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A. What is the most powerful image from the pictures printed in the Denver Post over the three weeks they published images from the year of coverage? Why?

The one where he is sitting turned away from the screen and alone mending his elbow, because everyone else is sitting together, as a group, and he isn't

B. How do the images work together to tell a story?

They reveal Fisher's life in the army

C. How do the captions enhance the photographs?

They explain things that can't be understood from the image

D. Summarize the story of Ian Fisher, based just on the captions.

He went through a boot camp, lived on drugs and energy drinks, switched platoons, fought in Iraq, returned home, and married Kristen

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

Past tense

F. Break down the captions:

1. How many sentences are they on average?
     3
2. Read the first sentence of a couple of them, what information do they provide? 
      What's happening in the photo
3. Read the second sentences of a couple of them, what information do they provide?
       What happened afterwards
4. If there is a third sentence, what information does it provide?
       A quote
5. Do any captions include a quote?
      Yes, a few do
6. Are there any that have four sentences?
      No
G. Why do you think it is possible to tell a complete story with just photos and captions?

Because you can tell what's happening in the photos and read more info in the captions

H. If you can create a story with just photos and captions, why bother writing a story at all?

Because the photos and captions don't stimulate our senses as much as words do.