Memorable Family Moments Caught by Photography
Family photographs have enabled me to develop a way to keep my family
with me all the time, even when they are really not there. These
pictures of my family represent a wide variety of importance and
emotions in my life. Many of them serves as a link to my home life,
since I am away at college without my family I allow their pictures to
be decorations (memoirs) in my apartment. Some of them mean more than
others, some are recent, and others come from my childhood. A picture
I have framed on the center wall in my apartment is of my family on
vacation this summer; it depicts our true "selves" and exemplifies how
much we truly love one another.
I am standing on the left side of my father in this photo with my mom
on his left and my brother on hers. We are on vacation at the Atlantis
Resort and as I look at this picture of my family a warm, delightful
feeling rushes over me. I remember the exact day it was taken and all
the wonderful things that occurred on this trip. We are standing in
front of the same decorative wall by the pools, as my brother was the
night before when he proposed to his girlfriend, Leslie, of six years.
Our annual family vacation is normally to Amelia Island, but this year
we went further away to a totally different environment. Our pictures
from this trip look different from our other family vacation photos,
yet we are still the same loving family.
Ideas of the traditional, typical, yet blissful family vacation that
many families try to take each year is what I think of when I see
pictures like this one. Whether or not a family has the capability of
affording some...
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is generally never the same for two different people. This family
photo at the Atlantis is important to me because it is of my loving
family while we are away from the stresses of one typical day-to-day
life and our having a good time with one another. Yet, from my brother
and Leslie who got engaged on the trip it holds many other memories
and importance. Emotions can arise from almost any type pf picture you
own, but a family photograph, especially one where the families "real"
selves can be seen, can illuminate a person's heart to many feelings
of contentment and self-belonging. Family photography has existed
throughout time and holds a special meaning to all of us, yet how we
interpret it and use it in our own life depends on the way we feel
truly feel about the ones who stand in the photograph with us.
In the last two years Family Video's employee retention has dramatically decreased. Employee retention has gone from sixty five percent to a staggering fifty two percent in the last two years. Family Video is currently growing at an average of sixty new stores each year. With this rapid growth Family Video must focus on how to increase the employee retention.
Born of Irish immigrants in 1823 in a little place called Warren County, New York; Mathew Brady is known as “The Father of Photojournalism.” While a student of Samuel Morse and a friend of Louis Daguerre (inventor of the “Daguerreotype,” a method of photography that the image is developed straight onto a metal coated surface), in which he had met while under the study of Morse, Brady took up his interest in photography in the year of 1839, while only seventeen years of age. Brady took what he had learned from these two talented and intellectual men to America where he furthered his interest in the then-growing art of photography.
of the table, Gerald would be on his right and Eric would be on his
What does it mean? Since early childhood this simple query has been posed to us constantly in a myriad of guises. A lover's fiery glance across the room at a party. The preacher's glowing sermon at Sunday service about the kingdom of God. The supermarket tabloid's screaming headline, " I Had Elvis's Alien Love Child." By the very nature of our being human we immediately need to process this information internally to make sense out of what we see, hear, or read. Is she angry with me or does she want to throw me down on the bed where all the guests have heaped their coats? Have I been good enough to make it through the Pearly Gates and do they have ice cream in heaven? Is Elvis still alive? This fundamental need of finding personal meaning in our world is crucial to our existence. It touches on all aspects of our lives, particularly in what we read.
Family is universal. That special bond shared with parents and siblings is shown by all ethnicities, ages, and social classes. Families are portrayed in the media, in a variety of ways. The media displays family in the media as well as couples and their journeys to their respective “happily-ever-afters”. In the categories of animated family, live family, reality family, couples, and non-related family, the media addresses social, race, and class issues.
fears and the joy of helping others, like in “ To Kill a Mockingbird” Atticus stood up for an innocent man when no one else would. The movies also provided me with a window to
we make in life affect us in many ways. The next possible interpretation of that quote is
my life, it is something that I have to have the will to gain the skills I need to be able to
Photojournalism, known as the practice of capturing moments or events to narrate a story. Sometimes it’s a story within a story. It is variously defined as visual telling through pictorial representation. “Photojournalism has as its underpinning a desire to portray accurately a visual scene which people around the world can relate to, respond to, and believe. Believability is the backbone of news imagery” (Harris, 2001). Walter Lippman mentioned in his renowned work, Public Opinion that the things about which people get to know, most of them are not derived from personal experience or direct interaction but through second hand sources most prominently, photojournalism.
Abstract: This essay reflects on the relationship of photographs, history, and memory based on a found and mutilated photo album. Photographs provide opportunities for disrupting and restructuring history with their attraction to memory; they privilege the subjective, creative power of the personal explanation and provide an emotional and even ideological grounding for memory. Photographs as manifestations of memory assist in the process of understanding the present.
I would like to put up children’s art on the walls. This will boost up the children’s self-esteem. And by creating a cozy reading corner for six year olds, this will encourage the children to read more.
When I think back to the days when I was a child, I think about all of my wonderful childhood memories. Often I wish to go back, back to that point in life when everything seemed simpler. Sometimes I think about it too much, knowing I cannot return. Yet there is still one place I can count on to take me back to that state of mind, my grandparent’s house and the land I love so much.
It was on a Friday morning at 4:30 A.M. that happiness and joy filled the hearts of both my parents. I was born on November 29, 1996 at Broward General Hospital in Fort Lauderdale Florida. My parents had five children, and among the five children that they had, I was the third (or middle) child from them. It started off as two boys, then I came along as the first girl, after it was another boy, then finally, another baby girl; so total was three boys and two girls. The way that my parents lived and treated each other was the same as if any other married couple that loved each other so much. They’ve gone through a lot to get to where they are now today, but they made it and along the way had us five children. They have been really strong with each other which made them only have the five of us and no other step children. My mom is a great cook and enjoy cooking for us; this is probably where my passion for culinary comes from. My dad is an amazing tailor, he is very good at making our clothes, and my passion for fashion probably came from him. My dad is also a teacher, one of the best math teacher I know, he is passionate about his job and his family is the center of his universe. I cannot finish this chapter without mentioning my grandmother, I was lucky enough to have ever met. I had spent part of my life time with her, like the rest of the family she is sweet, my grandmother Abelus,
My most memorable family vacation took place two years ago. We went to Corsica, a French island situated in the south of France right next to Italy. I remembered waking up early excited to visit this new land. Used to take long flights, I was surprised to arrive to the destination after a one-hour flight. Even though the flight was short for me, it was stressful for my mom, she has never felt secured in a plane, probably due to the fact that she is afraid of height. When finally arrived at the destination, the dry and warm weather was there to welcome us. We all felt relief, and knew that this was the beginning of the summer. Excited, we had a lot of activities planned for the few weeks, me and my father could not wait to dive in the clear