Once upon a time, a little girl lived in a tiny white house with her mom, dad, and older brother. ... Isn't it amazing how a family can consist of people who are not blood related? ... When my dad finally left my tiny white house, my mom took care of my older brother and me. ... Though the quote is believed by many people, blood is indeed not thicker than water. ... The love and trust a group of people have make life worth living. ...

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Things that could make you question the sanity of people. ... Known as the Dancing Outlaw, Mamie's brother, Jesco, lives for entertaining people with his tap dancing skills passed from their deceased father. ... The people fled in fear by the White family name making it difficult for his children to attend school and social activities which was one reason that led him to move his family. ... It is concluded that "people of all social classes and economic positions deal with frustrations in routine daily life" (Tibbetts, 2012, p. 120). ... Ray White led to the family's frust...

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If a room is occupied by people, I sum up who will be the hardest to overcome and who to take out first should a problem arise. ... Just being white was a crime and I've witnessed this countless times. I remember watching helplessly as a nun got chased down the street by a group of people just because she had light skin. ... I even witnessed two Latinos stab a white inmate in the neck multiple times with a sharpened down toothbrush. ... I've lost so many people in my life, it's no surprise my own health has also gradually deteriorated. ...

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A Legacy Like John White The odor of incense is a smell that everyone has probably smelt before. ... When I arrived, there were many people already there. ... I kept thinking to myself as I slid around the room, who are these people. ... White for his part in the founding of the Brookhaven Memorial hospital. ... My grandfather, John White did all this. ...

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People from various places and various reasons are drawn to this city. The city is bursting with people; there is no space to accommodate more men, yet they keep pouring in. Poverty compels some people to rent their houses. ... Some cry hoarse for the demarcation of black and white areas. ... After which the White man departs. ...

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Anne first encounter of disgust that embodied her image of the white people. ... Here her experience with the white people deeply impacted. ... The gesture of the white people that she was working for as well also opened her eyes to their image. ... Little did she know that playing with the white kid sin theatre would turn her views of white people would completely go down in a complete downward spiral. We begin to see how Anne realizes that white people have special privileges such as "siting on the bottom floor of the balcony . ...

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Furthermore, white society denied them acceptance within the white community. For most Metis people there was no place "in between" and they failed to maintain a designated, accepted place in society because legally they were white, but socially they were Indians (or half-breeds). ... While her father was of Aboriginal decent, her mother was White, making Campbell of Metis heritage. ... Many White children would taunt the Metis children for having shabby clothing and poor diets. ... Our whole lives and those of our people began to go downhill. ...

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People who were non whites didn't have much of a chance to compete in the "white man's world" that existed. ... This was because he learned that not all white people are bad. ... Langston has been quoted by saying, "So I learned early not to hate all white people" (Rummel 22.) ... His grandmother forced him to come home from school right away, because she feared he would be hurt by angry white people. ... In the first stanza Hughes" writes about how while he was working in the jazz club, how he was treated only as a worker, and could never sit with the white people. ...

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Essie Mae's ability to cope with issues of race affected the way in which she interacted with white children in her neighborhood. In chapter 3 of Coming of Age, she deals with a series of incidences that come about as a result of her interaction between two white kids. ... "I now realized that not only were they better than me because they were white, but everything they owned and everything connected with them was better than what was available to me Their whiteness provided them with a pass the downstairs in that nice section and my blackness sent me to the balcony (p.38)." Through her...

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The media has recognized the dichotomy between the white and Africa-American families in America, and therefore has taken the television programs where Africa-Americans play lead roles and made the shows resemble the norms of the white family. ... The Symbolic Interaction theory of the family studies how different people define and comprehend the meaning of family, the experiences people go through in their families, and the sorts of relationships families have. ... In the case of the increase of single-parent families, the Symbolic Interactionist looks out how people define the roles within...

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Each equated whiter skin with greater self-esteem. ... While she was checking out, she was pushed aside by a white woman entering and made to wait, simply because she was black. ... Each woman, beginning with Suzette, had children with white men, and progressively their children were whiter and whiter with each generation. However, no matter how white the skin, to people who knew them, they were still black. ... The conscious bleaching of the line is referring to the white fathers these women had, and the not-so-conscious bleaching is their adoption of white ways, almost to the point of t...

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In addition, her monologue, unmistakably, illustrates the social situation between white people and black people in this community. ... She is an upper-middle class, white woman who sacrifices the comfort of her dominion for this farewell affair. ... Travelling from her side of town to visit Aunt Fe, exemplifies the separation between white people and black people in the community. It is abnormal to both blacks and whites for a white woman to travel to a black community for social cause. ... That idea is: Rich or poor, black or white, young or old - everybody loves Aunt Fe....

