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    good. Here are Social Underground's best films of 2017: Get Out Get Out received universal acclaim from critics this year, and for good reason. It was about a black man dating a white woman, and then going to meet her family. A regular Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, right? Not at all. This

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    Interracial Marriages in America Guess who’s coming to dinner? If you were around in the 1960’s you might know of this movie. It is about a Caucasian female who brings her African American fiance to meet her parents. This movie was made in a period of time when interracial marriages were very controversial, so her family felt a multitude of emotions. How would your family feel in this situation? Would they be willing to accept you? The whole purpose of this movie is to show that love is blind, and

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    Shelly: A Short Story

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    everyone is shocked and quiet, Hunter says" damn bro.." Vince says" that's a very touching story, I'm so sorry about you losing her" Adam takes another shot and says" I don't wanna think about it, it's all in the past, who's next" Jonathan says" twins?" Shelly says" sure why not, well me and hunter has always been reckless teenagers, unlike you Adam we didn't have a loving woman who you called mom, we were put into homes, after homes, after homes, but we always stuck together" Hunter says" we had

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    "Dinner?" (The Return of Rafe MacKade 58-59) The development of writing techniques and skill is apparent in the exchange above. The lack of dialect detection within the conversation indicates Nora Roberts decision to have her characters on an even playing

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    these three stories. The first story I picked was The Lady of SHALOTT by: Alfred Lord Tennyson. I like this story because of its curiosity, it’s power and the last thing is the stubbornness. In the story there was this really hot looking guy, who's kinda I guess I could say like the start football player in the school. That every girl wants to go after and he’s the hard one to get because he’s so into all the popular girls and you just want him to look at you for that one little tiny second. So you

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    The full title of the choreopoem by Ntozoke Shange is For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. From the table of contents: dark phrases graduation nite now i love somebody more than no assistance i'm a poet who latent rapists' abortion cycle #1 sechita toussaint one i used to live in the world pyramid no more love poems #1 no more love poems #2 no more love poems #3 no more love poems #4 somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff sorry a nite with

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    In the multi cultural society that we live in today, relationships from all different cultures are welcomed. The mixing of races has been going on for hunherds of years and dates back to the unfortunate years of slavery. Where the mixing of white and black was a taboo, but still carried out by the white slave masters on their black maids/ slaves. In this essay I will be looking at the representation of interracial relationships and how these relationships have been portrayed in cinema from 1903

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    pasty white skin. I held my hand under his nose, no breath. I tried slapping him. No reaction. -He's dead. (Me) -Looks like. Oh and just so you know, it seems that I can feel everything you feel, but my sight and hearing are seriously dampened. I guess I will have to wait to test taste and smell. (???) -You can't smell that? It smells damp and musty in here. (Me) -Oh. Nope don't smell it. Wait.... Do you feel that?

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    Interracial relationships rates have dramatically increased in the United States of America (Kalmijn 1993; Qian 1997). The mixing of cultures between whites and African Americans has considerably overcome its old barriers and is currently being witnessed throughout the country. According to Joyner and Kao 2005, dating outside one’s race has grown to be very common nowadays. In 1967, the case of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter in the State of Virginia rose up controversies on whether interracial

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    Zach: A Fictional Narrative

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    “Good night,” said Zach. “Good night,” said Britney Later that night Britney had an very odd dream…. Britney was walking down the street, when a swarm of crows came by her and swooped under her. The birds would attack Britney, though when they struck her the crows would fall to the ground and perish. She tried to fly away from these birds, though she couldn’t. This went on for a while until Britney managed to wake herself up. When Britney awakened, she was out of breath and sweating. “Why are you

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