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Choose a photograph which has no connection to you in terms of content, but immediately affects you emotionally.   Write a paragraph that describes it.   Does the effect of description lead you beyond the visible elements of the image?   What arguments could you make to analyze the image? Write one or two paragraph essays using the description to support the arguments   Stills from Food for the spirit, Adrian Piper A young woman is taking a self-portrait through a mirror. We can see her and the space around her. She positioned herself in the middle of the photography and visible from her knees up. She is almost naked waring nothing more than underpants. She is holding the camera right under her breasts with both hands. She is also standing in a door frame with a big bookshelf behind her. To the left there is a glass door. She gazing right at her own face in the mirror.   Paragraph with argument:

Find or invent three sentences that feature numerical information. Rewrite them to guide the meaning indicated by the numbers.   1 In 1930, 3,149.820 Germans lived on the territory which belongs to Czech Republic today.   Twenty years later, a census revealed that 159.938 Germans were living in Czech Republic in 1950.   1A An aftereffect of World War II which is often not discussed, is the forced resettlement of Germans who were living in neighboring countries of what is Germany today. For example, the number of Germans in Czech Republic decreased from 3,149.820 in 1930 to 159.936 twenty years later in 1950. In many cases, the term forced resettlement is an understatement since Czechs violently threw people out of their homes and dispossessed them, sometimes killed them to state an example. The border region between Germany and Czech Republic is mostly rural with many farms which were never as inhabited and productive after Germans had to leave Czech Republic.  

22. Use a library database to choose five articles on a subject that interests you. Read the introductions.   Can you identify the hook, explanation, and promise in each essay? To what extent are the introductions successful in luring the reader? What elements attract or repel you as a reader? Can these introductions serve as positive and negative examples for your own writing?   Burcu Dogramaci starts her article “Kültür für Deutschland“ with a description of an artwork which she is then starting to put in a bigger context of art from artists who have a migration history between Turkey and Germany.   Dogramaci guides the reader from the description of an artwork by Gülşün Karamustafa to “(…) im übertragenen Sinne schafft der Broterwerb also ein Heimatgefühl. Karamustafas Arbeit zeigt deutlich, dass Fragen der Verortung durchaus eine Rolle in der Gegenwartskunst spielen können.“ This connection she made guides us to the promise of her text “Kann Migration ein Motor für an...