Color & Symbolism
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
William Wordsworth
I found this web page while researching Symbolism as it relates to the Church
http://www.lightplanet.com/mormons/basic/doctrines/symbolism_eom.htm
Here is an interesting exposition on sybolism in relation to God.
“Why Symbols?,” Ensign, Feb 2007, 12–17
Jason McKenzie
The Indiana State Flag
The design of the Indiana State Flag is the result of a design competition sponsored by the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, at the behest of the General Assembly, during the state's 1916 Centennial celebration. Two hundred proposals were received and examined.
The winning design by Mooresville, Indiana artist Paul Hadley was adopted by the Indiana General Assembly with an effective date of May 31, 1917. Originally described as the state "banner", the name was changed to "flag" by the 1955 General Assembly.
On a field of blue, the flag displays a torch, colored gold or buff, surrounded by an outer circle of thirteen stars and an inner circle of five stars.
The flaming torch stands for "..liberty and enlightenment." The six rays radiating from the torch are meant to symbolize the expansive nature of those two concepts. The thirteen stars of the outer circle represent the thirteen original colonies of the United States. The five stars of the inner circle represent the next five states admitted to the Union. The largest star, positioned at the top of the torch and below the state name, represents Indiana, the nineteenth state.
By Dallin http://www.monmouth.com/%7Eliterature/Othello/litcolors.htm poem about colors how they mean different things by william shakesphere
What is Red?
Red is the sound of tulips blossoming in the spring.
Red is the color of the ketchup you squeeze when the ump says play ball.
Red is the towel that lies in the sand.
Red is the color of the leaves that fall all down in the fall.
Red is the center of a sunset, while the seagulls soar into the horizon.
Red is the color of the stripe that soars in the sky on the flag.
Red is the color of tomato sauce that oozes all over yummy noodles.
Red is the color of the kite that zooms all over the afternoon sky.
Red is the marker that gives the grade that leads to your fate.
Red is the color of valintines that are givin to those who you love.
Red is the teddy bears new red bow.
Red is the color of Santa's suit thatyou feel as you give him a hug.
Red is the color of an apples shiney new skin as you sink your teeth into it.
Red is the color of the BLOOD that flows gently threw your body.
Red is the Red Bell Pepper that is hard sweet and crisp.
Red is the color of the stoplight as people groan in their cars.
Red is the stop sign that is big red and bright.
Red is the ant that bites and stings.
Red is the rainbow that appears after the rain its always the first color you see.
When you are Red you are emotional and quite the dramatic sort.
Red is land, air, and sea.
Red is everywhere you look.
Lizzie
What is Black?
Black is dark like a lark
Black is the color of tires
Black is the color of a dog
Black is the color of night
Black is bed time
Black is evil
Black is bad luck
Black is a cat
Black is Halloween
Black is fear
Black is a scary story
Black is a creeping monster
Black is a shadow
Black is the ink of a pen
Black is closing your eyes
Black is a bow-tie
Black is a lie
Black is a graveyard
Black is an eclipse
Black is a cold winter night
when the winds make fight
Black is no light
That is Black
-Tom
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Green
Green, the color of a ripe Granny Smith apple.
Green, the color of the grass that I roll and tumble on.
Green, the color of the new leaves on an oak tree.
Green, the color of a flower stem breaking the soil and trying to reach the welcoming sun.
Green, the color that welcomes spring.
Green, the color of the go light that lets the color go-go-go through the warm and colorful spring.
-Ayla
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Blue
Are you sad?
Or feeling low?
This might hit you with a blow.
For how many things can blue mean?
1,2,3,4
Or more?
The blues are jazzy
Blue is sad
Blue could be a color
Blue could be the feelings of your mother
Of course, none of these are bad.
But they could make you mad.
Blue is the ocean, sky and sea
They are as beautiful as can be.
- Hannah
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Orange
Orange is feeling in your stomach after an orange soda quenched your thirst.
Orange is the sun after a summer day.
Orange is the sound of a field filled with dandy-lions blowing in the wind.
Orange is the taste of a pizza that just came out of the oven.
Orange is the sound of a busy bumblebee.
Orange is the taste of cold glass of orange juice.
Orange is the feeling inside you when you accomplish something.
Orange is the sound of a tomato plant growing.
Orange is the color of a carrot that just popped out of the ground.
Orange is the smell of a Tiger-Lilly petal.
Orange is the feeling after a baby smiles.
Orange is the color of a brown beaver's incisor.
Orange is the smell of a late July day.
