Bryanna

Chapter 15
1880's The New York belting and Packing Company " In this chapter Simon is spying on Pickering. He goes in these building and ir trying to find out where Pickering is going. And he was seeing and hearing alot, like the people in the building where leaving"

My reason for this picture and everything is because "Pickering's office was in this building" pg202

"Packing & Belting Company." Web. 14 Jun 2011. [].

" Just a plain, tired-looking, flat-roofed old building with storefronts on the street floor. "(page, 202
" I walked up a fee wooden steps"(page, 203)

3. [205] a. What kind of work is happening in the building? b. How is the building currently being heated?
=== " Flue goes up through there, and we're burning wood these days. Cutting an elevator shaft through, and the owner's burning the old flooring" They are putting in new floors and working on the elevator ===

7. 216] When Jake comes back, what has he done?
=== " H got a tattoo of Julia's name on his chest"(page, 216) Chapter 16 The Board Room Decision 8. [218-219] Describe 2 ways in which Simon thinks the people of the 1880's were different than the people of 1970 NYC. ===

1.Excitement in 1882 that is gone now
2. The expressions on people faces

9. [222-223] What went wrong with the Denver time travel experiment?
Something changed, and therefore so did subsequent event deriving from it. === 10. [four parts] What does Danziger think should happen with the Time Travel project [226-227]? How do Colonel Esterhazy and Rube Prien think they should proceed [226-229]? Who wins? What does Simon decide [233]? === He says that it must be discontinued. They think that they should keep doing the project. Colonel Esterhazy and Rube Prien. And Simon decided to kind doing the project

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The reason why this is non- credible because it does not tell you who wrote this review or information. It does not have other references to make sure that is right and it does not tell you when it was written. =====

** http://www.albany.edu/~dkw42/tweed.html **
This one is credible because it tells you who wrote it and other references so that you can see that the other refrences have the same information.

The Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring are a group of people that is claim to be a group of people that swindled about 75 to 200 million dollars for the City from 1865 and 187. William Marcy Tweed was the leader of the Tweed ring, he was also chairman of the New York county Democratic Party. At this time Boss Tweed took control of New York, and was controlling the power of money. The Tweed Ring is also the reason that black friday is around. They also showed that having money could be powerful at any time period. And with him being in power he could pickpocket people with out them really knowing.

**Tuesday, May 3**

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1. __Denotation__ is the specific, literal image, idea, concept, or object that a [|sign] refers to. __Connotation__ is the figurative cultural [|assumptions] that the image implies or suggests. It involves emotional overtones, subjective interpretation, socio-cultural values, and ideological assumptions======

__Connotation__—Risk (accident or ticket)
__Denotation__—fit person in foreground --> you could look like this __Connotation__—fit person in background --> you could pick up a date like this in our club

2. 3. I got from this section I got that the guy has money and that he was kinda of like John Bull 4. On page 130 we see that he guy is in the street trying to catch a cab while deciding if he wants to take the bus. And while this is going a driver stops and they get into a little something. And after the guy drives away the guy just stands there and laugh. which shows that somethings don't make him mad like it would make other people. So he starts to walk and thinking about taking the bus and then stops and says why take a bus. And from the page before you see that he has money so he likes to use it. 5. 6. They found the tombstone. 7. I think that is where the guy may kill her grandfather and make it look like he killed himself.
 * word || denotation || connotation ||
 * Black-bearded || Black || Not a clean person ||
 * Diamond ring || Has money || Is not quiet about the fact that he has money ||
 * Yellowy || A color || Fading, kind of yellow but not bright. ||

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_k4j0a1Ur-UM/TPsjAXtjfCI/AAAAAAAABBY/owzNeej1j7U/s1600/TheDakota1886.jpg

I tried to draw this picture on my chart. I picked this because it made me think of mermaids, and mysterious things. It made me think of how the people that lived there was weird and quiet.

