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: Nothing but Food by Beka Valentine

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Beka hands in a crisp, cleanly typed essay of precisely 200 words.

Journalism 301 Homework

No one knows where they came from. No one remembers who first called them the Magog. The destroyers of civilization. No one knows, no one remembers, and they’re not telling.

They’re too damned busy eating us to talk to us.

All we really know about the Magog is that while they’re fully sapient, they cannibalize sentient beings. They snack on human babies like corn chips with bloody salsa.

Even if ninety-nine percent of the Magog converted to Wayism, the remaining Magog could wipe out the entire human species in 44.7 years.

But they won’t all convert. Not even a tenth will. Not even a fraction of a percent. Wayists practice peace, toleration, cooperation, charity. Magog only care about laying their damned eggs in us so we can die slow, horrible deaths, or shredding us like waste paper leavings.

Not peace. Never peace.

And what do they know of cooperation?

Pack murder. Wholesale slaughter.

Unchecked, they’ll commit genoicide. Yet it won’t even be that. Genoicide pre-supposes they’re deliberately killing us. That for some reason, we’re an obstacle or an affront.

They don’t care about us. They don’t care about our past, or our future. We’re nothing to them.

Nothing but food.

Re: Journalism 301: Nothing but Food by Beka Valentine

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Pass. Very well done.

Re: Journalism 301: Nothing but Food by Beka Valentine

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

*considers* I like this class. Am I limited to two days per week?

If so, may I add Combat Journalism? I can take care of myself.