Orange is the feeling of a puppy's fur.
Orange is the color of peach marmalade on a side of toast.
Orange is the sound of a canoe paddling through shallow water.
And orange is a color that is safe and alive.
-Julia
Symbolism: A visual exploration of letters, words and sounds. These areas cross over and are related in the sense that the symbol paintings are influenced by the dream world of children in the artist's work. http://www.colorpoems.com/paintings.htm
Why are school buses yellow-orange (or yellow) today?
Some facts about yellow:
Yellow (and the yellow family of colors) gets your attention faster than any other color. People notice yellow objects first.
Even when you are looking straight ahead, you can see a yellow object that is not in front of you "in the corners of your eyes" much sooner than any other color – even red. Scientists describe this as follows: "Lateral peripheral vision for detecting yellows is 1.24 times greater than for red."
Many experts also point out that colors such as yellow or greenish-yellow are more visible to the human eye under dimmer conditions compared to red. http://www.colormatters.com/kids/yellow.html
COLOR SYMBOLISM - INFLUENTIAL FACTORS
1. The specific shade (variation) of a color
Dark and light shades of any color convey completely different meanings. For example, pink (light red) loses all of red's associations with energy and takes on new connotations of tenderness and sweetness. Likewise, dark blue is dignified and authoritative; sky blue is ethereal and softer.
2. The quantity and placement of the color
Colors deliver the most powerful symbolism when used in large areas
3. The shape or object the color occupies
Symbolism becomes more complex when a color is used in combination with a basic shape.
4. The Color combination
Colors take on new meaning when combined with other colors. For example, red and green are the colors of Christmas in Western cultures.
Submitted By Chelsea Ames
Color Wheel
Warm colors: reds, oranges, and yellow. Cool Colors: blues, greens, and purples.
Colors can create a mood or a feeling when they are used. For an example in art you can draw to identical picture, but paint one with warm colors, and one with cools colors. Your picture then even though is the same picture, has two different moods. Colors also affect you when you get dressed in the morning. If you are having a bad day, you are most likely to wear something dark. If it is sunny, bight and you feel good, you will probably wear a lighter more vibrate outfit.
Submitted by Rachel Callister
A Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
In Jospeh Campbells Book he has identified a sequence of events that heroes all seem to pass through. Whether word by word accurate or by merely following the steps it appears that this sequence proves true.
This pattern was derived from the life of historical Characters such as Buddah, Moses and Christ. Even though there is a direct relation between the text and the symbolism which applies to the real world, so far I’ve failed to fully understand it. I feel that it would make a good literary source to investigate, so I plan to do so during the semester.
submitted by Aaron Olsen
I found this website, http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html and it just shows different color schemes, its like the color wheel except easier and has more options.
Bill L. Hill: Painter of Light
Thaya E. Gilmore, “Bill L. Hill: Painter of Light,” Ensign, June 1990, 67
Bill L. Hill is an artist with strong feelings about color and light. He believes that color is a channel through which truth can flow with great efficiency. “Color,” he explains, “is one of the most pure channels of communication because it is a direct derivative of light.”
Visual art deals with light more directly than the other arts do. And an inspired artist can use color to communicate truths that cannot be communicated by music, writing, or any other art. But all the arts complement each other, Brother Hill continues. Each has its own means of touching us.
Along with painting, Bill is an accomplished musician. Having studied and listened to music—its chords, patterns, and harmonics—he has developed his own theory of color. Bill is convinced that just as music creates its effects on us when tones and chords are arranged in certain families, groupings, and ranges, so do certain combinations of color as they are used together in a work.
Even though this principle is not revolutionary, Brother Hill began to realize its spiritual implications for himself as an artist. He adds, “I want to communicate the messages of light, beauty, and excellence that are part of the Light of Christ, but first I have to have a measure of these in me. You can’t give something you don’t have.” (See D&C 50:24 and D&C 88:67.)
A colorful individual himself with a white, well-trimmed beard, white wavy hair, and gray-blue eyes, Brother Hill has trained himself to distinguish colors where others generally do not. He believes that we can see subtle colors better in our peripheral vision—colors which, if focused upon, disappear.
“I had to learn to control the use of my eyes to really see what was there before I destroyed it by focusing sharply. This occurred to me one day when I was driving in the southern Utah desert. Flashes of color, evident out of the corner of my eye, vanished when I looked directly at them,” he said. “All atmospheric matter, such as dust and moisture particles, acts as microscopic prisms splintering the sunlight into its rainbow parts, creating an environment of all colors everywhere present.”
