The Red Line Essays

The first article I will critically examine is by Prof. David Lewis-Williams: The thin red line: southern San notions and rock paintings of supernatural potency (1981). This article examines the function, relationship and role of the “medicine men” in rock art and maintaining social relationships within the San community. PART ONE The function, relationship and role of medicine men is inferred from ethnographic sources, as well as the images portrayed in the rock art (Lewis-Williams 1981). Throughout

Game of Thrones season 6? It is believed that she is making her list again and she will be checking sone names off that list. On her list were names that hounded her family. On her “kill list” was Walder Frey. He was one of the men responsible for the Red Wedding. Walder Frey is still alive and kicking. He may just get what is coming to him, seeing that Arya is double checking her list of names. But there is a twist to this. They call it a “guest right.” It is a tradition that means once bread and

stories about the war, it is too easy to omit the horrors and to focus solely on the glorifying war. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 and Malik’s Thin Red Line are two examples of that do not fall into this dangerous trap. Both are depictions of the war, albeit from two different theatres; Vonnegut bases his story on his experiences at Dresden, while Thin Red Line tells the story of Guadalcanal, on the Pacific Front. Both works emphasizes the gritty reality of war, with Vonnegut focusing on the firebombing

Professor Mark Harrison English 1B 8th October 2014 Becoming the Red Dress This poem focuses on the stereotypes woman face and explains how women in this poem try to endure those stereotypes. Red color stands for sex. Red roses, red lipstick, red lingerie and red heart boxes of candy, all of these represent one single image of passionate love and sex. Women in this this poem has been portrayed confident and strong. Boldness of red color makes it a statement color which stands for power and passion

“Is my red the same as your red?”— you’ve most likely posed some form of this inquiry once in your life, but the color of an object is much more expansive and complex that what humans observe on a day-to-day basis. That red strawberry you see is not built with red particles that look red through every light and spectrum it is observed through. Instead, how we perceive the light bouncing off the subatomic particles within the various substances and elements which we glance upon is what affects their

was red and white stripes with a rattle snake on it with black words that said "Don 't Tread on me". The thrid design I had in 1775 was just red and white stripes. My forth design in 1775 was red, white, and blue stripes that had green Christmas tree with a white background. The fifth and final flag design in 1775 was red with six ilttle white lines in the corner. Now lets move on to what I look like in 1776, I was two different designs in this year. My first design in 1776 was thirteen red and

Color Symbolism in The Great Gatsby Color in The Great Gatsby plays a big part in showing us how Gatsby and Daisy’s lives are. It shows different things such as hope, wealth, purity, and death. Here we see the different symbols it shows throughout the story such as Daisy’s dress and her car. Gatsby, Tom, and Daisy all show us different personalities and lifestyles simply through colors. Colors are a great way to express things, for we underestimate the colors themselves and look over them everyday

The story “Red Queen” by Victoria Aveyard is a very symbolic and intriguing novel. Theauthor uses blood, something every living person must have, to draw a line between people. Theauthor gives one blood color, the silver blood group, magical powers while the other group, thereds, are left to clean up after the pefect silvers. This story also uses betrayal to symbolizerebellion against the color of the blood.A phrase repeated throughout the story is “anyone can betray anyone”. The imagery ofthis phrase

the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart, and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood” - Audrey Meynell. Red is one of, if not the most powerful colors on the visible light spectrum. Kate Smith thinks “Red is violence, anger, and aggression, and it frequently indicates danger” (Smith) while Karen Haller says “red communicates feelings of passion, lust… love.” Both of which are correct as red symbolizes a multitude of things ranging

Introduction: “The Red Wool Shirt” by Alden Nowlan is an interesting poem that reflects the emotions of a person when receiving bad news. This poem has a lot of hints throughout the text that reveals a lot of meaning behind it. For example, in lines 12-13 on page 15, which states “one of the buttons was missing”(12, 15) is a sign that something is missing or off in the poem. Another example of this is in lines 23-24 on page 16, which states “for some reason I didn’t smile that day”(23-24, 16).

