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    excited to welcome all dancers and parents to the Long Beach Poly 2014-2015 Color Guard season. Our goal this season is to provide an opportunity for students to participate in representing their school. The Color Guard is a group that teaches teamwork and performance skills‚ builds confidence and self-esteem. You will gain experiences in performing in front of many people and lifelong friendships. During this season‚ The Color Guard will perform with the marching band at all home football games; pre-game

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    Her first costume is a very traditional red kimono with a floral pattern. The red color in Kabuki clothing symbolizes happy feelings‚ and youth or innocence in context of The Maiden’s dances. The floral pattern of the first kimono is seasonally significant in that it traditionally symbolizes spring‚ a season with the positive connotations of youth and of the more symbolic “blossoming” of a woman‚ an important connotation as the theme of this dance “might be interpreted as the phases of a woman’s

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    important messages in the novel by his symbolic use of color‚ names‚ places and characters. A lot of important messages in the novel are conveyed by color symbolism. Colors are an important part in Fitzgerald’s description of the lives of Jay Gatsby‚ Nick Carraway and the other characters. The color grey is used to descbribe the valley of ashes which lies between West Egg and New York‚ "…grey cars… grey ashes… the grey land" (27). The color grey conveys the feeling of lacking spirit and dreariness

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    The first movie‚ “The Color Purple”‚ is based on the novel written by Alice Walker that carries the same name. The movie presents the hardship and domestic violence of African-American women at the beginning of the 20th century when racism‚ injustice‚ oppression‚ and African-American’ rights were still noticed in America at that time. Its main character is a young African-American girl‚ Celie‚ who is repeatedly sexually molested by her stepfather who later is forced to marry Albert‚ a widower with

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    Malcolm X: A Color Struggle

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    issues with his own color and the pride he would take in himself. Malcolm X‚ born Malcolm Little was the seventh child‚ (three from a previous marriage)‚ of Reverend Earl Little‚ a pronounced minister and dedicated organizer for the Universal Negro Improvement Association‚ and the fourth child of Louisa‚ a native of the Caribbean island of Grenada. When he was born his father wired his parents‚ " It’s a boy‚ but he’s white‚ just like mama." (Bruce Perry‚ 11) Malcolm’s skin color was an obstacle from

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    A Study in Color: A Streetcar Named Desire Throughout A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams associates various colors with his characters in revealing their elements of honesty‚ societal status‚ and otherwise hidden parts of their lives to shed a light on expectations that the social order forces on different classes and types of people in American society. Blue is mentioned intermittently with Blanche and consistently in association with Stanley’s cold‚ lower-class status. Blanche’s main

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    Introduction Throughout the story‚ Pearl is depicted as pure‚ evil‚ one with nature‚ non-relaxing and peaceful. The colors “walls of white‚” “relaxing evening rain‚” “earthen shaded granite‚” and “India black tea” help relate the characteristics of Pearl and her changes throughout the story. Walls of White The color “walls of white” describe Pearl’s name and what she has to live up to. Hester names her child Pearl. “But she named the infant ‘Pearl‚’ as

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    race in many ways. Alice Walker‚ author of The Color Purple‚ shows the violence put on the African American race and women during the early twentieth century. Walker demonstrates life during these hard times and how some things still haven’t changed; making the violence and harm inflicted on the black community a major theme of the story. The stereotype of violence inflicted on and in the black community‚ clearly shown through the characters in The Color Purple‚ helps achieve the author’s educating

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    What is it The Baseball Color Line (also known as the color barrier) was an unwritten rule that did not allow African Americans to play Major League Baseball in the states from 1884 until 1946. Owners forced African Americans out of the game. It applied to dark skinned who were of Latin descent‚ as well as blacks. There was also a gentleman’s agreement made to keep out certain races by owners. Some leagues did not spell it out in their policies about keeping out blacks‚ but some of the older ones

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    The Color Purple In the novel “The Color purple” the dynamic characters are Albert‚ and Celie. Albert is one of the character that married Celie and always beat her. His way of treating people change when Celie left the house with Shug Avery. He started to treat people better than he use to and when Celie come back from her tripe he was really nice to her and treat her with kindness. Celie is the main character that was rape by her step-father at a young age‚ she was separated from her younger

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