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Shades of Green
Green is the color of love associated with both Venus, the Roman goddess, and Aphrodite, the Greek goddess. In several religions, green is the color associated with resurrection and regeneration. Green is the dominant color in the nature and takes up more space in the spectrum visible to the human eye.
The color green carries many connotations. “Green around the gills” describes pale appearance. “Greenback” denotes money. “Greener pastures” offers hope for a better life. Green can be equated with envy. Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind” wanted a huge diamond to make her friends “pea green with envy”. A study found years ago that people whose favorite color was green were among the most intelligent.
Sally’s favorite color is green. Her adolescent life is full of deep paradoxes. Socially, she is handicapped by how she is perceived because of her family, but those trials push her to become who she is. Without childhood social stigma, would she have the drive to do good things?
Unavailable to her in high school, Sally finally acquires her childhood sweetheart, the school football hero, one goal achieved. Change begins at her ten-year high school reunion, but does it end at her twenty-year reunion?
A national talk show provides Sally a forum to enlighten the public on many efforts by the establishment to misdirect public opinion, but she must play the game to be effective. Making use of all that is given her, she attains lofty goals for the benefit of humankind, but sometimes the middle ground gets caught in the battle.
What constitutes virtue? Are we to be judged by our faults or the greater good we do? The end never justifies the means, but what gray areas lie between?
Shades of Green
Green is the color of love associated with both Venus, the Roman goddess, and Aphrodite, the Greek goddess. In several religions, green is the color associated with resurrection and regeneration. Green is the dominant color in the nature and takes up more space in the spectrum visible to the human eye.
The color green carries many connotations. “Green around the gills” describes pale appearance. “Greenback” denotes money. “Greener pastures” offers hope for a better life. Green can be equated with envy. Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone with the Wind” wanted a huge diamond to make her friends “pea green with envy”. A study found years ago that people whose favorite color was green were among the most intelligent.
Sally’s favorite color is green. Her adolescent life is full of deep paradoxes. Socially, she is handicapped by how she is perceived because of her family, but those trials push her to become who she is. Without childhood social stigma, would she have the drive to do good things?
Unavailable to her in high school, Sally finally acquires her childhood sweetheart, the school football hero, one goal achieved. Change begins at her ten-year high school reunion, but does it end at her twenty-year reunion?
A national talk show provides Sally a forum to enlighten the public on many efforts by the establishment to misdirect public opinion, but she must play the game to be effective. Making use of all that is given her, she attains lofty goals for the benefit of humankind, but sometimes the middle ground gets caught in the battle.
What constitutes virtue? Are we to be judged by our faults or the greater good we do? The end never justifies the means, but what gray areas lie between?