Beyond his selection of intense color, Bill uses a deliberate technique of “layering” his canvas—successive applications of transparent treatment with “all colors everywhere present.” He says that this procedure allows the light to penetrate the work, glance from various tinted facets, and ricochet outward as live energy—somewhat as light plays in a fire-opal or diamond.
Brother Hill didn’t start painting full-time until he was forty-five years old. Now sixty-seven, he works in his thirty-foot-by-forty-foot studio located behind his home in Mendon, Utah, at the foot of the Wellsville Mountains in Cache Valley. He is the high priests group instructor in his ward, and his wife, Carolyn, and he are temple specialists in their stake.
Light is one of God’s gifts to us, he declares, and it is most appropriately used when turned back to its source in devoted service. (See D&C 88:50.) Bill’s painting is his devoted service and his passion. He sees himself as a receptacle through which light and inspiration flow—an apprentice studying under the Master Artist.
http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ If you go to this website, you can see different versions of colorblindness and you can see what a page looks like to an individual who has that diagnosis.
Submitted by Kim Larson
This site discusses how colors affect different parts of the world and what certain colors mean in one part of the world, while they can mean something totally different in another part. For example, it says that in the west, the colors purple and gold symbolizes royalty, and that colors with Native Americans are associated with the four directions, North, South, East, and West. It is interesting to learn what colors mean to differnet cultures and people around the world.
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/color2.htm
Submitted by Sibonet Holden
I have a copy of the Hartman personality test. Anyone that is interested in it can email me and I will send it to them via email. We discussed it briefly in class. "The Color Code personality test will help you understand your Core Motive and provide insights to working more effectively with others. The profile will help you understand your innate strengths and limitations, and help you relate more effectively with others, both at work and at home."
sco04009@byui.edu
Submitted by Tyson Scott
There is a book called If Only I Had a Green Nose by Max Lucado, Its kind of a kids book but has a great message. Its about all these pople in this little town that are going out and getting the noses painted green. Its become the new fad and becomes in a sence a symbole of your popualrity. You were laughted at and mocked if you didn't have a green nose. But before you knew it the new fad was red noses and everyone with green ones was out of style like that, and the color just kept changing. Pople got so caught up in changing their noes colors that they forgot their real nose colors or in other words, they were all trying so hard for so long to be someone they wern't that they forget who they really were. At the end of the story a few of these people realized how ridiculous they they had been and when to their maker for help. The process of making them back into who they were origionally was not easy and not short but they felt it was worth it in the end. There really is a lot of symbolism in this story and a great message about accepting ourselves and others and not trying to be someone were not.
Color Matters for What You Wear
One of the most common examples of color symbolism in clothing is the custom of using pink for girls and blue for boys ... but it wasn’t always this way. This tradition emerged at the turn of the 20th century. Since pink was thought to be a stronger color, it was best suited for boys; blue was more delicate and dainty and best for girls. In 1921, the Women's Institute for Domestic Science in Pennsylvania endorsed pink for boys, blue for girls.
Source:Berlin and Kay, When Blue Meant Yellow,.pp. 20 -21)
Even more interesting is the fact that pink is the color for baby boys and blue is the color for baby girls in Belgium today
What do the colors of the Flag mean?
Sentimental writers and orators sometimes ascribe meanings to the colors in the flag. The practice is erroneous, as are statements on this subject attributed to George Washington and other founders of the country.
From the book "Our Flag" published in 1989 by the House of Representatives...
"On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution authorizing a committee to devise a seal for the United States of America. This mission, designed to reflect the Founding Fathers' beliefs, values, and sovereignty of the new Nation, did not become a reality until June 20, 1782. In heraldic devices, such as seals, each element has a specific meaning. Even colors have specific meanings. The colors red, white, and blue did not have meanings for The Stars and Stripes when it was adopted in 1777. However, the colors in the Great Seal did have specific meanings. Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Continental Congress, reporting to Congress on the Seal, stated:
"The colors of the pales (the vertical stripes) are those used in the flag of the United States of America; White signifies purity and innocence, Red, hardiness & valour, and Blue, the color of the Chief (the broad band above the stripes) signifies vigilance, perseverance & justice."
Also this from a book about the flag published in 1977 by the House of Representatives...
"The star is a symbol of the heavens and the divine goal to which man has aspired from time immemorial; the stripe is symbolic of the rays of light emanating from the sun."
