Beige

A Knight’s Tale is a movie directed by Brian Helgeland starring Heath Ledger, a young actor who has been in many well-known movies, as William Thacher, a man whose main goal in life is to change the stars and become a knight. In A Knight’s Tale, you follow William Thacher, who worked for a knight who passed away within the first minutes of the movie. When this happens William jousts in his place. He wins the joust which leads him and his friends to create the idea of competing in other…

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done” (Jefferson, Thomas). The short story “A&P” by John Updike centers around how the life of Sammy dramatically changes when he tries to impress a girl. A summary of the story, three girls walk into A&P, where Sammy works, in bikinis. This causes the male employees to become distracted, Sammy singles out one of the girls and in his head calls her Queenie. The girls come to check out at Sammy’s cash…

The Painting on Ivory depicts King Khosrow and Queen Shirin in the Garden Court and was constructed by Persian Rovhani during the 20th century. The lively scene makes its presence known in that it is vivid in its use of color yet uniform all the same, the text is included around the images rather than the other way around, and the individual events are separated into discrete horizontal sections yet are woven together seamlessly into the fabric of the scene. In addition, the narrative of the…

Purple Hibiscus takes place in post-colonial Enugu, Nigeria and it revolves around the seemingly perfect Achike family, with the main character and narrator being Kambili aged 15 an introvert and her older brother Jaja, who also is an introvert and excels at school. Mama (Beatrice), seems to be the tape holding this fragile family together and then there Papa Eugene; a stauch catholic, successful businessman, newspaper publisher, philantrophist among other attributes who still with all this,…

Ying and his eight groomsmen, all in black suits, had left our house to bring his bride here from her home. They started nine cars at the same time—Ying in a beige Bentley at the front, followed by four Mercedes-Benz and four BMW motors. This kind of luxurious combination was a given in China’s weddings, for the honor and credit of the family. I didn’t see our own car in the team. I knew my parents had begged…

The walls were painted a dull beige or pale light green. Placards with the alphabet were hung directly above the blackboards. Above the placards, there was a United States flag, a framed black-and-white print of a painting of George Washington, and a framed photograph of the school’s…

Truly getting to know one another is a crucial element that pertains to our being part of society, in that knowing our peers and working together for the greater good is the goal of society in the first place. Going through this life without it leaves you susceptible to having no from of support in times that you may need someone to relate to or help with the obstacles and challenges you will encounter. For instance, on a daily bases we will look to others to identify with and we will use these…

a plethora of them across the globe in many different shades and shapes. In Margot Lee Shetterly’s “Hidden Figures”, she says: “…the great diversity of their features and hair and skin color, which ranged from near-ivory to almost-ebony, hues of beige and coffee and cocoa and topaz filling in between. Some of the women were approaching their golden years, the passage of time and experience etched in their faces and bearing. Others were in the full bloom of youth, their eyes like diamonds,…

Shimmering lights lit up the crowded streets of New York City like the stars of the night sky; they made up for the fact that you couldn’t see the real ones. My feet felt like concrete blocks attached to my legs as I walked, I guess you could call it, through numerous groups of locals and tourists, all I’m sure who could tell easily that I had quite an edge. They didn’t know why, and frankly neither did I. All I knew was that I wanted to be by her side. I had first encountered Mabel one random…

The colors present on the album are very dull and quite sobering. These colors were intended to represent the emotions of Szymon himself. On the cover he is depicted atop a grey rocky surface, surrounded by a beige border, in front of a robin’s egg blue square. All of these colors fail to catch the eye and do not garner our attention whatsoever due to their general lifelessness. This lack of vibrance of the album artwork shows Szymon’s view of the world during…