The woman comments on the hill looking like white elephants. A white elephant is seen as something wonderful and rare, yet undesirable. If I were given a white elephant as a gift, it would be amazing because a white elephant is very rare. ... The birth of a baby is an amazing miracle of life, yet when the baby is growing it requires a lot of love and care that many people may not be ready for. This goes back to that white elephant conservation. ...

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It is a somber truth that marginalized groups have often been ignored when illuminating events of the past, since white hegemony has sought to suppress the voices of and injustices committed upon the "inferior" for many centuries. ... "In Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder", Jennifer Morgan gathers journal entries from European explorers to make the case that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference.... The first comprehensive book to be written about enslaved African American women is titl...

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Prioritizing white features as the standard for beauty proves itself as being a socially constructed ideal - something many people strive for, but cannot properly attain. ... Whitewashing is a term used in society that takes people from non-white cultures and molds them into a typical and normal white idealized American version of beauty. People in these cultures change their normal traits within their culture to fit into these norms. This could be black women straightening their hair, or getting a weave to fit into a certain, white culture, or people in India and China, using a bleach based ...

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One girl in the waiting room she referred to as fat and acne face, an elderly woman and her child are referred to as white trash, and another woman in the room was just common, not white trash. ... At night, she occupies herself by classifying groups of people into a survival pyramid. ... "On the bottom of the heap were most colored people, not the kind she would have been if she had been one, but most of them; next to them not above, just away from were the white trash, then above them the home owners, then the home and landowners" (Paragraph 24). ... You can't get the white f...

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Although the Japanese were valued pearlers and therefore assets to the economy of Broome, they were viewed as lesser people than the white Australians. "They were marked people now, aliens in our midst." With the war against Japan happening at these times, white Australia categorised any person remotely Japanese as the enemy, even if these people had lived in Australia all their lives. ... The Japanese are divided from white Australians. ... This was a register or list that kept track of foreign people. ...

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Courtney is a white-American female. ... By being white, and part of a major race, people will respect her more and not look at her differently. ... I asked her what she meant by "differently" and she said that people look down upon people that are of a inferior races than their own. She also said "its not that people are trying to be racist, but the white race is the dominate one and they get the majority of respect over Blacks and Hispanics." ... Being a white-American female, that belongs to the middle class is who she is. ...

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Agnes the waitress finishes off her piece with "The white people never thought to ask if we would voluntarily donate the marrow.... In her final line, she connects that back with the white men. Stating that the white men never asked if they would donate the marrow. For all the white men know, they would've been more than willing, but in the end they didn't. This drastic change shows what kind of toll this ordeal placed on Agnes the Waitress one who was once worried about making other people comfortable and loving them despite what they were forced to do to her into a cold perso...

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These principles were centered for white middle- class women, but many slave women tried to follow these rules. ... Female slaves were robbed of the chance to have the same moral and values of white women. ... "Asserting one's self over slaves was a way of declaring power over another group of people and could serve as a way to feel more significant to plantation life" (Moore). ... This was a severely misguided approach, but typically the only course of action available to white women. ... In the 19th century, black, female slaves were on their own against the unforgiving, raci...

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Some people find it in material possessions, some find it in money, but most of us find it in love. ... Money and power play a big role in today's society, and some people would rather have those things than a love of another human being. ... As a kid Janie lived in the house where her grandmother was a nanny for a white family. She was treated the same as the white children, they ate together, played together, even got punished together. ... There was some teasing in school about her living in a white folks home, but she did not pay much attention to that. ...

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Although Welles" film presents a resistant reading of the text, the black and white contrast depicts to some extent, the "binary oppositions" that are evident in the play. ... Othello has evidence of subtle racial prejudice, which allows a post-colonial reading to be made from it encompassing racism and an ideology of "black" people. ... There is evidence of Othello's isolation and "otherness" from which he yearns to seek acceptance by marrying Desdemona to be accepted and taken into "white" Venetian society. ... It also depicts the tradition of whites blackening up, primarily as ...

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Turpin is from the way she looks, to the way she domineers over her meek husband and ultimately to the way she sees other people as less than human. ... The fact that she imposes her own prejudices on Jesus in her fantasy about becoming a "nigger or white trash" is ludicrous. ... Turpin values most is her standing in life, she sees it as an undeniable message from God that he values her more than the people below her. ... Turpin's revelation is completed when she sees a humbling vision of people marching upward towards heaven with the niggers and white trash leading the way. She did n...

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My religious preference is not that of the Indigenous people or Catholic but I am and feel more compelled by the experience of the Indigenous people and their beliefs. ... When Huitzitzilin experienced the loss of her son and thanks to the disease that the white man brought, I felt the pain of a mother. ... One of the similarities was that of having to sleep with the white man in order to have them spare your life. I also believe that they both had some sort of lust for the white man and just having something different in their lives. ... They both used the white man to their convenience and i...

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This conference was of high class not just because of its location in the Berkshires and its valuable look, "bowls of white phlox on the windowsills and a long T-shaped table" (775) and "the big dining room" (778), but also because of the conversation that the women were engaged in, such as "minority groups in England" (776). ... Taylor on the other hand, was a white-haired white lady who came from Mississipi. ... Seeing that Alice was the only black person at the conference, "The room was filled with women, all of them white" (776), those words effected her emotionally. ... Even though Alice ...

