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    Blue is the favorite color of all people. It’s nature’s color for water and sky‚ but is rarely found in fruits and vegetables. Today‚ blue is embraced as the color of heaven and authority‚ denim jeans and corporate logos. It is cold‚ wet‚ and slow as compared to red’s warmth‚ fire‚ and intensity. Blue has more complex and contradictory meanings than any other color. These can be easily explained by pinpointing by the specific shade of blue. Bright blue: cleanliness‚ strength‚ dependability

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    at first is the colour‚ blue. Blue is known as the coolest colour. The reason blue is my favorite reason is that of all the colors in the spectrum blue compliments almost all other colors. Blue is the master of backdrops. Interestingly‚ blue is the color of the universe and nature such as sky‚ ocean‚ sleep‚ twilight. Besides that‚ blue is the color of inspiration‚ sincerity‚ modernatization and spirituality. Blue is often the chosen color by conservative people. Blue is the calming color that

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    Jet Blue has an opportunity to remain cutting edge in the airline industry by continuing to be low-cost and expanding carrier. A great market for Jet Blue to expand to would be towards the Caribbean’s. As well as possibly lobbying Washington to lift travel sanctions in Cuba‚ which at one point was a major vacation getaway for Americans. This opportunity fits into Jet Blues current business model of short distance flights at a lower cost than the competition. Jet Blue is a shinning star in the

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    In the play “Fences” by August Wilson he uses the title fences metaphorically to describe a African American family. He uses the word multiple times in multiple ways. Some of the most important ways fence is used to be symbolic is by protection‚ Troy and Rose’s relationship‚ and Troy against death. It’s obvious that the title Fences comes from Cory and Troy spending a lot of time building a fence. It’s more than just a regular fence. The fence their hinting at it is more symbolic. In the play

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    Rabbit Proof Fence: Straight from the Heart Reactions Kortney McKee Northern Illinois University I could not find a copy of this movie to watch for a while. Then I checked YouTube and there it was the whole thing with subtitles. I do not remember if I watched it in class when previously enrolled‚ but I am glad I found it and glad I watched it. I have always been very interested in other cultures but I feel like I gloss over the information and come out with an idealistic view of how certain

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    Joseph Fernandez Ms. Reilly World Lit 27‚ January‚2010 The Isolation and Alienation of Troy in Wilson’s Fences          August Wilson’s Fences is a play about life‚ and an extended metaphor Wilson uses to show the crumbling relationships between Troy and Cory and Troy and Rose. Troy Maxson represents the dreams of black America in a majorly white world‚ a world where these dreams were not possible because of the racism and attitudes that prevailed. Troy

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    written by August Wilson’s‚ “Fences”‚ we see the significance of the fence throughout the play. The fence is a symbol which means something more meaningful then it appears in the play. The play actions and choices the characters make depends on the situation of the fence and how its current situation is . Rose the one who wants to break the curse of the men of her family who constantly cheat. She believes the fence will keep the loved ones in and the undesired out. The fence symbolizes her love for her

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    When it comes to comparing and contrasting two different cultures and morals the differences can be night and day. In Death Of A Salesman and Fences‚ these stories follow two middle-class families around the same time period (late 1940-1950’s)‚ who are both facing problems within their own household’s. From marital issues to failing father/son relationships‚ both of these stories paint a picture to the audience of what life in an urban family living in that time setting was like through the author’s

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    In the poem "The Weary Blues”‚ Langston Hughes describes an evening of listening to a blues musician in Harlem. “The Wear Blues” By: Langston Hughes Droning a drowsy syncopated tune‚ Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon‚ I heard a Negro play. Down on Lenox Avenue the other night By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano

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    and down‚ up and down‚ my paintbrush went‚ rubbing along the fence in my backyard. Making the white paint thicker and more distinct streak after streak. I remember hating myself for doing whatever I did to deserve this grueling work. Every time I stood in front of the fence separating my neighbors house from mine‚ I regretted the bad decisions I had made earlier that year. The way it felt wasting my summers away painting that privacy fence was something that I look back on in sorrow. Throughout elementary

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