Crimson

It all began so smoothly, this colossal masterpiece of mankind was meant to be the sturdiest ship ever made, The Titanic. Everyone happily moved along the line, chatting like old friends, smiles lighting up their excited faces as the got ready to embark on this mighty voyage. Despite the hustle and bustle, everyone politely gave each other space as they climbed the ramp. He witnessed all of this from his position up on the deck, his body pressed against the cold steel of the hand rail. He…

“You ought to keep your filthy hands off my skirt, Mattie! Mother wouldn’t approve if she were to discover I had soiled it not even a week since Papa had come to visit.” “Oh please! Mother this. Mother that. You ought not to cherish it so much! Sage, if I had attended every silly request of Mother, I’d be so nutty that all the fruitcakes in the world would be jealous.” And so Mattie went about meticulously wiping her hands on her own silvery white dress, making the utmost effort to ferry every…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” displays the irrationality of attempting to form a flawless being, and by doing so, interfering upon the land of the divine. Hawthorne carries this message over the story of the scientist Aylmer and his elegant wife, Georgiana, who has a tiny, hand-shaped birthmark on her left cheek. Aylmer is fixated with this mark that retains his wife from being flawless and is determined to remove the mark by using his experiments. Throughout the telling of “The…

many points where I just thought “Wow” because the dialogue just described a hand full of events. An example of this is when Gault murdered Rachael. Cornwell had had Kay and Benton go back and forth talking about the scene and using words such as crimson blood and fleshy white. This was my opinion on the book From Potter’s…

Low battery. Exactly the two words I didn’t want to see right now. I had come too far to give up just yet. The crimson stain on my pants from the constant dripping of blood off of my back and chest made me feel queasy. I knew if I didn’t find a road soon, the adrenaline in my blood would lessen, and the gashes randomly placed throughout my body were going to catch up with me. I needed a plan now. An all-inclusive elk hunt through the mountainous terrain of southern Alberta led me to this trip…

can still feel the cool, crisp air that I inhaled when I walked to the porch to watch the sunrise. I can still taste the freshly brewed coffee, doused in chocolate creamer, as I brought myself to rest on the porch swing. I can still see the sun, crimson and slowly climbing over the mountain tops and peeking through the iconic “smoke”. I can still smell the freshness of the mountains. Indescribable – like another trip is already in the books. The Smoky Mountains are a smaller range associated…

van Toch turned crimson. "What?" he bawled. "You dirty Cuban, you think that I shall be frightened of your devils? We'll see about that," he cried, rising with all the greatness of his honest fourteen stones.” (Capek) Right away you see oppression in the novel. The dismissal…

duchesses, marchionesses, and countesses, who were only banned from wearing purple, purple silk, and sable fur. Viscountesses and baronesses couldn’t wear what the people who outranked them were banned from wearing, and additionally couldn’t wear velvet, crimson, scarlet, indigo, and gold. Below them were wives of Knights of the Garter, who could not wear tinsel cloth, a type of cloth woven with strands of gold and silver. Wives of men who paid a fee of 100 coins were banned from wearing silver…

The smell of corn was strewn along the roadside, with other crops mixed in as well. The scent was dense enough to be able to taste the uncooked food. The road was rough and cracked, with small bumps every few seconds. A calm breeze blew throughout the area, keeping everything at a nice cool temperature. There were fields of all kinds on either side of the road, with foods like corn, soybeans, and potatoes growing throughout. A large house sat on a small hill on one side of the road. With white…

movies in front of them. These are usually the ones that do not have a strong imagination. Speaking of images, the individuals that enjoy movies over books enjoy the visuals and special effects that are shown in movies. It is argued in The Harvard Crimson, “As visual, rather than textual, [movies] display content much more quickly than can a book…Movies are more tangible, visual, and compact than comparable written works” (Drucker 2). Drucker is trying to explain the concept of visuals being…