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    panels that integrates the use and symbolism of colors. Throughout written literature, from “Red Wheelbarrow” to “The Yellow Wallpaper,” color has been a consistently used technique to add extra meaning to subjects. The use of that symbolism in the comic book medium makes sense, since color can be shown instead of conveyed. To try and establish the colors meaning in “All-Star Superman,” we can look at it’s repeated use and try and determine what the pattern between them is. Take for example the color

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    The Conveyance of Emotion in the Writing of Zora Neale Hurston Sharpening Her Oyster Knife: I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it....No, I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

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    18,000 square feet space that includes a dining room that can seat 26 effortlessly, a private elevator, four bedrooms and six bathrooms. You also get round-the-clock room service and all these at 975,000 dollars. 6. Action Comics First Issue This is the first Superman comic and is sold by ComicConnect. In 2009, this issue was sold at $317,000 dollars but at this moment the price has gone up to 1 million dollars. Given that this is an auction item, the price is indefinite so maybe the price for

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    Persepolis Analysis

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    social issues etcetera from a child’s point of view was very interesting. Persepolis: A story of a childhood by Marjane Satrapi is the authors memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Satrapi tells her story through black and white comic strips of her life in Tehran from her childhood ages six to fourteen. Persepolis portrays a memorable portrait of daily life in Iran, as well the perplexing contradictions between home and public life. The graphic novel shows how the reader carry’s

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    Source #1: Mars Bars are chocolate bars created and sold by Mars, Incorporated and share their name with the Roman god, Mars. Their most popular slogan, “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play,” states that the bars are suitable and strong enough to endure a whole day of hard work, but are also for relaxing. The Roman god Mars is symbolic for strength and war, so the link between the two on strength makes sense. As a result, in the fight against all other brands of chocolate bars, just like

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    Manifest Destiny Dbq

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    19th-century and the beginning of the 20th century and many countries knew it. Thomas Nast’s “The World’s Plunderers” (Doc. A) portrays Germany, Britain, and Russia grabbing territories on a globe claiming them as their own. Although Nast’s point in the comic was that countries had overstepped their boundaries, it provides reasoning behind why the United States did expand. Other already powerful countries were gaining land and thus power and the U.S. was not about to be left out in the race for power in

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    Candide Analysis

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    misadventures to satirically refute optimism but also to assure that people can expect some good things in life. The constant misadventures are used to bring awareness concerning real evils and injustice Candide encounters in the world. This black humor comic but tragic journey shows the affects of evil on the character, Candide, are geared to involve the reader’s own desires and invoke expectations. Voltaire was born on 21 November 1694 by the name François Marie Arouet. Originally he studies law but

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    expressed by the rise of the feminist movement and the opinions of men. Art of both genders became substantial tools of political and social transformation. Within visual arts, the pop art movement dealt with the issue of popular gender ideologies and key aspects such as beauty and eroticism. The achievement of over exaggerating them is revealed in multiple lithographed duplications of Marilyn Monroe prints by Andy Warhol. Two more artists that will be analyzed is Roy Lichtenstein and Richard Hamilton

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    Duy Huynh’s work has inspired people for years and is known to make a lasting impression on people at first glance. His inspiration mainly comes from ancient folklore and comic books.  While much of his work is deeply personal, his clever and often times humorous use of symbolism and wordplay invites the viewer to create their own storyline. There is one painting from his collections that stood out to me more than any other painting he did, it was called "Evening Echos". Evening Echoes painting

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    African Americans. This woman, Maya Angelou, speaks up for herself, her ancestors and the living African Americans. She is a bit playful as she uses a simile, “That I dance like I’ve got diamonds-At the meeting of my thighs?” She also talks about “gold” and “oil” which in the poem she refers to oppression, “people with money” because they are who look down on people who are not at the same level economically. The defiance in this poem is in the first stanza, “You may trod me in the

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