Harold Edgerton Analysis

Eadward Muybridge and Cornelius Jabez Hughes, two photographers of the 19th century, introduced revolutionary ideas impacting the way photographs could be taken, categorized, and used. Muybridge, better known as the ‘father of the motion picture,’ studied landscape photos and invented a device that drastically improved their quality. In addition, he helped to pioneer work in the studies of motion and motion-picture projection. Hughes developed new technology related to photography and helped to guide many other amateur photographers into producing better forms of photography. The two had lasting impacts on the growth and importance of photography in the art, science, and everyday realms.

In this entry, I will be addressing the titular character Owen Meany. In my opinion, he elicits a positive response from the reader. The author, John Irving, creates Owen by describing him from the point of view of the fictional narrator, Johnny Wheelwright, who is retelling the story of his childhood. This allows him to describe Owen's physical, mental, and emotional aspects as seen by his best friend. In this chapter, Owen is characterized as an individual who can take charge and make his presence known. . Owen is also described as an honest person. His enormous honesty contrasts with his miniscule size which further develops him as a character who refuses to let his bodily disadvantage depict how he will interact with others. He is accredited

This poem tells the story of two boys, David and Bobbie, and how one day changed their lives forever. The poem opens with the two boys on a summer job in the mountains near the Banff-Lake Louise area.¹ Almost everyday David and Bobbie would climb the mountains surrounding the camp they were staying at. The first afternoon of September, David and Bobbie try to climb the overhang that they’ve been seeing all summer long named “the Finger”. About an hour into the climb, Bobbie got distracted and lost his footing on the rock and called out to David for help. David grabbed Bobbie’s arm to help him get steady, but before he could say anything, David’s foothold crumbled and he fell down. Bobbie then climbed the 50 feet down to the ledge on which David fell. David was alive but in poor condition saying that he can’t move or feel any pain. David then said that

After viewing these six pictures, I consider that it is almost impossible to feel sad or depressed when looking at Elliott Erwitt work. Finally, the essay will be finished by mentioning a quote of him that I believe perfectly represents what photography is about and how it reaches out to most people: "It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organizing them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.

During 1892, Lewis Hines graduated from high school and worked in an upholstery factory and in the next several years Hine worked several jobs while he was studying stenography, drawing, and sculpture. Hine eventually earned a Master’s degree in education from the University of Chicago. Hine’s first passion was not photography rather it was teaching. His first job was as a teacher at the Ethical Culture School in New York City. Hine’s had a friend named Frank Manny who was the one that convinced Lewis Hine to become the school photographer at the Ethical Culture School, where he gained technical skills (Hine, 11). Lewis Hine started off with a ten-dollar box camera and soon after set up a dark room at school that lead him to start an after school camera club, where he learned about art photography along the students (Freedman, 9). According to the book “Crusade for the Children,” by 1908 Hine spent several years as an amateur, photographing immigrants, Bowery inhabitants, and Lower Eastside hovel children. Soon after Hine quit teaching because he was interested in portraying the difficulty of the poor (Trattner, 105). Hine spent some time working for The survey magazine but later was hired by the National Child Labor Committee by 1906 Hine started work on a freelance basis (105). According to the book “Kids at work,” by 1908, by the time he left the Ethical Culture School,

Wardle says that any new worker, who is becoming member of a discourse community, encounters issues with authority and identity concerning learning to write for the workplace. In order for the new worker to learn new written practices, they may be asked to “give up some measure of authority to which they believe they are entitled” (Wardle 4) Wardle means that whatever the workplace recognizes as effective or appropriate, although it may not be, has to be recognized by the new worker as such. Hence, the new worker is being asked to give up values of efficiency and ethics for the sake of fitting into their workplace. Wardle defines authority as “an intangible quality granted to persons through institutions, which renders their pronouncements

photography, and then made a photo journal of his work and named the book “How the Other

