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Telling Brooklyn Stories, Fall 2012:
Effective Speaking
SPE 1330, section 6366
Prof. Justin Davis
M/W 11:30-12:45
Office Hours: T/Th 9:00-11:00English Composition I
ENG 1101, section 5381
Prof Jody R. Rosen
M/W 1:00-2:15
Office Hours: M 2:15-2:45
W 10:30-11:30, 2:15-2:45
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Lucille Kolkin links
The links below relates to Lucille Kolkin and these are some of the links that tells about the history of Lucille Kolkin. 1.http://brooklynjewish.org/photos/ephemera/ 2. http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arc_048_kolkin/ 3.http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/29/classified/paid-notice-deaths-kolkin-lucille.html
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Lucille Kolkin links
The following links are from EBSCO and various other search engines that relate to Lucille Kolkin. The first and second are very brief articles that give a brief history of Lucille Kolkin. The third link contains several letters from Alfred Kolkin to … Continue reading
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Lucille Kolkin, “Reading Lucy,” and related artifacts
You have been assigned “Reading Lucy,” an essay by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan (The Place Where We Dwell 253-259). In lieu of going to the Brooklyn Historical Society to examine the Kolkin collection that Egan writes about, we can … Continue reading
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Tagged BHS, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Lucille Kolkin
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“Who Knows Brooklyn”
Who Knows Brooklyn is a story written by Ben McGrath about two “historians” that live in Brooklyn competing in life for no reason. The two historians names are Brian Merlis and John Manbeck. In the story it explains how Brian … Continue reading
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“Who Knows Brooklyn?”
Who Knows Brooklyn? by Ben McGrath is about two untrained male historians, from Brooklyn, who obviously have a problem with each other. Brian Merlis is a social studies high school teacher who collects photographs and lives on the south shore … Continue reading
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Professor Davis Class Summary
Well today we had our midterm from chapters one through six. Don’t really know much to summarize since we basically took a test mostly the whole class hour. We were all quiet, with our ‘thinking helmets on,’ ready, i hope, … Continue reading
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Who knows brooklyn
This article from the New Yorker talks about two Brooklyn native writers one named Brian merlis and the other John Manbeck. In this article you see both writers literally call the others work pure crap Brian merlis even stats that … Continue reading
Who Knows Brooklyn
The article “Who Knows Brooklyn” by Ben McGrath is about a feud between two authors claiming that they know Brooklyn better then anyone else. Brian Merlis and John Manbeck criticize each others work without even having an open mind as … Continue reading
“who knows brooklyn”
This article talks about two guys. Bran merlis and jhon man beck. two of these men are Brooklyn natives. they are also book writers ,article writers , photographer sand john a publisher . they specially seek to gather information on … Continue reading
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Who knows Brooklyn
New York magazine published an article titled ‘Who Knows Brooklyn’. It was given this that title because it is about two authors who claim to know Brooklyn more than the other. Brian Merlis, author of 15 books about Brooklyn, received John … Continue reading
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WHO KNOWS BROOKLYN
Ben McGrath’s Who Knows Brooklyn is a short article about two feuding authors Brian Merlis and John Manbeck. Both authors Merlis and Manbeck believe they have superior expertise when it comes to knowledge about Brooklyn. The origination of their feud … Continue reading
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who knows brooklyn
this story that we read in class was about a two authors that were basically always criticizing each others work. they were both pretty old. one was 54 years old. there were some vocabulary words that were in the story … Continue reading
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Who Knows Brooklyn? – Summary
In this short passage from “The New Yorker” we get this interesting “tug of war” between two authors who are battling for whos more credible when it comes to Brooklyn and its history. The passage starts out with the introduction … Continue reading
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Where im from revised
where im from, you would find many different cultures all mixed together. cultures ranging form pakisani, indian, bengali, asian, to african amercan, we all live peacefully together in harmony. where im from, if you woke up late at night you … Continue reading
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