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Story with a photo - What a Nice Day

It was a nice day, in the lovely city of Fremont. The sun was out, the grass was green, and flowers were starting to bloom. There was something wrong, though: the amount of precipitation was much lower than usual. Every day set a new low, and Fremont had just experienced the last rainstorm for the next few months. Despite the bright sun, the green grass, and the blooming flowers, many people knew that the nice days would not last. The sun will become too harsh, the grass will turn yellow, and the flowers will wither and rot.

What a nice day, in the lovely city of Fremont.

MSJMCW Story

Once upon a time, there was a cream puff named Bob. He had been brought into this world by a few cooks in a restaurant, who wrapped a combination of cream and green tea in a batch of pastry dough. Bob had a very happy life, as he sat in his comfortable paper wrapping, still freshly cut. Deep down, though, he knew that his life would one day come to an end, torn apart by human teeth, or laid to rot by hungry microorganisms. His moments of comfort and security were often interrupted by brief lapses of fear. When customers ordered the restaurant's well-known cream puffs, they would usually choose the popular vanilla cream puffs. Bob would always watch the unlucky vanilla cream puffs get carted off and placed in a box, desperately screaming for help. But one day, a group of strange red-shirted students walked into the restaurant and placed an order for cream puffs. "Vanilla, green tea, and chocolate," they told the cashier.

Bob started to panic. He had heard the strange students say chocolate. They had ordered him! The sudden realization crashed down on him. His days of lounging in his comfortable plastic wrapping were over. He would be placed into the box of doom, and meet his horrible fate. Bob tried to escape, but the cashier's hands were too fast. They grabbed him and placed him in the dark horrible box, that instrument of terror. Bob's screams of horror were muffled by the closing of the box.

Lens Blog - Variety

I believe that this picture demonstrates the use of variety the best, because it has the circular shapes of the bowls and the rectangular shapes of the sheet metal. In addition to the variety of shapes, the picture also has a variety of colors. For example, the bright colors of the goat stew sharply contrasts with the dark color of the bowls.

Half Past Autumn - Gordon Parks Pt 1 - 4

PART 1

1. He put Gordon in a bucket of cold water.
2. Gordon was born in Kansas.
3. She told him that he wasn't "college material".
4. He was 15 when his mother died.
5. He moved to Minnesota after her death.
6. He didn't finish high school, but he got a degree from Princeton.
7. He began his fashion photography career by taking pictures of models in Frank Murphy's shop.
8. A double exposure is the joining of multiple images to create a single image.
9. Joe Louis was a professional boxer.
10. He played the piano.
11. The purpose of the FSA was to show Americans the conditions of the Great Depression.
12. Stryker's first assignment for Gordon was to go buy a topcoat, go to the restaurant across the street, and go watch a movie.
13. Ella Watson was a woman who was sweeping the floor at the FSA.
14. The inspiration for Grant Wood's American Gothic was (NOT DONE)
15. Gordon learned from Stryker that he had to learn how to portray bigotry correctly.

PART 2

16. The FSA shut down in 1943.
17. He shot for Vogue.
18. The picture editor was Wilson Hicks.
19. The first major story he covered was about crime.
20. Artists that influenced Gordon Parks during his stay in Paris included Degas and Monet.
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22. Parks' concerto was performed in Venice.
23. Park's second wife was Elizabeth Campbell
24. Flavio de Silva was 12.
25. Parks met Flavio in 1961.
26. Flavio lived in the slums of Brazil when he first met Gordon Parks.
27. Gloria Vanderbilt was an artist and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family. Her son is the news anchor Anderson Cooper
28. Vanderbilt described their relationship as pre-formed and natural.

PART 3 AND 4
1. I believe that being successful is having an impact on the world.
2. I have given much most of my free time and interests to be successful.
3. Parks has given up his family and personal life to be successful.
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5. Parks was advanced $10,000 to write his first book.
6. Elijah Muhammad offered Parks $500,000 to do a story on The Nation of Islam.
7. Parks refused the money because he did not agree with Elijah Muhammad's beliefs.
8. The Learning Tree was significant because it was one of the first major Hollywood movies produced by an African-American man..
9. Shaft was significant because he was a black superhero.
10. Gordon Park's choice of weapon was the camera.
11. Genevieve Young believes that she and Gordon Parks divorced because
12. Like Solomon Northrup's Journey, 12 Years a Slave also told his story.
13. Gordon Parks, Jr. was a filmmaker and the son of Gordon Parks. He died in a plane crash.
14. My favorite Gordon Parks photo is the one of Red Jackson standing over a dead gang member.
15. In ten years, I will remember that Gordon Parks was a polymath who was especially known for his photography.

Principles of Design - Pattern

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