Sentences with phrase «as white island»

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Known for its long stretches of white sandy beach, Negril is one of the island's hot spots, as is the area's not - so - creatively - named Seven Mile Beach; by day, revelers sip on rum punch and frolic in the warm waters, and my night they drink more rum punch and dance to live reggae bands and steel drum performances.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

She is not Black American - although slaves were brought over to the leeward islands during the trans - Atlantic Slave Trade - Her parents are Haitian Immigrants - She was brought up to admire Whites and their culture - She does not see herself as a American Black Woman - She claims that she is beyond that... Her husband is White and all of her friends are White - Please look up her bio - Google it!

«Goose Island is one of the best in the business and is as passionate as we are about White Sox baseball and the fan experience.

CHICAGO --- Goose Island Beer Company has reached a new, multiyear partnership agreement with the Chicago White Sox, naming one of the largest craft breweries in the Midwest as the new official craft beer partner of the White Sox.

White Sox senior vice president of sales and marketing Brooks Boyer added in the release that the club is «excited to welcome Goose Island as our official craft beer partner.»

We're excited to welcome Goose Island as our official craft beer partner, and a partner whose beers appeal to all White Sox fans and their tastes.»

Her second brother and first sister were born while living on the island as one of the few semi-perminant white families there.

Moroccans generally being Berber or Arab, Surinam being a country in South America (where the population is mixed between Indigenous people 2 %, East Indians 37 %, Chinese 8 %, people of African descent 10 %, Javanese 15 %, White 5 %, Creole 31 %) and the population of Aruba (as an example of the most populous Dutch Carribbean Island) having a population which is 80 % mixed white / ArWhite 5 %, Creole 31 %) and the population of Aruba (as an example of the most populous Dutch Carribbean Island) having a population which is 80 % mixed white / Arwhite / Arawak.

In a show of force intended to reassert himself as a catalyst of voter passion and populist fury, Trump drew thousands of supporters to his Long Island rally, filling a cavernous film studio with many of the blue - collar white voters who have powered his bid and are crucial to his winning statewide.

A recent court ruling regarding Garden City, Long Island is a pivotal development in the long struggle to dismantle housing segregation as the federal government, courts and advocacy groups shift the battle beyond cities to white suburban enclaves that have deliberately erected barriers to integration.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — FARE's Food Allergy Heroes Walk, formerly known as the FARE Walk for Food Allergy, will come to Westchester at 1 pm on October 14th, 2017 at Glen Island Park.

Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci campaigned for Michael Grimm on Staten Island on Saturday, throwing his support behind the former congressman as Grimm attempts to show his support for President Trump.

Former White House chief of staff Andrew Card was present, as was former Buffalo - area congressman Tom Reynolds and former Staten Island congresswoman Susan Molinari, according to an attendee.

That includes such locations as Muir Woods in Amherst, Grand Island Gateway Center and Whiting Industrial Park in Akron.

The best hope for Republicans is for Ms. Harris to flop in the predominately white and more conservative portion of the district in Bay Ridge, as well as struggle with right - leaning Russian - American voters in the Coney Island and Brighton Beach half.

A Staten Island grand jury declined on Wednesday to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, who died in July as officers attempted to arrest him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes.

Charlie had seen his first patch of coral bleaching off the Great Barrier Reef's Palm Island in the early 1980s, a tiny clump of white skeleton that he photographed as a curio.

In observations obtained at the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands, the University of Warwick astronomers detected a large quantity of hydrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf (known as SDSS J1242 +5226).

While the overall distribution of white sharks is very broad, ranging from Newfoundland to the British Virgin Islands and from the Grand Banks to the Gulf of Mexico as far west as the Texas coast, 90 percent of the animals recorded in this study were found along the East Coast roughly between the Florida Keys and northern Caribbean Sea to Nova Scotia, Canada.

Newborn white sharks, as small as 4.0 feet long, regularly occur off Long Island, New York, suggesting this area may provide nursery habitat.

Codename: Skywalker hoolock gibbon Name: Hoolock tianxing Compromised: January Known territory: Myanmar and southwestern China Physical characteristics: Downturned white eyebrows Notable skills / traits: ELITE STATUS: Tucked away in isolated mountains known as sky islands, these rare gibbons have taken careful tracking to find and identify.

First the spruce and white pine trees that cover High Island materialize from the fog, then the rocky headland, and finally the sea, as if the mere act of watching has drawn them all into existence.

As part of the conference, John Turner discusses the historical use of white cedar, the historic extent of where it was found, and its current status in isolated pockets of Long Island.

The floor plan gets modified to create a grander kitchen and dining space, and Joanna provides a homey look with a rustic European antique table to serve as an island, concrete countertops, blue and white patterned tile backsplash, casual open shelving and newly revealed hardwood floors.

