Analysis of Instructions

We looked at these instructions on how to make a camera lucida and rated how helpful we thought they were. 

At first sight, these instructions on how to build a camera lucida seem to be chaotic. We think this is mainly because they do not look like the instructions we are used to. Clearly numbered steps which would make it much easier to follow are missing completely, let alone an explicit list of materials needed to build the camera lucida. The reader has to figure out all this on his own. Even though these instructions do not follow the classic rules of how instructions should look, they still contain all the necessary information. The drawings, for example, indicate the needed materials. By combining the information from the drawings and the additional instructional texts, it should be possible to build a functional camera lucida based on these instructions. In retrospect, the instructions would need some work without doubt, but yet we have to admit that they turned out more helpful than expected at first glance.

Description of the Photograph "Migrant Mother"

The photograph portrays a middle-aged migrant mother with her three little children, all four of them with gaunt bodies. Clad in worn-out and dirty clothing, their outer appearance indicates a difficult life. At the bottom of the picture an infant is lying on the mother’s lap with its head resting on her left arm, where its face is half-hidden from the camera. The two older children have turned away from the camera. On the right side of the picture one child is clinging to its mother’s shoulder and burying its face in her neck whereas the one on the left side tries to hide itself behind the mother’s shoulder. The center of the photograph is occupied by the mother who is exuding an aura of sadness. Her worn and weather-beaten face bears witness to everything she has gone through. All her worries are apparent in the deep lines that furrow her face. The whole photograph leaves the observer with a strong feeling of sympathy, rooting for a better life for the mother and her three little children.

Dorothea Lange "Migrant Mother"

A day in the life of... mine - a picture chronicle

200 decibel loud snoring woke me up. I cautiously collected my stuff and left the hostel. At nine am, Galway seemed to be just waking up: shops were being opened, waste bins were being emptied and the streets were being cleaned up. Two hours of sightseeing later, I had been to the St. Nicholas Cathedral, walked down Kirwan’s Lane and almost missed the not so special Spanish Arch. Now that the sun was standing high, I crossed the bridge and went to the beach to kill the remaining hour until my bus towards Dublin would leave. Smiling towards the sun, I had to think of Philipp, who had promised me nothing but bad weather. Only seconds later, I needed all my strength standing against the strong wind. At the same time, I got slapped in the face by heavy rain, hail and salt water. I found myself soaking wet within ten minutes, which left me no other choice than to return to the hostel and beg for them to let me into their bathroom again. Inspecting the damage, I gave up and pulled on the only try piece of clothing left: my pyjamas. Three and a half hour later, everyone on the backed Friday afternoon bus had asked me about my clothes.

Revised Deflation Grave Summary

Original version:


Summary of “Europe already has one foot in ‘Japanese’ deflation grave”

 Ambros Evans-Pritchard, in the Telegraph of October 23, 2013 explains why a policy error in Europe could soon cause a deflation crisis.

Recently inflation in the euro zone has dropped to 0.9 pc with no signs of turning into an upwards trend anytime soon. That is putting the euro zone on the edge of a deflation crisis. According to Evans-Pritchard, a deflation would become absolutely disastrous once a country’s debt surpasses 300pc of GDP. For Countries like Italy or Spain deflation would mean a “runaway debt” situation.

Evans-Pritchard believes the ECB should be doing everything to ensure the inflation does not fall below 2pc. Instead, due to a strong bias towards Germany, the ECB is sitting on its hands, waiting for the global economy to grow again and lift the European economy up. Ironically Germany, fundamentally voting against inflation, is on the edge of deflation itself. According to Evans-Pritchard that offers the perfect opportunity for the “Club Med allies” to unify and use their authority and persuade the ECB to change its policy. If nothing changes Evans-Pritchard fears Europe will follow into Japans footsteps. All it needs is one nasty surprise and Europe will have its very own deflation crisis.

Revised version:
Summary of “Europe already has one foot in ‘Japanese’ deflation grave”

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, in the Telegraph of October 23, 2013 explains why a policy error in Europe could soon cause a deflation crisis.

Recently inflation in the euro zone has dropped to 0.9 pc with no signs of turning into an upwards trend anytime soon. According to Evans-Pritchard, deflation would becomes absolutely disastrous once a country’s debt surpasses 300pc of GDP. For countries like Italy or Spain deflation would result in “runaway debt”.

Evans-Pritchard believes the ECB should be doing everything to ensure inflation does not fall below 2pc. Instead, due to a strong bias towards Germany, the ECB is sitting on its hands, waiting for the global economy to grow again and lift the European economy up. Ironically Germany, fundamentally voting against inflation, is on the edge of deflation itself. According to Evans-Pritchard that offers the perfect opportunity for the “Club Med allies” to unify and use their authority and persuade the ECB to change its policy. If nothing changes Evans-Pritchard fears Europe will follow into Japans’ footsteps. Only one surprise could act as a catalyst and Europe will have its very own deflation crisis.

Deflation crisis in Europe

Summary:      Europe already has one foot in ‘Japanese’ deflation grave

Ambrose Evans- Pritchard writes in his article, published in The Telegraph on October 23th 2013, about Europe’s inflation crisis and how policy errors increase debt. He describes Europe as the world’s next epicenter of policy errors. Consequently, deflation becomes lethal for most of Western Europe. Many countries, for example France, Italy, Spain etc. have seen price falls and are now standing with one foot in deflation. The Eurozone is close to the danger of exploding dept ratios. Using the example of Italy there are two options to get out of this dilemma - return to the lira or increase the primary budget to 6.3% to stabilize debt, which is unrealistic. Over the past two years, Italy’s debt has jumped from 121% to 132% - this ‘denominator effect’ happens when debt rise faster than the nominal GDP. It is not only the public debt, but also the private debt which causes problems. Companies run down their liquid assets to stay in business. The author proposes a possible break out of this impasse with Club Med forcing Germany to accept inflation. He says once you let deflation lodge in your system, it takes heaven and earth to get out of it.

My comments:

I like the topic sentence. However, there is no space between names that are joined with a hyphen.
The second sentence more or less repeats what you have said already, so it is kind of redundant. I would lose it.
The ext mistake that caught my eye is this part: "increase the primary budget to 6.3% to stabilize debt". I do not think, "to 6.3%" is unclear. First of all, it would be "by 6.3%". Secondly, 6.3% of what? 

debt rises

The last couple of sentences in your paragraph do not link very well. I can see your bullet points.

Again I do like the last sentence. Even though, I am not sure whether or not the register is right.