B.J.F, 2017.) The news trainee copied the report verbatim, including the B.J.F.’s full name. The trainee typed up a one-paragraph story of the incident and it was published in the “Robberies” section, even though The Florida Star also had an internal policy against the
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The disastrous Hurricane Agnes wreaked immense havoc on the citizens of the Eastern United States with extensive, fatal flood conditions which resulted from the storm. Agnes’s unpredictable path led to traumatic transformations of the East Coast. Due to their lack of flood prevention preparations, the citizens on the Eastern seaboard struggled from the structural devastation for a long period of time, especially in Pennsylvania. The flood of 1972 severely impacted Northeastern Pennsylvania causing
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blend of French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Canary Island, Caribbean, German, Irish, and American Dixie culture. It's a Catholic city and has affinities with Boston and Chicago and Miami in that sense...”(qtd. in Quora). Having all that diversity of New Orleans, Lousiana, why in the hell is the spokesperson for Popeyes Lousiana Fried Chicken, a sassy black woman character appropriately named “Annie the Chicken Queen” or to some known as the modern day “Mammie”, with her in your face quips like “Get up
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california. Overnite Express knows how to keep customers comiing back. Thier completion rate is 99.9% and their ontime rate is 99.2%. These numbers are huge compared to its competitors. In fact 99% of new customers were prevous fedex customers. Due to their excellent track record and their ability to acquire new customers and keep old customers pitting out referrels, Overnite Express has been growing at a rate of 25 to 30 percent since 1998. Although Ukropina would like to keep the business
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certain new reports are getting too much attention. The most important stories are never seen on television or read in the newspaper, or heard on the radio stations, while minor and trivial stories get the most coverage. Hence celebrity engagements, divorce, entrance to rehab centers and DUI cases that are sold to the media. Americans are then left without valuable information contrary to what story is getting 24- hour news coverage. Media bias is a term used to describe prejudice in news and
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Housing market in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina Table of contents 1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………3 2. Pre-Katrina situation ………………………..…………………………………..4 3. After-Katrina situation…………………………………………………………..6 4. Current situation New Orleans….………………………………………………8 5. Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...…9 6. References…………………………………………………………………….….10 Introduction It is August 29th of 2005 when the United States of America is badly affected
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SAMPLE FEATURE STORY A feature story explores a news issue from a very particular angle. It is based on extensive research and interviewing. . The Long Road Home In New Orleans, families struggle to return to normal one year after Hurricane Katrina. © Weekly Reader Publishing, Teen Newsweek, 2006 Chakia Boutte, 12, surveys what she has lost in the year since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. The playground where she once spent afternoons is closed. Her block is full of stormwrecked homes
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going to talk about are classism, discrimination, and stereotypes in that respected order. This film brought up several issues, but those are the three I chose to focus on because these three were more predominate throughout the film. Set in New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century, The Princess and the Frog concerns a poor African-American girl named Tiana who has a knack for cooking, and dreams of opening her own restaurant. Her best friend since childhood is a privileged white girl whose
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with the use of electronic musical instruments like Akai’s Music Production Controller (MPC), it is easier to “sample” music. Sampling music is based around the idea of taking certain sections of songs or sound recordings and reusing it to create a new song entirely. The sampling of primarily funk, soul, and jazz music in hip-hop is the direct result of the music lineage of African Americans in the twentieth century and therefore shares certain commonalities. The many overlaps between the genres
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Super Bowl Madness (Fiction/Inference) Handout Do Now: Read making inferences short story and answer questions on handout. Think-Pair-Share: What is Super Bowl Madness? Write response on handout in two to three sentences. Guided Practice – Read the story “Super Bowl Madness” and create story map on T-chart below We Do #1 Which statement best expresses the main conflict in the excerpt? A. Marie McCormick being upset about the last minute Super Bowl Sunday party at her house. B
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