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    Portugal Portuguese producer David Rebordão created a popular internet video featuring a fictional White Lady. The video consists of supposedly "recovered footage" found at the scene of a fatal car accident, near Sintra, Portugal. In the video, a woman and two young men are shown taking a car trip to the mountains. One passenger records the trip with a video camera. While driving along the road, the travelers spot a strange female hitchhiker, whom they pick up. The passenger with the camera focuses

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    Ricardo, who uses his music to criticize Fidel Castrol, communism, and the Cuban government. He has been arrested numerous times, most recently in early August because of his support of one of the most critical groups in Cuba, the Ladies in White. The Ladies in White is a group of female relatives of people arrested during Castro’s “Black Spring” in 2003 and is one of the most prominent dissident organizations in Cuba. Even though Aguila has performed in Spain, Latin America and the United States

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    if writer/director XXX is a fan of King, but the movie in question today, Lady in White, sure seems like a King classic in disguise. I reviewed Lady in White last Halloween and everything I wrote about the film back then still stands today. “It’s a film that has several underlying messages, dealing with racism, child murder, the struggles of being a parent and of course, a ghost, who is lost without her mother. Lady in White is like a mix of Stephen King’s Stand by Me and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story…

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    directions, Emma with her puffed eyes from crying, walks aimlessly through the forest. Suddenly a net drops from the sky and covers her. Several white ravens then pull the net—along with Emma—and flies across the forest into a white mansion. Emma is put into a big birdcage in the middle of a white room, around it are more cages fill with white ravens. Then, WHITE LADY shows up, holding the earrings in her hands. She tells Emma that everything in this forest is owned by her, including Emma, and how foolish

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    250 years, well to do travelers have all used the same address, a city icon and national treasure, the Hotel d'Angleterre, Copenhagen’s grand dame of hotels and one of the finest hotels in all of Europe. https://vimeo.com/157992884 Known as the white lady, Hotel d’Angelterre 250 year history is the history this of Copenhagen itself. This city icon has been the site of many of Denmark’s political, royal, and national events and has welcomed elites from kings, and heads of state to pop and movie stars

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    A Salesperson Essay

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    sunglasses while my mother drove the U-haul truck to a warehouse in Santa Ana, California. As my mother drove down the streets of Santa Ana, I looked out the window and began to realize that the mixture of people was no longer a mixture; there was only white. When we arrived at the warehouse, I had to peel my arm off the side of the hot door like a burnt sausage off a skillet. There were not many cars in the parking lot, and I could see the heat waves. As we walked up the boiling pavement, it felt like

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    sunglasses while my mother drove the U-haul truck to a warehouse in Santa Ana, California. As my mother drove down the streets of Santa Ana, I looked out the window and began to realize that the mixture of people was no longer a mixture; there was only white. When we arrived at the warehouse, I had to peel my arm off the side of the hot door like a burnt sausage off a skillet. There were not many cars in the parking lot, and I could see the heat waves. As we walked up the boiling pavement, it felt like

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    First lady, let alone an extraordinary one? From the 18th century, originating with Martha Washington to the present time, Michelle Obama, 43 lovely ladies have embarked upon this role. The term first lady was originally used in reference to the spouse or hostess of an executive. However, there were times that the lack of a spouse, or representative existed. Therefore, the traditional role was transferred to an immediate family member. For example, during the Bill Clinton presidency, First Lady- Hillary

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    early 1920s Rosewood was a developing town with churches, schools, mills and a growing population. The town was a majority black town, but that was not much of a problem until a white lady “cried wolf”. Fannie Taylor, wife of James Taylor who worked at a mill nearby, would have an affair with a white man. Fannie and her white lover got into a physical altercation that left Fannie with obvious bruises. To prevent from having to tell James about the affair she told her neighbors that a black man came

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    Repetition in Lucille Clifton’s “white lady” I like persimmons. I like persimmons. I like persimmons. There. I’ve repeated the phrase thrice. Now, if I asked you to identify whether I like persimmons or not, you would, almost certainly, say “yes.” Having the same statement reiterated three times makes one more confident that it’s not only important, but that it’s a fact in this context! In Lucille Clifton’s “white lady,” a tone of desperation is conveyed through repetition of words, phrases, and

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