...“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?” In the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”, Johanna (Joey) and John boarded an airplane from Hawaii to San Francisco. Joanna comes from a background of a Caucasian wealthy family and John comes from a background of an African –American working class family. Joanna is a classy, sophisticated colleague who met Dr. John Prentice who was holding a lecture at Hawaii University and was attending a party at the Deans. At the beginning of the movie, Johanna and John arrives at the San Francisco airport, check their luggage out with the bagger, and began talking amongst each other. At this point, both characters are building rapport. Next, they caught a taxi, from the airport and rode within the city of San Francisco talking to each and was trying to make a decision of how were John was going to stay. Immediately, Joana insisted that John would stay over and meet her parents, but John seemed sort of uneasy of this situation due to Joanna not informing her parents that John was coming with her and that he was African American. Later, they stopped in at the gallery where her mother works and she is trying to find her. Johanna couldn’t find her mother, so she sees the owner, Mrs. Hilary St. George and introduces Dr. John Prentice to her. There seemed to be a signal of prejudice, as Mrs. St. George is speaking to Dr. Prentice, falsely smiles at him, but sort of rejects his greeting in return by continuing to speak with Joanna over his conversation...
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...Results Overview of fast food market Fast food market Fast food restaurant Definitions Fast food restaurants feature a common menu above the counter; they provide no wait staff; and customers typically pay before eating and choose and clear their own tables. These restaurants are also known as quick serve restaurants (QSRs). Main type of food sold at the restaurant, including burgers, sandwiches, snacks, Mexican food, and pizza. sales. The next four, Subway, Burger King, Starbucks, and Wendy’s, had $8 to $10 billion each in sales and 6% to 7% of the market. The three YUM! Brands restaurants in the top 20 (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC) ranked sixth, seventh, and ninth individually. Together their sales totaled $16.7 billion, or 12% of the market, and placed YUM! Brands in second place behind McDonald’s. The restaurants in our analysis represent several different segments of the fast food market including burgers (McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Sonic, and Dairy Queen), sandwiches (Subway), snacks (Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts), Mexican food (Taco Bell), pizza (Pizza Hut and Domino’s), and chicken (KFC).4 The number of U.S. locations of these twelve restaurants totaled almost 100,000 and ranged from approximately 3,500 Sonic restaurants to almost 24,000 Subway restaurants. These twelve restaurants comprised 41% of locations for the top 50 restaurants. Fast food segment Table 2 presents 2008 and 2009 sales data for the twenty largest fast food restaurants in the United States...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix D Two-Party Politics Part 1: Matrix Complete the matrix by describing the beliefs and ideals of each of the parties. Generate a list of at least 10 of President Jefferson’s decisions and actions. Decide which party’s ideals are most aligned with the decision or action and provide an explanation of why the decision or action aligns with that party. |Decisions and Actions |Democratic-Republican Party’s Beliefs and Ideals |Federalist Party’s Beliefs and Ideals | |Reducing the size of government |Cut back on military and allow only a tiny navy to protect the coast |Their shipping industry could be jeopardized by a weakened navy. | |Judiciary |Wanted to repeal the appointments made by John Adams and opposed to |Federalists still had power in the courts. Chief Justice John Marshall | | |partisanship |declared doctrine of judicial review giving the courts the right to judge | | | |the constitutionality of federal laws. | |Believed in states’ rights |Individual states should have more power over their citizens...
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...within us. Consequently, I chose six core black Americans figures to express how each individual story helped to shape the United States of America. Beginning in the early 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington (a former slave and prominent black leader) to dinner. Washington, who founded the Tuskegee Institute, was one of the most influential intellectuals of the era. Roosevelt, known for his impulsiveness, respected Washington, who also advised President William Howard Taft. Though Booker was not the first African American to advise a...
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...What were the major cause and consequences of the populist movement of the 1880’s and 1890’s? The populist movement was a number of initiatives that began in response to the sentiment of society. The Populist Party is also call the People’s Party and the populist movement was the first important movement by citizens against what they believed was the corruption and the greed of our government. One of the causes was the Homestead Act which brought many new farmers to the West after the Civil War. Farmers then purchased the new farming machinery on credit in order to expand and produce more. The next cause of the populist movement was economic recession. The weather wasn’t cooperating with the farmers, crop prices dropped and farmers couldn’t pay their loans back and cover their debt. Farmers started losing their farms because the banks started foreclosing on them. The tariffs also were a cause of the populist movement because they made the cost for their farming equipment increase. Then the railroads were charging the farmers higher prices because they felt secure in the knowledge that they didn’t have any competition. The farmers wanted the government to do something about all of this, so they created two laws. The first was the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) which was put into place in order to regulate what the railroads could charge and then the second was the Sherman Anti- Trust Act. The populist movement is responsible for silver...