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The ad implies that if this product is used then the result is looking like her with straight white teeth and fresh, healthy looking skin. ... These two simple words quickly catch the eye and interest as people like to talk and this caption gives the suggestion to do so about the product. ... It is also associated to females as they are stereotyped as people who like to lay back and relax in the bathtub and take a long time in the bathroom. ... The colour white is predominant in this advertisement and it provide the common connotation of purity and cleanliness which is associated to stereotyp...

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These are the people who read the fashion magazines in which Victoria's Secret ads appear. ... The people behind this ad and others like it have failed to grasp the female audience. ... Advertisements like these embody the "perfect" woman, primarily thin, but also almost exclusively white, young, and affluent. ... African Americans, Latinos, and others of non-white ethnicity are highly eroticized. ...

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As a woman that works in the White House for the State Department Slaughter had to ask herself if her family needed her more or if the White House needed her more and she decided that the White House could replace her. ... Marche recognizes that this is the case for most people. ... For most people it is necessary for both partners to work. ... She even goes as far as saying that "we may need to put a woman in the White House before we are able to change the conditions of the women working at Walmart" (Slaughter 26). ...

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This essay argues that Behn's juxtaposition of native qualities with values of the period constructs the gender of her characters in such a way that they function only as dark-skinned representatives of white virtue. ... As opposed to his nobility coming through minimal contact with civilization, he is instead commended for his ability to learn from the white men he encounters. ... Finally, Imoinda's heartrending death is enacted by her husband as part of his plan to take revenge on the white men who betrayed him. ... As a "heroic wife, " she wholeheartedly obeys her husband, "for wi...

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Women go from being happy and full of life, to all consumed with their weight, sickly people. ... "They are often obsessed with exercising they have extremely distorted body images, seeing fat where others see only skin and bones" (Saundra Ciccarelli and J White 453). ... Anorexia can be dangerous to the person, "If the anorexic weight loss is severe, dehydration, severe chemical imbalances, and possibly organ damage may result" (Ciccarelli and White 455). ... Some individuals that do gain weight, will have already had too much damage to the heart and other body systems, an...

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Brent hardly embodied the ideal picture of true womanhood painted by white, upper class and later middle class women: pious, pure, submissive, and delicate. ... Sands, a white, unmarried lawyer. ... The male narrator could write his tale as reclamation of his manhood, but under the terms of white society's ideals of sexual ignorance for women Brent cannot claim "true" womanhood. (author, page) Unlike male slave narrators who wrote to show that they had the qualities valued and respected by other men, Brent wrote to confess that she did not have the qualities valued in white women. ......

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The other two are similar but have white backgrounds with an intricate gray pattern swirling behind them. They are also all portrayed in black and white, except two of them have blue and red words on each side of the model that say Calvin Klein. ... Calvin Klein doesn't want viewers to simply focus on the clothes, but on how the clothes look on these particular people. ... The models appear to be opening up and accepting of viewers because of their stances, poses, and dances, which further bring people into some kind of make believe world. ... Through black and white images, eye contact...

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They decided to make the picture black and white which fits very nicely with the nature of the commercial. With the two people being half naked and bear, the black and white color compliments the "natural" look of the advertisement. ... Using a play on words in their advertisement works very well because it goes with the how the company already uses a play on letters for their logo "fcuk" to catch people's attention. ... They accomplish that part, but because of that, the page does not grab people's attention. ... They are targeting insecure people with this advertisement. ...

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Assumptions are things that we hear, see, think, or believe are true about people and situations that we often have little or no evidence to back up. ... I never realized before how much people are judged just by the name they go by. ... If I answered the phone and a lady said "Hi, I'm Lindsey," my instant thought is she's a white woman, probably blonde, attends a Christian church and lives in the south. ... We also make assumptions based on people's names because we know someone with that name, and we instantly make a connection. ... This Jada could be nothing like Wi...

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They decided to make the picture black and white which fits very nicely with the nature of the commercial. With the two people being half naked and bear, the black and white color compliments the "natural" look of the advertisement. ... Using a play on words in their advertisement works very well because it goes with the how the company already uses a play on letters for their logo "fcuk" to catch people's attention. ... They accomplish that part, but because of that, the page does not grab people's attention. ... They are targeting insecure people with this advertisement. ...

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Women Gender, and Culture In todays society most people think that gender inequality is no longer an issue. ... These plans have been devised to try to give women and minorities an opportunity to participate in traditionally white male dominated areas. It is interesting to note the current popular perception is that affirmative action precludes white males from finding employment with companies that implement these plans. ... Often blatant violence or unfair acts against a group of people will cause that group to pull together and empower themselves against their op...

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People who possesses an education holds much more power than those who don't possess one. ... She talks about women knowing their history mostly women in history, Rich states, "The ideology of the education you have just spent years been is entirely the ideology of white male supremacy a construct it represent half of humanities". Everything that is learned in school is made up of a white man with power. ... Later in graduate school I found that classmates believed " lower class" people had no beliefs and values. ...

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