Photo essay

In movies like one hour photo, Insomnia, Death to smoochie, and What dreams may come. Robin shows us his extreme range, playing the despite, the mentally disturbed, the psychotic, and the lost. These movies are dark examples of man’s balance of comedy and tragedy. Showing for all…

have also been putting much more time and effort into every essay and I have been pushing myself very hard to better my writing. I followed through with the steps by studying the rhetorical terms at least twice every week and by trying not to overuse online resources. Throughout second semester there were not any new…

it is in that moment. Just like Susan Sontag does in her essay “In Plato's Cave”, as she goes through the many fabrications of what photography exactly is, the good and the bad of it. As I did expand on how I felt Sontag was right when she said “A photograph passes for incontrovertible proof that a given thing happened”, and how I felt that when a picture is taken, that event is then immortalized (5). When reading this I realized that photos become immortal, historical and personal. That in…

mindset. I improved on addressing the prompt when we had to write a photo-synthesis essay in which we had to address the different forms and perspectives of what a photo can manipulate. During the essay I went with the…

Enclosed in this portfolio is a collection of my work that shows my growth and progression as a writer throughout the semester. The pieces displayed in this portfolio are the four major assignments we completed over the semester: the investigative field essay, annotated bibliography and literature review, rhetorical analysis, and the multimodal proposal and project. Each assignment encompasses a topic that relates back to my major as chemistry, or my projected occupation as a pharmacist. I hope…

The four Fresh Ink essays all follow the personal narrative guidelines and use some principles outlined in the Peter Elbow textbook, all while at the same time being captivating and fun to read. For all of these pieces, I did not find myself bored but rather found myself eager to read on and find out what happened next. A large part of the Elbow textbook focuses on the importance of image in writing to draw keep readers interested in your piece. All of these works use images to help connect the…

differences. Percy and Morris do ultimately have similarities on their beliefs on photographs, they both believe that photographs attract “false beliefs”. Percy’s essay gives the example of the man at the Grand Canyon and how he was depending on pictures he had already seen and the photos he had taken to determine the…

is informative. A photo essay is an essay, which contains photos, and very little text. A news article can be seen as part of the informative genre, but if the news article also contains little text and numerous photos, it can also fit into the photo essay genre. Furthermore, a genre can depend on the view of the audience, whom also may be considered authors according to Michel Foucault. For example, one reader may view an essay as informative, but another reader may view the essay as…

Once I was finished reading essays from NPR’s series “This I Believe” I found that the essay “Tomorrow will be a better day” by Josh Rittenberg to be extremely entertaining whereas some other essays lacked the ability to keep me interested. It managed to maintain my interest while still showing to be a great essay to read and analyze. The reason that I believe this is due to the fact that it does well when it comes to the point of grabbing attention with word choice, the way Rittenberg keeps…

A mighty long way essay In the book a Mighty long Way it tells the story about a girl named Carlotta and her peers starting an all white school. When they first started they got picked on and they got yelled at and hit with spitballs. During this book we learned about the segregation and there journey about how Carlotta and her peers made it through the change. In the book Carlotta went through some hard times when she first started the school she had to be escorted in for almost 2 years…