Veritable: Adjective
Definition: True or real.
Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/veritable?show=0&t=1387254560
I encountered this word on the article ” The Happiest and Saddest Places in NYC, According to Tweeter ” by Brian Merchant. He stated ” it is the city’s veritable epicenter”
now that I understand the word I know the author meant that it was the city’s true epicenter.
The blogging assignment due on Wednesday is to brainstorm about Project #4. If you have questions, thoughts, ideas, frustrations, dead-ends, hopes and dreams about it, include them in your blog post.
Remember that you need to pin your location on the map by Thursday. If you don’t know your location, seek advice from me, Prof. Davis, and your classmates! If you need instructions for pinning your location, please ask–I’m sure that many of us can answer that question.
In class, we’ll write about our selection from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.
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
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?
Colson Whitehead’s “City Limits” motivates us to consider what has changed in our city; “Reshaping New York” shows us what has changed in the last 12 years while Michael Bloomberg has been mayor. Let’s review this tour as part of our discussion of Whitehead’s essay.
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