...is color? Who defines it? Where does it come from? As described in Sensation and Perception by E. Bruce Goldstein, “Color is one of the most obvious and pervasive qualities in our environment.” (Goldstein, pg. 202) We interact with color on a daily basis. It is what makes up the earth we live. As the days go by, there isn’t a day we don’t encounter color to some extent. We even choose our favorites! We use color to describe the way we feel such as being blue, or green with feeling peaceful, the list goes on. We visualize and feel them. Colors server specific functions in our daily lives. Understanding that color perception plays major roles in the lives of human beings, discovering the effects it has on gender gives us deeper reasoning to appreciate its importance. Previous research on vision and perception have dissected the impact of color perception in men versus women. “‘Vision’ is the most important sense as about 80% information which we get through all the senses, is visual. This visual information becomes even more meaningful and informative when these are colorful. In fact colors not only provide the objective information about the world, it impinges on our psyche, attitude and feelings.” (Khouw, 2010) Understanding this gives us more insight on the importance of appreciating the value color simply adds. Color perception or vision is the ability of the eyes to discriminate between the light rays of different wavelengths. Our visual system distinguishes color by comparing...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay about Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind by EL Greco and Denial of St. Peter by Caravaggio. Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind by El Greco and Denial of St. Peter by Caravaggio are both oil paintings depicting biblical events from the New Testament. The expressive components of both compositions reflect two different artistic styles conveying profound religious and spiritual content. El Greco’s painting encompasses the hallmarks of High Renaissance masters such as solidly rendered figures, dazzling colors, deep spatial recession and Roman architecture. Caravaggio’s dramatic use of light and shadow and meticulous attention to poses and gestures of his subjects are emblematic of the naturalistic realism of the Baroque period. The elaborate architectural setting of El Greco’s canvas with its deep linear perspective is filled with groupings of figures in the foreground. The figures, although realistically depicted and covered with body conforming drapery, appear elongated. Their gestures, facial expressions and twisted postures create a sense of movement, commotion, and reverence evoked by the mystical event of healing the blindness. The group of people on the right directs the gaze of the viewer to the figure of the blind man being healed by Jesus, and then it goes to the man on the left, turned backwards, with his finger pointing up. Just as the act of healing the blindness carries a symbolic meaning of the revelation of faith his gesture might...
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...It took the Civil War, abolition of slavery, Jim Crow laws, the civil rights movement and decades of lawsuits in the name of equality before President Obama’s election to office could ever be realized. Within this turmoil a new concept started to replace racism called colorblindness. Colorblindness downplays the salience and importance of race by focusing on the commonalities people share (CITE-H). According to Jones (1997), racial colorblindness is simply to “ignore one’s race or skin color”. Another definition by researchers Richerson and Nussbaum (2004) defines colorblindness as a belief that “racial categories do not matter and should not be considered when making decisions such as hiring and school admission” (pg. 417). Some parents feel that teaching their children not to notice, point out or comment on racial differences will help encourage egalitarian attitudes and that color-blindness on the parent's part will serve as a model of non-racist behavior (CITE-?). However, it is my intention to prove that taking on a color blind mindset only perpetuates racism...
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...suicide of a close friend, “The Old Guitarist” is is a relatively still painting, showing a street musician in a moment of extreme suffering. On the outskirts of a consumeristic society as a non-producer, poverty and depression are a reality many artists have faced in the modern world. Picasso adeptly captures the tragic figure of the starving artist clutching his instrument, bowed by the pressures of life. The man is dressed in rags and looks as though he is blind, and yet the guitar is still the center of his being. With his deft use of color, space, shape and line, Picasso is able to elicit a surge of emotion from the viewer and make a statement about the nature of pain, suffering, and poverty in the life of an artist. Color is one obvious element Picasso uses to influence the viewer’s emotions. “The Old Guitarist” was painted during his “blue period” and has a monochromatic color scheme. The entire painting, except for the guitar, is in different shades of blue and gray. This does two things. First, the monochromatic color scheme flattens out the forms and makes them look more two-dimensional and less lifelike. The man in the painting looks close to death, almost frozen. The exception to this, the place that shows the most contrast and dimension, is the area of the neck, which is also closest to the bright spot of the head. Your eye is drawn to this light area and then travels down the neck. There the muscles are straining against a burden. The viewer understands that the man...