This is a cool book I would recommend to those who haven't read it. It is a fun way to try to pinpoint your characteristics. It really is a new way you can look at yourself and your relationships. Really fun and very interesting.
American Pride!
The Flag of the United States of America has a strong relation to color and symbolism. The 50 stars on the flag represent the 50 different states in America. The 13 stripes represent the original 13 colonies that fought against Britain for Independence. The Red stands for those who fought to defend our country and the blood that has been spilled to protect America. The white stands for purity and innocence and the blue stands for justice and perseverance. God bless America!
Submitted by Jeff Tobler
The Ernest Green Story is a great film in a young African American man named Ernest and the trials he goes through against racial Intolerance in Arkansas. The film takes place in the 1950's while attending a all white school. This film relates in that how the color of someones skin can cause so much hatred and violence and how color can really effect people to do unjust acts.
Submitted by Jeff Tobler
My first thought when we were talking about color was how it effects our emotions. Then I got into thinking, if I were a color, what would I be? Maybe pink, because it's my favorite, but I found this quiz to see what I would be! Apparently I'm green. "You are a very calm and contemplative person. Others are drawn to your peaceful, nurturing nature." I was hoping for pink, but green is fun too. Good luck!
Try it for yourself! http://www.quizmeme.com/color/quiz.php
Katelyn Vorkink
This is a little something I found on the net. This is how different parts of the world view colors and what they symbolise.
Red
China: Good luck, celebration, summoning
Cherokees: Success, triumph
India: Purity
South Africa: Color of mourning
Russia: Bolsheviks and Communism
Eastern: Worn by brides
Western: Excitement, danger, love, passion, stop, Christmas (with green)
Orange
Ireland: Religious (Protestants)
Western: Halloween (with black), creativity, autumn
Yellow
China: Nourishing
Egypt: Color of mourning
Japan: Courage
India: Merchants
Western: Hope, hazards, coward
Green
China: Green hats indicate a man's wife is cheating on him, exorcism
India: Islam
Ireland: Symbol of the entire country
Western: Spring, new birth, go, Saint Patrick's Day, Christmas (with red)
Blue
Cherokees: Defeat, trouble
Iran: Color of heaven and spirituality
Western: Depression, sadness, conservative, corporate, "something blue" bridal tradition
Purple
Thailand: Color of mourning (widows)
Western: Royalty/Gay
White
Japan: White carnation symbolizes death
Eastern: Funerals
Western: Brides, angels, good guys, hospitals, doctors, peace (white dove)
Black
China: Color for young boys
Western: Funerals, death, Halloween (with orange), bad guys, rebellion
I just find this interesting how we all differ.
-Candice
There are so many good books that illustrate symbolism effectively that it is hard to choose. The three that come to my mind the quickest are The Old Man and the Sea, The Great Gatsby, and Separate Peace. They are all wonderful works of literature that are filled with meaningful symbolism that once you recognize the principals in these books it makes it easier (at least for me) to be able to identify similar symbolism in the world around me and in my life. They are all great, meaningful books that are well worth the time to sit down, read and understand. Also the Hemingway code which is vividly illustrated in The Old Man and the Sea provides life applicable theories that I was able to use in my life. To me the Hemingway code says that if there is something that you are trying to achieve or overcome it is the most meaningful if it is done fairly. If you cheat your way through and sneak around so that you win easily, it isn't worth it. I really enjoy each of these books and the symbolism they represent.
Cari Berrett
In Stephen’s Crane story the Open Boat, color is very important. It sets the mood for the story. There are four men stuck in a boat out at sea, trying to row to shore. The author uses color to paint a picture of what the sailors are experiencing. The following quote demonstrates this, “The sun swung steadily up the sky, and they knew it was broad day because the color of the sea changed from slate to emerald-green, streaked with amber lights, and the foam was like tumbling snow.”
The short story in on the link below:
http://www.geocities.com/stephen_crane_us/openboat.html
submitted by: Celeste Olsen
Poems use colors or things that might symbolize colors to paint a picture in the reader’s mind. In this poem, when you read it you can see the picture the author is painting.
The All-Golden
James Whitcomb Riley
Through every happy line I sing
I feel the tonic of the Spring.
The day is like an old-time face
That gleams across some grassy place-
An old-time face-and old-time chum
Who rises from the grave to come
And lure me back along the ways
Of time’s all-golden yesterdays,
Sweet day! To thus remind me of
The truant boy I used to love---
To set, once more, his finger-tips
Against the blossom of his lips,
And pipe for me the single known
By non but him and me alone!
