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…The film, "Colors", produced in 1988 by Dennis Hopper, is giving us a view of Los Angeles street gangs and how the police and community deal with them. What is ironic about the story is although there are plenty of scenes of violence and terror…

…with the gangs. He's tired of Hodges' style of nonconfrontation and letting them go by saying ?You oh me one?. McGavin doesn?t win over many friends with his brutal style of enforcing the law. There are many good moments in "Colors," but the one I will remember…

…A Lesson Well Learned The Color Purple Alice Walker, POCKET BOOKS/WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS, 1982. The intensively descriptive novel, The Color Purple is about Celie, a woman born in the early 1900’s, unselfishly surviving the social…

…Purple Loosestrife The scene is breathtakingly beautiful, a thick brush of purple flowers blankets Canada's wetlands. This blanket silences the expected sounds of the wetland environment, birds chirping, ducks splashing, insects buzzing and animals…

…not be mixed or formed by any combination of other colors. All other colors are derived from these 3 hues SECONDARY COLORS Green, orange and purple These are the colors formed by mixing the primary colors. TERTIARY COLORS Yellow-orange, red-orange, red…

…that you had better show up armed to the teeth. Because in the 1920s, Detroit belonged to the Purple Gang, a group of killers and thugs as vicious and bloodthirsty as any racketeer in New York or Chicago. The Purples ran the rackets in Detroit for much…

…took multiple drugs, LSD and marijuana. I also participated at Woodstock, where drugs and sex were plentiful. Acid was a major drug in my time; it inspired many songs and movies, such as “Purple Haze” by Jimi Hendrix, “Purple haze all in my brain, lately…

…in difficulty and went on to the color Red until the most difficult, the Purple, was reached. This was the code constructed on a machine, unlike previous codes, which were constructed with pen and paper. In Japan Purple was simply referred to as "the machine" or "J…

…an essay on the invasive qualities of purple loosestrife and the consequences. well researched, minor grammar mistakes PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE         The scene is breathtakingly beautiful, a thick brush of purple flowers blankets Canada's wetlands…

…. And still others, among them yellow journalism, the Red guard, Purple Heart, Black Market and the yearly favorite among sports fans the Orange Bowl, all have an interesting, although more recent history. The foundation for color symbolism has been built upon many…