http://jerusalem-s.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] jerusalem-s.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2005-09-07 09:02 pm
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Week One - Journalism Homework - Due Midnight 9/14/05



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.

[identity profile] whitedeathpod.livejournal.com 2005-09-12 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Journalism 301 homework

The first proposal for a manned station happened in 1869, when an American novelist relayed the story of how a "Brick Moon" came to orbit Earth to help ships navigate at sea. In 1923, Romanian Hermann Oberth was the first to use the term "space station" to describe a wheel-like facility that would serve as the jumping off place for human journeys to the moon and Mars. In 1952, Dr. Werner von Braun published his concept of a space station in Collier's magazine. He envisioned a space station that would have a diameter of 250 feet, orbit more than 1,000 miles above the Earth, and spin to provide artificial gravity through centrifugal force.

The Soviet Union launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1, in 1971 - a decade after launching the first human into space. The United States sent its first space station, the larger Skylab, into orbit in 1973 and it hosted three crews before it was abandoned in 1974. Russia continued to focus on long-duration space missions and in 1986 launched the first modules of the Mir space station.

In 1998, the first two modules of the International Space Station were launched and joined together in orbit.