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  • Plants To Green And Red Light
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    Let There Be Light Introduction When we look at the sun, what do we see Other than to squint our eyes and put your sunglasses on, you can see that the light is very bright and white-yellow in color. However, looking at light through a prism relates a different story. If Light is put up against a prism it is refracted or bent into a rainbow which contains the primary colors of light in which red light bends the least and violet bends the most (Jude, 1999). The primary colors of light consist of r...
  • Oxygen In The Leaf Material
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    Photosynthesis 1. Would you illuminate your house plants with a green light bulb? Why or why not? It would not be a wise choice to put a plant under a green light bulb. The reason for this is that due to the fact that the leaves are green they reflect green light. This shining green light onto the flowers will cause photosynthesis to stop. Since the light is being reflect d, the cells do not get any light. With out light they cannot carry out the everyday of photosynthesis. If the choice was min...
  • Desires Symbols In The Great Gatsby
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    Wants, Desires & Symbols In The Great Gatsby, symbolism adds depth to the story without casting confusion. The representations are presented and sometimes even explained through the characters. Our own society too has many symbols which reflect who we are in a similar manner as the symbols in the novel did. Although there are many symbols in this book, perhaps one of the most striking is the green light on the end of the Buchanan dock. This light represents hope and dreams to Gatsby. It shows hi...
  • Green Light And The Dreams Of Gatsby
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    Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby and Elliot's The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties, and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to improve. Fitzgerald uses a number of ...
  • Symbol Of The Green Light
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    The Great Gatsby: The Green Light The image of the green light in the novel Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a significant symbol which reflects Gatsby's dream and other aspects beyond Gatsby's longing. Throughout the novel Fitzgerald uses many other images or symbols. At first, it may seem very basic, but when the symbol is closely studied, one may see the deeper meaning found within it. Fitzgerald uses these symbols to make a point across to the reader. He then uses this point and conv...
  • Cave
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    NATURES UNTOUCHED BEAUTY Only a few of my friends share my passion for caving or as it is called in the professional world Spelunking and it is hard to find a time when we are all together and willing to indulge. So one day last spring I decided to explore the newly opened Rimutaka caves just out side the city. I left early Saturday morning while the dew was still forming on the green grass, taking the east highway out of Wellington past the artificial brilliance of the sky scrapers and their fa...
  • Hopeless And Lifeless The Valley Of Ashes
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    The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a novel based on Gatsby's dream and hope. In order to enrich the story, symbols are used to emphasize what the author is saying and they create a curiosity in the reader as they are frequently used throughout the story. These three symbols - green light, valley of ashes and the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg are not connected to each other but each of them represents important things in the story. The green light which is situated at the end of Da...
  • Physiological Response To Light Absorption
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    In this essay I aim to describe the range of biochemical pathways and mechanisms used by living organisms both to detect and to emit light. I will discuss general principles employed, and illustrate the range of different biochemistry involved by the use of many specific examples. Light Detection I will discuss the mechanism and function of light detection by five groups of light detecting molecule. The biggest of these is the rhodopsin group of proteins, I will also look at the role of phytochr...
  • Daisy With The Green Light
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    Authors use symbolism in their written expressions in order to enhance the thematic interests of the novel. The use of symbolism allows the reader to interpret the story, which in turn, stimulates a more personal, imaginative, and meaningful experience. Scott F. Fitzgerald's, The Great Gatsby, became an instant classic because of the symbolism used to enhance the theme throughout the novel. Without this symbolism, the theme of the withering American Dream would have been less than adequate, and ...
  • People Like Gatsby And Nick
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    The Great Gatsby is considered a masterpiece full of controversy about the 1920's life style. Fitzgerald uses symbolism to express in a more detailed way this life style of carelessness and corruption. These symbols are shown through out the characters' actions and thoughts as well as in the setting created by the author's imagination to stress a point to be caught by the reader's attention. These symbols are used to elaborate the themes in The Great Gatsby. Social status, one of Fitzgerald's th...
  • Green Shades Because Old Werle
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    The Wild Duck In the Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen begins his play by emphasizing the value of color and light. He uses the theme of light to contrast Old Werle, a stingy rich man, with Old Ekdal, a poor helpless man. Ibsen connects the color green with the loss of eyesight of Old Werle. A possible affair between Old Werle and Gina, Hedvig's mother, may suggest the cause of Hedvig's loss of sight. By using sun and moon, Ibsen establishes the atmosphere of the scene. The story line deteriorates from pe...
  • Red Model 1 Distance Between Traffic Signals
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    MEI Mechanics-1 Maths course-work An investigation into automatic Traffic Lights Daniel Baird The Edinburgh Academy Autumn 1996 Table of contents Table of contents 2 Introduction 3 Question 3 Aims 3 Simplifications and Assumptions 4 Road 4 Traffic Lights 4 Vehicles 4 General assumptions. 4 SEQUENCE OF THE TRAFFIC LIGHT 5 MODEL 1 5 Maximum distance travelled in order for a vehicle to clear the system 5 Period of one cycle 6 Period of green light 6 Dead Time 6 Period of red light 7 MODEL 2 8 Data ...
  • Second Wheat Field Of A Darker Shade
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    A Critique Of "Cradling Wheat' Essay, Research Critique Of "Cradling Wheat' Often times people tend to look at a work of art and only see a picture. Later, if one looks closer a clear message or meaning is depicted by the artist. Thomas Hart Benton's work, Cradling Wheat, for example is just a picture at first glance, but as one examines the painting closer, the story behind it becomes evident. This tempera and oil on board composition illustrates four men in a field threshing and bundling wheat...
  • Green Gold
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    Additional Poems By Angelina W. Grimke Essay, Additional Poems By Angelina W. Grimke A Winter Twilight A silence slipping around like death, Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh, a breath; One group of trees, lean, naked and cold, Inking their cress ' gains a sky green-gold; One path that knows where the corn flowers were; Lonely, apart, unyielding, one fir; And over it softly leaning down, One star that I loved ere the fields went brown For the Candle Light The sky was blue, so blue, that day, And e...

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