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    The Color Purple and Their Eyes Were Watching God share a common theme of African American women emotionally and mentally maturing throughout their journey of self-discovery in the socially prejudiced South. In both of these two narratives, an African American woman is portrayed as a female protagonist and experiences the struggles of femininity. She attempts to find confidence and compassion both in herself and others around her. She also attempts to find her voice as well. However, Celie and Janie

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    A Comparison of Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple   Of Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Alice Walker says "it speaks to me as no novel, past or present, has ever done."  Though 45 years separate Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple, the two novels embody many similar concerns and methods. Hurston and Walker write of the experience of uneducated rural southern black women. They find a wisdom that can transform our communal relations and our

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    era the idea of male dominance has been decreasing rapidly. In Zora Neale Hurston's 1937 book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, she uses figurative language to help the reader understand that women also have a voice in any community. After several years another astounding author, Alice Walker, also publishes a book that was influenced by Their Eyes Were Watching God. Walker’s book was named The Color Purple and was officially published in 1982. Walker, just like her idol, wrote a book about gender roles

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    be hair color, eye color, skin color, facial structure, eye structure, etc. These different characteristics are polygenetic traits: hair color, eye color and skin color. Polygenetic trait is multiple genes mixing with each other to create the characteristics like blue eyes. The eye color is controlled through the genes from both parents that are passed through to their child. Scientist have found that there is multiple genes that decide what color the eye needs to be or will be. The color of the eye

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    According to the old adage, “Eyes are the windows to one’s soul,” when you look someone straight on the eyes, you see something exquisite that you can never describe at times. Through the eyes, we see a different side of the person that we are looking into. We see both happiness and pain, we see anger and love, we see joy and worry… but no matter what we see, it does not change the fact that our eyes are a leeway of what our emotions are. Our eyes are also one of the most delicate and attractive

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    of determining eye color in D. melanogaster (Syrzycka et al 2005). Eye color in Drosophila has been associated with the amount of pteridine and ommochrome pigment

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    pointers when telling the children right from wrong. When explaining that the children were quite confused why a person who has a different eye color was treated differently in society. The children in A Class Divided demonstrated the characteristics of "Kohlberg’s Moral reasoning stage 3". In watching the video Jane Elliot specifically separated the class by eye color Blue eyed meaning that you were better smarter and appreciated more in society and brown eyed meaning you were less than, not a good person

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    Herbert was a different man know, well his body most defiantly. His eyes stared at his new bald scalp, it was hard to believe that the body he was in, was only thirty years old. He tilled his new head forward examining the deep stitched groves from the crown to the base of the skull. His physician had told him that it was likely he’d be growing hair in the following months. Herbert remembered that his selected donor was rare natural blonde, the recessive trait was sadly going the way of the redhead

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    head leads to a light greenish color painted across the wall.A picture of Annette Funicello with a piece of white tape covering her wondering eyes. Mrs. Funicello wears a white dress with a plunging neckline, a strange shadow, rests on her hand as her accessory.Her hair is pulled back in a half up, half down style with the bottom curled, hairs fall out of place in the front of her face taking apart her put together look. To her left lays a picture of James Dean, with eyes covered with white take to

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    A girl opens her eyes, adjusting her light blue eyes to the room lighted from the sun. She sits up and rubs the sleep from her eyes so she can get a better view of her surroundings. The room she's in is boring; plain white walls with no paintings or decorations, a popcorn ceiling, tile floor that's also bland, and a wooden dresser across the room from her. "Looks like oak, maybe.." She quietly notes to herself. She pushes her long, singed blonde hair away from her pale face and sighs as a knock sounds

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