Shades of White is an ethnographic study of two high schools. One‚ "Valley Groves High School‚" was suburban‚ and the "whitest" high school in the region. Here the student body was comprised of non-Hispanic whites (83 percent)‚ Hispanics (7 percent)‚ Asians (5 percent)‚ Filipinos (2 percent)‚ and African Americans (2 percent). The other‚ "Clavey High‚" was metropolitan and more thoroughly multiracial--African American (54 percent)‚ Asian American (23 percent)‚ white (12 percent)‚ Hispanic (8 percent)
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Moon Shadow lives in China with his mother and grandmother. Moon Shadow’s father left them to go to the land of the Golden Mountain.When Moon Shadow turns 8 years old‚ his father‚ Windrider‚ sends his cousin‚ Hand Clap‚ to tell them that his father wants Moon Shadow to go to America‚ and Moon Shadow goes. On the ship to America‚ Moon Shadow meets Uncle Bright Star‚ White Deer‚ a few others‚ and his father for the first time in his life. When they get to Chinatown‚ Moon Shadow realizes that it’s
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The book White teeth touched on a lot of issues that are somewhat common nowadays but are approached in a very universal way so that anyone from any background could understand it like myself. The book talks about what it’s like for families of different cultures to come together and live somewhere completely different from where they are from and try to teach their children to keep up with their family traditions. This can be very hard for immigrant families of every culture. Being from Cape Verdean
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The story “White Umbrella” tells us about a Chinese girl and her sister Mona and their mom is working and the main character really wants the “white umbrella” from her piano teacher‚ Miss Crossman. The theme of the story illustrates that‚ being thankful for what you have because family is more important than material possessions. The author conveys the theme of the plot of the story‚ and what the main character’s actions were‚ and the lesson the main character learns over the course of the story
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The article states White nationalists are still losing‚ in a way that discrimination is advanced in the 21 century. The White Supremacists who stand in the streets and who protests for the people who aren’t like them‚ or look like them. The author of the magazine interviewed the people who witnessed the violence that happened in Charolette Ville. The article targeted the nationalists who praise the bill of rights and also praise equality. The similarity the 1st article has with the 2nd article is
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Course: English 101A 02 1st Summary and response in The Face of Imperialism In the subtitle “Orthodoxy as ‘Objectivity” of “Thinking About Empire” Michael Parenti argues that all opinions are not of the same value‚ and the more entrenched the orthodox view becomes‚ the more irrelevant evidence will be. Firstly‚ the functions of the heterodox view is to contest the prevailing orthodoxy‚ to broaden the boundaries of debate‚ to wake people up and unearth suppressed data. However‚ the function
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Your Face In Mine explores a new exposure of thought pertaining to the perception of race and social belonging. This novel is written by the author Jess Row and it truly equalizes mankind as a whole. In the following inquiry of Your Face In Mine and "miao"‚ originating from Wu‚ a main character in the book‚ we shall delve into the true meaning of what the book is expressing. Opinions about these topics shall be conveyed as well. This novel has become a campus-wide platform for East Stroudsburg University
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Racism derives from prejudice and ignorance‚ both of which are common in human nature. The article Seeing Danger in a Face informs about the targeting of an individual based on generalizations of their race. Alex Bastian‚ a Christian Armenian-American‚ had been detained at an airport under suspicion that he had relations with terrorist groups and countries such as Turkey or Syria. The second half of the article goes into depth of reasons why he could have been detained since the officials there had
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Ilayda Ozsan Enka Schools Candidate ID: 002546 - 029 TOK PRESENTATION PLANNING DOCUMENT My presentation dealt with the notions of mental illness‚ mental stability and psychiatry and their relations to norms. My principal question was the presupposition of a reasonable justification for the distinction between mental health and mental illness. The objective of the presentation was to make my classmates more aware of the volatile foundation of mental illness‚ which is supposedly mental health; yet
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In the reading Five Faces of Oppression‚ the author talks about the five different faces that oppression takes. The main point of the reading is to understand that oppression might not be what we think it is. Oppression is a prolonged cruel or unjust treatment or control. From the reading I would view oppression as someone reducing the potential for another person to be less human or just themselves. This could mean anything from treating them in a dehumanizing way to denying people education
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