Economic racism is the idea that the color of your skin can help you or hurt you when trying to gain wealth. ... Tatei Thomas says "Racism, especially in our society is a disease of ignorance spreading rapidly through minds across America based on what we see and idolized. ... Thomas uses disease as a metaphor to describe racism because racism is like a disease it is spreading quickly among a lot of people and some people cannot be cured from it. ... Would you want to be judged because of the color of your skin?...

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Health problems rised drastically because the "unsanitary conditions, inadequate nutrition and unrelenting hard labor slaves were highly susceptible to disease" (PBS, 3). Diseases such as malaria were spreaded rapidly around the plantations and increasing the slave death rate to drastic numbers. ... When Dana refuses, Rufus builds up tension by telling her, "I've been too easy on you' 'I treated you like you were better than the ordinary niggers, I see I made a mistake!' 'You think you're white!... She knew Rufus would try to physically abuse her ...

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The amount of racism in the world has decreased a lot since the 30's. It is however still a problem. Although organizations like the Klu Klux Klan still exist, action is rarely taken against people because of their race where I live, but an attitude sometimes still lingers for some people. Others ar...

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If you were a slave and you had a child, he/she would immediately become a slave. ... Also slaves lived in such bad conditions that they caught diseases such as Yaws, measles, whooping cough, dropsy and dysentery. ... This is what someone would look like after occasionally being whipped. ... This was one of the main reasons why most plantation owners did what they could to stop their slaves from learning to read. ... Jobs As a slave to a master there were many jobs you could do according to what the master done for a living. ...

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Sex is normal for a lot of young people and the risks of having a sexual transmitted disease are at a high rate too. ... You can dream this all day but how do you approach this dream without any motivation behind you? ... The only thing he wanted was what was in front of him. ... You can dream all you want but when you don't feel like you can reach that dream then you don't go for it. ... What I mean by that is, you can settle for less and want nothing in life or you can want more and strive for something in life. ...

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Although societies perspective pf Tom finds him guilty as "the usual disease" blinds them, the reader finds him to fit the term "real nice" due to his individual innocence. ... He can't see the evil in anyone "What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister?" ... Mrs Dubose's morphine addiction and her desire to beat it even though she knows she will die parallels Atticus" fight for justice, even though he is facing certain failure "It's when you know your licked before you begin and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do." ... Now what if I talked...

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He also changes his manner towards Desiree, as if she has a disease, he avoids her when ever possible and talks to her with averted eyes. ... Which shows another contrast in the story it shows the difference between Desiree that is soft and non-violent just bottles things up inside, and Armand who will regardless act upon what he feels. ... Armand trades his entire life and happiness because of the views of his time, and surely this experience, if you can call it that, will change him and probably scar him. ...

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