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Each painting portrays a certain aspect of family life, and through each image the viewer gets a glimpse into the ideas, values and morals these people are dealing with. ... In The Village Bride painting the composition is made up of many people, who are observing a wedding. Unlike the Angelica Kauffmann painting it is harder to understand who all the people in the painting are and it is much more complex. ... The mother is dressed in white and gold, which attracts the viewer's attention. White usually means pure and good and gold could show wealth or status. ...

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Her dream of becoming a doctor is not because of the money but because she wants to help cure people. ... George is concerned with materialistic possessions and adopting the lifestyle of white society. These values of wealth and assimilating to white society conflict with Beneatha's values adding tension to this unsettled relationship with her. ... George's dream of a better tomorrow is to attain wealth, beauty and status in a white society. ... Asagai tries to teach Beneatha his values and persuades her to reject the influence of conforming to a white society. ...

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He told us one time that Villa used to cut white males ears and when he first came to the United States he met some of those white men. ... I noticed people from a different color I was. ... It was strange to see someone white. ... I was told quite often by white people, "This is America ", "we Americans speak English, " and if you don't like it you can go back to Mexico. ... While being in middle school, I had friends who were white. ...

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Cholly drinks and fights with people in order to keep his life interesting and alive. ... This separation from other people caused her to claim sanctuary in her romance novels. ... Pauline begins to dress and style her hair similar to Jean Harlow, the white sex symbol of that age. ... She even begins to believe the Fisher's white daughter is her own daughter instead of Pecola. ... Pecola's self esteem worsens as she reveals she wants nothing more than for people to love and accept her. ...

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Creation stories offer explanation and direction for the people of a tribe. ... When the white settlers started to take over they force Native Americans to abandon their traditions. ... Conclusion Native American traditions have influenced the people we are today. ... In Ceremony on pg. 94 Silko shows the effect that white man had on the Native American stories. ... Native American myths teach lessons to their people. ...

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There was even a bunch of people that were older then her that she never met before. ... She decided on yellow and white for the color of flowers and decorations. ... It was white, long and had some sequence on the upper part of the gown. ... There were a lot of people there. ... There were yellow and white flowers everywhere. ...

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The Suburban Sickness The average white-middle class suburban housewife and her two kids, a boy and a girl, supported financially by the father in his business suit, reading the paper over waffles and orange juice, is unhappy. ... People felt stuck. ... Alongside the starched, flattened, white-boy blues came the first inklings of racial integration. ... And in fear of that, people had to keep to the tradition, because amid change everyone clings to what they know, what it should look like, how we should act. ... Not even the music was sincere, as Gitlin points out, the music is...

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One day dad bought her a white gown for her to sleep in during her stay there. ... Grandma was wearing the white gown that dad brought her at the hospital. ... They wore white gowns too and had wings on their backs. ... At the funeral grandma had the same white gown on that she wore in the dream. But, the two people that had grandma by the arms were not there. ...

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He realized he couldn't do anything that normal people did. ... Young Gretzky sure was criticized, when he was only six years old people were yelling "white gloves are for girls." He had just got white gloves for Christmas. ... He would take the ice and people would start yelling at him to play his age. ... One year, Wayne had gotten as pair of white gloves; everybody around the rink was calling him a "girl." ...

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One is written by a white woman in the 19th century, the other by an African-American man in the 20th century. ... He manages to get there but only by locking away all the pain of his childhood, including the fact that his father was a drunk because he'd watched his brother, Sonny's uncle, as he was run down in the road by a car full of white men. ... Of course, for a black man in this era, even "respectable" wasn't the same as the middle-class suburbs of white America. ... It looks like a parody of the good, clean, faceless life-God knows the people who live in it doe...

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One is written by a white woman in the 19th century, the other by an African-American man in the 20th century. ... He manages to get there but only by locking away all the pain of his childhood, including the fact that his father was a drunk because he'd watched his brother, Sonny's uncle, as he was run down in the road by a car full of white men. ... Of course, for a black man in this era, even "respectable" wasn't the same as the middle-class suburbs of white America. ... It looks like a parody of the good, clean, faceless life-God knows the people who live in it doe...

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Because advertising has become such a huge industry, it has the power to influence and change many people's perspectives. ... For example, if the advertisement showed the family's faces and they turned out to be a white family, then the audience might jump to the conclusion that Better Homes and Gardens only sells houses to white families and that this real estate company does not think that other non-white families can afford such suburban homes. ...

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I've heard of people becoming abusive, alcoholics, drug abusers, or runaways. ... Many wealthy people can become dysfunctional. ... Not only are they living in different atmospheres enduring situations that most kids didn't have to endure, but their mother was white, the kids were mixed and the people in their neighborhood were all black. ... Not all the people in the books are survivors of dysfunction. ... With the rainy weather and the lack of medication and care, people died. ...

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