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...Running head: The difference in our culture The difference in a white and black culture Billy Dixon South University Online As a child growing up and into my adulthood, I have had the privilege of living in different places. I have lived in several major cities throughout the U.S. and have made friends from different countries, which are Africans, Mexicans, and Canadians. I moved from Georgia when I was nine, and I have lived in the rural of Texas since. Therefore in the past twenty-one years of my life I have had the pleasure of living in two different cultural backgrounds, and learn the differences in between. Abstract This paper seeks to explain that within the societies our beliefs, attitudes and values are the same when it comes to holidays concerning festivities and celebrations. Within societies, various religions, and ethnic groups can set us apart due to a range of responses, feelings, behaviors, attitudes, symbols, and material objects when it comes to death in our culture. Celebration of holidays within a culture The difference in a white and black culture In the United Stated...
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...States of America Red wine, sweet tea, ice cold beer, chilled champagne, soft drinks, croissants, barbeque, fried chicken, bleu cheese, American processed cheese…all of these are symbols of good eating and drinking. Furthermore, these symbols are commonly enjoyed by two diverse and unique cultures; the French and the southerners of the United States of America. What underlying factors link these two diverse and unique cultures together? It is a common assumption that the French culture enjoys extremely rich and fattening foods, along with the fact that the French are obsessed with having a good time. It is just as well known that Southerners also enjoy the same rich and fattening foods, and they too know how to have a good time eating and drinking. Research has shown similarities and differences in immigration, social interaction and diet habits between the two cultures. The United States of America is known as a huge ‘melting pot’. America is made up of many nationalities and the southern region represents that same multi-cultural picture. “The population of the Southern United States is made up of many different people who came to the region in a variety of ways, each contributing to what is now called ‘Southern cooking’(Food In Every Country).” The various cultures included American Indians, Spanish explorers, West Africans, Creoles, and Cajuns. Each diverse group introduced foods, spices, and cooking techniques, which have ultimately factored in how today’s...
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...born into the ghetto, I had no other choice but to grow up fast. I was born and raised in the crazy city of Newark, New Jersey. I do not think it gets any worse than that. I’m black and I live in Newark. It is stated, African Americans are descendants of captive Africans who survived the slavery era within the boundaries of the present United States. My ancestors are the roots to the land of the free and/or The American Dream because of slavery. The English found a way to be lazy and get someone else to tend to their work while they sat back and took the credit for it. They could have easily share the rewards with my race but chose to be greedy and keep it to themselves. Then when African Americans decided to fight harder for what they deserved or a matter of fact what they were promise they only got half of half of what they died for. I believe that since day one AA should have been standing shoulder to shoulder reaping the success that others took from them. Instead we got reduce as a people to the lowest class they can label and called it the “GHETTO “. Now to this day we are still perceived as this even the ones that manage to make it out. We are so discredited that people feel it suits us better to give us credit for theft, murder, & etc. Black Americans is just the set of people that the world forgot to mention. I walk around and see my fellow brothers and sisters striving to live beyond their means. But then they realize that’s a struggle, they are not prepared because...
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...Kelsey Wible Mr. Stoner APUSH August 19 2014 Founding Brothers "Founding Brothers" by Joseph Ellis is a non-fiction book that analyzes several important events in America among the nation's founding fathers, that take place after the Revolutionary War. The author goes into detail chronologically describing how these events shaped the history of the United States. Joseph Ellis is an American historian and professor. He specializes in American history, and more specifically the founding fathers of America. Ellis has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He has written several biographies about the founders of America, including Adams, Jefferson and Washington. His book about Jefferson titled, "American Sphinx: The...
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...parents came over for my birthday party. It was special, you know? We met in 5th grade and I instantly developed a crush on him. According to me, I got the guy of my dreams. After all, he was a Caucasian guy with blue eyes and light brown hair. It was exactly what my Hispanic parents wanted: a young man with a future ahead of him. We began dating that same day at my party. We shared everything with each other. I’d send him cool songs I found on YouTube and he’d send me the latest cat memes and clothing ideas. We always knew what was on each other’s mind. For my 16th birthday, he got me...
