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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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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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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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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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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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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Do you know anyone with cancer more specifically throat cancer? I do and so I wanted to learn more about it. Throat cancer also known as cancer of the pharynx can be included in the group of head and neck cancers. 60,000 Americans are diagnosed with cancer from this group annually. There are more th...

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Most white Americans are descended from people who immigrated here after the Civil War, so they feel no need to atone" (Time2). This author also suggests and reiterates the idea which many white Americans hold true; they are sorry for what happened, but are not going to be punished financially for something they had no control over. ... All in all, I conclude that white Americans certainly owe African Americans who were bound in slavery our deepest and most heartfelt apologies. ... But to force white Americans who have no connections to any slave owners at all to pay for what many African Am...

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An observer can easily see white ice caps at the north and south poles of Mars. ... The darker areas of Mars's surface may look greenish, but this is an optical illusion caused by the contrast in color between the dark patches and brighter areas. ... At other times white clouds of water vapor are visible. Scientists now believe that the canals people observed on Mars during the 19th century are actually another optical illusion, caused by the tendency to draw connections between irregular patches in a fuzzy image. ...

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"A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I do see, editing it for my brain" -Annie Dillard If someone show me a white cup with red stripes and ask me what it is, I would look at that person with astonishment and answer him, "It's a cup. ... According to the book Space and Sight by Marius von Senden, newly sighted people would answer, "It is a white thing with red marks." ... The cup really is a white thing with red stripes; the person who has just gained his vision does not know that the thing he looks at is called...

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Whales are huge mammals that live and eat in water; they sort of look like fishes with fins and the tails. They are not fishes. They breathe through a blowhole, which is located on their heads. Cetaceans is a group of whales, there are two different types of cetaceans; Odonteceti and the Mysticeti. ...

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Three innings passed with no action in my little patch of green grass. ... None of that would have mattered if I didn't keep my head in the game and allowed a white, stitched, piece of hide and rubber to land next to me instead of my brown leather glove....

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Leukoplakia is pre-cancerous conditions that consist of small white lesions that are typically located on the gums or inside the bottom lip where the chewer puts the tobacco. ... There are some alternatives that can help one remove themselves from the addicting chewing tobacco, such as nicotine gum, nicotine patch, and tobacco free mint stuff. ...

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The thin beam of light that is normally admitted through the small gap between the edge of the coarse, uncultured curtains and the casing of the Victorian bay windows, gives notice to the minor patches of peeling paint on the unsoiled walls. ... Clearly cared for, petite plants frame the turf and in the centre, enhancing the view, proudly stands a Himalayan birch, renowned for its luminous white braches. ... Wires visibly travel through the ends of the limp, threadlike, womanly fingers up to the head that is roofed with wispy patches of hair. ...

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As she looks out at the "patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds," Mrs. ... This shapes how the white men treated the African American boys and how the unnamed narrator was characterized. ... There was a young, white woman standing naked on the floor, and she soon began to dance. The white men began to yell at the boys, "some threatened us if we looked and others if we did not" (Ellison). ... This shows how the setting shapes the narrator because it shows that he is aware that the only opinion that matters is that of a white man. ...

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White people were the controllers of the slaves and there were hardly any white slaves. White people would treat the slaves very badly especially on the slave ship. ... Another reason for banning slaves to read or write was because it would make the white people inferior. ... Some plantation owners gave their slaves a small piece of land, a truck-patch, where they could grow vegetables. ... To grow cotton and to pick, gin (remove seeds from the white fluff) and bale took a great deal of work. ...

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Conrad's character, Marlow, describes Europe and the Europeans using white and light; depicting their civility. ... When Marlow first arrives to Brussels, he says "In a very few hours I arrived in a city that always makes me think of whited sepulcher."(Conrad 7) The phrase "whited sepulcher" comes from the biblical Book of Matthew, and it implies death and confinement. ... The map that Marlow sees in the company offices shows the continent with "blotches of color, a lot of blue, a little green, smears of orange, a purple patch, to show where the jolly pioneers of...

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Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus) is one of the most common pathogens or disease causing bacteria found in humans. A person can harbor the bacteria in their respiratory tract without any signs of disease . It is estimated that 5-15% of normal individuals harbor it.If a persons immune d...

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Blue Footed Booby I. Scientific name / Common name The scientific name for the blue footed booby is Sula nebouxi. II. Picture - with anatomy III. Description / Characteristics Male blue footed boobies weigh approximately 1.2 kilograms, while females weigh in at about 1.8kg. Their wingspa...

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These words were spoken in fragmented English by a tiny Thai woman dressed in a crisp white nurse's uniform, complete with a straight little hat perched on top of her overly styled black hair, teased and sprayed to perfection. ... Perhaps the reason the Lampang Kanyalyani hospital proved different was because they recognized the hospital lacking in superficial beauty to show off, I reflected, as I glanced at the peeling white walls of the hall, mold formations prospering in the damp corners, and then over to the disarray of rickety wooden chairs cluttered in the center of the cramped room...

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