A nigger as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as, "loosely or incorrectly applied to members of other dark-skinned races." ... In the Oxford English Dictionary, all the examples the author provides for the reader reflect a negative meaning of that word. For example, in the dictionary it states to work like a nigger, is to work exceptionally hard. ... In the dictionary the denotation of the word nigger is always going to be negative regardless of the changing of the meaning. ... The dictionary meaning of the word nigga is the most disgraceful classification a white person can give a...

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• Grade Level: High School

Racism is defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica's dictionary as a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and those racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. ... Murder is defined in the Encyclopedia Britannica's dictionary as the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought. ...

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Racism in America There is surely no nation in the world that holds "racism" in greater horror than the United States. Racism occurs daily in America. It occurs in the convenient store, the office, at school, etc. What is racism exactly. Dictionaries are not much help on what is meant by th...

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What is Color? You are wondering what it is to be a color? Are you a color if you paint yourself white? Is color just an exterior or is it an interior as well? Is the color you are on the outside, the color you are on the inside? Think about it this way, many people in our culture pretend to be s...

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The word, "nigger, "is defined as, a negro;--in vulgar derision or depreciation" (http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/nigger>). The Hyper Dictionary further defines this word as an "offensive name for a Black person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigger."" ...

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Not to be confused with prejudice, which Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines as: "a preconceived judgment or opinion,"" stereotypes would not exist if there were not a need for them. ... From the French stéréotype, from stéré- stere- + type, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines stereotypes as: "1: a plate cast from a printing surface 2: something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially: a standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced att...

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According to Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, discrimination is defined as the act, practice, or an instance of distinguishing categorically rather than individually. ... In Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, common-law marriages are defined as marriages not contracted through a religious or civil ceremony but recognized as legal after the partners have lived together for a legally specified period of time. ...

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One of the major issues in Shakespeare's Othello is the impact of the race of the main character, Othello. His skin color is non-white, usually portrayed as African. Othello is referred to by his name only seventeen times in the play. He is referred to as "The Moor" fifty-eight times. Webster's Dict...

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America is referred to as the land of immigrants where people are treated equally. But is America a land of equality and freedom? It's separated into two groups : whites and minorities. Since the founding fathers of this country were of white ethnicity, every other ethnicity is considered a minority...

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The Face of Skinheads Webster's Dictionary defines skinheads, "as usually a white male belonging to any of various, sometimes violent, youth gangs whose members have close-shaven hair and often espouse white-supremacist beliefs." I had the pleasure, more like displeasure, of looking up information on skinheads and found that they are not at all as the dictionary defined them as. ...

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America is known as the land of opportunities. Thus, people from different parts of the world flee to America for that reason. Although we cannot consider ourselves a nation because we share nothing in common except for our government. The definition of a nation, as found in the dictionary, state...

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Racism (according to Webster's Dictionary) is an excessive and irrational belief in or advocacy of the superiority of a given group of people or nation on racial grounds alone. Racism in this country has been a problem since the beginning of civilization in America. Although not all people have a p...

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Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," contains many examples of prejudice and discrimination towards women, children, people of dark skin, and family backgrounds. The novel is mainly about the discrimination in a trial of a black man accused of rape. Discrimination is stated in the dictionar...

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If there were No Hate, There would be No Love Detest, abhor, loathe and hate all means the same, but most people are common with only one of these words, and that word is hate. Hate is extremely strong word, but it often slips off out tongue without thinking that it might offend someone. Merria...

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Requirements Your term paper must be 10 pages, not including Title and Works Cited pages (about 2,600 words). You must hand in a typed 1-2 page outline of your paper with your paper. You must use Fredrickson and/or Winant to present a THEORY of RACE, i.e., to explain what race is and what it i...

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Webster's dictionary defines racism as "discrimination against the members of one or more races based upon racism." Does Joseph Conrad's book Heart of Darkness suggest that he is a member of this definition's description? Not in the least. In his book, Conrad expresses that he is against what the En...

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What I found: According to The Dictionary of Cultural Literature, racism is "the belief that some races are inherently superior (physically, intellectually, or culturally) to others, and therefore have a right to dominate them." ...

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Webster's dictionary defines discrimination as a social, economical, political or legal distinction made between individuals or groups that makes one have the power to treat the others unfavorably. ...

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To Ban or Not to Ban?: I Say Nay! As if the celestial bodies controlling the courses of human events possessed some strange sense of irony, the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, has in recent years, become a mockingbird itself. The book's only crime has been deepening its reader's p...

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Pride Webster's New World Dictionary defines pride as "an unduly high opinion of oneself." Flannery O"Connor uses pride in her short stories. O"Connor's characters position themselves higher in society until someone comes along to lead them to their mistakes. In most cases, the main character i...

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The Webster dictionary defines culture as: ..the total pattern of human behavior and artifacts and depending on man's capacity of learning and transmitting knowledge through the use of tools, language, and system of abstract thought, b: the body of customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits constituting a distinct complex or tradition of a racial, religious or social group. ... The Websters Dictionary (2002) defines the term ethnic as: 2a: relating to community of physical and mental traits possessed by members of a group as a product of their common heredity and cultural t...

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One of my favorite childhood memories was going to the carnival with my grandma whenever it was in town. My grandma and I would spend a whole Saturday riding all of the rides and eating as much junk food as our stomachs would allow. Then one year we came across a booth where an artist was drawing ...

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A book can be the window to a whole new world. Books can correct the slant that people see on certain things in their life. Books can correct misconceptions and ill conceived notions of other people, religions, and ideas. Books help people to understand something they have never understood before...

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