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    and Saturday 6:00 am-10:30 am; therefore, they work over fifty hours per week., yet the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Carroll White, are kind enough to take the time to teach me everything they know about the restaurant business. This local family owned diner, White’s Restaurant, is located in the charming town of Belmont, North Carolina. After serving in the United States Army, Mr. White returned to his hometown of Belmont to open a restaurant in 1980 based on old fashion southern recipes his Mother and

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    Whitening Strips

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    Having a set of pearly white teeth enhances any smile, so it’s understandable why people want to keep them white. It’s a $1.4 industry, and there are plenty of products available for anyone to get their ideal set of teeth. Some of the products available aren’t safe to use, so understanding what products are safe will benefit your health. While it’s a perfectly normal idea to use an artificial product to whiten your teeth, you need to know why whitening strips are a better alternative than other

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    unique ability of treading the colour line and is, in the second half, able to see life from the white gaze. She is able to pass off comfortably as a white daughter and thus allows her mother to settle down in New Hampshire. With this whiteness, Birdie also discovers a new sexuality as she hangs out with Mona. She gives up her identity as a black girl attending Nkrumah for dressing like a “girl”. As a white girl, Birdie is sought after and the center of attention. She is an object of desire instead of

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    short they went as far as to look at educational, religious, and hereditary differences that define their whiteness. For example, Soaphead Church the head pastor used his white heritage and educational background to define his. Throughout the book Race has a prevalent theme. Many terms involving race can be noticed as well. White privilege even though not obviously pointed out is prominent throughout the book. Shirley Temple and

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    White Waves Where I am from in Pennsylvania is beautiful. There are endless green pastures. There are dirt roads, secretive and rocky, that lead to hidden watering holes with old rickety bridges connecting the land. The river water under the bridges is cool, clean and refreshing. It feels like it runs just for you. There are famous calico leaves that hang loosely from every tree branch in the fall that bring photographers from far away places. Later, the leaves fall in delicate, colorful piles

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    The Celebration of Racism “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” – Frederick Douglass In the essay “The Fourth of July,” renowned poet and novelist Audre Lorde exposes the flawed approach her parents practice in response to racism: to “protect their children from the realities of race in America and the

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    Brody, was published in the online The New Yorker January 21st, 2016. The author has written for the New Yorker since 1999 and has been one of their white movie critics, one of the subjects of this article, since 2005. In the Article Brody takes the stance of a social justice warrior, proclaiming war on all those complicit in the disparity between white and black; especially in the film arena. His subject changes with paragraphs, movie critics, Oscar nominees and watchers, readers of the article, and

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    Colors In Beloved

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    In modern life, black usually symbolizes power, fear, death, evil, and corruption, while white symbolizes, pureness, light, and kindness. However, in Beloved, the roles of black and white haven been switch into opposite meanings. Although the slaves are black and are meant to represent power, fear, and evil, they are not. They are the opposite, being controlled by the whites and being treated less than human. Paul D says, “If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long;

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    From a young age, I learned that no matter how hard you try, people of color have to work harder than others. As a young African-American girl, I knew that my the majority of teachers preferred white students to black students, with there being no more than five black children in any of my classes throughout elementary school. In a society that is based on who you are, what you look like, where you come from, and who you love, it’s very easy to lose touch with your roots. Throughout my many activities

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    Ishmael's Whiteness

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    chapter to Moby Dick’s color. He begins with naming characteristics generally associated with the color white: majestic, holy, “divine spotlessness,” and powerful (205). However, in spite of all the reasons Ishmael has listed above that make whiteness a seemingly grander hue, it still manages to stimulate fear. In the whale’s whiteness, Ishmael sees both innocence and evil. To the Indians, the White Steed of the Prairies was greatly admired and was a creature of pure wonder. Melville

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