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    because he wanted to create a character that effectively embodies the cliche '. He does this because he wants the reader to understand the image of Chinese people that the media has perpetuated for many years. For example, when we are introduced to the character Chinkee for the first time, Danny and his girlfriend are speaking about attraction when suddenly Chinkee interrupts and starts drooling all over Danny 's girl(pg50-51). Chinkee speaks about binding her feet and having to bear his children. This symbolizes a time in the 1920 's when Chinese men were first introduced to America. In this time; many main steam media articles suggest that Chinese men would steal and rape white women. The concept of the yellow peril was introduced around this time as well. The yellow peril can be defined as a danger to western expansion and arise to power from people from Asia. Also in 1882, the Chinese exclusion act banned all Chinese people from entering America. This was the first time that America created a law that directly attacked one group. Knowing this historical information effectively challenges these stereotypes by giving a deeper…

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    Miller 2003: 23; Marger 2008a: 265). They are already achievement-oriented and are able to pass on this motivation with a strong ethnic identity to their children to create a chain of successful generations (Portes and Zhou 1993: 90). The success of Asian Americans brought about the model minority image (Marger 2008a: 274; Zhou 2009: 132). It is a testament to how positive stereotypes are actually insidious. Its creation was a way to pit minorities together who were in the midst of the civil…

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    The base of the image has consistent strokes upwards with browns, oranges, and yellows. These colors resemble the fringes on the end of the carpet. The colors are muted compared to his later paintings. These browns, oranges, and yellows were likely mixed to create different pigments on the fringes. Towards the center of the painting, the brush strokes seem to translate horizontally. The horizontality of these strokes make the background feel less three dimensional. However, the white and…

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    How Businesses Use Colors

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    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 calmness while green is also associated with calmness but can include the environment, money, envy, and liveliness (Stranger). Because of this, blue is often used as a color for bank…

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    cross, is portraying the famous crucifixion. I’m assuming on the left of Christ the small two figures are Mary Magdalen and Mary, Jesus’ mother. And to the right of him probably has to be Peter and another disciple. You know that Jesus is the main figure because of his size and halo on his head. He also has blood coming out of his hands and feet representing him being nailed to the cross at those same places. • In figure 9 the colors that are used are primary colors. This color palette is the…

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    Mosely Logo Analysis

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    Evaluation of Moseley logo’s Logo This logo is from the 1990’s and the logo is a shield which shows protection. The shield also has the initials of Moseley Park School. This could suggest that Moseley Park is a safe school as their shield like logo. Colour The colour Orange is used on the shield which suggests positive outlook, this would show the community that Moseley Park have a positive view on the things they do and nothing is seen as a negative. The colour Yellow is also used and this…

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    Visit To The Chazen Museum

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    Natural colors were used to establish the environment of the room the child and the grandfather are in. It also helps show the kind of clothing that people wore in this time frame. Brown colors are used in many traditional paintings to show off realistic events just like this painter chose to do. When using oil to paint, the colors usually end up having a yellow tint to them once they dry. This yellow tinting is from the oil sitting and going through oxidation while it is drying which produces a…

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    represents the life Gatsby wanted that was just in front of him while the color yellow represents the different social classes within the book with all the money they had or all the money they did not have. The color blue represents the lonely times Gatsby had at his gargantuan mansion that was located in West Egg. Then finally the color gray represents the valley of ashes otherwise known as the sickening area between West Egg and East Egg. The color green is very important to the novel because…

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    As the narrator describes Gatsby’s parties, everything surrounding the party is yellow and gold, “Turkeys bewitched to a dark gold” (Fitzgerald 40), “The orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music” (Fitzgerald40), Gatsby’s car is described as “a brisk yellow bug” (Fitzgerald 39). It is clear that Gatsby is surrounding himself with yellow. Upon examination it is revealed that yellow is a symbol of money. Gatsby surrounds himself with money to impress Daisy, who only truly cares about herself.…

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    In a nutshell, this process is to change the light from a cold, white/blue color to a warm yellow/amber color. On incandescent sources, dim-to-warm tuning can be done easily by varying the current through the filament, changing its actual temperature, and therefore change the CCT of the light. To imitate the behavior of incandescent light sources, LED sources would vary the CCT to produce the same color temperature of our familiar light sources. figure 4. dim-to-warm CCT curve Potential issues…

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