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Crash: Character Analyses in Regard to Metacognition The movie Crash is based on the dynamics of racial stereotypical behaviors. There are a slew of characters in the movie; however, six of them stand out as examples of topics related to metacognition. In viewing the movie, the six various characters interact in connecting subplots that portray realistic issues which arise in society every day. Regardless of possible lack of appreciation towards its overall connotation, the movie delves into…

In Vesna Cremona’s Paper Citizen, she discusses the views that white collar immigrants have from the outside looking in on the country supposedly built by immigrants and the hostile views she and other immigrants have had to share since coming to the United States. Vesna begins her story with an example of the fear she must live in when the FBI search through her office while investigating her boss. She then goes back to her childhood as she came over to the states for her father’s work as a…

mother. Lorde refers to the first mother as dark and rich which is Africa and the other is pale as a witch which is America. Lorde is expressing to the reader, a new perspective fitting for a Black woman; she points out that black can be good, that white is not necessarily always better. However, in this case, it seems that the evil pale mother has won, having metaphorically swallowed the first mother. This poem seems to tell Lorde’s idea of motherhood or even about her own mother. Lorde closes…

magazines. Her first important short story was published in 1936, and was followed by considerable success as a writer. Welty’s photography, by her own account, is something she “stumbled into.” Her first job in journalism was as a junior publicity agent with the state office of the Works Progress Administration. She traveled all over the state of Mississippi documenting the success of President Roosevelt’s measures combating the Great Depression. In the course of her work, she wrote…

Sara is the only White person in her school and experiences a lot of racism. After her and Derek beginning dating, many people are opposed to their relationship. Sara's friend, who happens to be Derek's sister, even agrees with a comment made by Derek's ex-girlfriend that White girls always try and take the few good Black men that are left. Sara's father does not approve either. Sara and Derek literally have to fight for their love. Both Sara and Derek got into physical confrontations with…

Jared diamond’s book “Guns, Germs, and Steel” is mainly to answer his indigenous New Guinean politician friend’s question, the Yali’s question and the questions about inequality that comes after Yali’s question. A big part of the question revolves around why is it that Europeans ended up conquering so much of the world in terms of guns, population-destroying germs, steel, and food-producing capability as compared to other continents? Regardless of all the conflicting evidence from anthropology…

was an exceptionally dynamic paranormal domain. Indeed, even into the present day, generalizations have endured with respect to African Americans and superstition, especially in regards to ghost stories. It is with the long history of both Western, white venue ghosts and of southern slave cosmology that Wilson composes a play loaded with ghosts. In both The Piano Lesson and Hamlet the creators utilize a ghost as an emotional gadget for a few reasons. How are the ghosts critical in building up…

significant decision -making management between workplaces and by workers” (Feagin & Feagin,2012, p. 39). The idea of the veil and double consciousness was another theory that was deep to Du Bois’ belief on race. Du Bois hoped his work would allow whites a preview behind the veil, so they could begin to understand the African American’s experience in…

We rely on the police to protect us from harm and promote fairness and justice in our communities. But racial profiling has led countless people to live in fear, casting entire communities as suspect simply because of what they look like, where they come from, or what religion they belong to. Racial profiling is a form of discrimination and undermines basic human rights and freedoms. It affects a wide array of communities of color. More than 240 years of slavery and 90 years of legalized racial…

fatigue, and vomiting with additional a small red and green, bumpy rash under and around the arms and armpits. The infection, like HIV, attack the immune system’s T-cells. If the infection is not treated properly the patient will die due to lack of white blood cells defending the body’s immune system and blood…