Summary for ADV1100 (Monday’s class 11/3/14)
In Monday’s class Professor Spevack talked about the last parts of Project #3 and what else we needed to do for it. Â One or two students had their final projects already on their 14×17 Bristol board so professor used those as an example to demonstrate what our final of Project #3 should look like. The […]
Summary: “What If You Could Choose Between the Fastest Route and the Most Beautiful?”
“What If You Could Choose Between the Fastest Route and the Most Beautiful” is an article by Lex Berko. It discusses people’s preferences using research and experiments to figure out which route they’d rather take. They used two places in London as an example of juxtapositions to ask people which is the quietest or happiest […]
Project #2: Reflection
Upon doing project 2, I didn’t know how I was going to reach the 900 words minimum. The most words I’ve ever wrote for a project or essay in high school was 600. So that was the main thing I was worried about. However, I learned something new about juxtapositions once I actually had to […]
Myopic
Myopic (adj.): a condition in which the visual images come to a focus in front of the retina of the eye resulting especially in defective vision of distant objects, or a narrow view of something. I encountered this word in the article “What If You Could Choose Between the Fastest Route and the Most Beautiful?” by […]
A Literary Visitor Strolls In From The Airport (Summary)
âA Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airportâ is an article by Charles McGrath explaining the story of Will Selfâs novel. This article describes the autobiography a man who overcame his challenges uniquely â by âwalking it out.â Will Self  walked 26 miles to a hotel from JFK airport. He said âAlcohol and drugs tend […]
English 1101 Project 2
New York City aka The Big Apple is one of the most popular cities in the world. The lights, the sights and the foods attract people from all over the world. However itâs not a big deal to people like me, whoâve been living here our whole lives. Time goes on and New York goes […]
Tawdry (Glossary Entry)
Tawdry (adj.) – cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality Merriam-Webster’s This word came from the reading of The Boston Photographs at the bottom of page 58 when the sentence starts off “A tawdry way to sell newspapers,” referring to one of the many letters in response to the pictures taken by Stanley Forman. The definition of the word […]
My location
My walk was approximately ten minutes. I walked down Fulton mall. When you exit the main building of city tech and turn right, walk down Jay Street all the way to Fulton mall. While walking down Jay Street, I smell cigarette smoke from the surrounding passer byers as I do every day. It is also […]
Colson Whitehead “City Limits” : Summary
Colson Whiteheadâs City Limits is a non-fictional piece where he exposes and re-creates New York City. As a long time New York City resident, Whitehead describes how this city he lived in back in the old days has changed drastically and isnât âhis cityâ anymore. He tells what it was like to live there when […]