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...services to the general public (GMETRPOCP, 2003). Focusing on guideline number one, “psychologist are encouraged to recognize that, as cultural being, they may hold attitudes and beliefs that can detrimentally influence their perceptions of and interaction with individuals who are ethnically and racially different from themselves” (GMETRPOCP, p.8, para.12, 2003). It is truly vital that psychologists identified and admit that his or her individual ideas, opinions, and outlooks can influence the effectiveness of the rapport he or she has with his or her clients. This is of the greatest significance because unwillingly, a psychologist’s individual view of another person can lead to negative judgments built on the group in which the psychologist’s has categorized the individual. Many issues become pertinent, including factors that can influence individuals to begin categorizing others that can lead to attitude changes simply because someone is racially or culturally different from him or her. Individuals become so emotionally deadened and without conscious thought he or she is biased or stereotypes individuals in out-groups (GMETRPOCP, 2003). For many psychologists his or her clients many are in minority groups and therefore considered in the out-group category. The second guideline asserts that “Psychologists are encouraged to recognize the importance of...
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...dominant or majority group. Importance: Allowing people to think they are less than they are has to come to a stalling point where they take actions and dominion over their lives. Unequal treatment and have less power, and being overweight must come to an end. Concept: Confront Racial Discrimination in a Melting Pot: A descendant of a Pilgrim is White, for example. But sometimes race is more ambiguous: People who are the children of an African American and Vietnamese American union are biracial or “mixed,” or whatever they come to be seen by others. Our recognition that race is socially constructed has sparked a renewed interest in what it means to be White in the United States. Two aspects of White as a race are useful to consider: the historical creation of Whiteness and how contemporary White people reflect on their racial identity. Importance: It should not matter the color of the parent to determine the future of a child. It is important that we allow children not to be categorized before opportunities reach them. Something should be done to allow all children to grow up rather mixed or anything else for that matter to get and gain the same respect as someone brought into a full white family. Concept: Recognizing Internal Colonialism: is the treatment of subordinate groups like colonial subjects by those in power. Native Americans Found themselves to be the subordinate group on land that once they occupied alone. Now they were being treated like a colonized people...
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...Optic White color, the narrator “measured the glistening black drops, seeing them settle upon the surface and become blacker still, spreading suddenly out to the edges.” When the paint batch is mixed properly, the results are a glowing, bright white color. The symbolism in Liberty Paints' signature color represents the importance black individuals play in America's past, present and future. It's only when black is added to the paint mix that the purest, most ideal, paint color emerges. Ellison wants readers to question race and prejudice. Ellison is a master at painting the picture of racial blindness from this time period. He starts out the book with an unnamed character who is considered invisible “ simply because...
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...Differentiate between sensation and perception. Explain the importance of separating these concepts. Sensation is the process in which sensory receptors are stimulated, producing nerve impulses that travel to the brain, which in turn interprets such impulses as a visual images, sound, taste, odor, touch, or pain. The physical stimulus present in the environment puts out energy that is absorbed by a sensory organ causing sensation. Perceptions is the when the brain performs organization of information it obtains from the neural impulses, and then begins the process of translation and interpretation. It is a vital process that helps us rationalize or make sense of the information related to the physical stimulus. Perception occurs when the brain processes information to give meaning to it, by means of emotions, memories. Perception is the process in the brain that helps us to make sense of what we are touching or hearing or tasting or why it hurts. Sensation is the actual sense we get out of the information the brain is sending. While they work closely together they are two sperperate things. 2. Identify the biological factors that influence sensation and perception. Biological factors like physical, physiological, chemical, neurological, or genetics can effect sensation and perception. Kind of like depth perception and fear of heights or distance between objects. Sometimes being near or far sighted, or even color blind can effect how your senses work when seeing things...
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...interactions of a blind man, named Robert and a husband of the blind man’s friend. The story opens with the narrator’s wife telling him that her blind friend is going to be visiting. She knew this blind man because she had worked for him “one summer in Seattle ten years ago” (Carver 299). As readers, we get the impression, that the husband feels superior to the blind man because he is able to see, because he continues to say this visit “was not something he looked forward to” (Carver 229). After, the wife stopped working for the blind man she kept in touch with him through audiotape. One day, the narrator’s wife let her husband listen to one tape, but when he heard his own name on the...
