Green politics

A Perfect Red discusses the search for the “elusive” red dye and the impacts of the color red with a Eurocentric perspective. The book begins by providing a historical overview of the color red. Several cultures have displayed strong religious, psychological and political affiliations with the color through out history. Red was considered sacred to many ancient cultures, and appeared in funerals and religious ceremonies. Some societies associated red with magical powers and its ability to cure…

Response Essay Baraka Allison Batley Communications Essentials – COMM1016 Vali Stone Wednesday, October 21, 2015 “Eggs, thousands of them, float by on a conveyor belt. Recently hatched chicks, dressed in yellow down, tumble from a conveyor belt down a chute onto another belt. Their eyes are wide, they look about amazed, their tiny wings flutter” (Roger Ebert, 2008). This is just one of the many images Mark Magidson and Ron Fricke use in their film Baraka. Their goal at first is to capture…

While walking down the gallery’s hallways, I stopped and took a second look at this art piece. I was confused and curious at the same time. I thought, what a detailed piece to be made by prismacolour pencil crayon on 4 plies, acid-free rag board. I decided to watch online videos of how prismacolour is used and how to get specific details. For instance burnishing or blending, which would be used by a prismacolour colourless blender pencil or marker. Fletcher made her work remarkably appealing by…

The first person I saw was Devin Gibbs, a man in his early twenties. He was wearing a Jenison green colored New York Jets shirt, black athletic pants and Nike Flight shoes. He was placing blocks of mozzarella cheese into a shiny odd shaped stainless steel machine. On the other end of the machine freshly shredded mozzarella cheese fell into a large…

The symbol I feel like was most important is the green light. What the green light represented was hopes and dreams for Gatsby. In the book “The Great Gatsby” Gatsby whole entire life was a lie. Gatsby wanted a female named Daisy. The reason why he couldn't get with Daisy was because of one important reason. The reasoning behind the fact he couldn’t get with Daisy was because his financial problem. Gatsby promised to Daisy that he would be able to take great care of her but the whole time Gatsby…

Colour: In panel 7 the visual technique used is the colour purple, it was selected to demonstrate the characteristics of the new world. As the colour purple associates with royalty, ambition, wisdom, mystery, magic and independence it is clear that the new world will hold these features. The colour purple is intentionally selected to show how Alice is an independent girl as she is going on an adventure alone. The purple contrasted against the yellow as it gives a pop of bright colour attracting…

“Guess by Marciano” Envision for a moment a black and white photo of a woman dressed in a fashionable low cut black wrap dress outlined in black silk, a bow of silk tied at the front left side of her waist bringing attention to her bosom without being too forward. Back resting gently against a weathered rowboat, hands sweeping her short tousled blonde hair behind her head, sprawled out on a beautiful sandy beach. With her knees slightly pulled up to her exquisite tightly dressed waist. Now…

Flag The blue and white colors to represent the colors of the United Provinces of Central America. -This is a Union of Central America after they had gotten their independence from Spain El Salvador’s flag includes all equal bands These bands go from the color dark blue,then white inbetween and then another dark blue band The coat of arms is placed in the center of the flag The coat of arm includes a triangle with five volcanoes, these volcanoes represent former member of the Central American…

in a Landscape” painted in 1972 by Sidney Goodman, a child, woman, and man are in what looks to be a park because of the sandbox and blue and red swing set. In the background the mountains are bright and happy with houses surrounded by many tall green trees. On the right side of the painting is a huge dark gloomy cloud like when a murder is about to occur in a horror movie. The figures look like something is going on in their mind, maybe they are unhappy with each other or something is really…

There is a fascinating use of the red color and red roses throughout this film. Red color might refer to many things including; love, caring, passion, revenge, life force, and many other. Red roses in the American culture are a symbol of love, caring, compassion, life and death. Roses also symbolize beauty; perhaps that is why they selected the title to be American Beauty. At the second opening scene of the film, we see Burnham’s house with the neighbor’s homes. The bright, artificial colors of…