Monday, September 3, 2007

journal entry 1

My favorite piece of writing that i have done would be my paper about Minoru Yamasaki’s twin towers of the World Trade Center. This was my research paper in junior year which I had to present in front of the class. We all had to choose an artist and one of their great projects in which to write about. So, I chose the lead architect for the twin towers, Minoru Yamasaki. What really prompted me to write this paper was how man could complete an enormous task of ascending a building one hundred and ten stories into the sky in 1970. A feat of this magnitude is hard enough to accomplish today with all of our advanced technology especially for what they ad beck then. Therefore, a structure this big most definitely became a symbol of strength to New York City and America. Even though they were knocked down, I would argue to say that they have become an even bigger symbol now that they have changed America in the twenty- first century.

Without a doubt, this research paper is written in closed form top-down thesis- based prose. Largely because this is where i believe i write the best. I am more comfortable writing in a planned out consistent form. Although i do try to write more and more in open form, i believe my papers are more scattered and incoherent when i do not follow a pre-meditated plan.

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