Movie Scene: White Chicks
Marcus: You sure this is gonna work?
Kevin: Just trust me, follow my lead.
Marcus: What up, you got a problem? What you lookin at my butt for? Nah, hey hold my poodle. Hey yo, what up you got a problem? Ya’ll wants some a this, you want some of this? What, boy what? I’ll take the both of you! -
Kevin: Marcus, cut it out-
Marcus: What, he’s lookin at me like I’m some kind of girl, man-
Kevin: You are a girl, and you better start acting like one or your gonna be an unemployed girl.
Man: Dang, I’d sure like to cut that cake...
Kevin: Hey yo, hold this! (Hands dog to Marcus) Hey yo, you trying to look at my lumps? I’ll take off my g-string and handle mine; I’ll handle mine dog-
Marcus (whispers) its Gomez.
Gomez: Welcome to the Royal Hamptons Hotel (gestures to hotel).
Kevin: The bags in the car Jose.
Gomez: The names Gomez
Kevin: Whatever!...
Marcus: And yeah here, take Baby. Clean out his bag, poor thing just pooped everywhere. And teach him how t o say yo quiero Taco Bell. Thanks a lot Rico Suava-
Kevin: Gratsi
Marcus: Thanks Julio.
Gomez: Right away maam.
Walks into hotel lobby.
Kevin: (Marcus trips) Sweetie, you’ve gotta slow up with those Cosmos. (Giggles) Brittney and Tiffany Wilson... (Bumps rack on counter with her boobs) Sorry, um, um there new. Dr. Drorphman did an amazing job!
Marcus: They feel sooo real! (Kevin giggles)
Harper: Hi, yeah, I, I, I just need to see, uh, a credit card, and some I.D. please.
Kevin: Credit Card? I.D.? I am so fricken pissed! -
Harper: Maam, I, I-
Kevin: First of all, I go to Dr. Drorphmans, he totally messes up my nose job. I ask him to make me look like Gweneth Paltrow; I get off the surgery table lookin like fricken Shrek! (Marcus sympathizes for her) Then I get here, and Mr. Harper makes me feel like some dumb blonde with fake boobs, going to a Hue Hephner party!
Harper: I didn’t mean to offend you, it’s just that, it’s protocol-
Kevin: I’m gonna have a B.F!
Marcus: Oh my god!
Harper: No, no, no, no, no, don’t, don’t, have, uh, uh B.F. now-
Kevin: I want to speak to your supervisor, better yet, I'm gonna write a letter...(Harper trying to calm her down)
It has been said that the physical variations in the human species have no meaning except the social one that humans put on them. Society has placed stigmas on race dating all the way back to the 1600s. Still in the 21st century the American society is still trying to work through racial boundaries. With such stigmas being placed on them, biracial individuals often self-identify or be identified by others differently, depending on the social context. A biracial individual’s racial identity development is contingent upon many factors, both internal and external. With the dramatic increase in the number of individuals with a bi or multiracial background it is important for us to recognize the complexity of the racial identity development of this culture. It is critical to understand the hardships as well as the advantages of being biracial, to help them avoid any negative behaviors which could yield lifelong consequences. The healthy development of one’s racial identity is imperative for a biracial child to be able to achieve and maintain a positive psychological and social adjustment throughout the lifespan.
After the 5 years of being apart from Dana, Kevin finally gets the letter that Dana has come back to get him. He was happy to find Dana on the Weylin's Farm and he tries to get away with her so they can leave the negative experiences behind them. When they try to get away, Rufus comes with a gun and tries to force Kevin into giving up Dana, so he could take her as a slave. Kevin didn't want to give up without a fight so he begins to become possessive of Dana. “Kevin stared at him. Until Rufus began to look uncomfortable instead of indignant.” (Kindred,185). Kevin changes from kind to possessive because he sees the way Rufus looks at Dana the same way he looks at Alice. Kevin understands that Rufus would do anything to keep Dana with him, so he must be possessive in order to keep Rufus in check. When Kevin comes back to the present, he does not come back the same. He has a Southern accent and he doesn't seem to remember how to use technology. He seems to be angry with himself because he struggles to get back into the present. When Dana tries to help him ease his way back into the present, he snaps and glares as at her which is something he had never done to Dana. “He stopped, glaring at me... The expression on his face was like... something I was used to seeing on Tom Weylin” (Kindred,194). In the five years, Kevin was in the antebellum south, he could have adopted the ways of the racist slave owners as he did the southern accent. Kevin is already showing their racist ways when he glares at Dana when she tries to help him, His action was like a white person to a black person in the Antebellum South. The experience negatively impacts Dana and Kevin because Kevin is not the same and kind man he was when Dana married him. Kevin comes back to the present as a stranger living with Dana because she doesn't
Terrance: That's called the monkey claw cause it feels like my colon is being ripped apart by a thousand monkeys.
