Photography and Imagery of September 11th

After reading the article on September 11th, I felt both a sense of sympathy and outrage.
Sympathy for the residents of New York who were trying to find a way to come to grips with the tragedy. Outrage at the media and the government for turning the tragedy around and using it for their own purposese [...]

And when we fall, we will fall together.

Lost in the Field of Visionl Witnessing September 11 is a very interesting narrative, telling a story of hopelessness, fear, resignation, and then acceptance. Reading about the plight of one woman witnessing the attacks and then the aftermath had a much more powerful impact than any other account I have heard so far, since most [...]

Memorials and Symbols of Freedom

Just realized that I never responded here! Haha!
Anyhoo, after reading the two assignments, I felt myself particularly moved. I think that both should be responded to here.
First of all, “Slave Site for a Symbol of Freedom”. This article successfully attacks America’s problem of burying the more unsavory history of our nation and glossing it over [...]

Lost in the crowd

Diana Taylor developed a very interesting narrative in her essay. I feel it is a story of futility. But first off, I found she wrote a powerful beginning. The first lines, “When I saw the north tower of the World Trade Center in flames, about five minutes after the first plane hit, I thought, “God, [...]

Lost in the Field of Vision: Witnessing September 11

Reading this article was extremely emotional for me and it reminded me of our previous discussions in class. I like what Alberto said about how talking about September 11 is like poking a wound with a stick. This article does the same thing for me. While reading this, all my emotions and feelings from seven [...]

Witnessing a Witnesses Wtiness to September 11th: A Response

Witnessing September 11th was a clever and perfect title to encompass the entirity of Diana Taylor’s essay.  When the 9/11 terrorists attacks occured, I was too young to really understand and remember what actually happened.  The pictures of the towers on fire, the planes entering, and the tumbling towers are apart of my memory form [...]

Reaction to 9/11 Essay

This article had a slightly different perspective on 9/11. We talk about it as a national tragedy, but how does 9/11 fit into the traditional structure of the tragedy?  In a tragedy one has this tragic hero who has a good nature, but is flawed.  There’s a particular build up, and the tragic hero makes [...]

Lost in a Field of Vision: A Response

I think the most interesting point that Diane Taylor made in her article was when she used the title- Lost in a Field of Vision- to describe a phenomena in which our view of something is so manipulated by the media it is difficult to actually piece together what happened. We see what the media [...]

Reaction to Memorials

Hey. I really liked our class on Thursday.   The momorials that we were assigned to read about were all very touching in different ways.  Every person in our class had a different interpretation of each meomoir.  Personally, I realy liked the AIDS blanket memorial.  I enjoyed the fact that it was made to remember the [...]

The Hands that Feed

Sorry it took me so long to figure the block out everyone, technology is not exactly my forte.
I wanted to point out something I find very interesting that the article by Dinitia Smith brings up. It is in a way an extension and involvment of the old African proverb, “Until the lions have their own [...]