The Dakota was a building where rich people live, as well as it looks like The Plaza. And the same guy built both the Plaza as well as the the Dakota. In the 1870's the Dakota was single house hold but still was for upper class people. And at this time upper class houses were still a new idea. The Dakota had a dinner down stairs so that if you didn't want to cook or your cook was not there you could call downstairs and they would sent the food up. There is a court that people can go and sit and look at. And they have big windows and doors so that hey could get a good breeze.



== Please use and cite one quote from your interview within your summary paragraph (as evidence of one of your conclusions) then at the bottom of the paragraph document the interview according to MLA standards (see link on home page for "how to"). == Otherwise well done!!

March 31th
What was life like in New York City in 1970? The Personal Interview as a Source for Historical Research: Assignment 1

1. How old were you in 1970? 2. Where you born in New York? 3. What was it like growing up where you came from? 4. What is the differences in the two places that you lived? 5. What has changed since 1970? 6. Do you like the changes that has happen why or why not? 7. What was the weather like? 8. How were schools back then? 9. What was the society rule? 10. How was the jobs?


 * Date of the Interview: Thursday March 31, 2011
 * Name of the person interviewed: Ms. Brown
 * Age of the person in 1970: 27 years old
 * Where in NYC they lived (or where in NYC they went while on vacation): She was living in NYC

So I could not get my video up on the page so here is a link as of where you can my video: []

So I interviewed my grandmother about what it was like in 1970. What I found out is that she was not from New York, she was from West Viginia. She grew up in West Viginia whe there was segregation. So to go from West Viginia to New York was so different because in New York they was a little more open about race where as the south wasn't. She also said that the weather in 1970 was way colder in the winters and the summers where not as hot as they are now. But what I really learned to from her was that job where not great but if you had a job and knew how to handle your money you could live and be ok. I feel that now that is hard to do. And that it is getting harder and harder for someone to get a job. I like before all you need was a highschool degree, I feel like I am going to have to go to college for 8 years just to work at a mcdonalds.

The Role of the Observer
Part 1: Wait for verbal instructions for your pink slip Part 2: Write a 4 sentence reflection based on the pink slip activity, addressing **"Who Else is Hidden in the Picture? The role of the observer when trying to determine historical truth by analyzing primary source documents".** The role of the observer is just as important as who is in the picture and who took the picture. By coming from one background would affect how you look at the picture. It would affect how you feel about the picture. And most of all it can affect your emotion about the picture.

Part 3: An Observer in Time The government has discovered a possible way for a person to actually go back in time to see for him/herself what actually occurred in history. They have to select the perfect candidate for this role. What would those qualifications be? rich or other way around || Because they would see both sides of the story and understand || it when they come back to the present || college || Because they will have more education ||
 * Consider... || Describe ideal || Explain Why ||
 * Gender || Female || Understand emotions more. ||
 * Background || once poor and became
 * Skills || Someone that is not shy || So that they can ask questions ||
 * Interests || Caring || So they don't come off rude ||
 * Personal qualities/character || Open || So they don't add their one views on
 * Other considerations: || Someone older then 21 and has been to

Photographs as evidence from the past: Do documentary photographs depict the truth?
1.a. Look up the definition of “objective”: not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased

b. Look up the definition of “subjective": existing in the mind; belonging to the thinking subject rather than to the object of thought

c. In your own words, compare these two terms: Objective is something that is the main thing that is an a real object and the subjective is that some that is

d. If you read an autobiography to learn about the past, is this an objective or subjective source? Explain: It is an objective source because it is their life and they are the only one that can give the real facts on it.

2. Analyze the following quote by answering a and b below: “Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it.” a) Translate this sentence into other words Photographs are not use to show prove what is going on just to show it.  b) Interpret what this sentence means (hint: “…//do not seem to be//…” is key!) I think it is trying to say is that photos are not use to prove a point of what is going or to even say anything about what is going on it just there to remind us that is going on. That this is something that we should hold on to for future events.

