Blackness

Colors can influence how someone feels when they look at an image. The black and white give Dore’s illustration an intense appearance. The dark colors combined with white emphasize Little Red Riding Hood’s ambivalent feelings through the widening and blackness of Little Red Riding Hood’s eyes. Hyman’s illustration is entirely different from Dore in that it is in color. The color gives off a softer look to the scene where Little Red Riding Hood meets the wolf for the first time. Bright coloring…

As a young black woman living in America, I am constantly exposed to harmful imagery and situations that attack both my race and womanhood, two very important parts of my identity. The struggles that we face as a community include but are not limited to, dehumanization and general disregard for our lives (Aiyana Stanley Jones, Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, and the countless other black wo(men) who were victims of police brutality), Mysogenoir (ie. oversexualization of our bodies, the 'welfare queens…

aggressive ping ding of bloated raindrops on the tin roof muddled our minds. Diving recklessly through the air, thousands of plump little kamikaze pilots assaulted the ancient cinder block building. Suddenly, a flood of electric energy breached the solid blackness, with a deafening crackle in hot pursuit. No, this is not the beginning of a low-budget horror movie or gritty crime thriller. This is the end of a long day at a leadership training course for teenagers. I was Assistant Senior…

“Please! Please don’t leave me!” you cried, your English accent thick. “Anna,” I breathed, “you can’t stay here any longer, I don’t want you to see me like this. Leave.” “I-I can’t, I won’t Matt, not without you. I’m staying here with you,” you stated. You lifted your hands; reaching out. I clutched onto them and held them tight; savouring the feeling, the darkest parts of me knew I may never experience this again. I closed my eyes. All these years I have been battling, clinging to the one…

The Westing House By: turtle Wexler or Savannah I was about to take a huge leap. Entering the Westing house and coming back with money was all on my mind. In my head I was thinking… where the stories that happened in this mansion true? Two dollars a minute i thought. That would be a lot if I stayed in for twenty-five minutes, that would pay for a subscription to The Wall Street Journal. If I stayed in for an hour, they would owe me $120 each!!. Thats a lot of money! I want to show Doug…

In A.C. Bradley’s article Darkness in the Struggle for Power, Bradley supports this point when he says, “The blackness of night is to the hero a thing of fear, even of horror; and that which he feels becomes the spirit of the play”(Bradley 41). This quote shows that whatever Macbeth does he acts based on his feelings but without really thinking too much about his…

It is precious and valuable, and should never be tainted. A child is born with a veil of protection from the worst things they can be exposed to. Their innocence is what protects them. They are shielded from the outside world, and saved from the blackness of what they could fall into by the whiteness of the purity that protect them. It drapes them like a pair of fully formed angel wings that cradle them like a delicate rose bud. This small bud eventually blooms into its own self-sufficient…

surroundings as I listen to the other girl’s footsteps entering the room. Facing forward, I see nothing but a school of magnets swimming in a wide ocean of white. As I rotate my chair, I see nothing but the polar opposite; my vision fills with blackness as my eye’s attention are brought to a large TV hugging the wall. Brunettes and…

common slur against African Americans. Before using the word, to describe someone as stupid, claiming that as its new meaning, we must remember that the word will always mean a person of African descent. Whether meaning it or not, you are connecting blackness with lower intelligence. Before using it to mean a black person, as non African American, you must remember that it was used to dehumanize and discriminate against them. Personally, I think its ok to be used in a historical context. I also…

The Great Flood is known by everyone but is told in such different ways. Examples of two different stories about the flood are the African Myth from the Yoruba tribe and the bible. They both tell the same story but have many things different with them. For example, how the world was created, the creation of man, and how the story of the flood actually happened. In the beginning, the Bible says that God is the creator of the world and of all things. In the version told by the Yoruba tribe, the…