Daily Archives: October 7, 2013

Readings for Wednesday

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Before Wednesday, please re-read “Who Knows Brooklyn” and “View of the World from 9th Avenue” by Saul Steinberg:

On the Saul Steinberg Foundation Web site

On Wikipedia

To help you think about Steinberg’s illustration, consider how it is a map. Some questions you should answer in your post are:

What information is accurate, and what is inaccurate?

What do the inaccuracies mean?

What do you understand about the map from its title?

What is The New Yorker magazine and why was this an appropriate cover for one of its issues?

Dacryops

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Noun

Definition: a watery state of the eye or Excess of tears in the eye.

Source: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/dacryops

I encountered this word when I went to the eye doctor for an appointment. I over Heard the Doctor tell a patient that she was lacking of dacryops.

Now that i know this word i know that the Doctor was telling his patient that she her eyes werent producing alot of water in her eyes.

Library session

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On October 2 , 2013 our class went to the library, while in the library we were welcomed by a librarian who kindly showed us the important places to consider when visiting the library. When the librarian finished she took us to the second floor, while in the second floor we were taken to a room full with computers and there is where our lesson began. Wednesday’s lesson consisted of learning how to do better research and how to find books both electronically and actual copies of a actual book, at first we we given copies of two actual documents and we were told to examine which one was more credible, after that we proceeded to do some research online and we were told to try to find credible sources on the topic ” Brooklyn Theater fire” which turned out to be pretty difficult not only for us but for the librarian has well since it was pretty hard to find any information about the actual fire, I believe it is was a great experience and I learned how to be a better researcher, not only that but I also gained something called patience, I would definitely go again in case I need any help or want to find resources for a project.

Library Session Homework

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For October 2nd’s English and Speech class session, we went to the library on the 4th floor atrium. The library has a lot of helpful tools for us students to use whenever we need to. One of the most important things that students need to do is activate their ID and use it as a personal library card. I will try to get my library card activated as soon as possible. During our library session, we learned to research topics. We were given the Brooklyn Theater Fire as a topic to research and we found a lot of information on the internet. We learned to determine which articles of information is credible and which can be biased. When we tried looking for the Brooklyn Theatre Fire in the library catalog, we hit a dead end. I tried numerous search options and I found nothing. I even looked in all of the CUNY libraries and I got nothing. That was pretty disappointing because I didn’t expect to find zero items on that topic. However, the library still has thousands of books for us students to rent and if there isn’t a book available it’s probably at a different CUNY. The class session overall was informative and it’s going to help alot when I need to research a topic for a future class project or speech.