I see, across the school-room floor
The shadow of the open door,
And dancing dust and sunshine blent
Slanting the way the morning went,
And beckoning my thoughts afar
Where reeds and running waters are;
Where amber-colored bayous glass
The half drowned weeds and wisps of grass;
Where sprawling frogs, in loveless key,
Sing on an on incessantly.
Against the green woods dim expanse
The cat-tail tilts its tufted lance,
While on its tip---one might declare
The white “snakefeeder” blossomed there!
I catch my breath, as children do
In woodland swings when life is new,
And all the blood is warm as wine
And tingles with a tang divine
My soul soars up the atmosphere
And sings aloud where God can hear;
And all my being leans intent
To mark his smiling wonderment.
O gracious dream, and gracious time,
And gracious theme, and gracious rhyme---
When buds of Spring begin to blow
In blossoms that we used to know,
And lure us back along the ways
Of time’s all-golden yesterdays!
Rhymes of Childhood, pg. 35When he uses the phrase “all-golden yesterdays,” what do you think of? What do you see when he uses words like grave, shadow, waters, blood, blossoms, and the dust in the sunshine? Do these words bring colors to your mind, and what do they make you feel? Submitted by: Mike Preston
“Hailstones and Halibut Bones” by Mary O’Neill’s.
Has become a modern children’s classic after its publication in 1961. The book is comprised of poems about the colors of the spectrum with vivid illustrations. The author started out by jotting down her feelings about colors, the meanings she found in colors, any ideas that came to her mind and whenever she had a new thought about color she would write it down. Eventually her editor came to her and rummaged through her drawers and found them and turned them into an extremely popular book. This book is used in schools all over the world and is a favorite to teach children about poems and colors. Her audience of readers even includes the BLIND who are able to imagine the color through her writing.
The beginning and of the book might give an idea of what the book is about.
“Like acrobats on a high trapeze
The Colors pose and bend their knees
Twist and turn and leap and blend
Into shapes and feelings without end...
The Colors live between black and white
In a land that we know best by sight.
But knowing best isn’t everything,
For colors dance and colors sing,
And colors laugh and colors cry----
Turn off the light and colors die,
And they make you feel
Every feeling there is
From the grumpiest grump to the fizziest fizz.
And you and you and I know well each has a taste
And each has a smell
And each has a wonderful story to tell….”
Submitted by: Amber Preston
WHITE Protection, Peace, Purity, Truth, Sincerity, Spirituality
RED Strength, Health, Vigor, Sexual Love, Passion, Protection, Courage, Danger, Warning, Anger, Element of Fire, God oriented, Male aspects
LIGHT BLUE Tranquility, Happiness, Understanding, Patience, Health, Element of Water, Goddess oriented, Feminine aspects
DARK BLUE Impulsiveness, Depression, Changeability, Psychic
GREEN Finance, Fertility, Luck, Growth, Employment, Element of Earth, Goddess oriented, Feminine aspects
GOLD/YELLOW Attraction, Persuasion, Charm, Confidence, Intellect, Study, Divination, Element of Air, God oriented, Male aspects, (Gold) The Great God, The Sun
BROWN Hesitation, Uncertainty, Neutrality, Healing Animals, Poverty
PINK Honor, Love, Morality, Friendship
BLACK Protection from, absorption of; Evil, loss, discord & Confusion, Lack of color and vibrations, Neutrality, Element of Akasha, Spirituality, The Divine, The Void
PURPLE Relief from; Tension, Calming, Healing of severe Disease, Spiritualism, Meditation, Protection, Psychic Power, Element of Akasha, The Divine
SILVER/GREY Cancellation, Neutrality, Stalemate, (Silver) The Great Goddess, The Moon
ORANGE Encouragement, Adaptability, Stimulation, Attraction, Energy
GREENISH YELLOW Sickness, Cowardice, Anger, Jealousy, Discord
This is a list of some colors and what they can symbolize. Also I found a short poem that I like, so here it is:
Seperation
Bt W.S. Merwin
Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.
Submitted by Brenda Roberts
Symbols
I had been studying in my Book of Mormon Student Manual and I came across some passages about the symbol of the olive tree. In the book of Jacob in chapter 5 is where its found and in the manual the olive tree is a symbol for the house of Israel as well as an example of how God uses symbolism to teach his children gospel laws and principles. The olive tree is a symbol for peace, which Greece and Rome have used for many years to signify peace. Also when the dove returned to the ark, it brought back an olive leaf signifying that God was again at peace with the earth. The U.S. also uses the symbol in the great U.S. seal in which the American eagle is grasping an olive branch in its talons. These are all great examples that symbolize peace, but the only true source of peace is through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Submitted by Jordan Hansen
This is an old Disney song that I have always liked, simply because it is fun and just a little pointless.
