Ch 8: Additional Writing Assignment 5 (Visual Assignment)

  1. Visual Assignment. Write an essay explaining the causes, effects, or both captured or implied in the visuals below. Establish the purpose of your explanation, effectively identify and organize the causes or effects, and support your points with details that you observe in the images.

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    This graph shows a decrease in the percentage of households with landline phones and an increase in the number of households that own only cell phones over a ten-year period.
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    A lineman repairs storm-damaged telephone lines in McNeill, Mississippi. Landline infrastructure is aging and repairs are expensive, which has led some phone companies to advocate for the relaxation of repair requirements and for the transition of certain areas to wireless-only service.
    AP Images/Rogelio V. Solis.
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    In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, some residents in New York City struggled to find cell phone service.
    Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images.