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…was given the name Maya Angelou after her debut performance as a dancer at the Purple Onion cabaret.), a madam, and has went on to receive 30 honorary degrees. And yet this amazing women "still rises" (appendix 2). Through all her achievements…

…. Then, in 1967, at the age of 21, Stone joined the army and the war in Vietnam when most men his age were doing anything they could to avoid such a fate. Serving fifteen months in the infantry division, Stone was awarded a Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster for being…

…into suicide garb—Nike shoes, black running clothes, purple shrouds—and took their medicine. At 3:30 p.m., they lay down to die (Taylor). Obviously, Humphrey’s afternoon was not so relaxing. “The applesauce we used was baby-type applesauce, and it was the worst…

…the roads leading to it yellow and later change them to purple. The artist may paint a person's face green to symbolize jealousy. The fact that Sabina is a painter symbolizes her lightness. "Lightness of living, for Kundera, is that which is opposed…

…erratic heart. Poe has also bean accused of plagiarism in writing "The Raven". Supposedly he stole the purple curtains that appear in "The Raven" from ElizabethBarrel Browning. It is also said that Poe took the idea of a talking bird fromCharles Dickens…

…of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it…unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage…a black canal…a river that run purple with ill smelling dye’ and machines that ‘worked monotonously up and down…

…shades and shadowy green and purple. The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin bow-stave, endless apparently,’ describes the tranquillity of a tropical island paradise. The initial serenity of the setting and the influence of the sea…

…dragged one of his crewman to shore. He was given the Marine and Navy Corps medal, for his courage, and the purple heart, for his bravery. Later on in 1943 he developed Malaria and was sent back to the United States. He never went back to sea, but he became…

…an observer. Little emotion is betrayed. Yet, the burning intensity and brilliance of ‘Beach Burial’ reveals a passionate man. Many emotions are shown including ‘perplexity’ and ‘bewildered pity’. Dark colours ‘purple’ and ‘blue’ express Slessor’s deep mourning…

…hardness to make other things. Gold is also used in the form of gold leaf in the arts of gilding and lettering. Purple of Cassius, a precipitate of finely divided gold and stannic hydroxide formed by the interaction of auric chloride and stannous chloride…