Liz Zelencich

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Colour can influence our emotions, our actions and how we respond to various
people, things and ideas. Much has been studied and written about colour and its
impact on our daily lives.
Many people believe that colours are powers, and that coloured stones are
especially powerful. Here are some of the meanings of colours and the energies
contained in their corresponding stones.
RED is the colour of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war,
danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and
love.
ORANGE combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow.
It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange repre-
sents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination,
attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.
GREEN is the colour of nature. It symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, and
fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety. Dark green is
also commonly associated with money.
BLUE is the colour of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and
stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth,
and heaven.
PURPLE combines the stability of blue and the energy of red.
Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, lux-
ury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance.
Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence,
creativity, mystery, and magic.
YELLOWis the colour of sunshine. It's associated with joy,
happiness, intellect, and energy.
WHITE is associated with light, goodness, innocence and
purity. It is considered to be the colour of perfection.
BLACK is associated with power, elegance, formality, death,
evil, and mystery.
Before there were humans, light from
the sun shone on the Earth, causing the
plants to grow. Eventually humans evolved and
realized their need for continual warmth and ability to
see in the dark. They learned to make fire, which enabled
them to do things even after the sun had set. It allowed
them to see things in the dark and kept them warm when
the Earth was turned away from the sun. Probably one of the
first ways our ancient ancestors made fire was with flint or
iron pyrites. These two minerals give off sparks when hit
when something hard. Fifteen thousand years ago, oil
lamps came into use. Candles were invented, which
were simply oil lamps with solid oil. Later on in the
nineteenth century, gas lighting, which gave off
much more light than oil lamps, became
popular and in 1877, Thomas Edison
invented the incandescent
light bulb.
Nature has produced many different forms of light besides the sun and the
stars. During thunderstorms, lightning occurs when an electric spark heats
up the air so much that is glows. The "Will 'o the wisp" is a natural
phenomenon that occurs over marshy ground. It is a natural flame caused
by methane that is produced by the rotting plants in
the ground. As the methane rises to the surface,
it mixes with a gas produced by rotting animal
remains, phosphine. Phosphine ignites on
contact with air.
How many colours can you name? Orange, turquoise, green, purple, chartreuse,
all of these colours and many more make up the colour wheel that
artists use to organize colours. At the center of the colour
wheel, you will find the three primary colours: red, blue and
yellow. While all other colours can be made by mixing
two or more colours, red, blue and yellow cannot be
made by mixing other colours. That is why they
are called the primary colours and they are the
basis for making all other colours.
The secondary colours are the
complementary or opposite colours of the
primary colours.
When you mix any two of the primary, you
make the complementary or opposite of
the third colour that was not mixed.
Create a colour, light and sound
collage Use colour, light and sound
to create a power point presentation
on a topic of interest.
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How It Works
Sound vibrations, or sound waves, are
collected by the outer ear (those are the things
hanging on the sides of your head!) and travel into the
ear canal, where they bump up against the
eardrum. The ear drum vibrates in
sympathy with these sound waves. As it
vibrates, it moves a series of tiny bones
in the middle ear, which carry the
vibrations to a fluid-filled tube called the
cochlea in the inner ear. The fluid
inside the cochlea vibrates a series of
tiny hairs called cilia, which are
attached to auditory nerves. The
movement of these cilia stimu-
lates the nerves, and they send
signals to the brain, which, in
turn, processes these signals
into the sounds we hear.