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    magical-liturgical bits‚ and only the antithesis makes them interesting to us (Ball 1983) This idea of exploitation arises from the theory of white dominance‚ the four aspects of John Duckitt’s theory have been explored within the dissertation; minimal group paradigm‚ social positionality‚ social dominance theory and privilege and penalty. (Duckitt‚ 1998) White systems of dominance and subordination are placed in an evolutionary context and such group-based arrangements have been ever-present and are

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    such as "Sleeping Beauty"‚ "Snow White"‚ "Cinderella"‚ "Little Mermaid"‚ and many others. These stories have been passed down for centuries and numerous versions exist today. There are many interpretations of the stories and their meanings that most people don’t even recognize. Though the stories all seem different‚ some of them still have similar meanings. "Snow White" and "Sleeping Beauty" are two stories that have a common meaning. Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are both characters that are unrealistically

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    Draft One In the poem‚ “The White Man’s Burden‚” Rudyard Kipling explicitly writes about the deterioration of society as a union. The metaphor in line two suggests that the white men have to “wait in heavy harness‚” (Kipling 5) due to the fact that these “strangers” are weighing down‚ or burdening‚ the “worth” of the whites. Kipling persists on labeling the white men as higher up than the natives‚ whom he referred to as the “fluttered folk and wild” (Kipling 6). The strangers in this society

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    Double-consciousness under the White Gaze in Maud Martha The theme of double-consciousness was first defined by Du Bois in The Souls of the Black Folk. He put the term “double-consciousness” in "a world which yields him no true self-consciousness‚ but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation‚ this double-consciousness‚ this sense of always looking at one ’s self through the eyes of others‚ of measuring one ’s soul

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    extraordinary legal efforts by officials to block African Americans from fleeing repression‚ she discovers the ideas of white rebellion from anti-emancipation revolts. She consistently makes connections to present day actions by legislative and judicial across the country that has criminalized and suppressed blacks and their right to vote. In her book “White Rage” Anderson lists white Americans’ long efforts to hinder African American progress. She mentions the hateful response to Obama’s victory alongside

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    His debut novel‚ The White Tiger‚ won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. He was born in Madras on 23rd October 1974. He is the fourth Indian-born author to win the prize‚ after Salaman Rushdie‚ Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai.He began his journalistic career as a financial journalist‚ interning at the Financial Times. He was subsequently hired by TIME‚ where he remained a South Asia correspondent for three years before going freelance. During his freelance period he wrote The White Tiger. Adiga’s second

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    because he comes from a poor family. | Aunt Alexandra | Calpurnia | -Cal is black-Children are old enough for Cal to leave. | 1. What is Cal’s attitude to white society? She is treated with respect by the Finch family therefore her opinion of white people is different. When she speak to white people in Maycomb she speaks like white people however when she take Scout and Jem to the black church she speaks to the Negroes in the same way they speak. 2. Compare Atticus and Aunt Alexandra’s

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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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    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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