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Sarah Cohen

Instructor Qui Gon Jinn

ENGL 1164

6 November 2018

Annotated Bibliography

Ichniowski, Tom. "New Spending Measure Provides Construction Boost." ENR: Engineering

News-Record, February 2018. EBSCOhost,

search.ebscohost.com.leo.lib.unomaha.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=128005

898&site=ehost-live&scope=site. This article highlights the budget that is being

increased to help the Army Corps of Engineers build a better infrastructure. It provides

quotes from the Army Chief and the Lieutenant General of the Army Corps of Engineers.

The article points out the flaws that come with the new increase in the budget. I will use

this source as it provides credible quotes from people who know first-hand how the

infrastructure in the United States needs to be improved. With the quotes, I will try to

persuade my audience that the budget “increase” needs to be raised as it is not enough to

make improvements across the nation. This source will help present logic that is needed

to persuade the reader, without knowing the numbers, the reader would not know the

little impact the budget has on infrastructure. By presenting this, it allows the reader to

see how inefficient the new budget is.

Kress, Gunther, and Theo van Leeuwen. Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design.

Routledge, 1996. Kress and van Leeuwen provide means to examine visual and linguistic

compositional argument as it relates to the features of an image, including color choices,

subject representation, viewer positioning, framing, size and location of image, and other

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structural elements that speak to the designers’ intended visual effect. Analyzing the

relationship between producer and viewer by means of the visual interaction can begin to

address and “regulate what may be ‘said’ with images, how it should be said, and how it

should be interpreted” (114). Specifically, Kress and van Leeuwen’s text will be critical

as I need to establish the digital and rhetorical arguments pertaining to the design choices

featured on WeddingWire as it relates to the position of the viewer and the compositional

visual culture of the website.

Los Angeles Public Library. “Hartley Burr Alexander: Not Your Typical 20th Century

Philosopher.” https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/hartley-burr-alexander-

not-your-typical-20th-century Accesses 13 July 2018. This online publication illuminates

historical and biographic information about Hartley Burr Alexander. This text is useful in

corroborating primary source documents about Alexander’s conviction to Native American

cultural preservation against evidence other scholars and colleagues have provided,

speaking to the legacy and Alexander’s vita. This multigenre project is in part

bibliographic, so this source will be useful in establishing the character and personal

history of Alexander and the inspirations that contributed to his thematic consultation to

the NE capitol. This source also provides work that Alexander did after the Nebraska State

Capitol project including thematic curation to the Los Angeles Central Library

Commission, Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, the Oregon State Capitol, Fidelity Mutual

Life Building in Philadelphia, Metropolitan Life Instance Building in NYC, Rockefeller

Center in New York, and the Department of Justice Building in Washington D.C., among

many others; while these other curations are not the focus of this inquiry, these examples

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will be useful in establishing Alexander’s commitment to mediated memory and art

practices regarding Native American life in North America

Moore, Tami J. and Barbara Clark. “The Impact of ‘Message Senders’ on What Is True: Native

Americans in Nebraska History Books” Multicultural Perspectives, vol. 6 no. 2, 2009, pp.

17-23, DOI: 10.1207/s15327892mcp0602_4. This journal article was authored by two

University of Nebraska-Kearney professors and through a comparative Nebraska social

studies textbook study, they found five emerging themes as it relates to how contemporary

textbooks portray Native Americans. These characteristic Native American themes and

“images included thievery, brutality, lazy men, alcoholism, and magic” (Moore & Clark

19). Moore and Clark’s study details the damaging effects this kind of portrayal has upon

students in shaping their conceptions of Native lived experiences and presence in both

historic and contemporary contexts. This source offers a contemporary example of how

current educational traditions relating to Native American cultural education falters

tremendously from a space of commemoration and honoring the First Peoples of the Great

Plains. This source will be another supporting artifact which attempts to combine fragments

of both the current ways Nebraska treats Native American history and education against the

commemorative intentions of Alexander’s Nebraska State Capitol Building.