True Colors Assignment

Most people do not see color as simply the way something looks, however. They tend to associate certain colors with specific feelings, emotions and memories. (Dmitrieva) For instance, blue is most commonly associated with “feeling blue” meaning one feels upset or depressed, however, blue is

Hey, let’s pretend. There’s a place where color is what you are represented by. Being blind would be such a pain, haha. Do you see it? Each person is a hue of a main color. Each main color holds the power. Colors closer to the main are more powerful in the world. You are a special color. You are clear. You’re searching for someone to love you. Everyone has left you since you are such an unpopular color. You have no hues to follow you. You fell in love with a girl of red. Haha, red. The color of love. She is very kind and nice to you and leads you on for a while before dumping you. Your friend of a purple hue who has been watching you for a while steps in and tells you that he loves you. You are happy for a while. You try to get recognized as

Color fills our world with beauty. We delight in the colors of a magnificent sunset and in the bright red and golden-yellow leaves of autumn. We are charmed by gorgeous flowering plants and the brilliantly colored arch of a rainbow. We also use color in various ways to add pleasure and interest to our lives. For example, many people choose the colors of their clothes carefully and decorate their homes with colors that create beautiful, restful, or exciting effects. By their selection and arrangement of colors, artists try to make their paintings more realistic or expressive.

Containing - keeping them safe and telling, them that you, as the adult, can handle their big emotions.

What do colors say about a person? Well according to personality innovator Don Lowry, there are four colors to represent the types of people in the world. green’s are thinkers, gold’s are planners, orange’s are impulsive, and blue’s are compassionate. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the character of Jay Gatsby is best represented by the color blue. Gatsby’s personality best fits this color because blue’s are willing to work hard for what they believe in and are very caring for others.

Continuing to help them grow in their self-esteem by offering praise and encouragement, being very firm and fair when dealing with friendship or behavioral issues, being approachable and letting them know you are there for them to talk to, encouraging them to imagine how other people are feeling, being sensitive to the rapid changes in their social and emotional needs and their moral understanding, at all times being aware of their stage of development and acting as a good role model.

What this means is that peoples true colors finally show when they're trying to stay out of trouble or when an important decision needs to be made. Many books that I read, characters true colors and betrayal were finally shown when they seemed to have a conflict. Such as A Raisin in the Sun, when Walter's true colors were finally shown. Also The Crucible, when everyone would call each other witches.

But in reality they are just expressing themselves, Bill the cafe owner paints pictures to show his emotions. David learns to show his color when people are making fun of his mom and he punches a boy out of anger. These are examples of how color gets displayed through emotions. In lovers lane people reading books became colored where the people listening stayed the same and this is because the readers were showing emotion. If color is added is shows emotion rather than a black and white screen showing no mood

As it becomes evident from the above tenets, critical race theory was developed and centered on issues of race and racism that are embedded in American society. Alternatively, other scholars situate CRT within four tenets: (1) racism is normal, (2) interest convergence, (3) historical context, and (4) narrative (Taylor, 2009).

Green is the color of growth, harmony, and the desire to expand which as a result may represent hope. In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby did everything in his power to try to gain wealth and “some commenters have traced Fitzgerald’s lifelong anxiety about financial failure to his father’s inability to support the family” (Howes, Carnagie 128). Even Daisy’s voice “was full of money- that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it.” (Fitzgerald 120). This is explaining Daisy’s nature that she was always care free and provided for (Fitzgerald 120).

The first assessment we took on Euruka.org was a personality assessment called the True Colors. In this test, personalities are identified as four colors: gold, green, blue and orange. My result was green. As a green I am an independent, collected and reserve individual who “values knowledge, insight and justice.” Just like a green person, I do value my education, I was always one to prioritize my homework and studying hours over social activities and leisure. I tend to be quiet and don’t open up to people right away, sometimes not even at all. It takes time for me to feel comfortable with someone before I can speak out and make jokes. Some of the occupations I was recommended, as a green, were a variety of fields from an Architecture to a

The post-Civil Right era has seen the dismantle of racial categorization based on Biology. The theory that race influences the psychological, cultural and socio-economic aspect of one’s life has predominantly vanished. This accomplishment left a void for those who needed the biological discourse of race to establish their racist ideology. Colorblindness is the new methodology of implementing or otherwise avoiding the existence of racism. Its proponents predominantly assert its validity through the concept of the Civil Right Movement and the distorted understanding of the fact that “race is a social construct.” While the phrase implies that race is an illusion and nonexistent in nature, it also contains an often overlooked acknowledgment of race being an influential reality under the consideration of its social construction.

I guess I have not so much learned, but become more aware of racism in America, in the video, we have seem that both gentleman approach life in a similar manner, they went to job interview dressed appropriately, they went to the mall and clothing stores and act similarly, and yet, the African American gentleman was mistreated solely on the fact that his skin color was dark. I have become aware of the struggle that African American children face from a early age, when you have been mistreated on this level your whole life, you will lack the motivation to even try to get a good education, because you will not be treated fairly anyways.

True colors, a personality test, was an experience I can truly say changed my perception of others. Gold, Blue, Green, or Orange? Which one are you? While taking

, once acquired comes with the consequence of being objectified under the red light to the master’s male gaze. Hence referring back to Kong who mentions the power these women gain is ironic. Their victory is the attention of the master’s affection for one night. This further emphasizes the lack of power and importance women have under the Confucian ideologies. Perhaps the red tones