The show, The Mantan Millennium Minstrel Show, focuses on two unlucky black males who live in an Alabama watermelon patch, Mantan and Sleepandeat (Sleep-and-Eat). ... The film Black and White in comparison deals more with racism in the recording industry/club scene, but also focuses on white middle class teens looking at it being cool to be black. ... She thinks it is cool to be black and is tired of her rich white suburbia life. ... White kids trying to act black because they thought it made them cool. White and black cultures are becoming very mixed in our communities because of this. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

There will be 200 participants in this study, consisting of 100 white females and 100 white males between the ages of 18 to 22. ... The participants will receive one of four conditions, either the nicotine transdermal 24 hour patch plus 50mg Zoloft pill; the 50mg Zoloft plus placebo nicotine patch; the Nicotine transdermal 24-hour patch plus a placebo Zoloft; or they will receive both the placebo nicotine patch and the placebo Zoloft pill. ... The second replacement therapy to be developed was the nicotine transdermal patch. ... This makes overdosing using the transdermal patch very rare. ...

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Cirrus clouds are detached clouds in the form of white delicate filaments, patches, or narrow bands. ... Cirrocumulus clouds are thin, white patched sheets or a layer of clouds without shading. ... Altocumulus clouds are white, gray, or both white and gray. They can be in patches, a sheet or in a layer. ... They are patches or a layer of clouds which almost always has dark parts. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Thrush is infection caused by the fungus Candida albicans, manifested by white, slightly raised patches on the mucous membrane of the tongue, mouth, and throat. The mucous membrane beneath the patches is usually raw and bleeding. ...

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At his apartment, the pool is "smaller than it sounded on the phone," and the front lawn has "patches of bright-green grass," (pg 32) which the son shamefully proclaims upon arriving at this industrial slum of a neighborhood. Everything here brings to mind some development area with these flush, white houses and perfect lawns that hurt someone's eyes to look at. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Telling people they cannot get married because they are of the same sex is like telling a fat person they cannot marry a skinny person, or like a white person not being allowed to marry a black person. ... We must build a quilt together...Blacks and Hispanics, when we fight for civil rights, we are right - but our patch isn't big enough. Gays and lesbians, when you fight against discrimination...you are right - but your patch isn't big enough...But when we bring the patches together, we make a quilt...Then we, the people, always win." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

While reflecting on this piece as well as "A Patch of Old Snow" we can come to a greater understanding as to why "Nothing Gold Can Stay." ... The patch of snow shows more about faded memories than of lost beauty, but they have much to do with each other. Snow is so white and clean and attractive, until it gets all old and grimy then it isn't wanted anymore, but it almost serves as a reminder as to how nice the winter was, until we realize that we get so mad at the snow that we suppress the memories of the untouched snow blanketing the outdoors. ...

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White Oleander, a dramatic fiction by Janet Fitch, was published by Little, Brown and Company in Boston. ... She broke in and placed white oleanders in his milk, oyster sauce and cottage cheese, and one in his toothpaste. She made an arrangement of white oleanders on his table, and scattered blooms on his bed. ... Ingred and Astrid took trip to Tijuana and Ingred bought a bottle of medicine called, DMSO, which helps drugs absorb through your skin (DMSO helps nicotine patches work), and uses that to poison him. ...

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This causes a white, leathery-like patch to form, and this is called leukoplakia. These patches can be different in size, shape, and appearance. ... See your doctor right away if you have any of the following: * a sore that bleeds easily and does not heal * a lump or thickening anywhere in your mouth or neck * soreness or swelling that does not go away * a red or white patch that does not go away * trouble chewing, swallowing, or moving your tongue or jaw Even if you do not find a problem today, if you are still using smokeless tobacco be sure to have your mouth checked at ever...

