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    black member of the Brotherhood who becomes friends with the narrator. He is articulate, and intelligent just like the narrator. He eventually leaves the Brotherhood after the narrator has been forced to leave his Harlem post. He then begins selling Sambo dolls on the street, and consequently gets shot by a white police officer. Rinehart - a surreal figure who never appears in the book except by reputation. Rinehart possesses a seemingly infinite number of identities, among them pimp, bookie, and preacher

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    deal with Legree’s actions and undergoes harsh treatments. In the novel, Simon states “’Pay away, till he gives up! Give it to him, he'll be happy! give it to him! I’ll take every drop of blood he has, unless he confesses!’” (Stowe 350). Legree wants Sambo, his co-plantation owner, to whip Tom to death or until he tells them the whereabouts of the runaway slaves that he helped escape. After Tom does not give up any of the needed information, he gets whipped to the point where he is about to pass out

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    Arguments Against Racism

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    noise in hopes to get their attention. When he looks up, several officers are standing outside of his cell, glaring at him like he’s crazy. When he sees the officers, it’s all over. “You think you’re tough, handcuffed me and beat me.” He yells, as he holds tight to his sides. “Take off these cuffs and I’ll Floyd Patterson your asses. “White faggots!” The cops ignore him, laughing as they are about to leave when William [on a roll] continues to describe the officers with names he thought would hurt

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    Lets End the Civil War

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    court the decisions that will restore the old plantations, the crinolines, the dueling pistols, the house on the hill with smoke coming out the chimney at twilight and little Sambo rolling in laughter under the magnolia, Ah what a dream” first of all, this is sort of provocative written, that the slaves whom he refers to as “Sambo” (which is a bad world for slaves) that they would lay under the magnolia tree laughing like they were free. Because that is how many Southerners might think, the slave’s felted

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    The Foreign Exchange Market The country of Brazil has been in existence since 1493 under Portuguese rule for more than fifty years. Located in South America, Brazil is the seventh largest country in the world and the most populated of all of the South American countries. Brazil received their independence from Portuguese in 1822. Prior to their independence Brazil became very diverse with a mixture of Indians, Europeans and Africans to work their growing labor demand. The Brazilian export experience

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    stereotype of African-American. Her appearance consisted of jet-black skin, big pink lips, large eyes, straight blonde hair and a curvy figure. This was believed to be a reference to an overweight drag queen version of a character called Little Black Sambo from an old children’s book. This character first appeared in the 2000’s with western culture trying to limit her appearance as much as possible. Due to the similarities between the two characters, it would seem that the criticisms have some ground

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    The burning of those books that create discontent by the firemen in the plot of 451 is used to create a passive thinking, politically correct, ignorant society through the censorship of ideas. This idea is present in 451 due to Bradbury’s social context of censorship, which was prevalent during the time Bradbury was constructing the text. This shows that Bradbury has constructed 451 to be a criticism of censorship. The fireman, in Fahrenheit 451, sole job is to burn and destroy books, they burn books

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    Invisible Man is like a musical work. The novel goes through the highs and lows of the narrator who is nameless. I would like to believe that the narrator is nameless because the narrator is Ralph Ellison. This novel is like Ralph Ellison’s unofficial biography. Ellison mainly focuses on the narrator finding himself and learning not to be invisible. Ellison’s style is jazzy. He makes references to Louis Armstrong and how Louis Armstrong made music out of being invisible. (Prologue 8) Ellison also

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    Physical cruelty is present in Orwell’s writing due to the physical cruelty he experienced in his life, specifically in his early childhood. The underlying ideology behind the brutal executions of the animals in Animal Farm, and the torture and political based cruelty in 1984 both tie to Orwell’s own experience of physical cruelty as a child, chronicled in “Such Such Were the Joys.” Through the analysis of the three, previously stated, Orwell works, one can derive Orwell’s use of physical cruelty

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    Mixed Martial Arts

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    the sport. You must control your opponent's body at all times, be able to fight in the clinch, control him up against the cage and on the ground. The best skills for this are wrestling - both freestyle and Greco-Roman, as well as judo and Russian sambo. These skills allow you to take your fighter to the ground if you want, or prevent him taking you down if you prefer to fight

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