The Color Purple is a wonderful novel about hardships and learning to overcome them. ... At the funeral of Sofia's mother, Sofia says to Celie, " "I know you won't believe this, Miss Celie, but Mr. ___ act like he trying to git religion"" (229). ... Shug also changes Celie's thoughts on religion. ... "Shug opens Celie's eyes to new ideas about religion, empowering Celie to believe in a nontraditional, nonpatriarchal version of God" (sparknotes.com). ... In an excerpt from a literary criticism on The Color Purple, the writer states that "... the readers see the story ent...

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What is Color? ... Is the color you are on the outside, the color you are on the inside? ... In our school alone it is safe to say that there are roughly seventy-five different cultural backgrounds and probably ten different main sects of religion. ... Not black or white, green, or even yellow with purple polka dots, color is a disguise of a person's character, which is the one true thing on this earth that is very much under appreciated. So what color are you? ...

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In Alice Walker's "The Color Purple", Shug provides Celie with emotional fulfillment, spiritual guidance and familial connections. ... When Celie realizes that God does not listen to her prayers "Just sit up there glorying in being deef "(200) she revises her notions about religion and she does not address her letters to God any longer. ... Shug rejects the narrow church and its false perceptions and prefers to have a personal religion in which " God ain't a he or a she, but a It"(202). ... Shug says," I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere an...

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Abstract The research question of my extended essay is "How patriarchal and colonial oppression is expressed in Alice Walker's "The Color Purple?" ... Written in the backdrop of the 20th century American patriarchal society is the epistolary novel 'The Color Purple' by Alice Walker. ... The reason behind choosing The Color Purple is that it can be seen as both a feminist and a postcolonial novel and also because of how the protagonist, Celie meets through few of the aspects mentioned before. ... Alice Walker's The Color Purple touches on the triple problem of racism, ...

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Interpreting God in The Color Purple Historically, in Christian religions God and Jesus have been represented as white men. The main reason for this are white missionaries spread their religion to the other ethnic groups. ... Thinking of God in this new light Celie is able to feel closer to God and religion. ... They open her mind up to looking at religion in a different light. ... Celie has to lose her religion before she can rediscover God. ...

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The Chi/Rho page is derived from the Christian religion and the "Allah" page is derived from the Muslim religion. ... The main colors in the painting include gold, purple, and green. ... As most people know, purple is the color of royalty. ... The color blue is the brightest color, so it stands out the most. The bright, blue color is the color of the equal arm cross. ...

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Purple III. ... The color of kings was purple. ... A million years ago, when our earliest ancestors were searching for food, blue, purple, and black were "color warning signs" of potentially lethal food. Yellow is a symbol of deity in many global religions. ... People had no appetite for things like gray meat, and purple salad. ...

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"The Color of Water" The Color of Water is an autobiographical book that parallels the life of the author, James McBride, and his mother Ruth. ... As she got older, she realized she did not like that religion. ... His skin color was light, so some Black people commented on that. ... Then she said, "God is the color of water" (McBride, p.51). Due to stereotypes about God, certain people do not know whether God is Black or white, yellow or purple. ...

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The Nazi's thought that incarceration would stop their religion or their way of life but it did not. ... Yellow for Jews, Red for political prisoners, Green for criminals, Pink for homosexuals, Black for anti-socials, Purple for Jehovah's Witnesses, Blue for immigrants, Brown for gypsies. As you can see the Nazi group the prisoners of the Holocaust into sexual preference, religion, ethnicity and attitude toward work. ... One example of that is that homosexual men and their community have viewed pink as their color and heterosexual men try to stay as far...

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Blue, purple and green are known as cold colors, they inspire calm and relaxation, but can still arouse feelings of anger or indifference. ... The significance of the color gray5; gray is a color which is rarely preferred. ... A favorite gray suit can go with any color. ... In China the color black is considered boyish. ... The significance of the color blue7; it is considered the favorite color of most people because it inspires confidence, responsibility and c...

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Imagine that the sky was actually purple - though you would call it blue because that was the word assigned to the sky. You could spend your life calling all things purple blue' and never be wrong. ... A racist has nothing within himself that is superior to others, and therefore he proclaims his skin color (a color he did not choose) to be superior to all others. ... Man is deficient in his creation of religion. ... They feel that their own religion is the wisest and truest; therefore other religions are ignorant and inferior. ...