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...Sometimes people are too busy to learn about other countries. However when you travel and start to know people, culture and customs from other countries, you want to know more about the countries in the world. This is a way to enrich your own culture and to value what you are and where you come from. Venezuelans have mixed race heritage of Spanish, African and American Indian. The influence of the indigenous people and their culture on the modern Venezuelan life is found in typical staples of the country, such as arepas and cachapas, in the geographically names and in the vocabulary. The African influence is limited to a few words of vocabulary and gastronomy, but it is particularly apparent in the music with musical instruments like the drum. Since the most of the colonial people came from the Spanish regions of Andalucia and Extremadura, the influences of these regions can be found in food, music, language, art and religion. The 19th and 20th century brought to Venezuela immigrants from other European countries, including Italy, France, Portugal and Germany, whose cultural tradition has mixed with Venezuelan. The fact that Venezuelans like baseball and have many fast food restaurants clearly means that the country hasn’t been spared of the US influences too. Lifestyles. Venezuela is a country where modern and traditional lifestyles are mixed together. For many Venezuelans, family life is of most importance. Although the tradition has started to change recently, the...
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...devoted to play.” He expressed his concept of hard work was the cornerstone of his social philosophy. Booker T. became a principle and guiding force behind Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institution in Hampton, Alabama during 1881. He felt that industrial education was a way out from the horrible sharecropping and debt. His plan also wanted to achieve self-employment, land ownership and small businesses. “Yet one has the hand in all things essential to mutual progress”, being a personal quote from Booker T. at the Atlanta Compromise address in 1895. His major role was to influence the area of race relations and black leadership. He attacked racism and secretly founder of many anti-segregationist activities. Booker T. wanted to help black Americans rise up from the economic slavery, that had held them down long after they were legally free citizens. As being a dominant figure in black public affairs from 1895 until his death, he spoke heavily against lynching and worked towards making “separate” facilities more “equal”. Being a confident advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft was a very important role he acting in. No presidential, political appointments were allowed, unless they were cleared through him. In 1900, Booker T. Washington was a founder of the National Negro Business...
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...Susan B. Anthony is well known for not giving her seat up on a bus. However, many people do not recall the other extraordinary events that took place thanks to her. Anthony was an African American woman, and during the 1800’s African Americans were not treated equally and neither were women of any color. Women had no rights to do anything. Many thought that women’s sole purpose was to slave in a kitchen and teach young kids. Thus, Anthony became a teacher. Where she fed young minds her brilliance that was about to come forth in the following years. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15,1820. She was the second oldest out of eight children, but unfortunately two of her siblings died. One died during birth and the other died at a very young...
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...explaining the importance of the American Revolution. He starts off by stating that during the 1780’s everyone thought that it was only natural that America verge away from British rule. They all figured that it would be a gradual change; not a full blown revolution. Throughout the chapter, Ellis puts great emphasis on the many things that could have gone wrong during the revolution. He points all these negative events and set backs that he felt could easily have brought the developing America down to show just how great of an accomplishment the revolution was. The Founding Fathers were not completely oblivious to the severity of breaking away from Great Britain. Tom Pain states that, “it is only common sense that an island can not rule a continent (pg.3).” Many assumed that it was only natural that the thirteen colonies govern themselves. They figured that it would be a peaceful break such as the gaining of independence for Ghana or Canada. It was not until later on that the colonies realized that Britain would not easily hand over the land. What I find interesting is that only the Founding Fathers seemed to realize the great events taking place during their time. John Adams even instructed his wife to file and keep all of his records. It is as if he knew that hundreds of years from then, we the future Americans would look back at his notes and recognize his greatness. This makes me wonder why they were so sure of themselves. The Americans were at a disadvantage during the...
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...The White House The White House is an extraordinary building, how it was built, burnt, and rebuilt is fascinating. The cost of the White House was $232,372 and started to be built in 1792. The White House was known as many things, such as, “President’s Palace”, “President’s House”, and “Executive mansion”. The building was not called The White House until 1901 and was not the house of the President until 1800. There are many rooms, antiques, windows, etc. and some have been around since the 1800’s. George Washington selected the location of the White House in 1791. Virginia and Maryland were pro slavery states that ceded the decision to have the White House on land. Washington chose the person who built The White House, James Hoban's. The designs...
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