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    The Black Legend and White Legend: Relationship Between the Spanish and Indians in the New World The Spanish-Indian relationship can be defined in many ways. One definition used is through the Black Legend and the White Legend. The interpretation of the Black Legend can depend on whom you are talking to. The Black Legend speaks of the Spaniards abusing the Indians and being guilty of much more misconduct than history has ever recorded. The White Legend speaks of how the Spaniards

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    shelter during the storm. Through her use of symbolism, Chopin gives the reader her feelings on the love affair between Calixta and Alcée. Chopin’s uses symbolism in her use of different colors throughout the story. The color white is mentioned multiple times in the story. White

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    What We Saw Theme

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    What We Saw in black and white Black and White, what comes to mind besides two colors? These colors have always represented Good and Bad, people have avoided the gray area in between for centuries but it has always been there. In Aaron Hartzler's first fiction novel What We Saw, this representation of good and bad was presented often. The line between black and white was crossed many times by Kate but in the end she stepped in between. A high school party filled with booze started the entire plot

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    the contradiction between his external world and noise and cruel external world for Gatsby , which turned a blind eye to the sensitivity of human beings. In a certain degree, Gatsby can not really fit into the upper class. Although his heart is full of loneliness and sadness, but also has a huge imagination, which is Gatsby's inner portrayal,the color”pink”. Chapter2.3

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    nature and the world around us. The poem is more on the dark side from the way he describes the main characters – the white spider, the heal-all flower, and the moth – and the way he starts to question why everything went the way it did. Was it just a random occurrence or does God actually make terrible things, like the spider killing the moth on a flower, happen? To begin with, the speaker starts off the poem by introducing the main characters. There is a spider, described as white and fat, then

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    The Color White: Tainted? The color white is oftentimes unanimously associated with purity, hope, and innocence. However, in the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the color has the deeper meaning of false purity over goodness. With the taboo characteristics that Fitzgerald's white carries, the reader is led to a false sense of security throughout the course of the novel; just how far was this rebel of a writer willing to go to break down borders? It is later found out that the symbol of

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    challenges the thoughts of physicalism, physicalism being, “…the challenging thesis that [the actual world] is entirely physical” (Jackson 291). Jackson creates what he calls the ‘knowledge argument’. In his essay Jackson presents the example of Mary, a woman who lives in an entirely black and white world. She is confined to her room, and everything is controlled so that all that Mary views is black and white. It is

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    Persepolis Satire

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    philosopher Jean Baudrillard spoke: “the world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.” In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, the events and effects of the Islamic Revolution are portrayed; what is most notable, however, are the steps taken to portray Satrapi’s personal position. In her graphic text, she illustrates her work with a sharp black and white contrast, utilized to portray a

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    experience and understand the basic connections of the colours with that of the Chinese culture. The main argument of the paper establishes that there could be more complex relationships between the perceptions of colour among diverse cultures across the world. The study precisely focuses on the meanings of the materials to convey the nature of the relationships. Toulson attempts to explore the meanings of materials especially the colours that carry more than just a message or compliment. It enables my

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    while the gap between whites and collective blacks does not shrink. The authors argue that in group versus out group hostilities will lessen between the whites and honorary whites, however this will only increase their in group size compared to the out group of the collective blacks and only create new tensions while strengthening old ones between these two groups. This will be because the collective blacks will feel more segregated from their lighter skinned counterparts. This type of grouping will

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