Besmir

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5/11/11 1. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/boss-tweed-delivered-to-authorities That link is not dependable on because it doesn't tell you a lot of things, and left some significant things out. 2. Padgett, Ken. "Boss Tweed The Plundering Politician."//Agile Writer//. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 May 2011. .  ﻿3. Boss Tweed was known as one of the most notorious politicians ever. He got his power when New York was receiving a large amount of immigrants and when the state needed the money for new projects, and jobs. He stole many millions of dollars from public money and he was the wealthiest most powerful and most corrupt politician of his time. He basically overpriced everything and took over many powerful spots like when some part of the city needed money to repair it, he wouldn't go through with it until the price was just right for him and he was put in power. Before he was a politician he was a volunteer fireman that gave him an easy way to getting into politics. Tweed was almost unstoppable with his corruption, until a lowly county bookkeeper was unhappy with his cut of the graft and gave some incriminating documents to the New York Times. They published those documents as a series of articles about a huge cost that overruns in the Tweed Courthouse. The Courthouse was supposed to cost only half a million dollars but they actually owed the city $13,000,000 dollars. 5/3/11 1) A connotation is basically you figuring out what an expression was trying to imply. A denotation is the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression, it's very similar trying to figure out what an expression is trying to imply, but the most specific and direct you can explain it. 2)
 * word || denotation || connotation ||
 * Belly || It's very big and round. || I think what they mean is this guy is chubby and what connotes that is "round belly" and it can only be round if it stuck out. ||
 * Hat || Wearing a fancy flat top hat, the ones that wealthy men usually wore. Similar to a magicians hat. || I think that this guy is wealthy because they describe his outfit with good detail. What connotes that is "His stubby, flat-topped plug hate hung jauntily on the back of his head; and his unbuttoned overcoat" Which made me think this guy is all dressed up. ||
 * Overcoat || It's unbuttoned. || Someone who has money usually wears a formal coat like that and he seems like a business guy. When it says how his coat is unbuttoned because he was walking quickly made me think he was in a rush to do a job. ||

3) This guy is working for somebody probably wealthy, if not, wealthier. This probably was an important task for him to do as well. 4) The messenger of the mysterious note was impatiently waiting for a ride to go somewhere in a big hurry. Pacing around waiting for a bus then speed walking around then finding a cab to get into then telling the cab driver to head to "Nineteen Gramercy Park" 5) "All the way home, and in style!"(bottom of page 130)The messenger said. He seems really eager to go home and wants to get there quickly and in style probably because he wasn't too fit for a job like messaging a mysterious letter, for some reason... 6) They probably figured out some clue to something that has to relate to a great big fire because Si asked Kate if she wants to drink in front of a great big fire. 7) The streetlamp wrote Broadway, the other wrote Park Place. 8) Butterfly Effect 9) Twig-in-the-river's theory is supposed to mean that in a river, something so small like a twig is unable to change anything of the river. 10) Butterfly effect means that if you changed anything in the past a little but, it might have a huge impact in the future. But the twig-in-the-river effect, something so little can't really change anything.

4/12/11 1) http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/71/74/ce/dakota-building.jpg 2)

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/1/1f/20080405195607!Dakota_Building_-_fence_detail_119924pv.jpg 3) __**Observations & Inferences (From Trip):**__ Summary Of Podcast: Dakota means- Distance, Wealth and this building fit in both of these categories. This building was built so far out from central of New York, that's the reason why they named it the Dakota building because people said "You might as well be building it in the Dakota territory." But Dakota has the significance of Distance and Wealth. Upper West Side started having building coming up with different names but similar to this. The exterior of the building looked like a North German renaissance kind of look and the interior look was supposed to be French. 4/5/11 __Characterization Chart:__

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1. **What's the difference from technology then until now?** No computers or cellphones. If you had to type something up it would have to be done on an electrical type writer. 2. **What was the fashion style?** A lot of platform shoes, men wore them too. Bell bottoms. Men had long hair and big sideburns. 3. **Was transportation the same back then?** It was the same. There was "A LOT" of graffiti on the trains. 4. **What type of music was there?** A lot of Jazz and the rolling stones. Rock music basically. 5. **Was there noticeable aspects that the Vietnam war brought to society?** A lot of drugs and mentally ill people that came back. Every person that was against the Vietnam war were also against the soldiers that fought in it that came back. Some of the soldiers were into drugs during Vietnam. A lot of anti-war demonstration. 6. **What was street violence like back then?** It was much more dangerous back then. 7. **How was the food back then?** It was the same, but the average person didn't care what was in the food as much as today. More strict regulations on how they processed food. 8. **Was the school system the same back then?** 9. **How was the economy back then compared to now and how are prices different or similar?** 10. **Were there any famous landmarks back then that exist now?**
 * __Personal Interview:__**

What I concluded from this is that life back then was very similar to what it is now just the sense of fashion was different back then, and they weren't as advanced in technology as we are now. But it was more dangerous on the streets and there wasn't as much laws enforced as there is today. It was surprising when I heard that the Vietnam war soldiers weren't appreciated by a group of people when they came back and that they were looked down upon. "//What's the difference from technology then until now?// No computers or cellphones. If you had to type something up it would have to be done on an electrical type writer. I also heard that the electrical type writer is coming back in style now." (Aslanian, Deborah. Personal Interview. 5 April 2011)

