The Color of Money

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    why kids shouldn’t wear uniforms. Individuality gives kids their own creative way of seeing things and if kids aren’t individual, it give them less creativity. Boring colors can make kids tired. If you looked at the same color every single day, it would get boring. It would also make kids happier if they could see different colors everyday by wearing them! Whenever I wear the same exact uniform as everybody else.…

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    Brancacci family were Florentine merchants allowing the family to earn enough money to build the Brancacci Chapel as part of Pietro Brancacci's final wishes…

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    with a wide spectrum of colors .Many characters are associated with colors that have a deeper meaning. Daisy is Gatsby’s love and she tends to wear or be connected with the colors gold and white. White means purity even though Daisy is not entirely pure. Gold is attached with money and riches while she is married with Tom who is affluent. First off, Daisy is always involved with gold which flashes how rich she is. Daisy lives in an expensive house with all the old money people. In chapter 6…

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    Carpenter successfully utilized the various elements to properly convey specific functions of mise-en-scene. Particularly, setting, color, costume, hair, and makeup were used to reveal character, shape the audience’s feelings, and lastly, to reveal the subject of the film. Mise-en-scene exposed characters and molded the audience’s feelings by applying the elements: setting, color, costume, hair, and makeup throughout the film. When we were first introduced to John Nada we could tell that his…

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    Authors use symbolism in most books and movies whether they are colors, or people’s actions. Symbolism helps give insight into how characters really feel without them directly saying it. Colors can show how people are feeling, acting and even how they want to feel. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel about a poor man who is now rich and is trying to win back his old love. Jay Gatsby fell in love at a young age to Daisy Buchanan but he had to go to war. During his time in war…

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    5.1 Yellow is the color of gold and stands for wealth Yellow is the color of gold not only stands for money, status and power, but also greed, lust and fall. In the novel, Fitzgerald used yellow to represent mammonish and decadent life of the American upper class. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy was known as “golden girls”, Jordan had yellow hair like withered leaves and Gatsby tied golden tie. To win Daisy, Gatsby always shows off his wealth. He held various parties in his villa frequently. And…

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    surrounds the characters and the themes within “The Great Gatsby” are represented by the color gold. F. Scott Fitzgerald captures the brilliant wealth and success that each character strives for, but may not ever completely reach, by the character’s reflection through color. Author Kevin Rea states in his article entitled The colour of meaning in The Great Gatsby that“The party 's blend of yellow (hope) and gold (money worship) is significant. It is this quintessentially American mixture…

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    greatest American novels of all time. F. Scott Fitzgerald brought this story to life using colors as symbols. In this case, symbolism means creatively using colors to add emotions and depth to descriptions in the story. Fitzgerald used colors such as white, gold/yellow, gray and blue to highlight the ups and downs of the 1920’s. In “The Great Gatsby,” white is prominently used as a facade for purity. This color is mostly associated with Daisy Buchanan. Daisy acts as though she is innocent. She…

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    improving their products, and the new items are attracting more buyers. Thus, making more money for the companies that have improved. Making new products is an important part of attracting buyers. Many companies have to think about how much a person will pay for the new items that are produced. Costing too much money will make the buyers want to walk away, but a price too low is not going to make the business money. Attracting buyers is an important part of business and creating new products is…

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    Perspective taking There are some things that are the same between the character and I and that is that we are both transgender, white, assigned female at birth, can vote, and have enough money to live but not enough to just send without thinking. There are some difference and that is that my character is a binary transgender and I am a nonbinary transgender person. It was easy for me to get into the mindset of my character because we are so similar that it was almost like my daily life was…

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