Month: January 2018

Animal Farm

  • Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
  • Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
  • No animal shall wear clothes.
  • No animal shall sleep in a bed.
  • No animal shall drink alcohol.
  • No animal shall kill any other animal.
  • All animals are equal.

1). This is not a good rule because some humans are nice. This will become a problem when they are in need of help from the humans.

2). Not all animals with four legs of wings are friends to them. Some of them could turn against one another.
3). This is a good rule for them because animals don’t need clothes. This wouldn’t cause any problems in the future.
4). This is a good rule because animals don’t need to sleep in beds if only a few are able to, it wouldn’t be fair to the other animals.
5). This is good because if an animal were to drink alcohol, it would probably die. This wouldn’t cause any problems.
6). This is a good rule because if they are able to kill other animals, they would probably do it more often.
7). This is a good rule so that no one gets left out of anything. This wouldn’t cause any problems.

Major News post 2

Bibliographic Information

  • Author(s) of article:  Jim Turner
  • Title of article:Hurricane Harvey Irma brings ideas
  • Name of magazine, newspaper, website, etc. containing the article: www.floridatoday.com
  • Date article was published: December 26, 2017
  • Web address: www.floridatoday.com

Summary Information

  • Discuss the effectiveness of the headline in summarizing the story and getting the reader’s attention. It is saying that they lost lots of money.
  • Briefly describe the factual content of the story related to the lead: 5 W’s and the H.
  • Who: Economy
  • What: Hurricane Irma
  • When: 2017
  • Where: Florida
  • Why: It caused a lot of damage
  • How: The storm was very powerful.
  • Were all the 5 “W’s” and “H” answered? Yes
  • Of all the 5 “W’s” and “H”, star the one you think is the most important. Tell why. The economy because it was effected the most.
  • Magnitude of the event in story. Very important
  • Is it international, national, or local? International
  • What is its impact? How many people were affected by it? It damaged the stock market. Lots of people were effected by it.
  • Briefly state the main idea or thesis presented in this article: Hurricane Irma brought a lot of costs for the state.
  • Facts in a news story are supposed to be arranged from most to least important.
  • Do you believe he author did this effectively? Why? Yes because they were all organized by importance.

Reliability of Sources

  • Did the article come from a wire service. yes
  • Who are the sources in the article itself? (Examples: lawyer, doctor, neighbor, police officer, forensics expert) state officials
  • List one quote that made the article sound more reliable.”The insurance industry is facing $6.55 billion in property damage claims.”

 

Personal Reaction

  • What was the most surprising/interesting thing you found out by reading this article? Hurricane Irma caused 2.5 million in damages in crops and facilities.
  • What question(s) do you have after reading this article? “Was the entire state affected?”
  • What would you like to learn more about? How people are helping with the damage.

Major New Event

Bibliographic Information

  • Author(s) of article: Chris Duckett
  • Title of article:China shuttered 128,000 sites during 2017 internet crackdown
  • Name of magazine, newspaper, website, etc. containing the article: zdnet.com
  • Date article was published: January 09, 2018
  • Web address: www.zdnet.com

Summary Information

  • Discuss the effectiveness of the headline in summarizing the story and getting the reader’s attention. China had to shut down internet websites that contained harmful of obscene content.
  • Briefly describe the factual content of the story related to the lead: 5 W’s and the H.
  • Who: China
  • What: Shut down internet sites
  • When: 2017
  • Where: China
  • Why: They contained obscene or other “harmful” content
  • How: Removal of all VPN apps by Apple from the Chinese app store.*
  • Were all the 5 “W’s” and “H” answered? yes
  • Of all the 5 “W’s” and “H”, star the one you think is the most important. Tell why. They had to remove all of the apps. This was the most important thing they had to do.
  • Magnitude of the event in story Important to everyone
  • Is it international, national, or local? International
  • What is its impact? How many people were affected by it? About 1,900 people were affected.
  • Briefly state the main idea or thesis presented in this article: China had to shut down lots of internet websites.
  • Facts in a news story are supposed to be arranged from most to least important.
  • Do you believe he author did this effectively?  No. He put some of the most important facts at the end of the story.

Reliability of Sources

  • Did the article come from a wire service? Yes
  • Who are the sources in the article itself? (Examples: lawyer, doctor, neighbor, police officer, forensics expert)Chinese law enforments
  • List one quote that made the article sound more reliable.”In other words, WeChat issued a blanket ban on his name after his death, greatly expanding the scope of censorship.”

 

Personal Reaction

  • What was the most surprising/interesting thing you found out by reading this article? The amount of websites they had to take down.
  • What question(s) do you have after reading this article? Why did they have those messages censored.
  • What would you like to learn more about? The Chinese government.