Group Picture Project

My partner's essay: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/world/middleeast/18yemen.html?ref=todayspaper

My essay: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/sports/football/18bands.html

The pictures in my partner's essay are moving. They refer to sympathy that the reader may feel about the death of 10 people. They show the reader a the effects of ciaos that ensues after a bombing. However, if one was to look deeper into the picture there is a lot for a reader to take from them. The small details of culture, place, and people as a whole can be taken from the photo. You see a man who is a worker and other police officers walking normally in the background not scared of the bombing mostly because they are probably used to it. The police carry guns out front who no regard to safety while they walk around after the bombing with not cover of protection. Soldiers are standing in a little out post area that is falling apart. The roof is tilted sideways and from the look of sustained some damage. The soldiers in the outpost do not even have any guns for weapons to protect themselves. Finally, the area is beat up and trashed. It has been that way for awhile. The details are endless for a photo of this caliber.

My essay was more of a less political topic as an essay. It shows images of top NFL athletes wearing sweat bands around there arms as a fasion statement. I do believe that NFL athletes sometimes do work to hard to look "cool." I do believe kids then believe that look cool is important instead of the love the game.