Red, yellow, green, red, blue blue blue
Red, purple, green, yellow, orange, red red
Red, yellow, green, red, blue blue blue
Red, purple, green, yellow, orange, red red
Blend them up and what do you get?
Ceries, chartous, and aqua
Mauve, beige, and ultra marine, and every colour in between
Hazo ka li ka no cha lum bum
Colour has it's harmony and just like I have said
Red, yellow, green, red, blue blue blue
Red, purple, green, yellow, orange, red red
Blend them all and what do you get?
Ceries, chartous, and aqua
Mauve, beige, and ultra marine, and every colour in between
Ing za ri ka fo zi brun brun
Colour has it's harmony and just as I have said
Red, yellow, green, red, blue, pink, grey
And white, and plaid and blue, green, white, yellow and toodinz 'n' and and and
right and and strips with blue and a black and Plaid and a....a
oo and ...vut vut, vait a second, vut vut's going on wid all da colours?
Blue, red, green, green, white, white, black....
vut ever happened to just plain old lavender blue dilly dilly dilly dilly.......dilly
....silly
It's even better when you hear it being sung.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpuI4lGmyZI&mode=related&search=
This song is not very symbolic by any means, but it is a fun way to learn colors, and obscure or makebelieve colors too.
Kelly Heath
When I thought of Color and Symbolism, I first thought about how people's color have had lots to do with the society of the world. I found this book, i havent read it, but i did buy it to read it, it is called Dominion by Randy Alcorn. It is about this African American man whose sister and neice are murdered, it goes on how he struggles with revenge as well as racism. Along with his want for revenge, he struggles with his beliefs. Though amid these horrible events, there is an underlying theme of love and hope. Submitted by Elisa Guzman
The Purloined Letter
This is a story written by Edgar Allen Poe that is initially talking about a detective who is trying to solve a crime involving Black Mail of the Queen of England. Even though the story seems quite simple, it has acctually opened discussions regarding the taking of power, the position of the Monarch, women in 19th Century Society, the nature of deductive reasoning, and the literary convention of the Gothic Double.
Tina Trepanier
Red, White,and Blue So True
Those colors wave so gallantly and true.
The colors of freedom; red, white, and blue.
Those 13 stripes dance so bright.
Those 50 stars what meaningful sight.
All for one and one for all
That American Flag stands so tall
I stand so proud as tears fall from my eyes
And watch as my nation begins to rise.
The star spangled banner flows through my ears
My eyes fill up with big, blurred tears
I can see my freedom wave in the air
As all gather round from here and there
Red, white, and blue for all to see
For the home of the brave and the land of the free.
The flag represents more than just colors. It brings hope and loyalty to a nation. Think back to September 11 how unified we as a country were. Now think to where we are and how far away from that point we are again. When the sight of the flag was shown above the sight where the Twin Towers were destroyed, hope was brought back to millions of Americans. These flags have much more value than many think.
So the other day I was speaking with some friends and we were talking about symbols. We discussed that analogies are awesome and great symbols for life. Many analogies are located in the scriptures and you can even make them up? A new friend compared sin to credit cards-he said: Sin is like a Credit Card-Don't let the interest add up. Life is full of symbols and analogies, you just need to open your eyes.
Jade Wilson
The missing Piece, is a book about a triangular piece who is looking for the piece its missing from. It tried on different parts, some are too big and the piece slip right out, others are to small and the piece pokes out. then it finds the perfect piece and decides that it doesn't like being attached to it all the time because it cant enjoy the things it used to. In ways we are all like this missing piece who tries to become whole, find different things to see if they fit and end up being perfectly happy with what we had before.
The missing Piece meets the big O, (a continuation from the missing piece) is about this piece who wants to be hole then it meets a big O who doesn't have a missing piece and rolls around all the time. The big O tells the missing piece he doesn't have one and doesn't need one then tells the piece to start rolling and eventually he wont be anybodies missing piece. so the missing piece starts to flip over and over again until its corners chip off and eventually he becomes round and can move as freely as the Big O. We think we cant be whole with out some one, but with the love of our Savior and Heavenly Father we can be whole and wont need anyone else to make us whole.
Danielle RowLee
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