Red Sea

When I first think of Egypt all I can picture are the pyramids located there and miles of hot desert. I learned a lot about Ancient Egypt while I was in school. I also watched many documentaries about Ancient Egyptian history and the pyramids themselves. I never pictured people living there or even imagined anyone living in Egypt. The only people I imagined to be in Egypt were archaeologists and tourists. But, approximately 92 million people do call Egypt home. In movies and documentaries, Egypt…

Strategic access to the Suez Canal made Egypt valuable to British interests. During the First World War, the Ottoman Empire attacked the unprepared British troops in Egypt but fell back before reaching the canal. Alarmed by the Ottoman Empire’s attack in 1915, Britain further increased its presence in Egypt under the command of General Edmund Allenby. By maintaining an efficient supply line to Egypt, the British were able to hold their ground against the Ottoman Empire in Egypt until the…

strong in a tough position. In The Old Man and the Sea and The Red Badge of Courage, both Henry and Santiago have to face extremely difficult, unfamiliar situations. They handle them in different ways, but they both must face their challenges head on and with courage. There are many times throughout these novels where courage is used or shied away from. First, being courageous is something that can be hard to do in new and tough situations. In The Red Badge of Courage, Henry spends most of his…

In this play Fate is synonymous with Nature, taking a heavy toll of human life. Synge embodies this malicious aspect of Nature through the sea. Fate appears as the roaring sheet of water that plays the offstage protagonist, predetermining the lives of the characters. Comparable to the tragedies of Sophocles, Synge creates a looming tragic atmosphere through his premonitions of the future. The application of dramatic ironies such as the case of material brought by Maurya for Michael’s funeral…

Marissa Woo Ms. Barwise ENG 111 12 October 2016 The Red Effect You scroll through the emoji list on your phone for the salsa dancing lady in a red dress. Why are you using this emoji? Do you like red dresses? Does the dancing lady symbolize how you see yourself? Does she represent how you’re feeling? Perhaps she represents how you wish to see yourself, or how you hope others perceive you. In her poem “What Do Women Want,” Kim Addonizio uses a red dress to symbolically communicate her desire…

upon all nothing god had created the land and sea to embalm all life. To revolve around man, woman, and its inhabitants.…

Watatsumi-no-Mikoto, god of the sea. […] the inhabitants should be devout worshippers of this god. They are forever praying for calm seas…" (4, par. 2, chp.1) The islanders are so gracious for the ocean, that they made a shrine of a sea god to represent the seas that surround the island. The islanders have been devoted to their faith in order to receive a sense of reassurance. They pray in hopes to please the sea god that they worship in order to gain pleasant seas to sail on. The action of…

ghostly and the speaker also compares the worries of land to the peacefulness of the sea.This poem is about the death and afterlife that takes place under the sea and the peace that comes with it. The theme is about how above the ocean the waves are crazy and chaotic, but under the ocean it’s peaceful and calm, and the seamen who have died at sea are at the bottom peacefully at rest. The ocean is a frightful place, unfathomable, where many people have gone and few returned. .It mainly talks…

“The Calm” by Sean O’Brien is a four part metaphor representing the infinite serenity of the ocean and the stars as well as the revolving of a lighthouse in comparison to the people who have fallen from the light. In the first three stanzas we see beautiful metaphors comparing the rolling of the waves to the movement of the stars and, the revolving of the lighthouse to the tilt of the harbor. The poem continues to describe the inhabitants of a nearby bar who have fallen from stardom, sharing a…

In Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea Cycle readers follow many characters throughout the Earthsea. In each of these stories there is one, shared constant: the sea. Throughout the books characters leave their homes and set off to face the unknown. Le Guin uses the sea to represent the unknown. We see this when a number of characters, including Ged, Arha and Arren, leave safety and land behind and take off into the unknown carried by the mage or earthwind. In her books, Ursula Le Guin says that to…