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    at times people use race to classify who a person are. Often times a lot is off of assumptions or their perspective of the other race. Having colored skin or not is just a person adjective that describes him or her. For example, when filling out an application or a form which asked to state the person’s race it is used to classify people into groups or maybe to hire the same number of different races to keep the work population diverse. Most often prejudice starts from the home. People are not born

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    Both Jacques Tourneur's 1942 film Cat People, along with Gunther von Fritsch 1944 follow up, Curse of the Cat People, remain legendary pieces of artistic restraint. While many horror films of the era painted their monsters in broad strokes, Both Cat People films play like steady handed psychological dramas; maneuvering in the shadows with subtle detail and control. While the films dutifully touch on a wide array of themes, I believe each picture has an overarching theme--Cat People's theme being

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    Inuit People

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    interesting facts about the Inuit and the Blackfoot people. The Inuit and Blackfoot people had an interesting way of surviving, from the way that they dressed, to their contact with the Europeans to the animals that they hunted. The two tribes both dressed differently from each other, I was actually surprised about this because they both lived in the same time period. The Blackfoot people didn't where as much clothing as the Inuit people. The Inuit people wore a lot of clothing such as heavy winter

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    Indigenous People

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    Indigenous People Indigenous people are those that are native to an area. Throughout the world, there are many groups or tribes of people that have been taken over by the Europeans in their early conquests throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by immigrating groups of individuals, and by greedy corporate businesses trying to take their land. The people indigenous to Australia, Brazil and South America, and Hawaii are currently fighting for their rights as people: the rights to own

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    about letting the world know about their existence that they’ll do anything to be popular, they want their pictures on the TV, they want to give autographs to little kids and become their role models. Most people will literally do anything to get the media’s attention in any way. What these people don’t realize is that the media here can be a reason for their popularity as well as their downfall. Once a normal person gets on the top, any wrong move can become a controversy on the media and from being

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    In her book, “Good Country People,” Flannery O’Connor shows first hand how one cannot judge a book by its cover… not even a Bible. Even though a façade is put on, one realizes how vulnerable Hulga Hopewell actually is. Her encounter with a Bible salesman, Manley Pointer, shows how one cannot trust even “good country people” (2). Symbolism in this story transforms what one perceives the character of Hulga and Manley to be and allows the reader to make deeper connections about their physical and mental

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    Why do people judge people based on their skin? This happens everyday in our american lives. A theme in To Kill a Mockingbird there are themes revealed. One way the theme is revealed is through the people. Another way the theme is revealed is through the type of atmosphere they are around. Finally the theme is revealed through the education level of people. All of these help reveal the theme. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a community called Maycomb is filled with racism due to the town's

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    This article gives insight that black people are treated poorly. The article tells of a student who lives in a pretty much all white community, where he is the only black person in his class. The article gives insight that people of color are treated different than white people. despite how bad he was treated he did finish school. He also went to college and graduated. even with a college degree he had a very hard time getting a job because he is black which is wrong. he has been treated bad in public

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    Why people should be kind to the different people around them. All over the world, there are different kinds of people. Big, small, smart, not as smart, young, old, disabled, not disabled and so on. When a person is different than the people around them the people do not understand the person. Instead of trying to learn about this person, however, the people will usually mock or make fun of them. Sometimes this can be caused by people actively trying to trying to be mean. Sometimes it can also

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    Question 6 The people calling him liar’s are the people in Sudan. They do not want the Americans to find out that there is slavery in some parts of Sudan. There were some other people too calling Bok a liar about slavery but I’m not sure who they are. Bok didn’t let them stop him though he kept going around the world to talk about how he was slave and how he managed to escape from Sudan. Some people in the audience threatened to kill Bok because he was telling his story to people. Bok made history

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