Search Our Essay Database

Essay Instructions: Color and Van Gogh Paper: Discuss van Gogh’s use of color in his two paintings The Sower and The Night Café (and any others you may chose).
How do his choices affect the mood of the piece?
Discuss his use of complementary color schemes and the possibilities that come with their use.
Papers will be graded on the ability of students to express a point/feeling and back it up.
It will be graded on form as well as content, so that spelling, grammar, punctuation and syntax are to be considered with some care.
Include a title page and reference section. Minimum of 5 double-spaced pages, Times 12 pt type with regular margins

Essay Instructions: Coloring Books
Consider:  Are children conditioned to create images to please the adult aesthetic, which consequently inhibits their own intrinsic creativity? What impact does this have on our culture? What is your opinion of coloring books?

Essay Instructions: with the following interesting article on ?priming? tactics used by organic retailers such as Whole Foods and related consumer behavior issue.

http://www.fastcompany.com/1779611/how-whole-foods-primes-you-shop

Use some concepts covered by to discuss this priming issue. What do you think of the influence of color on consumer perception of freshness?

How to conduct a marketing audit (n.d.). MarketingTeacher.com. Accessed 5/6/12 at: http://marketingteacher.com/lesson-store/lesson-marketing-audit.html

Introduction to financial statements for marketing (n.d.). MarketingTeacher.com. Accessed 5/6/12 at:
http://marketingteacher.com/lesson-store/lesson-marketing-and-finance.html

Marks, R. E. (1997). Market structure and competition (October 9). Accessed 5/4/12 at: http://www.agsm.edu.au/bobm/teaching/ECL/lect03.pdf

Essay Instructions: Books used in the essay are "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker and "Intimate Matters" by John D'Emilio.

Focus: How societal institutions and patterns have influenced human sexuality, and how and why those influences have changed or stayed the same over time.

Essay Topic: Male-female sexual relationships

Guidelines: Please number and title each section of an essay. Start each lettered section with a new paragraph and include the letter (such as "a") at the beginning of the section. Please be attentive to the minimum or maximum length specified for each section

Address the following in 6-7 pages total:

1. Introduction. 0.25-0.5 page. Introduce your theme and briefly lay-out what you will be focusing on and why you find the topic interesting or important.

2. Intimate Matters 1-2 pages
a. According to the authors, what were the norms, values and practices associated with this topic in the past US history, as represented in the readings in Intimate Matters(Just explain main relevant ideas and use examples as illustrations when appropriate.)
b. What societal factors and institutions influenced these beliefs and practices, and how so?
c. What do you think of these values and practices and why?

3. The Color Purple. 1-2 pages
a. What societal norms, values and practices associated with this topic does author Alice Walker describe in The Color Purple?
b. What societal factors and institutions do you think might have influenced the beliefs and practices she suggests, and how so?
c. What do you think of values and practices and why?

4. What was I taught. 0.5-2 pages
a. What were you taught about this topic while you were growing up, and by whom?
b. What societal factors and institutions influenced these beliefs and practices, and how so?
c. What do you think of these values and practices now, and why?

5. What I think now. 0.5-2 pages
a. What are your own views about this now?
b. If they differ from what you were raised with, what do you think influenced your current views?

6. Conclusion. 0.5-2 pages.
a. Summarize how the values and practices you discuss in 2, 3, and 4 above compare and contrast, what do you think about them.
b. What views and norms related to this topic would you like to see continue or change in the future? How might that happen? Why does the topic matter?