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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.

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So, I was wondering, does the 100 words you assigned me just before you kicked me out of class count as the weekly assignment? Or do I need to write 200 words on how much of a fucking bastard you are?

100 words on my complete bastardness and 100 more on whatever you want. 200 words on the one topic doesn't fulfil the course requirement, but if you want to write two separate 100 word presentations on my total and glorious resemblance to an asshole, that will take care of the entire business.

*smirks, salutes*

Aye, aye, O' captain, my captain.

Chihaya slipped in quietly while Professor jerusalem_s was unavailable and pushed a neatly typed on clean white paper, small submission for review, even though he was not currently signed up for the Journalism 101.

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The initial news information on the television and in print in regards to Hurricane Katrina illustrated just how bloated and self-interested the field of journalism has grown.

Focus was not on the accurate reporting of events but on the sensationalism of the plight of the victims, not only of the storm, but of the subsequent chaos that followed.

Clearly, the reporting was biased to reflect the slant of the news release agencies and not a truthful accounting of happenings as they occurred.

It has raised the question: can reporting agencies be free of the biases and slants of their sponsors?

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Katrina? Never heard of that one, although judging by your records you come from one of my alternates - probably several centuries in the past.

... why are you doing homework for a class you're not taking? Are you bored, masochistic or just wanting to try it out?

In any case - Pass.

I...well...*chews lip, intimidated by the scary man* Just wanted to try it out...see if I could do it. Plus, I like writing.

Anyway. Thank you, sir!

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.

Journalism 101 homework

Superman is better then Batman.

A lot of people make a big deal over the cooler costume that Batman has and that Superman wears his underwear outside his pants but, seriously, would you rather have a cool costume or invincibility against bullet, knives, and almost anything else?

Batman has a nice car. Superman doesn’t need a car and, therefore, saves a lot of money on gas prices and saves a lot of sanity because he avoids traffic jams.

Let’s not forget the x-ray vision, ability to make things hot or cold with a simple puckering of his mouth, and that sweet curl in his hair.

Besides, Christopher Reeve would so kick Adam West’s ass.

Pass.

114 words. Cut 14 and resubmit.

A very nice job, however, Reyes.

Right. Sorry, dude.

Resubmitted Journalism 101 homework

Superman is better then Batman.

A lot of people make a big deal over the cooler costume that Batman has and that Superman wears his underwear outside his pants but, seriously, would you rather have a cool costume or invincibility against bullet, knives, and almost anything else?

Batman‘s car is nice. Superman doesn’t need a car and, therefore, saves a lot of money on gas prices and saves a lot of sanity because he avoids traffic jams.

X-ray vision, climate control, and that sweet hair curl only make Superman more awesome.

Besides, Christopher Reeve would so kick Adam West’s ass.

Pass.

Proof! *Takes to show Robin*

*hands is more than slightly burnt assignment that looks to be entitled 'Alcohol Used as an Explosive'

Sir? If I get a passing grade, the principal doesn't ever have to know about my cell phone."

... physical proof of events? Pass. This time.

... bastard.

Pass.

But only because I like you. Tidy my apartment or I'll tell her about it.

*Smirks and salutes* Done and done, sir.

Oh, and glad to hear you got out of the closet as well.

The Societal Make-Up of Pre-Roman Celts

One of the many interesting things about Celtic culture as it survived on the British Isles (not the Continental Celts, who were more Gaulish than what is typically considered Celtic) is that their society was bipartisan, like that of the Minbari. Each culture had three distinct classes or castes, a warrior class, a religious or priestly class, and a worker class, usually comprised of artisans, farmers, merchants, and, in the case of the Celts, slaves. The warrior caste is headed by a tribal king, who then answers to his over-king, who answers to the provincial king, who answers to the high king; however, the existence of this high king has been in doubt for quite a while, and is seen as merely literary propaganda by one province (Ulaid/Ulster) to support their claim to rule Ireland. This rather sharp demarcation of society is in direct contrast with the prevalence of magic realism in their art, literature, and society. While there are two 'worlds', the real and the 'other' (not to be confused with the Classical underworld), often the line between the two becomes irrevocably blurred. Kings become gods; gods appear no more than human; shapeshifting abounds; the sidhe (fairy-folk) run rampant.

The famous Maynards winegum candies of the United Kingdom; the current favorite flavor of the winegum is black current. A black gummie with enough bite to make you have to have an acquired taste for it before you like it; has long been a favorite of mine. In fact the curious thing about the Winegums is that I cannot discern any flavor out of the bag but the Black Current. All in all wine gums are better then any gummy candy in the United States; they are chewier and have a stronger flavor then the standard size U.S. gummie bear.

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.

Pass. Including the fact that I found this interesting. Well done.

Now I have the munchies. Thanks a lot. Pass.

Pass. Ancient history isn't something I see often, and two in one class...

I need to spend more time in the library. Assistant? Remind me have a chat with Professor Methos.

[Printout with a blood-smudged fingerprint in the upper right corner.]

Vampires do not make good roommates for humans. First, because humans are the vampire's (un)natural food source; humans do not make good roommates for a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, for the same reason. Second, because vampires are assholes, and when you point out the food thing, sneer at you and act like they'd never stoop so low as to eat you. Right. Third, because vampires are major assholes and drip blood from unidentified sources on your homework while chortling obnoxiously over it, and then you have to rewrite the last reason because you can't read the old one anymore.

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