Caitlyn Hatch is a twenty year old student from Amherst, Massachusetts, who spends her weekends roaming abandoned buildings all over the western part of the state. What she does in these buildings is take photographs, however, she has not always been interested in the medium. Photography had never been her first choice for what she would possibly study at university, and she never imagined it as being something she would want to pursue professionally. Originally, she was intent on being a graphic designer. She had begun to play around with an online photoshop app, editing pictures taken by other people and was sure graphic design was for her, that is, until she got her first camera. She got her first camera at age fourteen for Christmas, one of the big black Nikon digital cameras. While she had never seriously considered photography before, she began to play around with her new camera. The novelty of it all coupled with the support of her father, who himself was an amateur nature photographer throughout his twenties, started the fire in her to take up this art and learn as much about it as she could.

A Prayer for Owen Meany analyzes the relationship between various depths of spirituality in comparison to mundane life. The novel by John Irving uses characters such as Owen Meany and John Wheelwright, to juxtapose the contrasting nature of faith and doubt, and fate and free will.

How many people are willing to practice their own death? Not many, right? It sounds strange, but one person in particular was eager to do just that—Owen Meany. In John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany, Owen makes many sacrifices, his biggest sacrifice being his own life. In the beginning of the novel, Owen comes across as slightly different with his minuscule size and high pitched voice, but as the novel progresses and Owen ages, his inhuman qualities become more and more prevalent, eventually leading to the biggest indicator of all—his death. In the novel, Owen Meany is willingly able to plan the sacrifice of his own life in order to save the lives of others, showing he is a supernatural being.

John Irving, the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany, crafts a plot that utilizes religious imagery to cast depth and meaning into intricately developed details, leading to a novel that contains a rich development of many characters, one of which is Owen Meany. Owen's many sacrifices throughout his adolescent and adult life illustrates his loyalty and determination in his beliefs and actions, which in turn helps to convey the idea that the aspects of one's true persona is created by his or her effort solely. This trend is discovered on a multitude of settings, where it highlights Owen’s ability to cast himself in his own manner with each and every sacrifice he endured.

At age 14, Abelardo Morell realizes that he discovers his passion of photography through the photography books or magazines at his uncle 's house. According to the National Geographic

Junius Edwards and James White used several methods to persuade their audiences. One method that was obvious between both people was the use of a personal story to allow the audience to understand what exactly was going on. Even though White told an actual story and Edwards was fictional both of these stories felt very personal and that allowed the reader to get frustrated, laugh, become sad, etc. In both stories they crafted them in such a way that you got frustrated when White was declined a hotel room or when Will got asked an abundance of questions. There is a difference between a bundle of words that are meaningless to a story that triggers your emotions and you can connect to. Another thing both Edwards and White did was create a clear

Born in 1934, Jerry Uelsmann grew up an inner city kid of Detroit. In high school, Uelsmann worked as an assistant for a photography studio; he eventually photographed weddings. Uelsmann went to Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) where he met Minor White, who “introduced [him] to the concept that photography could be used for self-expression” (Berman). While at RIT, he studied with Bruce Davidson, Peter Turner and Car Chiaraenza, with whom he held frequent discussions on how photography could be different. After RIT, Uelsmann went to Indiana University where he changed his degree to a Master of Fine Arts degree. He graduated with an M.S. and an M.F.A at Indiana University in 1960, where he studied with Henry Holmes Smith, who had

The second symphony by French composer Berlioz (1803-1869): Harold en Italie, Symphonie en quatre parties avc un Alto principal, Op. 16 was commissioned but never performed by the Italian violin virtuoso Paganini who had an intention to showcase his new Stradivari viola. Even though Paganini trusted Berlioz to write suitable music for his new instrument, his disappointment about a sketch in one of the movements led to ill-fated conclusion. Unluckily, due to incompetent conductor, plentiful wrong notes and missed entries by the orchestra, the premiere was unsatisfactory for Berlioz who later commented “it was the sheer murder”.