After clicking on the article The Fall of the Twin Towers on the Washingtonpost.com website, I felt they used a great piece of medium to explain this tragic story. There were no words or dialect chosen to show what the article was trying to get across. After watching this slideshow I realized there were no words needed to make this a great online story. The pictures explained the feeling you are supposed to get while viewing and the pictures explained everything that would have been written. I do not believe that all articles can be posted in such way. Because this event was so tragic and there were a lot of pictures taken first hand, the pictures describe themselves. The pictures also are shown in chronological order, which acts like a video or also a story. The importance of pictures for this article is very high, because if this article was just explained in words, the emotion might not be the same. I loved every aspect this article has because it is not to short, but definitely has a lot of meaning behind it.
The article A Tribute to Our Troops is little different type of online story telling article that uses the community in order to complete the storyline. At this website you can search for a troop that you may know in your hometown to see if they have a page. After looking for a person you may be related to or know you can comment on their page and write messages to them personally. This is a great way to interact with someone in the community that may be over fighting for our country. Not everyone in the military has a page. They have to make one to be able to comment on them. That is the only down fault to this article, because you cannot just communicate to everyone that maybe in the military. They have to have a page for you to comment or pray for them. They do though have a link right underneath that you can type in your email address to start a page for a loved one you may know. This definitely is a great way that is easy to use for online story telling. In my opinion I feel that the community is the number one choice to go to when writing articles, because they are the readers as well, and know what they would like to see within an article.
I already read an article that relates to the twin towers, but I wanted to share this article as well. The article is called Shattered, which is also is a slide show showing different pictures than the article The Fall of the Twin Towers. Maybe I was comparing the two because they are on the same issue, but this article is not really that good. I feel as though some type of words need to be attached to these pictures. The only reason I could actually tell these pictures were from the fall of the towers is because I have a great bit of knowledge and remember what the scene looked like from other pictures. Someone who is not familiar with this tragic event may not know where these pictures came from, because they do not actually show the twin towers at all. The only way this article I believe could be used without any words would maybe add some more pictures of the tower actually collapsing. The slideshow definitely has some unique and outstanding pictures, but I feel as though there needs to be more to make this story telling article complete.
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