Because my kitchen cabinets are mocha and my island is off white, I have been thinking of updating the color of the cabinet, as well as the island and after seeing your beautiful transformation and the colors used, I am going to copy this exactly.

A glass and steel industrial chandelier hangs over a white kitchen island fitted with stainless steel shelves as well as a stainless steel countertop facing a chalkboard wall.

I am looking to do my bathroom cabinets that are white as well as my kitchen island that is cherry.

Anywho, at the weekend I went to my boyfriend's cousin's wedding and as the weather was also extremely beautiful, I chose to wear this gorgeous River Island Pink and White Scuba Bodycon Dress (and isn't it just divine?).

As they begin to convert their modest Long Island home into a white statue - laden mansion, the first order of business is to construct a haunted house for Halloween to impress their working - class neighbors, who are portrayed by movie stars and comedians in cameo roles.

The lunatic white supremacist Shank transports Vargas to his island compound, Little Germany, and announces that he will hunt him as wild game.

It was very much a transitional moment: Within that enclave, they found harmony, community, and a kind of prosperity, but as soon as they wandered into the neighboring white sections of Long Island, the antipathy was so pronounced that the Ford children would sometimes end up running home.

-- «Judy Berlin» (1999): This small - budget gem, shot in black and white, stars Edie Falco as a klutzy Long Island woman, without any particular talent, who decides to go to Hollywood to be an actress.

Sundance Institute has supported such projects as Mudbound, Get Out, The Big Sick, Strong Island, Blackfish, Top of the Lake, Winter's Bone, The Wolfpack, Dear White People, Trapped, Brooklyn, Little Miss Sunshine, 20 Feet From Stardom, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Fruitvale Station, Spring Awakening, A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and Fun Home.

Mohammad Rasoulof's 2009 The White Meadows offered the oppressive, authoritarian culture of contemporary Iran as a warped Gulliver's Travels through a lifeless salt marsh of islands out of some surreal medieval world.

In «Ford's «Strong Island,» a kind of filmic memoir of the Long Island prosecutorial injustice that led to the white killer of his black brother William in a garage dispute never even standing trial, the aims are as much personal as social.

While 42 percent of white students and 50 percent of students from Asian and Pacific Islands backgrounds were identified as proficient in math, only 11 percent of African American students, 15 percent of Hispanic students, and 16 percent of Native Americans were so identified.

In reading, 40 percent of white students and 41 percent of those from Asia and the Pacific Islands were identified as proficient.

Harris notes that education officials «framed the opt - out movement as more prevalent in white middle - and upper - middle - class districts, with Long Island a particular hot spot.»

In the book The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy chronicled his experiences as a white teacher assigned to an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina where most of the people were poor and black.

Born on Long Island, White grew up in New York, New Jersey, and Southern California and attended the University of California campuses at Irvine (where he lasted three weeks as a creative writing major) and Los Angeles before graduating from Berkeley in 1972.

Turner's family moves to Phippsburg, Maine, in 1912 just as the town's white leaders try to eliminate a neighboring island community populated by former slaves and their descendants.

Prominent historian Painter — whose works, such as The History of White People, have explored race, gender and class in America — offers a more personal take on those themes as she reflects on enrolling in the Rhode Island School of Design as a 64 - year - old black woman and what it means to continue growing and discovering joy as we age.

Dr. White - Weithers has brought a wealth of knowledge and experience to the Long Island area and believes in the need to make pets as equally healthy as human beings.

White sandy beaches, crystal - clear turquoise waters and the 3rd largest coral reef in the world have helped to define the Turks & Caicos Islands as a premier luxury destination.

The official citation pays tribute to the island's «exceptional natural beauty» and refers to «over 250 km of sandy beaches with long, uninterrupted sweeps of ocean beach, with more than 40 km of strikingly coloured sand cliffs, as well as spectacular dune blowouts and ocean surf beaches; tall rainforests growing on low nutrient sands; perched dune lakes including both clear «white water» lakes and dark «black water» lakes; banksia woodlands, heath, patterned swampy fens and sheltered mangrove areas in a spectacular «mosaic landscape.»

With its white beaches, famous teal waters and an abundance of marine life, «Hamo» — as it's affectionately known to locals — is the largest and busiest inhabited island in the Whitsundays, an archipelago of 74 scenic islands off the Queensland coast.

This tiny uninhabited islet off Coiba National Park in Panama — with clear turquoise water lapping onto a blindingly white sand beach dotted with palm trees — is about as perfect as a tropical island can get.

Nowadays, it's regarded as one of the most beautiful islands in the Aegean, boasting pure white sandy beaches, picturesque villages and charming fishing harbours.

Well, you need only shake your towel out on any number of unspoiled white - sand motus (small island, most uninhabited) to feel life as dreamy as it gets.