American Solider

A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?
I think that the most powerful picture was the first time Ian left and they (Ian's family) knew it was for real because it was a sad time and Ian's family and friends knew that he would be a long time before he comes home.

B. Through the photos, Ian is in different locations, each set of photos from the same location comprise a short series or set.  

Set #1 At home in Denver - Tell me which image #s from image #1 to image #7 
Set #2 At Basic Training - tell me which image #s from image #8? to image #29
Set #3 In Iraq - tell me which image #'s from image #50 to image #70 
Set #4 Back in Denver - tell me which image #s from image#71 to image #82

Which set of images was the most powerful? Why?

Home in Denver with his family because he only spent so little yet meaningful time with them.

C. How do the images work together to tell a story?
They all work together because they all give into the emotion of hime leaving.
3. Underneath each photo is the caption that ran in the Denver Post

A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written? They are written in present tense. 

For those of you who have forgotten your verb tenses see the example below.

Present Tense: John jumps down the stairs.
Past Tense: John jumped down the stairs.

B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?
I feel like the captions enhance the photographs from the emotion written in the captions.
4. Now its your turn to write a few captions - DO NOT COPY THEIR WRITING

A. Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.

Ian and Jacob, one friends that he met when he was in training, collected a shirt from a clerk. Ian got a bloody nose from the clerk throwing the shirt to hard.

Ian was hugging Devin (his girl friend) after he was finished with his efforts in Iraq. The happy couple got married soon after.

First sentence:
Subject -- action verb (present tense) -- object -- how -- why -- when -- where.

Second sentence:
Subject -- verb (past tense) -- object (describes background [context] of the situation shown in picture.)

Example:

Image #2

Ian studies his transcript and diploma as he departs the Bear Creek High School commencement at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. He dismisses the importance of the ceremony but not of the diploma. "If I didn't get my diploma, I couldn't join the Army. I couldn't do anything like that - and where would I be?" Looking back, he said, "I wish it went by a lot slower and I did a lot of things differently - grades." Ian's grade-point average was 2.0346.