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    deception to create an effective tone and atmosphere throughout the story. The darkness really plays an important role in the beginning of this story. Having the narrator alone and left with his thoughts and fears to consume him sets an eerie tone. “The blackness of eternal night encompassed me‚ I struggled for breath. The intensity of the darkness seemed to oppress me and stifle me.” Here the narrator shows how the darkness was slowly consuming him his fear of his fate could be represented by the darkness

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    Schoedsack and Irving Pichel. The story has wonderful adjectives and vocabulary that really enable you to visualize the scene. Phrases like‚ “…Trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blackness in upon the yacht” (Connell 2)‚ or‚” …But the muck sucked viciously at his foot as if it were a giant leech” (Connell 23). These descriptions lure you into the story and help you feel the urgency of the matter‚ or help you see

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    strong societal values in turn enhance this heroic battle between good and evil. The poet uses strong and beautiful sensory imagery to emphasize courage. When Beowulf speaks of his youth and the challenges that he faced‚ he states‚ “I swam/In the blackness of night‚ hunting monsters/Out of the ocean‚ and killing them one/By one;…”(176-180) This quote emphasizes how brave one must be to venture into this ocean. Beowulf chooses to fight Grendel with no weapon stating‚ “My lord Higlac/Might think less

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    after the peak of the civil rights movement‚ in a house where mother and father were political activists‚ she seems to have developed her own beliefs and ideas about race and she didn’t believe in class per se. Her grandmother would dismiss her blackness and tell Senna she should identify herself as white. She would question Senna of her personal relationships only wanting to know his race and if he had money. Her grandmother was set in her ideas and beliefs. Senna seemed to struggle with finding

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    2000 to December 2003 from different fish farms in Sharkia‚ Damietta and Fayuim. These fishes were subjected to full clinical‚ parasitological and histopathological examinations. The infested fishes suffered mainly from respiratory manifestations‚ blackness of the skin and mortalities. The parasitic infestations were found to be the major problem and the most prevalent disease causative agents among cultured fish spp. Their percentages were 54.5 % (918 infected fish out of 1686)‚ 62.2 % (585 infected

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    infects not only our country‚ but great parts of the world; a strong bias against darker skin tones‚ which he calls colorism. Vedantam defines colorism as “an unconscious prejudice that isn’t focused on a single group like blacks so much as on blackness itself” (190). He claims that this form of prejudice is not limited to how other races perceive a person; an individual’s skin tone can bias how members of his or her own race will respond to them (191). This negative connotation to darker color

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    My psyche is broken like shards of glass from a beer bottle thrown out of a window in someone’s drunken stupor and my only escape is the tantalizing haze of alcohol or the blissful High of marijuana. But even then I can’t escape the gnawing blackness that seeps in through my bones and wraps itself around my emotions. I often think of suicide‚ of slitting my wrists or jumping from the overpass. I often think‚ mostly in the times when I’m alone with no one to speak too..I often think of how things

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    big the pit is or if he could find some kind of lighting. “I cautiously moved forwards‚ with my arms extended‚ and my eyes straining from their sockets in the hope of catching some faint ray of light. I proceeded for many paces; but still all was blackness and vacancy” (Poe). The initial conflict is first introduced as the narrator is trapped in a dark pit with no way out. Looking for anything that could possibly show him where was. In order to survive the narrator has to find a way to escape.

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    The writer‚ Santos F. Ramos begins “Building a Culture of Solidarity: Racial Discourse‚ Black Lives Matter‚ and Indigenous Social Justice” with his own experience. At that time‚ he protests racism because Michael Brown‚ 18-year-old black teenager‚ was shot by a white police officer. Ramos thinks academics have to think uncomfortably for them to recognize their power. Therefore‚ his research approaches cultural rhetoric to emphasize the importance of cultural context. Most cultural communities’ movements

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    Since the arrival of African Americans in this country blacks have always had differing experiences. Consequently‚ African-Americans have had to forge a self-identity out of what has been passed on to them as fact about their true selves. History has wrought oppression and subjugation to this particular race of people and as a result‚ certain institutions were formed in order aid African-Americans‚ culturally‚ spiritually and economically. The African-American Church has served of one such institution

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