Carlos Villamarin Professor Pierson English Comp: Film March 16‚ 2015 A Thousand Miles “Yeah I like being famous. It’s almost like being white‚ y’know?” -Chris Rock At first glance‚ it’s easy to discredit White Chicks as another gimmicky comedy from the Wayans‚ filled raunchy humor‚ and “infantile flatulence jokes and fairly obvious gags”1. Coarse‚ raunchy language is spread throughout the film‚ intertwined with racial humor. Farts account for many of the plot turns‚ yet the Wayans utilize humor
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Book Review The book tells the story of Dewey Readmore Books‚ a cat who found its way into a library book drop box one cold winter morning. Vicki Myron‚ the librarian found a frost bitten and freezing kitten and saved him. She immediately fell in love with him and nursed him back to health. The library eventually adopted the kitten‚ and had a contest to name him‚ Dewey Readmore Books. He lived 19 years in the Spencer Library‚ and became famous around the world. His story traveled around the
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The Family Book by Todd Parr the daily lives of all kinds of families are depicted. Mr. Parr discusses the different sizes‚ colors and distances of families. He talks about families who adopt‚ families with stepparents and many more differences among families. Within these differences‚ Todd Parr states that‚ “Some families have two moms or two dads.” The children’s book was banned for this reason. In 2012‚ an Illinois school district banned the book because parents argued that “those are issues that
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How White People Became White Paula S. Rothenberg William Paterson University of New Jersey Abstract Biologically speaking‚ it’s just as possible for a given white person in Florida to have genetics similar to his neighbor down the street as it would be for the same white person to have genetics similar to a black person in Nigeria. We could just as easily disregard skin color and pay attention to hair and/or eye color. Sociologists make this claim because they argue that the definition
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DIDACTICS Upstream-Pre—intermediate Virginia Evans-Jenny Dooley USA-2004 Upstream Pre-intermediate is an English course book for adolescents and young learners of English language. It is presented in a student’s book and a workbook‚ with ten units each. This book shows an important influence from the communicative method for students to effectively speak English. Students are encouraged to use the language in classroom to interact with classmates (unit 1 page 11 and 13). Then you can
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Wei Li Mr. Muhammad African American History March 4‚ 2012 White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack The list comprised in this article is unfortunately true and eye opening. Many white people are unaware of the natural advantages that are written here. They take it for granted thinking everyone else is also entitled to these rights. Since I am not white‚ I can clearly see that these are privileges given to whites only. I can even say that I have never experience some of the things
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Natasha Trethewey’s poem “White Lies” revolves around a young girl struggling to acknowledge her true identity as being half-white and half-black. She lives her daily life under the façade of a pure white girl. The inclusion of certain key colors in the poem provides the reader with vivid imagery as well as a significant underlying message. The colors also paint a portrait of a young girl untrue to herself and the sad yet honest proclamation of her betrayal towards her heritage. In the first stanza
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Little Snow-White Little Snow-White by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm is a beautiful fairy tale comprised of a simple master plot‚ intricate dichotomies and an inspiring protagonist; Snow-White. Following a standard “rags to riches” master plot‚ the narrative is one that sets the bar high for young girls growing up. Little Snow-White encourages girls to aspire to be a “good woman” and convinces one that in order to be content‚ one needs extravagant items‚ marriage and wealth‚ all the things the protagonist
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Throughout this journal‚ one can question why the author wrote the book from the perspective of death and what will happen to Max Vandenburg. Initially‚ there is the question of why the narrator of the novel is the entity of death. One answer to this question is that writing the book through death’s perspective is both creative and different. Having death speaking personally to you on the first page is a unique draw-in. There are no other books popularly known that can claim to have such a narrator‚ which
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane shares a story about a young lady named Connie Goodwin who was not only living her life‚ but was also involved in other lives from the past. In the current time‚ Connie is going to school for her PhD and studying Colonial American history at Harvard. After Connie is done dealing with her research for school she ends up moving forward to start her candidacy for her PhD‚ but then gets a message from her mother‚ Grace‚ wanting
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