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    will be discussing more specifically how the color yellow is used as symbolism and provides meaning to the themes of Nineteen Eighty-Four. The color yellow appears many times in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, occurring 12 times in total. Initially, one could interpret Orwell’s choice to use yellow as simply creative license, but after so many instances of it during specific thoughts, feelings, and settings, one can infer that Orwell used this color to indicate more meaning than what lies on the

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    Use of Color in Crane's The Red Badge of Courage The Red Badge of Courage uses both color imagery and color symbols. While Crane uses color to describe, he also allows it to stand for whole concepts. Gray, for example, describes the both the literal image of a dead soldier and Henry Fleming's vision of the sleeping soldiers as corpses and comes to stand for the idea of death. In the same way, red describes both the soldiers' physical wounds and Fleming's mental visions of battle. In the process

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    History of Synethesia July 11,2006 History of Synesthesia Synesthesia has been known to medicine for almost three hundred years. After interest peaked between 1860 and 1930, it was forgotten, because psychology and neurology were premature sciences. Psychological theory was full with associations, and concepts of nervous tissue were insignificant. Subjective experience, such as synesthesia, was believed not a proper subject for scientific study.(pg3) Synesthesia's history is interesting

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    The Scientific Method Portland Community College Staff* Version 42-0207-00-01 Lab RepoRt assistant This document is not meant to be a substitute for a formal laboratory report. The Lab Report Assistant is simply a summary of the experiment’s questions, diagrams if needed, and data tables that should be addressed in a formal lab report. The intent is to facilitate students’ writing of lab reports by providing

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    as I have always been interested in it. This painting emphasized the true meaning of a mother’s grace in response to the children’s needs and attributes. Overall, the painting “Nature or Abundance” by Léon Fédéric uses vibrant, yet contradicting, colors and tender strokes to create an emotion of care and nurture, emphasizes the strength and hold onto the children by using hair as branches and wheat sheaves for leaves and flowers, and displays a sense of age, time, and effort given to these children

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    the traditional use of color theory and express more emotion through his use of color. Traditionally, color was used in realistic terms. The green grass is green, the blue sky was blue, and red houses were red. Compare that to Derain’s use of color as emotion and compositional elements, and you have a stark contrast. Derain chose to manipulate the colors in the painting according to what he felt emotionally about his subject. Interestingly enough though, the cooler colors are still in the same area

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    Art In The Art Of Art

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    appreciate all the paintings; more and more artists and their artworks get to be recognized and understood by others. Because of the painting progress, artists begin to use their way to create artworks. Different painting materials and changes of color bring very visual effect and feelings for the visitors. The different painting structures, styles, and details bring distinctive sense to every visitor. The artists who lived in the different generations brought new definitions to their artworks.

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    Cassatt Vs Cassatte

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    focused on the action that's taking place, hence the title The Cup of Tea, while Sargent’s piece is very much meant to be a portrait painting structured around the fact that it’s a portrait of Madame Pierre Gautreau, hence the title Madame X. In terms of composition both works contain a figure placed generally within the center of the piece. The difference in composition would be that Mary Cassatt's piece

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    Eye And Color The eye form a “optical image” on the light sensitive cell of the retina. It is very often compared to a camera in it so workings. However it is like a camera in its focusing properties but is very different after the light has hit the retina. The camera just prints a point to point representation of the image on film, where as the is much more complex and interesting. The visible light is only a very small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and various wavelength in this

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    adapted to their own color symbolism “red” as the category that could describe the cultural, political and biological differences. In the mid 1720s, from Louisiana to South Carolina, Indians declared the category "red" for themselves in the arena of Indian-European diplomacy. There are two scenarios to explain why Indians identified themselves as “red”. First, some new Indians called themselves “white” to distinguish themselves from the “black” salves. In order to respond this term, they just called

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