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    One particular mise-en-scène that was one of the most important in this Disney film version of “Cinderella” is the costume. Anyone who has not seen the film, or has never heard of any version of the story of Cinderella would be able to tell who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist. A costume could speak a lot of words, whether the author describes what they are wearing or not, film adaptation could portray a character’s personality more with their costume. A costume is not just their…

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    Chloroplasts Lab Report

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    the chloroplasts were going to be identified with the use of light. We also believed that the chloroplasts were going to be in the P2 test tube. We knew that the chloroplasts weren’t going to be in P1. We knew this, because the chloroplast isn’t a big organelle in the cell, and the first centrifuge was designed to drag down the heavy organelles, which didn’t apply. The second centrifuge was at a faster speed, which is where we believed the chloroplasts would end up. We also knew we could figure…

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    Gradual faintness of green light, continuous stare of blue eyes, and persistent difference of two eggs seem to have no relationship with the entire plot of The Great Gatsby. However, these three elements are pretty important for this book, because they are used stealthily to exposure the main theme of book: The American Dream. So, in The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald uses three symbols: Green light, the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg and the comparison of two location—West egg and East egg, in…

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    In F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby, color symbolism plays an important role in the understanding of the characters. One color that plays a very important role in the novel would be the color green. Green is important in The Great Gatsby for many reasons. On reason would be Daisy’s green light at the end of her homes dock. This light symbolizes something very important to Gatsby, his and Daisy’s love, “—he stretched out his arm toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I…

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    geometric structure, he depicts the loneliness and despair of this woman. The main focus of the painting is a single woman sitting at a table gazing down at the table where her cup is at. The woman is dressed very nicely, she is wearing an emerald green coat with brown fur trim and a yellow cloche hat. The brim of her hat appears to have been pulled down, slightly covering her face, and she has on only one of her gloves. The woman’s face does not show any emotion, but does appear to have…

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    (Klein). From the green light on Daisy’s dock, to the dull Valley of Ashes, almost every color in this novel has a hidden message behind it. In the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, a man by the name of Jay Gatsby, who grew up on a poor farm in North Dakota, attempts to achieve the American Dream. In that process he falls in love with a woman named Daisy Buchanan. When Gatsby goes off to war, Daisy gets married to a rich man, Tom Buchanan. Gatsby devotes the rest of…

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    The 1920s were widely considered a failure in society. It was such a rowdy and out-of-control era due to the war. The war made everybody wonder whether they would make it back from war. This led to a generation of partying and living life to the fullest. In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is one of many young adults who endlessly parties to make sure he has no regrets if he never returns from war. He falls back in love with a woman named Daisy Buchanon whom he had loved in his…

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    novel “The Great Gatsby,” he is able to use a surplus of colors as symbolism in his story. Not only are these colors used as symbolism, but some of them actually impact the outcome of the story. Some of the colors are feeling based, like the color green. The Great Gatsby is about a poor man named Jay Gatsby who eventually becomes rich, he also has a strong love for a girl that he cannot have named Daisy Buchanan. Colors play an essential role throughout the story; the story is affected by…

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    thoughts and feelings. Colors such as green and white are used to find someone's true feelings and true thoughts, while other colors are used to hide their true personality and allow them to camouflage into other types of crowds. Color symbolism is used to convey a deeper message to us and help us understand the characters true colors. The color green throughout the novel represents Jay Gatsby's different choices through his lifetime. The symbol used to express green through the novel is…

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    pleasure. However, a close evaluation of the themes of the The Great Gatsby reveals the meretriciousness of wealth and how it brings more displeasure in life than it brings happiness. The first symbol expressing this theme is the color green, specifically the green light and how it shows desires beyond wealth. Another symbol supporting this theme is Jay Gatsby’s mansion which contains the collection of Gatsby’s expensive exotic items, but is vacuous of people who truly love him, showing that…

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