English Speech About Color

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Sidney Greenberg once said “Let us imagine a world without colour, without regal red or leafy green, a world that bores the eye with gray. Praise to You, О Lord, for all the colors in the rainbow, for eyes that are made for seeing, and for beauty that is its own excuse for being.” Madam chair and fellow classmates. What would the world be without colour? Has that thought ever crossed your mind? According to www.listverse.com, colours technically don’t exist at all, they are all in our heads. It is something created by our brains as a side-effect, when it desperately tries to make sense of the overwhelming amount of information it receives from the outer world. So, should you ever find yourself in a heated debate over color combinations with someone you are certain has an IQ below your car’s maximum speed or is just simply colorblind, keep in mind that it is a pointless argument and you should drop it immediately. You’re both wrong. But before we get into a heated debate about that lets talk about colour! Colour is universal, fundamental, emotional; it connects us and defines our world. It makes us feel at home and takes us to new places. Life would have been terribly dull if colours did not exist. I can not imagine a world where there was a total absence of colour. It is enough for us to look at the dawn after the darkness of night to know the difference. Psychologists believe that in northern countries there is a large number of people who commit suicide simply because there is absence of light and colour for such a long time, because of the cold dark winters. People are asked to paint their homes in happy colours. Here are some interesting facts about colours brought to you by www.did-you-knows.com. Did you know there is no such thing as a naturally blue food and grasshoppers have white blood. Did you know mosquitoes prefer blondes to brunettes. Red can
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