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    You Have Seen Their Faces by Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell is a photo documentary of life in the South during the Great Depression. After reading You Have Seen Their Faces along with critiques of it by Rabinowitz and Snyder, I found myself more interested in the topic of how motherhood was depicted in the book. Rabinowitz brought up that middle class women felt the need to regulate the poor women because they weren 't feminine enough or motherly enough which is the main attitude involved

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    In this video, Wise talks about how white privilege works in the modern society of the United States. That is the privilege which turns other people’s lives invisible. No media investigates on the victims of discrimination at an institutional level, hence their voices can never be heard. Moreover, white people do not have an opportunity (and necessity) to know about the reality of the people of color, thus the existence of racism has been denied by the white in every generation. Meanwhile, those

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    Margaret Bourke-White

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    Through her trailblazing personality and a camera, Margaret Bourke White was able to forge her own path to go and encapsulate the tragic state of affairs that was consuming America. Margaret Bourke-White was born on June 14, 1904 to Joseph White, an engineer, and Minnie White, a stenographer. With two other siblings, she was brought up in a strict household,that favored determination and perseverance (Margaret Bourke-White). These core values instilled in her the courage that was required to break

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    Margaret Bourke-White, world-renowned photographer, was a true icon to the world because of her unusual early life and education, her striking industrial photography career, powerful human-interest photography, and her heroic battle with a crippling disease in her final years. Margaret Bourke-White’s younger years took a unique and interesting route. On June 14, 1904 (Browne 38), Joseph and Minnie White (Goldberg 9) brought Margaret Bourke White (Welch 27) into the world in the Bronx, New York (Oden

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    Margaret White, also known as Margaret Bourke-White, born June 12, 1997 in New York, New York U.S., and died August 27, 1971, in Stamford, Connecticut. She was known for being the first female war photographer to accompany a combat mission. She was also known for her pictures of the Depression and World War 2. Margaret was married twice but didn’t have any children. In 1921, she started Columbia University to get her biology major, but became amused with photography. After her father passed away

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    Margaret Bourke-White once said, “By some special graciousness of fate I am deposited—as all good photographers like to be—in the right place at the right time” (Bourke-White 380). Indeed, the American photographer and photojournalist spent a lifetime of capturing spectacular and rare moments one would only dream of experiencing in person. Born on June 14, 1904, Bourke-White attended several colleges before starting her career in industrial photography by shooting steel mills, enraptured by “the

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    your passion drives you? Well, for Donna O’Meara and Margaret Bourke-White, their motivations are different yet similar when faced with uncertain situations. In the texts "Donna O'Meara: The Volcano Lady" and “Margaret Bourke-White: Fearless Photographer," Donna is a volcanist and Margaret was a photographer. Both women were motivated by their passions. As a result, when faced with uncertain situations, Donna O’Meara and Margaret Bourke-White are similar and different in their motivations. There

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    Description: Margaret Bourke-White. Louisville Flood Victims. 1937. Photograph. Analysis: Margaret Bourke-White utilizes the actual horizontal lines of the billboard, as well as the implied lines of the people’s heads. The repetition of the people along with the faces on the billboard, forcefully move the attention horizontally to the right of the photograph. This, in turn, makes the viewer anticipate what is coming next. Although we know that the people are in a state of motion, there is a sense

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    Margaret Walker’s portrayal of the white characters in her critically acclaimed bestseller Jubilee has granted her criticisms from many readers. She gives the main white characters like Marster John, Big Missy, and their two children a lot of background that describes their motivations, aspirations, and downfalls. Walker balances the negative aspects of these white characters with humanizing factors and characteristics in order to represent them as something more than evil white slave owners. This

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    taken by Margaret Bourke-White. She was able to capture images of the survivors and remains in Buchenwald after its liberation in April 1945, her pictures were published for the world to see fifteen years after the Holocaust. When Bourke-White had first arrived to the camp, one of her immediate thoughts was, “I was reminded that men actually had done this thing-men with arms and legs and eyes and hearts not so very unlike our own. And it made me ashamed to be a member of the human race.”(Margaret Bourke-White)

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