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Her work is a reflection of what was going on in the world of popular religion in her lifetime like asceticism and mysticism. ... However, Margery planned her life around religion and did not consider others in her plans. ... In the midst of her struggle, a vision of Jesus came to her, a man dressed in purple silk, the color of royalty. ... They thought she was over-enthusiastic about religion. ...

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Religion and wine have been linked together since the before the time of Christ. ... The color can tell you about age and taste of the liquor. Wines color as they age. ... The colors of a reds range from purple to a brown and whites range from yellow-green to brown. ...

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They chose the lotus flower to be one of the "Eight Auspicious Symbols" in the religion, and it has become one of the most important image in the faith. ... There are many color of the lotus flower and each color representing different meaning. In ancient Egypt, there are only two color of lotus flower was mentioned. ... However, in Buddhism there are five main colors of lotus often found in the visual arts: blue, white, purple, pink, and red. Each color has its own meaning, nut the most common color that usually appears in the painting are the pink lotus flower. ...

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Another one of her big hits was the "Color Purple- where she writes about incest, sibling devotion, and blues music that unifies the thread in the lives of many characters. ... A distinction between the word usage/phrases and religion are evident in stanzas nine and ten. ...

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Most churches and religions have moved away from the true tradition of this season and a lot of the practices aren't followed today. ... Sometimes certain colors are associated with the Season of Lent and the color for Ash Wednesday is gray, representing the ashes rather than purple of the rest of the season. ...

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However, gender equality in Utopia is largely secular; the religion of the society seems to hold men more spiritually pure. ... This religion of the Utopians is formulated in such a way that it implicitly holds men as more religiously pure. ... For example a Catholic priest would wear a deep purple during the seasons of Advent and Lent. ... Raphael seems to be suggesting that the Utopians have a creed that expresses the basic beliefs of their religion. ... Raphael explains this aspect of Utopian religion as taking place on days known as "Final-Feasts." ...

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For example, from Alice Walker's book, The Color Purple, Alice writes about the pain and experiences that she has faced or has witnessed. ... From Zitkala-Sa's Boarding School Experiences it goes on to say: Indians themselves have produced a form of "captivity narrative"--- those materials written by Native children legally taken from their tribes for up to a decade, removed from their families, languages, religions, clothing, ritual, lands and virtually everything that identified them as Indian (e-course). ... When reading from the book The Color Purple, what one gains from th...

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Among them, there is rejection of science, clash between Nature and culture, notions of good and evil (duality), human nature, and the contradiction with and opposition to convention and religion. ... Giovanni is so subjugated by Beatrice's beauty and innocence during their meetings, in the garden, that he does not even notice the purple print on his hand (left by Beatrice) until he goes back to his room. ...

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In Wheatley's book called Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral that was published in 1773, she attacks many issues including her slavery, independence, and religion. ... Wells continued to write and lecture throughout his lifetime, and published his last book called My Southern Home: or The South and Its People, which dealt with slavery, religion and industrialization in 1880. ... Dubois 1903 publication of The Souls of Black Folk tried to give America the answer to the problem as well as highlight the problem itself, the color line. ...

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1. Discuss the novel as a psychological journey. Discuss how Henry Changes throughout the novel. What causes him to change? Henry Fleming is a young solider fighting for the union army during the civil war. ...

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As she lies horizontally on the altar with her robes draped around her, saffron in color, Agamemnon sacrifices her for the sake of his own personal agenda (sailing to Ilium safely). ... The theme is reinforced when Clytaemestra refers to the carpets as "a crimson path" (911) and mentions its colorings as "the purple ooze wherein our garments shall be dipped" (960). ... As she did with religion, she has crossed borders again, bringing birth and fertility into a description of bloody death. ...

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Hurston's early life consisted of religion since both of the male figures in her family were preachers in the small town of Eatonville, Florida, one of the first official all-black towns to remain in the United States to this day. ... Alice Walker claimed that if Their Eyes are Watching God was never published, her award winning novel, The Color Purple, would have never been created. ...

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I responded to Part I: Sorting By Color: Why We Attach Meaning To Race. ... Cultural assimilation, also known as acculturation, is when members of an ethnic group use the dominant group traits as their own such as language, values, religion, dress and preference of food. ... There is also segregation, or inequalitarian pluralism present, which is when the spatial and social separation of categories of people by race, ethnicity, class, gender, and/or religion. ...

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