3. Read the following text: “Historians often regard photographs as a critical form of documentary evidence that hold up a mirror to past events. Public and scholarly faith in the realism of the photographic image is grounded in a belief that a photograph is a mechanical reproduction of reality. Susan Sontag captured the essence of that faith in her monumental reverie //On Photography// when she wrote “Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it.” And in arranging these pieces to form historical mosaics, teachers and scholars have rarely paused to submit photographs to the usual tests applied to other forms of documentary evidence. For example, we have been trained to factor in the subjectivity of the author when we read autobiographical writing. But when we encounter an historical photograph, “shot for the record,” we often treat the image as the product of a machine and therefore an objective artifact.” a. Summarize the main point(s) of that passage: Photos are use to reflect things from the past to help with the future. And that the point of the picture is to get use as a community to come together and come up with different ways of solving our problems.

Text continued: “Since they are regarded as inherently truthful, photographs are frequently used to illustrate history textbooks. Publishers, not authors, usually select images to accompany history texts, and the images are used merely as illustrations and not as historical documents in their own right. As a consequence, today’s history students miss out on the opportunity to explore the fascinating visual dimensions of the past, to play detective with a mountain of photographic images that far outnumber traditional written documents. This essay seeks to lay out strategies for subjecting photographs to the same tests we apply to written documents when we use them as historical evidence. Exercising such scrutiny, students can bring to light the narratives hidden within images that are not always examined, despite our traditional belief that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” (from History Matters [] ) b. Summarize the main point(s) of that passage: That the writer doesn't pick the photos to go in their book, and that the publisher

4. The above text states “…students can bring to light the narratives hidden within images that are not always examined…”. Brainstorm 4 or more questions a historian should ask (then research) in order to get at the “hidden narrative” within **//any//** photograph:


 * 1) why this person?
 * 2) who is left out?
 * 3) Who is the person that took the picture?
 * 4) what are they trying to get at ?

5. What is the “hidden narrative” within Jacob Riis’s photograph Bandit’s Roost? For help you can refer back to the website we used last time: [] That this about immigrants and tenement life in New York City. Trying to show that their life is sad. But we don't really know that but because it is in black and white it gives of the idea that this is a sad time but maybe at the moment that he took the picture it was not a sad moment.

6. So, describe the “truth” that documentary photographs depict (//in general-- not just that one photograph!//): The truth is that pictures are not something we use to prove a point they are use to help come up with what why go onor how we can try to understand how people my live.

DO NOT LEAVE; move your chair into semi-circle at the front of the room

The Stories that Photographs Tell
1a. I see people hanging. Most of the people are guys and the guys are outside while the women are in the house or building. The street is wet. 6 men 1 boys 3 women One guys has something in his hand. Token some time before 1906. All the men are wear hats and the little boys are not. Some people are drying clothes. black and white you can see their faces

b. Life in black and white

2a. I see that they are poor. That they look like they are living in a alley way. I also see that there is not a lot of sun in the picture. And that one guy has a cane or a bat in his hand. It seems like they have nothing better to do then to just stand around, which make me think that they poor.

b. A dark life in the alley

3. I think that the reason that they came up with this caption because when you look at the picture you of people that had not money so they would do anything to get money. And on top of that you can not see their faces which makes it seem like they don't want people to know who they are.

4. Jacob Riis was born on May 3, 1849 and died May 26 1914. He was Danish and like to write and take pictures. He was the third out of the 13 that his parents had. He was friends with Theodore Rooesvelt. http://www.richmondhillhistory.org/jriis.html []

5. The following examples show how Jacob Riis used his camera not only to amass a quantity of sociological data but to assert his own assessment of immigrants and tenement life in New York City. This picture is about immigrants and how their life was. But the look was from how Jacob Riis thought it was but not have been as bad as we thing it is.