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3/23/11 2 ) Take this one step further, Besmir, to answer the question: **Who Else is Hidden in the Picture? What is the role of the observer (viewer) when trying to determine historical truth by analyzing primary source documents.** This person probably was into some type of conflict with others, and probably got damaged evidently because this person has a scar on the back of his/her head. In order to make yourself look normal, usually you shave your head after getting a scar on your head because the spot where the scar is, you can't grow hair there. Or it could be someone who has cancer. He/She is also wearing a black top, a dark color. 3)
 * = Consider... ||= Describe ideal ||= Explain Why ||
 * = Gender ||= Male ||= I usually see more male detectives on television, which made me say that. ||
 * = Background ||= Any Race ||= All equal. ||
 * = Skills ||= Detective or FBI Agent ||= Because they have more experience with researching and going into little details on things. ||
 * = Interests ||= Doing a lot of scientific related work and read books about things. ||= Knowledgeable about things that can be used to research the past. ||
 * = Personal qualities/character ||= Fit, experienced with a lot of things related to investigating and action ||= Wouldn't be fit for the job as good without these qualities ||
 * = Other considerations: ||=  ||=   ||

3/22/11 Revise your definition of "objective" (to get at the adjective, the one that describes how you look at something) and based on that the other Q's that deal with "objective vs. subjective" 1a) Objective: Put the definition in your own words! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:objective&sa=X&ei=jPaITfbfAu2C0QHOxtzwDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CBcQkAE Example: My objective is to get to my house and back to school in 20 minutes. That is my goal and that's what I'm trying to achieve. 1b) Where is the word?! And more importantly, write the definition in your own words! http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&defl=en&q=define:subjective&sa=X&ei=nPiITfCZHoGz0QGW5JXpDQ&ved=0CBcQkAE Example: My statement is very subjective because it's what I think individually. 1c) Objective is your individual goal that you is intended to be attained and being subjective is when you think and individual thought, basically your own opinion. They are kind of similar because it has to do with your independence more than what other want or think. 1d) To go and try to learn about the past in a biography is an objective because you're trying to learn about the past and that is your goal objectively. What you learned was your goal, what you would think about the biography and your own comments are subjective. 2a) Images of things aren't as much meant to be statements of something as much as pieces of the world. 2b) Photographs aren't meant to be used as statements to tell people. They're used to show the past and how it's a piece of the Earth instead of just a statement. 3a) Historians themselves consider photographs to be pieces of the Earth and a "mirror" of the past instead of a statement. "We often treat the image as the product of a machine and therefore an objective artifact.” That tells me that when we look at images it's often an objective in order to explore it ourselves and individually learn what it's meant to show us as our goal instead of the image being a statement specifically telling us what is going on. 3b) These days images in text books are subjective because they have captions and others opinions of it and neglects others from looking into it by themselves. "As a consequence, today’s history students miss out on the opportunity to explore the fascinating visual dimensions of the past". Which tells me lately there been images with subjective captions on them instead of objectively exploring it individually. 4) -Who took this photo? -What is this photo's purpose? -Where is this taken? -When was this taken? 5) I'm not really sure what the hidden narrative is, this photo is taken in some city, trying to make people think it's a calm neighborhood with men hanging around in streets and people poking their heads out of windows on just another regular day. I think that the hidden narrative is how these men are a group of gang members, or some sort of group and do illegal things. 6) The truth about documentary photography is that it mostly has hidden narrative with just one description of it when there can be so much more to be said about it to expose it's hidden purpose on why it was taken and the meaning of it.

3/16/11 1a) - The picture has only black and white colors - Everybody in the picture wear hats on their heads besides the people poking their heads outside of the window, but they look like old people and the others look like they are in their mid 20's - The people are moved to the side looking at the photographer sort of - The streets are very narrow and looks like it would be hard to drive a car on a road like that due to no room - There are two buildings, maybe big houses and people are looking out of the windows on the right - There are people standing next to the two houses on top of some stairs - Looks like a foggy day when you look at the sky above - Everybody is wearing some sort of clothing to keep warm but nothing heavy like a Jacket/Coat, but just a sweater or vest of some kind - There are clothes hanging from a clothing long from house to house - The second closest guy on the right is holding some sort of stick

1b) A day in the slumps.

2a) This is a picture in an alley way and it looks like it's in New York. These guys look like they're in some sort of mafia or gang wearing the same clothes, looking alike and one if them is holding a bat. People in the house on the right are peeking outside of their windows to check what is going on. This street never has vehicles driving by. The clothes on the clothing line are owned by the people in the houses, not the men on the street. The men on the street don't live in this area of the place.

2b) The slumps of New York, territory of a gang on a foggy wet day.

3) The photographer of this picture probably interpreted some sort of hostile mood on this street of a town, and probably wanted us to see the same thing by taking a picture of a bunch of male figures on one street dressed similarly looking at the camera, especially with one of them holding some sort of object that looks deadly, like a bat.

4) Jacob Riis was the third child in his family out of 15 children. He was born in Ribe, Denmark, on 5/3/1849. Before emigrating into the United States in 1870, he was working as a carpenter in Copenhagen. He was not able to find a job in the United States so he probably didn't have much money and usually spent nights lodging houses. A quote he said was "poor were the victims rather than the makers of their fate". In 1888 he was employed as a photo-journalist and also became known about it. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAriis.htm

5a) " Two men appear to guard the alley entrance."

5b) This basically tells me the same thing that I inferred and spoke about what was going on in the picture in the photographers interpretation.

6) The importance of asking who took the picture, what the meaning of it was and is, who the people are in the picture is the hidden story behind most photo's taken.