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    Information Cabrini-Green, one of the 11 public-housing high-rises in Chicago, was built in 1958 for Italian immigrants who-who were affected by WWII. This did not work out for the immigrants due to poor living conditions, so they moved out. Soon after, the Cabrini high-rises were transformed and were turned into the Cabrini-Green homes after people built the William Green homes as an add-on to the Frances Cabrini homes. Right after that happened, the Cabrini-Green homes became an extremely segregated place to live, due to the population being predominantly African-American. Most of the population of Cabrini-Green were single mothers, then children. The African-Americans were fine with other people coming in, the problem was that the other people didn’t feel comfortable living with them in Cabrini-Green. The CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) saw…

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    Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, Mother Cabrini, was an Italian saint who was sent to America to help the immigrants. She took a stand for all the immigrants by helping and taking care of them when others didn’t, and because of that, she became the first American saint. Frances, or Francesca, was born on July 15, 1850 in S’ant Angelo Lodigiano. Her parents were Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini. (Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus). Her family was a very nice, but poor family.…

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    The Green Bridge II The Green Bridge II, by Lyonel Feininger, in 1916. It is an asymmetrical abstract piece made from oil paint on a canvas. Within the painting, there are three-dimensional objects, which would appear to tell a story. What appears a very busy street loitered with many people, walking to or from somewhere. The appearance of the buildings, surroundings, and the people are not normal, they have a really blocky or distorted appearance. There are many lines and almost textures…

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    difficult color to use in business unless worn with lighter tones. Great care should always be taken wearing purple to house parties because the host may consider it an offensive color among the other guests. Red is a great attention getter. “When someone wears red they might feel the need to stand out and be seen or heard” (Mandell). The color red can be toned down by using coordinate colors like black, various grays, and white. Red can still be used for business or social events but…

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    Visual Elements Essay

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    If it wasn’t for color maybe most of us would not like art at all. The colors provided in any work of art are totally to the discretion of the one constructing it. In regards to such important element, the colors that always get my attention are: green, orange and purple. We all know that primary colors are: blue, red and green. I believe with much legality as blue as the sky, red is the color of blood and green the color of nature. From these many other secondary colors are formed that are…

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    How Businesses Use Colors

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    How Businesses use Color “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.” – Pablo Picasso. Color can affect the emotions and behaviors of people due to what people associate with a color. Because of this, businesses utilize color in order to create a certain image, catch people’s attention, and evoke specific emotions and behaviors. The colors that I focused on in my visual essay are blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Blue is associated with responsibility, trust, and also…

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    Officer Green will represent the best friend of fifteen years to Officer Johnny. Officer Johnny will represent himself, the police officer who is working an unauthorized security job with a firm. Officer Green and Officer Johnny are both assigned to work patrol on the midnight shift and have been together through thick and thin over the last fifteen years. In the scenario provided Officer Johnny is described as being a great police officer, who gives back to the community regularly. Officer…

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    • In figure 1 the colors that are used are complementary colors. These colors are found opposite of each other on the color wheel, but when they are used together they complement each other. In the work you see the monochromatic color palette of blues and greens, then you look at the door and it is a reddish orange. The color of the door is complemented by the blue color palette and draws your eyes to the focus point of the work, which is the red door. • In figure 2 the shapes that are used…

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    Mosely Logo Analysis

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    This uniform had the old schools budget on the blazer’s chest pocket. There were different types old of budgets for the students because they were split into 4 groups, which the school called houses. The old school tie was in the colour green and with the colour white. The colour white shows peace and Green shows freshness. The old school blazer was in the colour black which shows fear. The budget had an outline around the budget in different colours, for example for the house group Anning the…

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    teachers. One way they try to persuade teachers is by praising them. This is seen in one of the subheadings is, ‘Epic teachers run awesome reward trips.’ The word ‘epic’ suggests they are trying to compliment the teacher in order to provoke a good reaction which results in the teacher organising the trip. They use the phrase ‘awesome reward trips’ instead of just saying ‘trip.’ This is done in order to make the teacher think about how they should reward their students once in a while and the…

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