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    A Hat of a Different Color

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    student’s head and then hide the other two. Then‚ one at a time‚ the students would open their eyes‚ look at the other two students’ heads‚ and try to guess which color hat was on their own head. The students had two options. They could either to guess what color of hat they had on their own head or pass. If a student guessed the correct color of hat on their own head they would be exempt from any POW’s the rest of the semester‚ but if they guess wrong they had to do all of the POW’s as well as grading

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    The myth that "all men are equal" has created false hopes for the people of color‚ who continually seek opportunities to excel‚ that just aren’t there. They have been led to believe that intelligence and ambitions are key contributors to one’s success. Even if they do possess ambition and intelligence‚ the dominant majority of the white population oppresses them. This type of oppression points out that new methods of struggle are needed‚ such as whose employed by Martin Luther King‚ Jr.‚ Franz Fanon

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    attention of magazines‚ new stations‚ and social media. Two authors have acknowledged the problem and suggested solutions in their contrasting essays‚ “Don’t Blame the Eater” and “What You Eat Is Your Business”. In “What You Eat Is Your Business”‚ Radley Balko states his position that what you put into your body is your concern and therefore should be less of a public concern. He believes that “We’ll all make better choices about diet‚ exercise‚ and personal health when someone else isn’t paying

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    In “Don’t blame it on the eater” by David Zinczenko and “What you eat is your business” by Radley Balko both authors expressed their views on obesity in America. Both authors spoke about how the government set aside millions of dollars within their budget to assist in the fight of obesity. Both articles also touches on how an individual’s responsibility can have an impact on individuals overall wellness. However‚ Balko views towards government assistance and responsibility slightly differs from

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    Color of Water Analysis

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    Three Step Literary Analysis The book‚ Color of Water‚ is written by James McBride and it is the story of his life and his mother’s. The book is more like two intertwining books than just a single book. It switches between two points of views‚ Ruth McBride and her son James McBride. In Ruth’s chapters‚ she chronicles out her life story beginning with her migrating to the United States when she was two years old. At a young age‚ Ruth’s life is filled with hardship. Her father did not love her

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    A Life Within Colors

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    Tingting Chen Art History 150D Professor Harren July 26‚ 2012 A Life Within Colors Mark Rothko‚ No. 12 (Black on Dark Sienna on Purple)‚ 1960 The Museum of Contemporary Art‚ Los Angeles “My father guarded it and‚ consciously or unconsciously‚ stoked the fires of interest in all those who heard murmurs of its existence. His words might be outside his artwork‚ but they communicate philosophies he still held dear even after paint became his sole vehicle for expression.”

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    Alice In The Color Purple

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    Pain to Resilient The novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker depicts racial tension during the 1930s and uses the colors purple and red to symbolize Celie and Sofia’s hardships as African American women during this time period. Alice Walker married a civil rights attorney‚ Melvyn Leventhal‚ in 1967‚ making them the first interracially married couple in Jackson‚ Mississippi. Even though slaves were no longer present in that time period‚ African Americans were still discriminated against‚ and Walker

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    The Color of Education in America In his essay “Still Separate‚ Still Unequal‚” Jonathan Kozol gives us a very detailed presentation of the emergent trend of racial segregation within America’s urban and inner-city schools. Kozol provides substantiation to his claim based on his research and observations of different school environments‚ its teachers and students‚ and personal interviews with them. It is very clear that color of education in America is not green like the dollar bill; it is white

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    The Color Of Imprisonment “1 in 36 Hispanic adults are currently incarcerated‚ as is one in nine black men aged 20 to 34. One in three black men will be imprisoned in his lifetime. Although illegal drug use is equally prevalent among white and black males‚ a black man is five times more likely to be arrested. A higher percentage of the black population is currently imprisoned in America than in South Africa at the height of apartheid.” (Gordon) The Justice system in America is one that is

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    Colour: Color and Emotion

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    Selective colour in a photographic image influence the perception of the viewing audience in the sense of manipulating the emotions seen in the imagery observed? With that said‚ do photographs loose that exact emotion when seen in black and white? 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” (quoted from http://www

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