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    effect of colors

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    Effect of colors Did you know that the color blue gives you the impression that a space is larger than it actually is in reality? It’s not the only case when colors help you juggle with their special effects. Let’s look at some of the most important issues regarding the role of chromatic combinations in the creation of a pleasant and relaxed ambiance. Suppose we have two rooms in one apartment. The two rooms are identical in size‚ but we paint the walls in two different colors: dark

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    Andrew Yamin Scarlet Letter Analysis Loss of Innocence in the Puritan Society In the Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne hones in on the contrast between good versus bad and the loss of innocence that defies that line. Hester Prynne is a symbol of shame and sin to the puritan society‚ however she once was an innocent and honorable woman. On page 76‚ Hawthorne repeats the phrase “At her‚ child of honorable parents...At her‚ mother of a babe...At her.” This repetition emphasizes the way Hester

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    Innocence Lost Sexual trafficking is becoming more prominent in the sphere of common knowledge than it has ever been before‚ however‚ it does not even begin to touch the surface of the realities that accompany it. It is estimated that 1.2 million children and young people are exploited from global sex trade each year. Their childhoods have been ripped from them for the sake of twisted pleasure and will never be recovered. It is her story that has influenced my work. I was first made aware of

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    Romantic Innocence

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    Romantic Innocence Though Romanticism at large is not concerned with lost innocence only‚ but a whole array of human emotions‚ it is certainly an important theme for writers of this literary epoch. Several Romantic poems testify to this‚ as well as other Romantic or pre-Romantic literary texts. In the England of the 18th century‚ scientific progress along with industrialism had effected great changes in society. Europe on the whole was shifting rapidly: economically‚ socially and politically. In

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    ABSTRACT Color is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red‚ green‚ blue‚ and others. Color derives from the spectrum of light (distribution of light power versus wavelength) interacting in the eye with the spectral sensitivities of the light receptors. Color categories and physical specifications of color are also associated with objects‚ materials‚ light sources‚ etc.‚ based on their physical properties such as light absorption‚ reflection‚ or emission

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    When Does Life Have Value? “I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion‚ because it is a war against the child‚ a direct killing of the innocent child‚ murder by the mother herself. If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child‚ how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”------Mother Teresa‚ 1994. Its’ a travesty what our country defines as murder. I refuse to believe that a human life in our country is only worth a few hundred dollars. People that want to

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    Race Colors Judgment: The Affect Race Has On Juries in Decisions of Guilt and Innocence Heather N. Josey Chestnut Hill College Abstract The following review will focus on jury decision-making of guilt or innocence in a criminal court room. Focus will be made on the effect the race of jurors and defendants has on a jury’s decision-making process and verdict. The proposition put forth in this paper is that having majority White juries is one of the causes of the disproportionate overrepresentation

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    races have experienced some form of criticism for their color and come from places of low socioeconomic status. Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple her poems “When You Thought Me Poor” and “Expect Nothing” show what it is like to be poor‚ isolated‚ and of low socioeconomic status. The poem “When You Thought Me Poor” is about a girl who came from nothing and became something all the while being told she couldn’t be anything because of the color of her skin. The poem is like the book because Shug came

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    Analyzing Symbolism in The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald is about corruption and life in the raring 1920’s. In Fitzgerald’s master piece of a story‚ he presents a life learning and exciting story that any person of any age can enjoy‚ but if the reader really puts the effort into “reading between the lines” they will grasp the symbolic meanings that he uses throughout the whole story. Fitzgerald uses these symbols to provide images/representations about what it was

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    In Scott Fitzgerald’s title‚ The Great Gatsby was set in the 1920s of the elite American society that was established at the time. It was a time for America’s boundless economic success and opportunity to achieve a dream of glamorous and luxurious life. Life wasn’t always about money‚ but the individual who can reach self-determination through an uphill battle from opportunity life and settling for a prosperous life. A character in the novel‚ specifically‚ Gatsby played a role for Fitzgerald to criticize

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