Behind the Blue and Gray BY:Aayush Agrawal In the book,Behind the Blue and Gray, Delia Ray claims that life during the war was gruesomely difficult. Fighting and surviving was a lethal occupation. It didn’t matter what side you were on. Ray describes that some struggles during the war were camp life, rations of food, medical treatment, nature, worries about family, punishments, and life after the war. The book provides evidence to a soldiers hardships.
Many people have learned about the Holocaust throughout the years, but learning about it from a primary source is a whole different experience. A scary journey that turned out to be the Holocaust has been told by two individuals that survived. These two stories tell the reader what life was like and what they went through. Even though the conditions were terrible, both Eli and Lina were able to survive and break away through fear, horrendous experiences, and hope that lead them to surviving and leaving people they cared about behind.
Ray Bradbury uses the color white to represent Charles Halloway’s knowledge and purity. Bradbury uses the color white to represent Charles Halloway’s knowledge. The author uses, “a man with moon-white hair (Bradbury15).” Also, he uses,” Charles Halloway’s hand lay in a white hot furnace” (226) Charles had felt that he was the only one that thought that something was up with the carnival. This shows how Charles’s smart thoughts detects that there had to be something wrong with the carnival.
In the beginning, the book opened with the social, economic, and political struggle of African Americans. The experience was extremely gruesome for both the enslaved and new generation of freed slaves. As the years passed, the oppression became worse for people of color even though they were free there were several stipulations put in place to hold them back from succeeding. The University of Chicago immediately recognized the major hitches with discrimination and decided to move forward with implementing studies for social research better known as the “Chicago School”. These studies showed that although African-Americans were going through a social disadvantage.
The image on page 39 is the picture I am choosing to journal over. The wolf has triangle red eyes, sharp triangle teeth, a slithering red tongue. The image shows the wolf creeping around a tree and spying on Little Red Triangle; the background is a light purple. I chose this picture because I believe it shows the reason that Molly Bang was trying to make throughout the book. On the page before this it shows the same image, however, the background is white.
In the novel “The color of water” by James Mcbride, James experiences a lot of changes to his character throughout the novel. Later on in the novel he starts questioning himself and experiences heavy character development. Throughout the novel James has many major and minor experiences that overall change his character. James at first was loyal and obedient to his mother and did well in school. But later on the novel James experienced major changes.
The Colored Museum is a satire about African American Culture which examines the influence of history on African Americans. George C. Wolfe uses political theater’s alienation effect to engage the audience into critical thought. The title “The Colored Museum” is a direct correlation between the word “Museum” where ancient artifacts are unchanged and “Colored”, a word from the past which is figurative for stopping time and escape. The Colored Museum has 11 exhibits which mock different aspects of African American history and culture. Wolfe also illustrates the affects of African Americans assimilation into the European culture with exhibits such as, “The Hairpiece”.
It is after two paragraphs exploring notions of man’s cosmic connection that Sagan asserts his first claim in the essay, “plainly there is no way back… we are stuck with science” (1). The compassionate tone persists even in assertions, as seen through the use of first person. More compassionate is the gentle acknowledgement of the pseudoscience appeal. “Yes, the world would be a more interesting place if there were UFOs lurking in the deep waters off Bermuda… or if our dreams could, more often than can be explained by chance and our knowledge of the world, accurately foretell the future” (1). This series of sentences ends the introduction.
Some of the greatest mysteries known to mankind exist outside of our planet. These mysteries are also the most challenging to solve. The curiosity of what lies beyond on our planet existed long before the technology or resources were available to research these questions, so prehistoric humans would develop theories to explain what they could see, being the moon, stars, and planets. Globally, every country has spent an extreme amount of money, resources, and time to research and explore our universe to begin answering these questions. The United States and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, commonly known as NASA, began in 1958 and since then has been responsible for the study and engineering behind all american space exploring
Item 2: Color Chart: In the book “The Great Gatsby,” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, colors have been used to represent the character’s unapparent and underlying thoughts, feelings, status and class. Through the motif of colors, Fitzgerald depicts the feelings of the character as he refers to a specific color while describing each one of them. The colors make a deep impact on the readers as they contain a profound meaning throughout the novel. There are around five main colors in the novel appearing frequently: white, yellow, green, blue and grey, which help the novel look more gaudy and idealistic.
Color is everywhere. Although color may not seem important, they might have a greater, deeper meaning. Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is set back in the Roaring 20’s, when the economy was booming. A newly rich man named Jay Gatsby is one of the richer people in this time that enjoys his money. He throws overgenerous parties, hoping that the love of his life, Daisy Buchanan, attends.
Fear plays a big part in everyone’s lives. While not everyone will admit it, everyone is scared of something. There is a lot that isn’t known about the world and everything in it. For some this is a tool that can be used to develop horror in literature as well as many other things. “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
The song, "Colors" written by Halsey expresses how someone has changed her and they no longer love her because "you touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky and you decided purple just wasn 't for you." Suggesting that while she was with this other individual they influenced her and she involved into a different person with contracting personality, attitude. beliefs and values. Influenced by their love and behavior it has changed herself as a person, which can be overall supported from the quote, "You were red and you liked me cause I was blue. You touched me and suddenly I was a lilac sky and you decided purple just wasn 't for you.
“When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” The narrator of this story is recalling a time when he got to sit and listen to a discerning astronomer in a lecture, who everyone seemed to love; but his words were missing the point, he laid facts out in numbers and graphs. This man, the learn’d astronomer, seems to have forgotten about the simple beauty of outer space, feeling nauseated with the immense complexity of it all Whitman has to leave. Once he leaves lecture hall he is once again reminded of his love for the magnificence that the stars in the sky hold. The narrator would much rather admire the perfect way the stars calmed him in silence without an explanation for their existence. Waltman is examining space in ways that we have discussed in
In the essay named Returning To Nature the audience is introduced to how planet Earth has gone through a destructive path in an ecological, societal, and spiritual way. What many are failing to see is how all of these factors will affect families. In spite of all of these factors there still lies hope for planet Earth, if the people of this planet return to having a spiritual connection with the wonders of this planet. Thomas Berry is a primary person, who has started this movement with his book The Dream of the Earth. Berry’ perspective teaches that in order to better serve planet Earth its history must be studied.
