I really really cannot think of any major issue in the world today that I have any experience with. I could say that I go to a school…and it is possible that I could experience a school shooting, but I haven’t, and I don’t want to do that anyways. It’s not really a debate actually…what am I thinking. I’m little disconnected today. Ok, so I’ve resorted to using a non-worldy debate and decided to write a 6-8 page paper on whether it should be “catsup” or “ketchup”. Hey, it could be debatable. Condiment conneseurs have pondered that question for ages. I mean, why would someone name a condiment after an animal (cat), and then add some slang generation x greeting (sup) on the end? That’s odd. But then there’s ketchup. What exactly are you, or I, or anyone really “catching up” to? If we just said spelled it like “catchup”, it turns out that it has the “cat” element of catsup, plus the pronounciation of “ketchup”.
-Where did these names originate?
-Who named them?
-Are ketchup/catsup condiment companies enraged in rivalry?
There it is…
I would interview Jim Morrison of The Doors. If you know about him, you’d know why I’d want to interview him. He was a irreplaceably strange, artistic individual with very strong beliefs and actions. I’d probably ask him what he thinks of modern society, what his take on life is, how his music affects him in performance or in everyday life. I’d really be interested in the actual visual/audial things that change when on the drugs he took…but I don’t know if I’d ask that. It would be interesting though.
Me… about a good 20 minutes. I’m still not satisfied; I’m a huge perfectionist. Ah well.
SUDDEN MASSIVE SNOWSTORMS AND THE EFFECTS OF THE INFAMOUS GLOBAL WARMING!
Well folks, in case you haven’t noticed, we didn’t get much snow at all this year…..UNTIL NOW!! I believe that global warming is messing up our climate, weather and environments, and we should do something about it. Heat waves, glaciers melting, coral reef bleaching, even the spreading of some diseases has occured because of it. Let’s get it back to normal.
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Tuition Costs
Minnesota has the second highest cost for tuition in the country. I read it on a poster in the bathroom, so it can’t be wrong. I, for one, don’t have a whole lot of money, and alot of other college students end up in debt and paying back these enormous loans for school. If only college were a little more affordable…
Some of the aspects in chapter six that seemed to be the most useful in the first paper were:
- Newsworthiness
- Various research paths
- News story pyramid
- Difference between facts and opinion
Considering that the newsworthiness of the paper is basically what will even allure someone into reading it at all, I believe that it is very important to have a topic that people can find interesting and/or relate to.
Having many different paths of research available to you is a valuable element in writing a news story. A wide variety of sources including different opinions, quotes, and facts, is always a great help and a good culmination of a group of informations, rather than from a single source.
The news story pyramid looks at the body of a news story in a visual aspect. The pyramid, which is upside-down, begins with the summary in the widest part, following with the most important details, facts, and quotations as it narrows down, and the least important details are just kinda chillin down at the bottom point, being the end of the story.
The difference between facts and opinions is essential to a news story. Using opinions in a news story is like biting into an apple and having it taste like a peanut. It’s just totally weird and wrong. When someone’s reading a news article and at some point the writer says what he thinks, the person reading it *might* find it interesting, but what will really stick with him/her is the facts - what, where, when, how many, to what extent, etc.
I didn’t really find any of these concepts very new to me, except for the news story pyramid.
I have legs. Two of them. And yes, I put my pants on one leg at a time. So, there.
