservation of trees.