Category Archives: ENG 1101

Brooklyn Botanic Garden ESSAY# 5 (updated)

Brooklyn is a beautiful and diverse utopia filled with unprecedented amounts of historical knowledge for such a small borough. Many from around the world come to visit this piece of the Metropolis (New York City) to experience its wonders, but … Continue reading

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Essay 5 Lefferts Historic house

  The Lefferts Historic House is located inside of Prospect Park right next to the Prospect Park Zoo and is the only historic house left in Brooklyn from the late 1600’s. It’s a very interesting place because almost all of … Continue reading

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Lefferts Historic House

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On-site Video Speech

This is my speech done on location, Brooklyn Technical High School. ^_^    

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Professor Rosen’s Class Summary 11/28

During this class hour and fifteen minutes, we went over Lopate’s esaay called “The Brooklyn Bridge.” Well we only went over one page, which was 246.  It was basically a summary of the creation and construction of the bridge and … Continue reading

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Page 246 Summary

On page 246, Lopate tells us the way that the Brooklyn Bridge was built and the process with every detail but with a very quick summary of basically everything.  On that page, the author explains the origins of the Brooklyn … Continue reading

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“The Brooklyn Bridge” by Phillip Lopate pg 247

The page I was assigned to read talks to us in a very rich vocabulary and paints mental images in our minds. It also shows how proud and fascinated the author is with the Brooklyn Bridge. He says that the … Continue reading

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11/19/12 English class summary

During Mondays class we talked about the reading, ” The Brooklyn Bridge fact and symbols”. We also talked about our essay which the draft is due on 11/21 in our drop box folder. Also we each got split into groups … Continue reading

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Brooklyn Bridge Readings

The two readings “The Brooklyn Bridge” by Phillip Lopate and the prologue section of the book “Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol” by Alan Trachtenberg have such similar words and sentence yet they are so different from one another, they each … Continue reading

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“Brooklyn Bridge fact and symbol” by Alan Trachtenberg, talks to us about the Brookyln Bridge in a very illustrative language. While reading this I felt as I was walking towards the Brooklyn Bridge. As we keep reading he describes how … Continue reading

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The Brooklyn Bridge, hw post 11/1,

In his essay, “The Brooklyn Bridge”, Phillip Lopate depicts the Brooklyn Bridge as lovable. Through out Lopate’s essay he gives reasons to why the bridge is lovable and why it has remained lovable through out it’s Lifespan. Along with each reason he states, … Continue reading

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On our Wednesday class we had a double period of English. The first period was spent talking about the reading “Reading Lucy” and how we feel about it and had a class discussion. After that we went upstairs to a … Continue reading

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Computer Session 11/14

On Wednesday, NOvember 14th we had a double session of English.  First we finished reading “Reading Lucy” by Jennifer Egan in class.  In the second class hour we went to a computer room and we mapped our research places.  I … Continue reading

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“Reading Lucy” Summary

Reading Lucy by Jennifer Egan is about Jennifer Egan’s research of a woman named Lucy’s who worked during World War II in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Lucy’s was married to her husband Albert Kolkin a year after they met, and … Continue reading

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“Reading Lucy” by Jennifer Egan

1-What do you think Jennifer Egan’s thesis is in “Reading Lucy”? write your more specific version as a comment to this post. Offer your suggestions to your classmates as well! Our more-specific collaborative effort: Reading Lucy Kolkin’s letters exchanged with … Continue reading

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