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...(Merriam-Webster). Neil Harbisson, self-proclaimed cyborg is standing on the platform at the TED Global Conference 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland in quite a colorful ensemble with something that looks like a microphone attached to his head. This immediately captures my attention and I start wondering where this is going to go. Harbisson is both human and machine. He was born with a rare optical condition called achromatopsia, which means he is completely color blind. He has never seen color and his world is in grayscale. He immediately captured our attention visually and making a declaration that he can hear color, definitely draw the audience in immediately. He reviews the how and why, which are the two main points to declare. I would definitely give him a 10 for originality, importance and how he conveyed his message....
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...Illustrations With a huge locomotive painted on the cover of this book, it would instantly grab the attention of a child. Children, mostly boys, are captivated by objects that fly or move by wheels. The illustrations in this book are precisely painted with watercolors and all colors are accurately portrayed to give the exact feel of what the locomotive looks like. The author takes us through a tour of the inside of the locomotive with his descriptors that appear by each picture. Each page has a new painting with extreme detail, it almost feels as if we are in the train. Along with the vivid colors/paint, the typography throughout the entire story is eye- catching. It’s nice to appreciate all of the detail and history that comes with reading...
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...President Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address? Why? Atticus represents the ideas of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address because in the court case, he works hard stress the importance of the jury needing to be fair and treat all people equally. “‘Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal,’" (Lee 274). Atticus states this because he knows that the jury is biased, but he’s dedicated to trying to level the playing field, have the jury treat all men equally, and in doing so he’s representing the ideas in the Gettysburg Address, because he’s fighting to make sure the Union’s soldier...
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...University of Phoenix Material Employment Laws Chart Complete the chart below using information from the weekly readings and additional research if necessary. | | |Court Case Influential to | | | | |Description and Requirement of Law |Establishment of Law |Importance of Law |Workplace Application | |Employment Law | | | | | | |Said to be the single most important |Griggs vs, Duke Power Company |Is was designed to eliminate the |Typically applied in the hiring | |Civil Rights Act of 1964 |piece of legislation that has had the | |discrimination of potential employment|process or the selection of potential | | |greatest affect on reducing employment| |based on the significant facets of |employment candidates. | | |discrimination; established in 1964. | |discrimination such as: gender...
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...story with a color television set, terms used in the text, the use of cassette tapes, and the use of marijuana would give the reader the impression of the timing of the story. The setting would appear to be a small town which symbolizes the thinking at that time and why the husband thinks the way he does throughout the story. References to traditional marriages, non- mixing of races during this time as well give the reader clues as to the importance of setting. Living in upstate New York would indicate that it was a small working town which correlates with the husband having the small town perception of something that is not the norm for him. In this story, Carver tells how a husband’s comfort zone, narrow-mindedness, and the ability to change how he communicates effectively will change throughout this story with a single, closely personal mind opening event. The clues in the story definitely show that the husband's character is very narrow- minded when it comes to something out of his comfort zone. He judges things without exploring or opening his mind he makes snap judgments. He has preconceived notions based on conjecture. He presumes how a blind person should act, dress, and feel off of movies. “A beard on a blind man”. (Carver 108) The use of no cane or glasses shows how uneducated or cultured the husband is. (Carver 109) That tells the reader he thinks that a blind person is incapable of caring for themselves. The husband's notion is a blind person is this...
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...technology has soared in leaps and bounds. Some people deem that this mounting movement has a great impact on people’s recreative options which results in the degradation and deterioration of being initiative. From my perspective, I have an ambivalent towards using the state of art of equipment in choosing amusement. First of all, the cutting-edge of technology offers the fertile ground for people, especially children to spread their winds of imagination. It is no exaggeration to say that not only do modern tools such as smart phones or multi-touch screen televisions open people’s minds and eyes about the world, but also give them inspiration and stimulate their unique thoughs. For example, a variety of game applications which can be downloaded on cell phones profoundly effect the mental development of children. They are exposed to a riot of colors constantly as they may imagine everything around them vividly and improve their aesthetic judgement. In addition, the escalating number of digital and graphic animation or 3-D films has intensified the creativeness of people. No sooner do the young are familiar with the breakneck speed of characters in the films, they can come up with any idea promptly. On the other hand, despite a myriad of benefits from modern technology, people should not turn a blind eye to the shortcomings of this trend. High-tech equipments are prone to sabotage the aptitude of innovatory. Instead of drawing or playing lego, many kindergarten change into playing computer...
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