Hao Ha 11/18/13 Education 305 White Privilege This week’s reading by Peggy McIntosh’s, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack really resonated with me. It forced me to think about how being white grants a person a set of positive privileges that others don’t have. Because of this, I felt compelled to write a response. I will start with her argument, make a comparison to another reading, provide the context for her article, and lastly issue some of my own opinions on the topic.
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Tim Burton Dark, but Lucrative Style Tim Burton has a very popular filming style that mixes his love for action-horror films and books with a sometimes funny and simple comedy style. Movies like the Grinch, The Corpses Bride, and Franken weenie have given Tim Burton films a very distinct and original look and feel to them that set his films apart from those that hovered all over Hollywood in his day. Tim Burton's ability to produce low budgets hits like Franken weenie Pee-wee's Big Adventure and
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Johnny Depp and Tim Burton and Jonathan Ross on Friday Night Ross: And my next Guest is one of the most visionary and unique directors working in mainstream cinema today, his work includes Batman, Edward Scissor hands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He is the wonderful, Tim Burton. [Points to screen which shows Burton.] Ross: There he is, hey Tim, how’s it going? Looking swift, I loved him there. Pause to wait for laughter I’m excited because Tims latest movie is a gritty boiler
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------------------------------------------------- Top of Form March 02, 2013 Tim McGraw Sees 'Two Lanes of Freedom' by Mary Morningstar Country star Tim McGraw spent the past few years battling in court to end his career-long relationship with Curb Records. McGraw is finally on a new record label with a new CD. “Two Lanes of Freedom” is McGraw’s debut album for the Nashville independent label Big Machine Records. He shares the Big Machine roster with such superstars as Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts
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The Dave Matthews Band When I think of The Dave Matthews Band, I also think of their jazzy pop rock music that has helped them become a musical sensation. The band consists of jazz and classical musicians and of course, Dave Matthews. Their music and songs are very unique and have not been heard before the band came about. They have touched millions of people’s hearts, especially mine. The fact that they sing about real situations and real issues that are going on the world today is what makes them
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Overview – Tim Hortons Tim Hortons is a fast food restaurant franchise specializing in coffee and doughnuts. It is currently Canada’s largest fast food franchise with over 4000 stores across North America (http://o.canada.com). The franchise was founded in 1964 in Hamilton, Ontario, by Canadian hockey player Tim Horton. In 1967, Horton partnered with investor Ron Joyce, who assumed control over operations after Tim Horton died in 1974, and expanded the chain into a multi-million dollar franchise
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he states, “Aaron Wysocki, director of content distribution for the Web news network Young Turks, tweeted Thursday morning that YouTube had disabled ads on nearly 1,000 of the network's videos over the past three years -- including recent news items about Syrian refugees, pharmaceutical research and the Colombian ceasefire.” [Dewey, Caitlyn "YouTubers are accusing the site of rampant 'censorship'." Washington Post 1 Sept. 2016.] This quote is a contradiction to what YouTubers are saying. Wysocki
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February 26th, 2015; I screamed with joy after hearing about the enactment of net neutrality. I started running in my dorm and asked every person I met: “Do you know the FCC just passed Net Neutrality?” Despite my enthusiasm, most people looked at me with a confounded gaze, then asked: “What are you talking about?” I only got one positive response: “Oh, I saw an article about how ‘Pornhub’ was trying to inform people about net neutrality.” I was stunned, if not outraged. How do you not know what
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Things that happen to others can often inspire many powerful feelings in oneself. ✔In the film Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton, the character of Edward Scissorhands generates many strong feelings from the viewer towards his character. Edward Scissorhands is an outcast in Suburbia due to his scissor-like hands, who tries to get his neighbours to accept his differences in a variety of ways. During the film his character made me feel sorry for him, but at the same time he was someone that
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An ‘uncommonly gentle man’, Edward, is the main character of the film ‘Edward Scissorhands’. Edward is an unfinished robot who has scissors instead of human-like prosthetic hands. He was built by an inventor who lived in a huge, spooky mansion on the top of a hill. The film ‘Edward Scissorhands’ is about this abnormal man who fell in love with a young woman. Because of Edward’s differences, the people in the community were unable to tolerate him and at last Edward hid into the mansion again. There
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