Typewriters

We’ll do this with two words. Slow and fading. The opening shot will begin with a blank canvas, the title Perks of Being a Wallflower appears letter by letter through the motions of a typewriter, alluding to Charlie and his signature equipment. Charlie’s words play over with his genuinely dark quote, “there is so much pain, I don’t know how to not notice it...” There is no music, so we may be able to detect and place an emphasis on the slight tremors and desolation in his voice. An impression is…

Iowa has a grand total of 338 school districts and of those districts, 336 of them applied for and received a waiver to set their start date (Jurrens). Start date has been an issue many schools have been focusing on. It has been in the news lately, especially here in Iowa. Many are arguing that starting later increases state fair attendance and supposedly brings in more tax revenue. Others are calling for school control. This way the schools can determine what works the best for them. Which is…

regarding technological developments are based on a chain of unintended events made in history (pfadperspektive 3). David introduced the theory with his article “Clio and the economic of qwerty” (year XXX) in which he describes how the layout of a typewriter keyboard was manifested through several different key events in its early stages of existing. With his article, he introduced a new perspective on technological innovations happened in the past. The technologies used in the market today…

the most elementary ways. Throughout the entirety of the article Carr battles with the idea of whether or not the Internet is an instrument of knowledge or whether or not it will one day be the cause of an ignorant society. Inventions such as the typewriter and the Internet, Carr explains, have altered the way we think about and explore writing. Today, the Internet…

The Centennial Exhibition was an exhibition in Philadelphia of many inventions, including revolutionary ones like the telephone, the typewriter, the Corliss steam engine, the mechanical calculator, Popcorn, a piece of the statue of liberty, and the banana was brought to America. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 was created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the United States of America. “The International Exhibition of Arts, Manufactures and Products of the Soil and Mine, more simply…

Mark Bauerlein, author of The Dumbest Generation, argues in his controversial novel that America's rapidly developing technology and our growing dependence on it is destroying the minds of our youth. He alleges that today’s youth are losing the ability to think, as we slowly rely more and more on the comforts of computerized algorithms to think for ourselves. Despite my own biased view of Bauerleins viewpoints from the perspective as a literate and well-worded 16 year old living in an arguably…

So to start off, before I watched this movie or even this class, I knew nothing about deaf people. All I knew was that they couldn’t hear, I didn’t know about all the ways of communicating. While watching the movie, it really showed me what it was like to be deaf. I was really interested in the origin of ASL, and how it grew. One of my favorite things I learned was about the deaf football teams, and how they invented the huddle so the other team couldn’t read their signs. Another thing…

Born in 1929, New York City, Milton Glaser has become a recognised designer in putting your mind in a state of readiness. He brings a complexity of understanding and conceptual thinking, which is combined with a varied richness of visual language, to his highly creative and individualistic work (Miltonglaser.com). At the age of thirteen, Glaser started taking life-drawing classes that subsequently led him onto studying at the high School of music and Art. Glaser went on to study painting,…

Do you have an opinion on gun control? Are you looking for information on one of the world’s largest firearm producers? Remington has been a top producer of quality firearms for almost two centuries. Remington made firearms for many wars, including the Civil War, World War I, and World War II. They also made many different and reliable firearms. Eliphalet Remington was born in Suffield, Connecticut, on the 27th of October, 1793 (“Eliphalet” para. 1). Mr. Remington established a mechanical shop…

Eventually, the immigrants have arrived to the United States. They were put through a process that was called the “Steerage Passengers”. This was a way to weed out the sick, mentally ill and the people who would automatically depend on the government for help. Granted the immigrants were promised good profits from the Robber Baron, but once again that was not the case. There was also a variety of tests the immigrants have to take one was called “6 Second Exam”. Referring back to the Prezi it…