The Color Purple and The Joy Luck Club portray a similar theme, because female main characters experience personal misfortunes and male/female relationships which ultimately lead to the discovery of their true identity. One of the main characters, Celie, in The Color Purple experiences many personal misfortunes which eventually lead to the discovery of her true identity. ... Therefore Jing-Mei's attitude is merely setting herself up for defeat and disappointment. ... Often these relationships affect the participants" futures, similarly to the way relationships within The Color Purp...

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Recent research revealed that language is also closely related to cognition and the cultural settings. ... A particular language is acquired in a particular cultural setting. ... Words seem to correspond in denotative meaning, but may considerably vary in connotative meaning, emotional meaning and various sociocultural associations they may arouse in different cultural setting. ... Color Terminology Color terminology has also been used to explore the relationships between different languages and cultures. The color spectrum is a physical continuum showing no breaks at all. ...

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Color is the most important part of Vertigo. ... The color of Vertigo may be analyzed to reveal themes, which are associated with different color. ... What is most recognizable about Vertigo is the color green. ... The color yellow also surfaces in Vertigo through Midge. ... The color purple also makes an appearance in the film by seeming to be associated with Judy. ...

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A consensus of their interpretations runs as follows: Tall purple flowers (iris?) ... The "ships of purple" are clouds. The "seas of daffodil" are skies colored golden by the setting sun. ... Because it explains some details less satisfactorily than the "sunset" reading ("ships of purple," "mingle"), and finally because it rests on assumptions not grounded in the poem itself (the wind stops). ...

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A classical play in the UPLB setting is usually a tricky task. ... The usually shiny fabric also added to the color of the stage. ... The dominant black color of his dress matched his mocking and spiteful attitude towards Helena. ... Astyanax was clad in simple beige outfit, in contrast to his mother's stunning purple, flowing gown of Andromake. ... A large percentage of the mood and emotions was evoked by the color and placing of the lights. ...

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History The first European explorer to encounter Costa Rica was the Great Navigator himself, Christopher Columbus. The day was September 18, 1502, and Columbus was making his fourth and final voyage to the New World. As he was setting anchor off shore, a crowd of local Carib Indians paddled out in...

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VOCABULARY Archaeology: the scientific study of ancient people and cultures principally revealed through excavation. Cromlech: a circle of megaliths. Henge: a Neolithic monument, characterized by a circular ground plan. Used for rituals and marking astronomical events. Megalith: a stone of great siz...

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Ghost stories, they have the power to throw us into another world, leading us to not only fear for the characters within the novel but for ourselves as the ghosts seem to follow the reader around weeks afterwards. It is the mastery of description that enslaves our minds as readers. Ghost stories pai...

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