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    Favorite Color Essay With all the beautiful colors out there‚ I have to say that my favorite color is blue. Blue symbolizes loyalty that is why it is preferred to wear a blue tie or dress during a job interview and also the reason cops have blue uniforms. This color is present everywhere through the infinite deep sky and ocean releasing a peaceful vibe‚ which you can’t help but relax. It has a wavelength of about 470 nm‚ third shortest after indigo and violet. The complementary color of blue is

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    True Colors

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    In psychology‚ personality refers to the emotion‚ thought‚ behavior patterns unique to the individual. Our personalities influence one’s tendencies such as a preference for introversion or extroversion. The True Colors assessment educated me about myself; I understand my personality in many different means. I now know what my personality lacks and I can work on those elements to be able to understand/read people better in my everyday life. In 1921‚ Carl Jung published the book “Psychological

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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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    Color of Law

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    states interprentate the Color of Law. But this is what they do agree upon…. Title 18‚ U.S.C.‚ Section 242 Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law This statute makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law‚ statute‚ ordinance‚ regulation‚ or custom to willfully deprive or cause to be deprived from any person those rights‚ privileges‚ or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the U.S. This law further prohibits a person acting under color of law‚ statute‚ ordinance

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    The Shadow Lines

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    After reading many novels throughout my life I would place‚ The Shadow Lines‚ by Amitav Ghosh‚ in my top 10 list. The novel is based on the narrator who was English educated but Indian born. The narrator illustrates and shares his views of foreign countries which he has never been to with other characters in the novel. Even though the narrator is English educated his values‚ ethics‚ and culture is more Indian than an American. Many of us now notice that when a person migrates from one country

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    The Color Purple

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    Thesis: “The Color Purple” is more than just entertainment because the story shows what poverty in the old days was like‚ especially among the colored people and the hardship way of life created from the White man. This novel is dealing with real life situations that no one would talk about. Alice Walker’s prize winning novel “The Color Purple‚” turned into motion picture in 1985. In the beginning‚ the film caused a wide range of controversy. People who wrote hate letters and organization’s who

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    Character Not Color

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    Haniff 1 Katsura Katorou Mrs. Sixty Nine ENG1DO-1 December 27‚ 2013 Character Not Color “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin‚ but by the content of their character.”-Martin Luther King Jr. In The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd tries to tell the reader that as individuals we can display complex body of characteristics and personality traits regardless of race or ethnicity. She illustrates this

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    Local Color

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    http://ezinearticles.com/?Local-Color-in-Literature&id=3074106 The setting plays major role in prose fiction. The dialect spoken‚ the customs observed‚ the dress code prevalent‚ and the way of living all can be peculiar to a particular region. This sort of setting is called a local color of the area or region. You must have come across such peculiarity of an area while reading a prose or a novel. Such beautiful local color called "Wessex" (present-day Dorset) is painted by Thomas Hardy in his

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    Significant Lines

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    HISTORY 212-2 Primary Source Analysis #2 Significant Lines for Discussion Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age‚ 1870-1890 Thorstein Veblen‚ Excerpts from The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) * “By a further refinement‚ wealth acquired passively by transmission from ancestors or other antecedents presently becomes even more honorific than wealth acquired by the possessor’s own effort.” Luther Standing Bear‚ excerpt from My People the Sioux (1928) * “These people cared nothing for

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    The Colors of Gatsby

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    John Brown Mr. Quintis Honors English III 21 September 2011 The Colors of Gatsby In the novel The Great Gatsby there are many forms of symbolism that are well used. Symbolism can be interpreted in many different ways. Authors use symbols to try and get the reader to connect and think more about what they are reading. Symbolism is a very good technique when writing because it helps make a book more interesting and adds depth. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald uses symbolism

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