She grows up being told that a black girl will only know sorrow and disappointment in life (4), and this idea is drilled into her mind as she becomes increasingly aware and concerned with the color of her skin. ... When Weldon leaves her to become a Pullman porter, Emma Lou immediately blames the color of her skin for her misery and abandonment. ... Another example of Emma Lou's self-inflicted color prejudice draining her happiness may be seen in the way she tries to lighten her complexion and the reactions of her fellow workers in Harlem. Emma Lou notices that the other teachers have ...

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Even though she carries a beautiful western name, her dark skin cannot betray her to be a black African. ... Beatrice also tries to hide her African identity "her dark skin, by applying a skin-lightening cream called Ambi. She believes that Ambi can help her to rub out her African identity as she thinks that her black skin represents black shame' and ugly sins'. To her, rubbing out the black skin means to get rib of all the shame, which is shared by all black Africans. ... They always went for a girl with an Ambi-lightened skin and head covered with a wig made in imitation of ...

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As a baby, we identify our families by their individual scents, we are calmed by their heartbeats, and we learn the feel and pattern of their skin through skin-to-skin contact. Skin-to-skin contact is important for fathers as well as it is mothers. ... Studies suggest that fathers taking paternity leave lighten up the household, increase positive emotions, and are less likely to divorce (Steingrimsdottir and Hardardottir). ...

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"Cutaneous anthrax is transmitted when someone is handling contaminated wool, hides leather, or hair products of infected animals, and the anthrax spores enter through a cut or an abrasion on the skin" (Regush, Carpenter). "The skin infection then turns into a raised itchy bump that is dark in color and resembles an insect bite. ... America should not lighten up on security just because no cases of anthrax or any other type of terrorism have been discovered. ...

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"Cutaneous anthrax is transmitted when someone is handling contaminated wool, hides leather, or hair products of infected animals, and the anthrax spores enter through a cut or an abrasion on the skin" (Regush, Carpenter). "The skin infection then turns into a raised itchy bump that is dark in color and resembles an insect bite. ... America should not lighten up on security just because no cases of anthrax or any other type of terrorism have been discovered. ...

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They represent a natural black woman instead of a commercialized black woman who has been brainwashed by European ideology that claims that black hair must be straightened, or black skin must be lightened in order to be heard. ...

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The sound of the lightening as well as the loud dramatic music also coincides with Iago's evil intentions. ... This portrays clearly the contrast between the different skin colours, but shows that even though they are so different, they have still come together to unite. ...

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If you didn't escape early on into the forest to be Cimarron, you had to be slave." 3(Barnet, 40) Slaves often faced terrible treatment for minor misconduct, "many of the horrors of punishment during slavery."4 (Barnet, 39) In order to provide with more evident mistreatment of Africans, Montejo describes the cruel and inhuman treatment toward bonded people, "the most common type of punishment was whipping whips were also made of hemp from any old branch in the woods it sung like the dickens and tore skin into little strips."5(Barnet 40) In order to escape from the difficult lives they ha...

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Also, again conflicting with Grant's tale, the step sisters and step mother are "sweet cheery and pretty- (Lee 611) who actually try to befriend Ashella and to lighten her emotional burdens, yet they are considered antagonists because they are bothersome to the heroine of the story. Lee's tale makes clear distinctions between physical beauty and its stereotypes, unlike in "Walt Disney's Cinderella'-, where beauty, and the alignment with good or evil, ran skin deep. ...

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Its esthetic characteristics are: 1) the regularity of skeletal structure as an ordering force in a place of axial symmetry; 2) the treatment of exteriors as weightless, non-supporting skins rather than as heavy solids, obedient to gravity; 3) the use of color and structural detail in place of applied ornament (Johnson, 43). 4 Mies began to bring the art of exhibitions to a new level. ... The main points that the international style focus on are giving emphasis to the expression of 6 the structure, the lightening of the masses, and the enclosure of dynamic spaces. ...

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Due to her various memories on what her family had to endure under Trujillo's decree, Alvarez was able to construct many essays and novels in order to spread awareness about the trouble and dangers faced by Dominicans while living under a dictatorship. For that reason, I argue that Alvarez used her ...

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It seems as though Equiano observes the trade as a pitiless and immoral life for the slave, although he finds that this life can be lightened and helped with the presence of a pleasant master. ... As he was now contained as prisoner of slavery, which he now saw could become the result of any creature that possessed any color skin not white. ...

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