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    Why, has been the discussion of this research, why are these children not choosing the color that looks like them? Some would say because our society has changed their perception to the ‘white is right’ thought, but I hazard to guess that it is a combination of fear and trepidation. As soon as we are born our perceptions are being formed by…

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    Pi Color Symbolism

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    beauty to all objects, color can hold a deeper meaning than what many people acknowledge. Recurring color represents a repeating emotion or meaning. In the novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel, there are several colors representing feelings that accompany Pi and his journey in the lifeboat. He does so with only the company of a tiger and his own thoughts. Whenever the color orange is brought up, there is a feeling of hope, a reassurance that Pi’s survival will be successful. When the color green is…

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    Color In The Great Gatsby

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes rich colours to emphasize the imagery and visualization within the reader’s mind but more importantly, he articulates colour correspondence with individual characters as an allusive way to exemplify the inner qualities of their solitary names and actions. In this case, white is commonly used throughout Fitzgerald’s story and appears several times. The use of this colour emphases that innocence and purity is deceiving and hides the truth amongst these wealthy people.…

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    Color Therapy, or Chromotherapy, is used as an alternative to medicine and is considered to be a type of pseudoscience. Color therapy is a holistic and non-invasive, yet powerful, type of therapy that goes back to thousands of years. Color therapy can be found in India, China and Egypt texts that are ancient. Color is a light of wavelengths and energies used in color therapy. The light affects all living cells. When this light is used correctly, it can have a healing effect on humans, animals…

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    on the background colors: dark red, dark green, gold, navy blue, and black. We conducted one-way Analysis of variance (ANOVA) to test whether the perception of likability was influenced by different background colors. Results showed that there is no significant difference among the dark red background color group (M = 6.87, SD = 1.60), the dark green background color group (M = 7.6, SD = 1.50), the gold background color group (M = 8.2, SD = 1.70), the navy blue background color group (M = 6.8,…

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    look around, the world surrounding us seems to be filled with endless amounts of color, color that we unconsciously associate with various meanings. Every time you look down the street, there are signs telling you to “stop,” “yield,” or “slow down,” but for some reason the first thing you see isn’t the words or even the shape of the sign, instead you notice the color. As humans, we are exposed to many different color pairings and specific messages, concepts, and experiences throughout our…

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    determines ones future. Color can also play a role in the concept of life, and the different things that happen throughout it. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author focuses on the Puritan society, specifically their perspectives on life regarding adultery, sin and forgiveness. Throughout the novel, Hawthorne uses the idea of color to express these concepts with red, black and white, showing the good and evil woven into the society. As the novel begins, color is used…

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    In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner uses color to describe Emily Grierson’s emotional state transitioning from innocence to insanity. Typically in stories, colors provide the current visuals that characters see while helping readers to obtain a better mental image of the scene. Faulkner, however, not only uses colors to help paint a better mental image for his reader, but to also highlight the limitless meaning that colors can embody such as setting the tone and mood. He does not tell Emily’s story in…

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    What´s Color Constancy?

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    Color constancy “refers to the fact that the perceived color of an object is not a simple function of the wavelengths reflected by it” (Pinel, 2014, pg. 149). Color constancy is often misunderstood, however, an easy way to think of color constancy is the distinction that the same object is the same color regardless of the lighting. For example, you know an object is red even though, it appears to be a different color under different lighting environments. It had been said that color constancy is…

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    Are dogs colorblind? the answer yes/ no, they see in color, just not the way humans do due to the lack of certain cones in their eyes. Moreover, how does color blindness work in humans? To see how color works we first have to analyze how we perceive color. The way we see “Color” is determined by the wavelength of a stream of light. This means that each color of light has its own wavelength. The combination of all lightwaves (primary colors) produces white. The absence of lightwaves makes an…

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