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    John Dalton has been known to have discovered his own colour blindness in the year of 1794, seeing pink as blue and scarlet as green. The vitreous humor is known as a gel that can fill a space that is in-between the lens and retina of the eyeball, it’s also known as vitreous body. There are around 1 in 12 man and 1 out of 200 women that colour blindness affects in their everyday life, there are also different types of colour blindness that affects many such as Deuteranomaly or Protanomaly are also

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    Purple is more than just a colour in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple”. The colour can be seen to be representative of a number of ideas: it is, “a colour suitable for queens” like Celie says; this means it is happiness; it is illuminating; it is freedom; it is pain and beauty. Because of its symbolism, the colour purple can be seen to have a significant influence on the characters’ growth throughout the novel and, therefore, is an appropriate title for the novel. The colour purple in the novel can

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    importance of colour in The Great Gatsby In the following essay, I will write about the usage and the importance of colour in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, basing my arguments on the text and giving examples from it. Colour plays a vital part in The Great Gatsby as it helps to illustrate many of the passages and helps the reader to create a clearer image of what is taking place. It also plays a significant role in the shaping up of the characters as colour is also associated with them. The colours that

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    I love finding amazing drugstore products that get the job done and this colour correcting palette does that. I wanted this palette for a long time however it was always out of stock. A few months ago boots started stocking Nyx and I saw this pallet there, I had to get it. The NYX Colour Correcting concealer palette has 6 shades designed to tackle skin issues: Yellow- for concealing purple and deep red tones Green- for counteracting redness on the skin Purple- for eliminating any

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    constructed colour selection intensified the mood of each scene while escalating narrative complexities such as secrecy and danger. A lack of colour can further increase a character’s depth. For instance, at the beginning of the film, we meet Marion Crane who is involved in a torrid love affair with Sam Loomis (0:03:14). We discover that their romance often takes place in sleazy motels with the passion kept secret from judgemental eyes. Despite implying that their rendezvous is scandalous, Marion

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    The genre of local colour writing is devoted to capturing the unique customs, manners, speech, folklore, character types and setting that are unique and exemplary of specific communities, usually in humorous short stories. William H. Magee claims that the local colour genre “gripped Canadian literature” (77). Canadians, with our history of especially strong connection to community, have been very fond of the genre because of its celebration of strong communal ties. Canadian authors in turn-of-the-twentieth-century

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    The experiment was to be a division of eye colour starting with blue eyed student having superiority and then the following day, the roles would be reversed. Jane divided the class into 9 brown eyes and 9 blue eyes. The students who had blue eyes were told that they were better and smarter than their inferior brown-eyed peers. Brown-eyed students were given punishments and told that they could not interact with the blue-eyed students; this lead to pupils withdrawing, becoming confused, angry, and

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    (2005), “The idea of ‘race’ in this sense has had wide and damaging consequences due to the view that groups possess fixed traits and particular intellectual and physical characteristics” (290). Racism and oppressiveness is directed towards people of colour.

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    The Colour Purple and The Yellow Wallpaper

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    For Walker the use of language is to do with an expression of self in opposition to gender oppression, of presenting self in opposition to a language which is not your own. Explain how this statement informs your reading of The Colour Purple (TCP), and The Yellow Wallpaper (TYW). In TCP, written in first person narrative, Walker uses the epistolary style of writing, giving authority to the voice of Celie and enabling the reader to accept her as having real presence and experience. In

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    Three Colours: Red (1994) Krzysztof Kieslowski Film As Art I Gabriel Giralt Final Exam Emilie J. Cohn It should be first noted that this paper is divided into three sections; the first involves a synopsis of the film, and its theme development, the second part deals with the concept of prominent stylistic elements, and the last includes a description and analysis of the narrative structure. PART I Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours: Red, is a riveting film that takes place in Geneva, Switzerland

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