How-to Essays

  • Process Essay: How To Spot A Good Photography

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    I've been a photographer for several years, and if it's one thing that I can help others with, it is how to spot a good photographer. Working with other photographers, you tend to notice certain traits that all good photographers seem to have in common. This article is designed to help you recognize a good photographer, and stay away from the bad ones! Step One- Use the Internet With the Internet playing such a large part of our daily lives, it is only natural that you should first do some basic

  • How to Train Your Dragon

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    “How to Train Your Dragon” – something everybody would want to learn, especially if one could train a Night Fury. Set in the mythical world of muscular Vikings and almighty dragons, this animated comedic action movie narrates about how the unlikely friendship between a Viking teenager, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) and a dragon changes his life (Dragon, 2010). The main setting of this movie is the island Berk, home of the Viking warriors for seven generations. They are tough and every one of them

  • Summary Of How The Other Half Lives

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    Jacob Riis’ How The Other Half Lives intensely depicts the reality of the extremely indigent population of New York City slums in the late nineteenth century. During this time thousands of newly arrived immigrants began to overcrowd American cities in pursuit of betterment and equal opportunity. Numerous amounts of people had traveled to America to escape the detrimental reality of their own country only to find that America offered nothing better for them. The same people that suffered famine or

  • Jacob A. Riis' How the Other Half Lives

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    Jacob A. Riis' How the Other Half Lives This book talks about the immigrants in the early 1900’s. The book describes how they live their daily lives in New York City. It helped me a lot on Riis photographs and his writings on to better understand the book and the harsh reality this people lived. This comes to show us that life is not that easy and it will cost us work to succeed. Riis talked about all the immigrant major groups that came to the United States during this time period. Riis

  • How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis

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    History textbooks seem to always focus on the advancements of civilization, often ignoring the humble beginnings in which these achievements derive. How the Other Half Lives by journalist-photographer Jacob A. Riis explores the streets of New York, using “muck-racking” to expose just how “the other half lives,” aside from the upbeat, rich, and flapper-girl filled nights so stereotypical to New York City in the 1800s. During this time, immigrants from all over the world flooded to the new-born city

  • Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives

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    Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives In How the Other Half Lives, the author Jacob Riis sheds light on the darker side of tenant housing and urban dwellers. He goes to several different parts of the city of New York witnessing first hand the hardships that many immigrants faced when coming to America. His journalism and photographs of the conditions of the tenant housing helped led the way of reformation in the slums of New York. His research opened the eyes of many Americans to the darker

  • How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

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    How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, was one of the most controversial books in the world at the time of its release. The book seeks to argue that European exploitation and involvement in Africa throughout history. This is the cause of current African underdevelopment, and the true path to the development is for Africa to completely sever her ties with the international capitalist economy. Rodney describes his goal in writing the book in the preface: “this book derives from a concern

  • Rubik's Cube Research Paper

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    The cube may be harder than you think. It has 43 quintillion different possible positions, while only one of those positions is the solved cube. 43 quintillion may sound big, but really how big is it? Well that’s over a million, over a billion, even over a trillion possibilities. Say you have a piece of paper in a stack for each position of the cube. You split the 43 quintillion pieces into 728 different stacks, and each stack spans the

  • Summary of Characters in the Play Trifle by Susan Gaspell

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    1. A trifle is something of little value. The title, "Trifles," refers to the seemingly small, unimportant details that women focus on both in solving the murder case, and in regular life. These small, domestic details focused on by Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, and overlooked by the men in the story, are the evidence that the men are searching for. Because the men see these trifles as insignificant, and only for women, they never get the evidence they wanted. The women did not only look at the obvious

  • This Cruel World

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    This Cruel World It all began when I was brought into this world. At that age I probably didn’t know much but as a kid I knew every thing was great. Getting pushed around in a stroller all day, to being fed, to being put to bed at nighttime with dozens of stuffed animals around you, what else do you want? Life as a kid was great, I didn’t have any problems to worry about, everything was done for me. Unfortunately that just last so long and all I came to realize is that growing up in this big world

  • Jacob Riis 'How The Other Half Lives'