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• Grade Level: High School

Tools to help you quit smoking Nicotine therapies include counseling, nicotine nasal spray, nicotine inhaler, over the counter transdermal nicotine patches, and other nicotine treatment options. ... With this speech my sister-in-law (Juanita White) is one of my sources. ... Major tobacco companies target teenagers and non white communities to start to smoke cigarettes regardless of the health complications. ...

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After the narrator and his wife moved into their new house, a black cat, with a patch of white on his stomach, started to follow the narrator around. ... The patch on the cats" stomach resembled a picture of the gallows. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They weigh 3.5-4.5kg and their coloration is varecia coats consists mainly of large patches of black and white fur, but the placement of these patches varies between populations. ... Chimpanzees have a hairless face except for a short, white beard in both male and female adults. ...

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Avalanches have been nicknamed "the white death" because they kill so many, as stated in the book Avalanches by Nathan Aaseng. ... Snow pack is a big factor in weather a patch of snow is likely to fall. ... So if you are on the slopes skiing, snowboarding, or hiking you should always be avalanche aware so that you or loved ones don't fall to the tragic white death. Also look out for dangerous looking patches and ridges of snow and try not to travel aloe as this will raise your chance for surviving an avalanche if you should be caught in one. ...

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Soon the man wants another cat, and find an identical one, except for a white patch on its chest. ... As time passes, he believes the white patch changes its shape to look like a gallow, and he then begins to hate the second cat. ...

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It is a disease of the "White Matter" tissue. The white matter tissue is made up of nerve fibers which are responsible for transmitting communication signals. People affected by MS have patches of damage called lesions which appear in random areas of the white matter. ...

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Towards the end of the book it looses it's importance, and therefore stops looking important, "the conch lay at Ralph's feet, fragile and white". It starts off as a deep, gleaming cream colour, with patches of pink, but ends up white and drained of power. ...

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Not a patch of sea weed in sight. The fine white sand is burning your feet as you hear the sound of the waves crashing and the cool sea breeze brushing by. ... The wave pushed my further and faster as it I could feel the wave breaking on my body and there I was back at the shallows again floating in with the white wash and was ready for another wave. ...

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But, he knew the person was white by this quote someone said he said. ... Scared him though, says if anyone sees a white "nigger" running around here that's him" (54). Meaning that he knows the person is white. ... "Got the other barrel waitin" for the next hears in his patch, be it dog, "nigger", or Jem Finch (a character) (54). ... All they see is a white man helping a black man, or a "nigger" lover. ...

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The Flower Collage When I saw the flower collage finished, with the pictures already cut and shaped to fill in the empty space on the clean white page to form the collage, it was as if I had seen the flower collage photos for the first time. ... I noticed how beautiful the patch of white flowers looked showing its delicacy as if it had been placed over the top of the wooden fence. ... They were trapped between it and the white cement blocks that ring the tree. ... As I observed the colors of the flowers all over the collage like the dark pink and light pink flowers wrapped around a w...

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This is apparent went Nathan Radley hears someone in a cabbage patch. ... An example of this is two white men rap a little black girl, and then the black girl's father shoots and kills the two white rapists. ... He is assigned Jake Brigance, as a lawyer, one of the few non- racist white southerners who believes that he is still able to receive a fair trial. ... Now imagine she's white." ...

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Just being white was a crime and I've witnessed this countless times. ... My siblings and I grew up being called vulgar racial slurs and attacked when walking down the street for just being born white and living where we lived. ... I even witnessed two Latinos stab a white inmate in the neck multiple times with a sharpened down toothbrush. ... Six years ago my uncle hit a rough patch in his life once he realized he was forty-nine years old and had no wife, no children and lost his job. ...

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They were hidden behind a dense patch of scrub acacia. ... Talib, the seasoned tracker, traced his fingers on a dusty patch of ground beside his left foot. ... All he could see was Talib's broad white grin as his teeth shone against his black face. ... Talib halted suddenly on a patch of completely bare earth. ...

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• Grade Level: High School