there is a deliberate use of the color red throughout the film. The color is a clear representation of life and death, as the movie’s main theme is about both and how they go hand in hand. Blood is one of the things that gives human beings life, it is what keeps people living at the same time that if it’s gone, we die. Blood is the color blue below the surface of our skin when it is in our veins. But it is when it comes to the surface that it becomes the color red. And when it comes the surface, we are

The “Company of the wolves” by Angela Carter is similar to the fairytale story known as the “Little Red Riding Hood” but is retold in a different way which is often known as feminist perspective. Angela Carter has changed the conventional heroine of the fairytale into someone who is brave and courageous. The story by Angela Carter is the retelling of the fairytale story but have deeper meanings in terms of the symbols used, the feminist perspective, the gender role and generation gap. The story

day, holding up a picture of the Red Poppies. Our school would gather as one singing the Australian Anthem. Remembrance day, the day where thousands of people stand together as one, remembering the death and pain of soldiers. This day is an unforgettable day. O'Keeffe focuses on the elements of colour, texture, tone and shape of the artwork “Oriental Poppies”. As soon as I saw this artwork, my intuition was passion and eagerness of this artwork. The silky red and orange colours used are strong

comprised of small wooden blocks that roughly form outlines of one-story houses. There are five houses in all, each possessing a small cloth bundle in the center. From left to right, the colors of the houses are yellow, orange, purple, orange, and red. In between the houses are bits of painted cloth, metal wiring, and thick layers of light blue paint. This mixture of material continues into the middle, creating a frenzy of texture and color. The middle ground has a focal point made of rusty orange

The savagery human beings fall into when there are no rules is shown in the movie, ‘The Purge: Anarchy”, through the use of lighting, color palette, and sound. About thirty minutes into the movie Eva and Cali’s luck runs out when a group of men dressed in all black and heavily armed enter their home. Both women are taken from the sanctuary of their apartment and dragged to a white semi-truck waiting outside. At the same time, the sergeant is outside in his car watching the whole ordeal take place

Other ways the curved line was used in the 1960’s Curved lines were used everywhere during the ‘swinging’ sixties. Polka dots were commonly used in garments and dresses during this era. Polka dots are a number of round dots repeated to form a regular pattern on fabric, in addition the dots are usually a contrasting colour to the background hue of the fabric it is on. Repeatedly, curved line was used during the Space-Age period. Paco Rabanne ued circular chainmail in his Space-Age designs, as well

The color red is “associated with blood, so it is the symbol of violence, danger and rage” (Haibing 42). A horrendous event happened that impacted most of the characters with was the hit and run that killed Myrtle Wilson, Tom’s mistress and George Wilson’s wife.

innocence and purity. In The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes Daisy with the word white to represent her innocence and girlhood many times. When we first meet Daisy, she is with Jordan and “they [are] both in white,” (Fitzgerald 10) in “a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion,” (Fitzgerald 9) surrounded in a pure, white room. Right from the beginning of the novel, Daisy is portrayed as a virtuous woman. She says her “white girlhood [with Jordan] was passed together [in Louisville]. [In

It also contains two black line that goes across it and it’s shaded in with the colors black. Form top and bottom there’s 4 fins that reflect each other and it is in the color blue and form each end of the black shaded line has two triangles that's shaded in with the color red. The 4 fins represent the four of us in the group and the yellow star represent unity. The two black shaded lines represent our determination and as for the two triangle it represent

I spoke to them pleasantly, for, God knows it, I cruelly scolded them” (The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, Line 220). When she mentions how crude she was to her husband’s we can see the similarities between her and the old woman, for in her tale when the old woman is in bed with the knight she teases him by saying, “Does every knight behave thus with his wife as you do?” (The Wife of Bath’s Tale, Line 1088). The old woman begs the question of her husband that if he had the choice, “to have me ugly and