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    the late eighteen hundreds to the start of the twentieth century the United States is on the brink of reformation but the remnants of a societal barrier between different classes, and races of people is still very prominent. Jacob Riis the Author of “How the Other half lives” approaches this issue in an expose that literally sheds light on the darkness of poverty as well as the tenements the lower class is forced to live and in most cases die in. Riis can be seen as a forerunner of progressivism as

  • House Vs. Sherlock: Two Similarities Between House And Sherlock

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    sense of humor made other characters believe he was a psychopath. House will be interested on the ways people get sick and how different methods make them react. He gets excited when a person’s condition gets worse just so he can work harder on finding an interesting way fixing that person. The characteristics of both characters might be similar but their social behaviors are how other characters see them as. House and Sherlock are mainly known by their social behaviors to their characters. People

  • The Central Ideas Of Math 330

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    Part 2 - Essay: Write a 2-3 page essay about the central ideas in Math 330. This essay is an opportunity to demonstrate how well you can articulate the major themes, concepts, and ideas from the course. Your essay should include discussions of the mathematics, the readings, and class discussions. In Math 330 Algebraic Thinking with Technology this quarter we have covered many things. We have worked in groups and collaborated on the big ideas of each unit. On our own we have presented to the class

  • The Life of Thomas Albert Crawford

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    million homes are desolate. In dripping darkness far and near, All night I’ve sought those woeful ones. Dawn suddens up and still I hear The crimson chorus of the guns. Look, like a b... ... middle of paper ... ...om, but all that he can see is how men are murdering their fellow men. As he is watching thousands upon thousands of men die, he isn’t rebelling or protesting. Instead, he bears all the suffering men’s “woe” on his shoulders/conscience. He portrays this as his stretcher. The poet says

  • Susan Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers

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    decided not to inform the men to keep Minnie from being convicted because her husband was equally guilty as her. In the short story, “A Jury of Her Peers”, Glaspell employs strong details and details devices to argue that the purpose of the story is how Glaspell portrays men, that a person must not be judged based on off of the external appearance and that the little details in life always are important. In “A Jury of Her Peers” language devices Glaspell applies that men always doubt women and their

  • Bossy Woman Rhetorical Analysis

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    Rhetorical Essay: The Struggle Of Being A “Bossy” Woman Deborah Tannen brings up the issue of how women are often labeled bossy when is positions of authority in her article. ““Bossy” Is More Than a Word to Women”. She explains the everyday struggle that these women go through and the on going patriarchy in the work force. From their diction down to minute ways that women present themselves it seems that they are scrutinized in every way possible. Deborah faces these issues head on with a woman’s

  • The Tomorrow City by Monica Hughes

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    the computer is destroyed and the city is returned to it's previous state. The theme of the book is to show that technology is not a perfect solution to the many problems faced by man.  By using a product of technology, the computer, and showing how it was supposed to be a perfect solution to the city's problems, yet it made a grave error in calculations, the author is saying that many problems faced by man cannot be solved by the use of technology. Technology played a negative role in this

  • Are We Too Dependent on Technology?

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    medical advances, and education play a major rule in my decision toward this topic. Technology is a helpful tool for many people while to others it is just a distraction. Technology will never stop being developed but some of the thing being created and how they are used are really not the nessessary Parents nowadays don’t spend as much time with their kids as they used to. One of the main causes that family relationships are becoming weaker and weaker is the growth of technology. Things like Tweeter,

  • The Doctor’s Wife and So Long a Letter

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    in Otsugi’s behavior towards Kae. The intense tension caused by the competition between the women characters is also shown in “So Long a Letter” when the two men, Modou Fall and Mawdo Bâ, marry their second wives. In this essay I will be discussing how men are shown to be the prime cause of competition between the women characters in the novels “The Doctor’s Wife” and “So Long a Letter” and why the writers use this element. This competition helps in developing the plots of the two novels. For example

  • Teaching Reflection on a Single Variable Equation Math Lesson

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    Teaching/Instruction: Give each student a copy of the assessment task “When are the equations true?” Give students seven minutes to work individually to answer these questions, without assistance. Explain to the students not to worry too much if they do not understand how to solve the equation, just do their best. In this unit they will work on similar task that will help them understand better. By the end of this unit, they will be a... ... middle of paper ... ... addition, I will encourage students to relax when