Week One - Journalism Homework - Due Midnight 9/14/05

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You have till midnight next Wednesday to get these submitted. If you want to be certain of the requirements for each course, they can be found here.

Journalism 101
100 words on the topic of your choice.

Journalism 201
150 words on alcohol.

Journalism 301
200 truthful words on the topic of your choice.

Advanced Journalism
100 riveting, truthful words on a topic of personal interest.

Combat Journalism
100-150 words in a slanted article on legalizing child labor. Pro or Con is your choice – the object is to stir up a heated reaction.

Photojournalism has no homework until I’ve been informed what sort of equipment the students have gotten hold of.

Please be sure to put which course your response is for in the subject line of your comment for easier grading. This post and all other homework posts will be added to the memories section of my journal so that you can find it again to post when your homework is complete. On Tuesday morning of next week I’ll post a reminder and a link back to this entry.

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Journalism 301 [repost]

[last-worde.livejournal.com]

They say Ankh-Morkpork is a city that never sleeps, and certainly that’s true, because when else are the Assassins going to work? Assassins like the dark. It goes with their outfits.

Which isn’t to say they don’t work in the daylight. But you probably won’t see them then, either, unless it’s already too late.

Or unless you’re Commander Vimes of the Watch, who has so jury-rigged his home and office that any Assassin who takes his contract is liable to wind up in pieces, in flames, or on a ship bound for the Counterweight Continent, travelling by means of a chain connected at one end to an ankle and at the other to the hull of the ship.

The Assassin’s Guild guards its secrets and cultivates its aura of dangerous mystique with many small and deadly devices, but older brothers tend to boast, and so I’ve learned perhaps more than they’d like. The Assassin’s Guild is a school for the very rich, and the very rich—Old Blood and Old Money—are characterised by an arrogance as deep as their pockets.

In the end, though, what the Guild turns out are very expensive killers-for-hire with a propensity for wearing black.

Re: Journalism 301 [repost]

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

Pass.