Monthly Archives: November 2013

Hi Class, I’ve updated the details for Essay 5. Please go to “Assignments” and print our this revised set of directions–the due dates are all changed. Also, please remember to bring in Essay 4 on December 3rd: final draft, revision … Continue reading →

My attempt at revising the homework paragraph:   Sentence 1: The time between an incident and the process of reporting it remains the essential difference that separates TV news reporting from newspaper reporting.   Sentence 1: The essential difference between TV … Continue reading →

New York, has the undefined, hard-to-remember shape of a stain. Frazier, Ian. “Take the F.” The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing About New York City. Eds. Juanita But, Mark Noonan, and Sean Scanlan. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2012. 24. Print. … Continue reading →

“I will speak out for them and support them for as long as I have the good sense to remember where I came from.” Work Cited  Powell, Colin “My American Journey”. The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York … Continue reading →

“New York has no pity:it’s every man for himself, and since you are yourself and a half, you fall behind.”   From Annan Quindlen. “Pregnant in New York”.The Place Where we Dwell: reading and writing about New York City.Eds. Juanita … Continue reading →

“Early Christian and Byzantine architecture affords an opportunity for the didactic comparison of longitudinal versus central planning”   Fazio, Michael,Marian Moffett and Lawrence Wodehouse, A World History of Architecture, London, Laurence King, 2008.151. Print. The Minoans and Mycenaean’s allow the … Continue reading →

” I know I’ve lost my mind. But I’m not concerned, because its the first thing i’ve lost in a long time that actually feels good.” I can honestly say that this is my favorite sentence in any work of … Continue reading →

I’m here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don’t know about you. Maybe you’re from here, too, and sooner or later it will come out that we used to live a block away … Continue reading →

“It’s about terror and the release from terror, about how close dreams are to nightmares, and how easy it is to escape from your life.” From: Roiphe, Katie. “A Coney Island of the Mind.” The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and … Continue reading →

“And though all the years since then have been for me one long story of a harbor, restless, heaving, changing, always changing, it has never changed for me in this, it has never seemed a haven where ships come to … Continue reading →