red herring

Examples of red herring in the following topics:

• Ida B. Wells

  • In 1878 at the age of 16, she lost both her parents and her 10-month old brother, Stanley to a yellow fever epidemic that swept through the South with many fatalities.
  • She won her case on December 24, 1884, when the local circuit court granted her a $500 settlement.
  • While Wells was out of town in Natchez, Mississippi, a white mob invaded her friends' store.
  • The pamphlets "Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases" and "A Red Record" documented her research on a lynching .
  • One hundred pages long, "A Red Record" launched Wells's anti-lynching campaign with the charge that "ten thousand Negroes have been killed in cold blood, without the formality of judicial trial and legal execution. " It also documented the status of black Americans since Emancipation.

• Mycenaean Ceramics

  • Mycenaean vessels usually had a pale, off-white background and were painted in a single color, either red, brown, or black.
  • A single woman stands to the left with her arm raised and a group of identically dressed and heavily armed men marching off to the right.
  • There is no way to tell which woman is waving goodbye, as all the figures are generic and none specifically interacts with her, nor do they interact with each other.
  • A red band wraps around her head with bits of hair underneath.
  • The eyes and eyebrows are outlined in blue, the lips are red, and red circles surrounded by small red dots are on her checks and chin.

• Hatshepsut

  • She was known for constructing monuments to glorify her own achievements, and her buildings are argued to have been grander and more numerous than those of any of her Middle Kingdom predecessors'.
  • Another project, Karnak's Red Chapel or Chapelle Rouge, was lined with carved stones that depicted significant events in Hatshepsut's life.
  • Funerary goods belonging to Hatshepsut include a lioness "throne", a game board with carved lioness head, red-jasper game pieces bearing her title as pharaoh, a signet ring, and a partial shabti figurine bearing her name.
  • While some statues show her in typically feminine attire, others depict her in the royal ceremonial attire.
  • Amenhotep II (the son of Hatshepsut's heir Tuthmose III) sought to erase her legacy and claim many of her accomplishments as his own.

• Hatshepsut

  • Hatshepsut had a daughter named Neferure with her husband, Thutmose II.
  • Karnak's Red Chapel was intended as a shrine to her life, and may have stood with these obelisks.
  • During her father's reign, she held the powerful office of God's Wife, and as wife to her husband, Thutmose II, she took an active role in administration of the kingdom.
  • As pharaoh, she faced few challenges, even from her co-regent, who headed up the powerful Egyptian army and could have unseated her, had he chosen to do so.
  • These statues of Hatshepsut at her tomb show her holding the crook and flail associated with Osiris.

• Washington and DuBois

  • At the age of 16, she lost both her parents and her 10-month old brother, Stanley, the youngest.
  • In 1892 she published a pamphlet titled Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases, and A Red Record, 1892–1894, which documented research on a lynching.
  • The Red Record begins by explaining the alarming severity of the lynching situation in the United States.
  • She mentions that "ten thousand Negroes have been killed in cold blood, without the formality of judicial trial and legal execution," therefore launching her campaign against lynching in this pamphlet, The Red Record.
  • The Red Record was a huge pamphlet, not only in size, but in influence.

• Ceramics in the Greek Archaic Period

  • On one side of the krater's neck are scenes from the Calydonian Boar hunt, in which several men and a powerful woman named Atalanta hunted and killed a monstrous boar sent by Artemis to terrorize the region of Calydon after the king offended her.
  • Bilingual vase painting became popular with the advent of red-figure painting.
  • Euthymides is known as a pioneer of red-figure painting.
  • Red-figure side of a bilingual amphora.
  • Athenian Red-figure calyx krater.

• Ceramics in the Greek Early Classical Period

  • Red-figure painting continued to flourish during the Early, High, and Late Classical periods.
  • The side of the vessel depicting Artemis and Apollo relates to the myth of the twin god and goddess who slew Niobe's fourteen children after she boasted that her ability to birth children acceded Leto, the mother of Apollo and Artemis.
  • Athenian red-figure calyx krater. c. 450 BCE.
  • Athenian red figure calyx krater. c. 450 BCE.
  • Attic red-figure bell krater. c. 500-490 BCE.

• Sex-Linked Traits

  • With regard to Drosophila eye color, when the P1 male expresses the white-eye phenotype and the female is homozygous red-eyed, all members of the F1 generation exhibit red eyes.
  • A subsequent cross between the XWXw female and the XWY male would produce only red-eyed females (with XWXW or XWXw genotypes) and both red- and white-eyed males (with XWY or XwY genotypes).
  • Clockwise from top left are brown, cinnabar, sepia, vermilion, white, and red.
  • Red eye color is wild-type and is dominant to white eye color.
  • A daughter will not be affected, but she will have a 50 percent chance of being a carrier like her mother.

• The ZPD

  • The divisions slowly change hue from yellow to red across the bar.
  • The right-hand side ends in red.
  • Yellow represents 'things that can be done on own. ' Red represents 'things that can not be done, even with support. ' A sliding, two pane, window is positioned on the bar.
  • The window on the right represents an area on the bar that 'needs much support. ' The bar divisions are a dark orange color to red color in this pane of the window.
  • Most of the bar is in red.

• Sculpture in the Greek Orientalizing Period

  • Her waist is narrow and cinched, like the waists seen in Minoan art.
  • A dress encompasses nearly her entire body— it tethers her legs together and restricts her potential for movement.
  • Her face and hair are reminiscent of the Geometric period.
  • Traces of paint tell us that this statue would have originally be painted with black hair and a dress of red and blue with a yellow belt.
  • While the Mantiklos Apollo holds his hand parallel to his chest, the Lady of Auxerre places her hand directly on hers, maintaining the closed form expected of a "respectable" woman.