"This motherf**ker right here stole my motherf***ing house and now he's standing right f***ing in front of me laughing at me. And he f***ing figures I'm a f***ing joke. This motherf***er right here. This motherf***er right here. Get his a** on camera. Right. Get his a** on camera. Get his a** on camera. This is the dog.
In Subic Bay, Naval Base, Philippines, I spent 6 years in a culturally diverse environment, which meant as a child, I missed the memo that being “mixed” is not the norm. My healthy environment has changed drastically when my dad left and my mom brought me to Manila to live with my grandparents while she worked abroad. In Manila, I had experienced all kinds of prejudice from people who were constantly asking
Now, he has to go. As if to make it okay in someway, he says, ""I'm like my father. The bastard son of a bastard! See how he grins? And he's been absent going on sixteen years!"
I grew up in a world where I was torn between who I was and what others wanted me to be. I was a biracial child in a monoracial society. My Guatemalan father and my Casuauain mother were often ridiculed for having “impurities”
“ I have been doing my job just fine, I told Emily I would bring her back more dishes, I told Tyler to keep stocking, I told josh to do prep table, and I told Brea to start lobby. So don’t tell me I’m not doing my Job.” I asserted growing more and more angry with every word. What she did next really took the cake.
Each year, about 2.1 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases. Many children may not receive their necessary first year vaccinations because of lack of availability, religious beliefs, and safety concerns (Healy, Rench, and Baker 540). The dictionary definition of a vaccine is a biological preparation that improves the immunity to a certain disease (Healy, Rench, and Baker 540). Although all 50 States in the United States require children to be vaccinated to certain diseases before entering school, the states also have exemptions for these vaccinations (Lu 870). Parents often choose not to get their children immunized, and it has proven harmful to the health of the global population. It is important for parents to have their children vaccinated against diseases such as measles, mumps, and polio because it is important to promote the welfare of the human race (Parkins 439).
Throughout the years the world has made many medicals advancements, one including vaccines. A vaccine is a substance that produces immunity from a disease, which is usually injected by a shot. Vaccines train the immune system by injected the disease into you so that when you come around the bacteria or virus again your body is able to fight it off. When the bacteria or virus enters the body immune cells attack it by producing protein molecules also knowns as antibodies. These antibodies then attack the virus or bacteria. The first immunisation known to us today happened hundreds of years ago when the Buddhist monks drank snake venom to make their bodies immune to a snake bite. However people consider Edward Jenner to be the founder of vaccinations. In 1798 He injected a thirteen year old with cowpox to demonstrate immunity to smallpox. Vaccines are extremely important because they aren’t like many other health things. For example if you don’t go to the dentist that is your own choice and it may have a big affect on you but it most likely won’t affect other people. But with vaccines it can affect the people around you as well as your community. You can catch or spread a disease in a workplace or school.
In our modern world, there are so many diseases that are a risk to our health, so it is important for parents to vaccinate their children, for a number of reasons. If a child is not vaccinated they are prone to many diseases that can cause a many health issues. The main reason parents don't want to vaccinate their children is because of the health risks that come from vaccines. But the positive effects of vaccines outweigh the negative effects. Also Vaccines can protect a diseases from spreading. If one person contracts a disease, it can spread to hundreds and thousands of people. And Vaccination is safe and effective. All vaccines undergo long and careful review by scientists, doctors, and the federal government to make sure they are safe. Even with this information, parents these days still chose not to vaccinate their
A vaccine is a substance that is injected with a needle that provides immunity to one or several diseases and is generally offered to children of young age. Vaccines are considered to be the most efficient and sure way to prevent diseases especially within children. Edward Jenner was the first man to confirm the process of vaccinating was a method of preventing disease in 1798, however there are stories of the Chinese practicing similar techniques in the early 1700s. Children should be vaccinated if it is an option, vaccines can save a child’s life, and every year about 1.5 million children under the age 5 die from vaccine preventable diseases. Vaccine preventable diseases can also be extremely expensive, costing about $10 billion
I cannot exactly remember when I started feeling different from my peers because I was never bothered by the idea of being multiethnic, until the moment I could not categorize my background into a box for a school form. My parents always made my brother and I feel proud about our multiethnic and cultural heritage. I was never ashamed of my background but at times I felt too diverse due to the fact that my dad’s ethnic background is Indian and my mom’s ethnic background is Chinese and Portuguese, though they are both from Guyana. There were moments I was uncomfortable with myself because I felt I did not look a certain way or that my cultural and religious practices might be considered unusual to the American norm. These experiences made me weary on the way I
become an amazing support system for Kevin. Kevin will always be a story of when things look
“Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.” (Ezekiel J. Emanuel, 1). Vaccines helped humanity for many years in eliminating illnesses that disfigured, disabled and a lot of times took lives away. Children who do not get vaccinated not only risk themselves by being an easy target for diseases they also, harm everyone around them. In the end, today's children are the fuel of the future. Every parent should think carefully before taking any chance that may harm the coming generation.