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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Combat Journalism Homework

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Child labor.
What a fucking joke that term is. Six million people on this planet, most of them breeding and producing creatures that are useless until they've reached majority. The minute some right minded citizen finds a use for any of the little vagina droppings, along comes some left wing softhead who negates the whole thing. Our tax dollars go to support the little rats by funding scholastic programs and community activities, and the only payback we're supposed to expect is the beauty of their tiny, shining faces. Screw that. Teach the little fungi to pick up litter or wash my car, weed the gardens or be a greeter at WalMart, and I'll consider my tax dollars well spent. "Child Labor" has become the buzzwords for the very people who'd like to see the larvae maintain their useless status, when instead it should become a keyword for a movement to make children more productive members of society. Anything a homeless person can do, a child of seven could do better, and there's no reason we as a society can't train them accordingly. Given proper training, the rugrats could be flipping burgers by the time they're out of elementary school.

((ooc: FUCK! My ride's here. Assume it goes on in this vein and includes at least one reference to Swift's 'Modest Proposal' and a suggestion that what children really need are more natural predators.))