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    Because you are black. Actually‚ because your skin is a different color‚ or because you are a different kind of religion. In a way I admire them because they’ve survived for hundreds of years until they were free‚ and now that they’re free‚ the modern white man harasses them and beats them. I mean‚ they even had a world wide organization named for them. The KKK has been around for a while. The KKK‚ or Ku Klux Klan‚ began because of their intense hatred of black and Jewish people. Valerie Joseph‚ author

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    Nash author of Red‚ White‚ and Black purpose to their readers is describing the early colonists‚ but also the relationships toward Europeans‚ the Indians‚ and the Africans. Nash successfully analyzes the impact of the colliding three cultures and interprets them to give an overall theme about the relationships between those who made America what it is today. He has shown another point of view to his reader that we grew up and was raise in a white people land; learning only the White people point of view

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    have multiple platforms to engage others in movements to help make a difference and stand out against injustice. White privilege is no secret to the people of America. Even today there are people who have an attitude of condescension. Dr. King confronts white privilege in the passage as he states “...the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.” Whites had advantages and a more fulfilling life than Blacks. Why would they want to give up their feeling of superiority

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    Betty White Betty White was born in Oak Park‚ IL on January 17‚ 1922‚ daughter of Horace L. White‚ a traveling salesman and Tess Cachikis. She attended Beverly Hills High School from which she graduated in 1939. Her career started in the early 1940s with a modeling job. She also worked on a few radio shows including Blondie‚ The Great Gildersleeve‚ and This Is Your FBI and later‚ her own radio program name‚ The Betty White Show. In 1949 she debuted on television when she appeared

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    During a time where black men‚ women‚ and children are getting shot down in the streets simply for being black‚ it is important to remember that white people have fallen victim to the damaging effects of systematic oppression as well. Throughout history‚ the oppression of white people is clear as day. Originally‚ the Europeans were forced out of their homes to travel across the seas while looting and destroying the resources and lives of the natives inhabiting Americas and pretty much the rest

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    the years between African Americans and other ethnic groups. As a result of the barrier between these ethnic groups‚ the movie Jungle Fever‚ written and directed by Spike Lee has many aspects of stereotypes against African Americans‚ not only how whites perceive them‚ but also how African Americans see themselves. In the movie‚ there is a major sign of symbolic interaction which is the study of how people use symbols to develop their views of the world and to communicate with one another. Most of

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    I found Stupid White Men‚ a book written by Michael Moore‚ very interesting and funny. The humor in this book is displayed in a dark manor‚ in which he portrays Bush’s administration by highlighting their faulty decisions. Moore makes you want to read on‚ having every page filled with mind blowing facts about our president George W. Bush and the "stupid white men" behind him. Although Moore is white‚ he explains that "every bit of pain and suffering in my life has had a Caucasian face to it" (Moore

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    Leslie White‚ author of The Evolution of Culture: The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome (1959)‚ attempted to create a theory explaining the entire history of humanity. The most important factor in his theory is technology: Social systems are determined by technological systems‚ wrote White in his book‚ echoing the earlier theory of Lewis Henry Morgan. As measure of society advancement‚ he proposed the measure of a society’s energy consumption. He differentiates between five stages of

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    [pic] |The White Devil | |JOHN WEBSTER | |1612 | |INTRODUCTION | |AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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    One Acts Drama Festival: My First Acting Competition Every year during my high school there would always be auditions held to be in the One Acts Drama Festival. Each school in the area would make a play to be seen by judges where the festival was held and there would only one winner. I never tried out to be in the One Acts Drama Festival but my senior year I did. Everyone at my school who wanted to participate would have to act out a two minute monologue in front of our school’s director‚ in this

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