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    according to Dr. TJ Eckleberg, the puzzling Valley of Ashes, and the sparkling green light Gatsby gets himself unusually appended to. The green light Gatsby connects for toward the finish of Daisy's east egg dock speaks to his deepest desires, and is a portrayal of Daisy as his key to progress, impractically, as well as socially, building up the subject of the American Dreams crumbling all through the novel. The green light at the end of Daisy’s dock is a very important symbol in the…

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    The first Fitzgerald uses symbolism with the color green is when we are introduced to Gatsby and the green light, “Involuntarily I glanced seaward- and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock” (Fitzgerald 21). The green light symbolizes Gatsby’s hopes and dreams of one day reuniting with his old love Daisy Buchanan. Nick first sees Gatsby reaching out to the green light late at night. When Nick sees him Gatsby is reaching…

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    literature. In Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest there are a lot of colors. This essay could go on forever with all of them, so here are four: white, red, green, and purple. White and red represent emotions that the Combine feels towards the men on the ward, and green and purple show the men’s emotions towards the latter. Kesey uses white, red, green, and purple to symbolize the emotions of different characters throughout his novel. White is a “color without color”. Some people view at as…

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    The cashier slowly empties the bin, taking out a yellow piece of paper and then slowly places the money in the bag then ties the end as Lola snatches it out of his hand and says “Bye, Dad”. The green bag represents what I said previously, green connotes that the character believes the action they are doing is correct, in this case, Lola believes that stealing the money for Manni is the correct thing to do. The yellow piece of paper that the cashier took out, is the…

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    Laying-by Time” in MICA’s Decker Gallery in the Fox Building. This work is 35 3/4"x51 1/4" and painted by oil stick on plywood. A big tenant house almost occupides the whole space of the painting. The whole rectangle plywood was painted with thin as well as various mixed and impure colors. The roof is generally painted dark black but with some other colours, such as carmin, dark green and light yellow, revealed faintly. Also, there are several light grey lines on the different areas of the roof.…

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    how excellent his life is, but on the inside he is always sad for what Daisy did to him. Daisy was supposed to wait for him when he got back from war, but instead she moved onto a more wealthy man. His real inner- self is sad, and lonely. He has this big mansion with only him living in it. At the night of Gatsby’s party Nick walked into “his blue gardens…” (Fitzgerald, 39). The blue gardens in his backyard also reveal how depressed and lonely he really is. Gatsby also never took part in his…

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    Throughout history, colors have been used symbolically in most forms of literature, and this color symbolism can be found in almost any famous novel. The reason for this is that colors are the universal language of emotion. Colors, in literature, can show so many traits about people places and objects such as emotional state, social class, and even their meaning in the theme of the story. For this reason, color symbolism is an extremely important part of literature, especial in F. Scott…

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    Visual Elements Essay

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    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 widely used among artist and painters. In regards to Olafur Eliasson’s work I…

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    Within this essay I will be comparing two information texts based on attractions. One of these attractions is presented as a webpage; Edinburgh Zoo. It is clear that it is a webpage as it has a navigation bar on the left, which has several links that take you to different pages. This enables the audience to find what they want very quickly, at the click of a button. This also allows the audience to interact with the webpage. On the other hand the Light Water Valley attraction is presented on a…

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    Tess's Monologue

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    couldn’t stop laughing. This is a joke me and Tess have joked about since we were little. I have always said I was adopted because if you look at me and compare my looks to my parents and brother, we look nothing alike. I have dark brown hair, bright green eyes, and very pale skin. Both my parents and my brother have bleach blonde hair, baby blue eyes, and more of a peach tan skin. “Whatever you say Tess. So, are we still on for saturday?’ “Yeah we are all still meeting at the theatre around…

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