Dear Pulitzer Judging Board‚ The book‚ The Color Purple by Alice Walker was superior. This book should have received the Pulitzer Prize because it contains some of the best elements‚ in which this book very unique. Some of the key elements that were featured is by the book being written in letters and or diary form by the protagonist‚ Celie‚ herself. Another key element of The Color Purple was Alice Walker’s way of connecting with the audience showing strong emotions and the struggles that Celie
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Color is defined as “the quality of an object or substance with respect to light reflected by the object‚ usually determined visually by measurement of hue‚ saturation‚ and brightness of the reflected light; saturation or chroma; hue” (Webster’s Dictionary). Color is an extremely powerful psychological tool used across the globe. Our world would be bland and boring without the use of color in our everyday lives. Using color psychology can encourage sales‚ calm a crowd‚ and even help a person send
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“You’d bet not never tell nobody but God. It’d kill your mammy” (Walker 1). These are the first words written in the novel which embody the struggle that the main character‚ Celie‚ withholds throughout the novel in trying to differentiate her surroundings as good or evil. At this instance‚ Celie had been raped by her own father and is being told by him to never tell anyone but God‚ especially her mother. From this point on‚ Celie begins to write letters only to God‚ pouring her soul into this only
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time that color plays a major role in setting up a particular mood or state of mind. Color does affect one’s feelings‚ moods‚ and emotions. Colors are certain wavelengths of electro-magnetic energy seen through our eyes. The color we see is the part of the visible spectrum that is reflected back by a certain object. We know that when all colors join the result is white light. Therefore working with White Light brings about completeness‚ oneness‚ union of all complementary parts. Colors affect us
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Running head: COLOR OF IMAGERY IN POEMS 1 COLOR IMAGERY IN POEMS 2 Color imagery; also known as color symbolism is a literary tool that refers to the meaning associated with a certain color. The color symbolizes a feeling or meaning. Author’s use color imagery to help the reader reference the feeling or meaning. In literature it is an object or reference used to provide meaning to the writing beyond what is essentially being described
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Pan-Africanism‚ race and a social constructed Africa Based on culture‚ identity and world view: slavery‚ slave trade and the African Diaspora Pan-Africanism‚ race and a social constructed Africa ‘What is Africa to me? Once I should have answered the question simply: I should have said "fatherland" or perhaps better "motherland" because I was born in the century when the walls of race were clear and straight in the United States.’ (Du Bois:1968‚ 115) This citation describes the Pan-Africanist
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The idea that race is biological‚ emerged back in the 17th century with all the great discoveries found in that decade. However this idea continued spreading in the 19th century especially among the different cultures encountered through colonialism. Thus‚ white settlers claimed themselves as a “superior race” and justified the slavery‚ which was performed against what they called “inferior race”. Moreover‚ the term “race” still existed even after the end of colonialism. To what extend then‚ the
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Paper Color in Cabaret In the movie Cabaret color is used to symbolize many different things. There is a wide array of color that shows the viewer what is going on between the characters and what the general emotion of a scene is. In many instances the colors foreshadow what will happen later in the movie. Conflicts in the film are also shown by the difference in color schemes making it more obvious to the viewer the contrast of the two ideals in conflict. This masterful use of color is
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The “Color Complex” and It’s Persisting Effects on the Black Community As African Americans came to the United States the “color complex” was implemented upon them by their white captors. The “color complex” became a means for which white slave owners could divide and conquer their black slaves. With black slaves outnumbering whites on many southern colonies as well as in many of the Caribbean islands‚ such as Haiti‚ whites realized that they needed to divide their captors against each other.
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coercion. Democracy and justice did not exist in the South. After the South’s defeat in the civil war‚ the general public thought that Africans Americans had been liberated. However‚ African Americans were enslaved through political institutions‚ social norms‚ and violence. The Jim Crow laws were meant to oppress African Americans. The main tool of discrimination was the law of vagrancy. Vagrancy prevented African Americans from leaving the slave master’s land. If any African Americans were found
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