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Today was my first final and it was Biology (not my best subject) but i got through it. It took time but i feel very confident about the test. The rest of my finals should not be as stressful as this one but they all require a lot of work. I couldnt get through my finals without my music and watching wrestling. Good Luck Everyone and have a great holiday break!

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School is almost over for the year. Study Hard and good luck on finals.

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This audio news story talks about the Paris attacks that happened on November 13, 2015. Our hearts and prayers are with the victims and their families during this difficult time.

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Kates                                      Name: Angelic Thompson November 2, 2015

 

Exercise 7: Writing for Broadcast (50 points)

 

Remember these key concepts for broadcast writing, from the PowerPoint and your text:

 

• Use a conversational tone, with clear, direct sentences and words of one or two syllables, where possible.
• Often, you can use present or present-perfect tense to give a sense of immediacy.
• Keep sentences short – preferably under 20 words.
• Convey one main idea per sentence.
• AP style is not needed. Write your script so it can be read easily. Spell out titles such as Governor and spell out numbers such as nine thousand. Terms that are pronounced one letter at a time, such as N-P-R, T-V or H-I-V, should be hyphenated for clarity.
• The subject and verb of a sentence should be close together.
• Write in the active voice, not the passive. Use parts of speech in the order in which a 2-year-old talks: subject, verb, direct object (“Daddy throw the ball”).
• Often, a “set-up” or “throwaway” lede will set the stage and invite listeners into a story.
• Put attribution at the beginning of sentences, not at the end as with print.
• Don’t use numbers to excess. When you use numbers, try to round them off.

 

Part I (20 points)

 

Read this partial transcript of the hourly news summary from National Public Radio. Ten basics of good broadcast writing (“Use a conversational tone,” etc.) are listed in the bullet points above. You’ll find that all 10 of them (yes, all 10) are employed at various points in the transcript below. Highlight and label a passage that illustrates each of the 10 principles. For example, if a news anchor says, “The White House says it’s keeping the door open on a bipartisan plan to cut taxes,” that would illustrate the principle of using a conversational tone.

 

CRAIG WINDHAM: From N-P-R News in Washington, I’m Craig Windham.

 

The White House says the U.S. is firmly committed to the defense of South Korea, and is strongly condemning North Korea’s artillery attack on the South today on an island there. (1. Illustrating the principle of using conversational tone).The barrage of shells killed two South Korean marines and injured more than a dozen others. Michael Ri reports from Seoul that the attack triggered an hour-long exchange of artillery fire between North and South Korea.

 

MICHAEL RI:  The South had been conducting drills this week around the island, which sits near the tense western sea border between the two countries. (7.Write in the active voice, not the passive)  South Korea’s Foreign Ministry has called the attack a clear provocation that violates multiple agreements. The North claims the South fired first in the incident, and in typical fashion has warned of more retaliation if provoked. For N-P-R News (5. AP style is not needed, hyphenate when possible), I’m Michael Ri in Seoul.

 

CRAIG WINDHAM: The Commerce Department is revising upward its estimate of the annual pace of growth in the U.S. economy in the third quarter, from two percent up to two-and-a-half percent. (2.you can use present or present-perfect tense to give a sense of immediacy) One reason: More consumers are spending for cars and other big-ticket items. Still, many economists say the economy would have to be growing twice that fast to bring down the unemployment rate. Another report out today finds that sales of previously owned homes declined slightly in October.

 

New research is showing that talking a single pill containing anti-H-I-V drugs (5. AP style is not needed, hyphenate when possible) can reduce the risk of contracting the virus by an average of forty-four percent, and more than seventy percent for patients who took most of their pills. The study involved more than twenty-five hundred high-risk gay men. (10. Don’t use numbers to excess. When you use numbers, try to round them off)  N-P-R’s (5) Richard Knox says a new United Nations report finds that thirty-three and a half million people worldwide are H-I-V- (5) positive.

 

RICHARD KNOX: The AIDS pandemic peaked in 1999. (4. Convey one main idea per sentence). Since then, widespread condom use and education have cut new infections by almost a fifth. The number of people dying of AIDS is also a fifth lower than in 2004, mostly because millions of people around the world are getting anti-viral drugs. But two-thirds of the people who need AIDS drugs still can’t get them. Richard Knox, N-P-R News (5).

 

CRAIG WINDHAM: A new survey finds that nearly two-thirds of Americans are supportive of the full-body screenings being used at the nation’s airports.  (6.The subject and verb of a sentence should be close together) Critics have proposed a boycott of the body scanners for Wednesday, which will be one of the busiest travel days of the year. That would require more travelers to undergo pat-down searches.

 

In France, members of several trade unions are back on the streets today to protest changes in that country’s pension law. Eleanor Beardsley reports from Paris that union leaders are pressing on with their fight. (3. Keep sentences short – preferably under 20 words)

• ELEANOR BEARDSLEY: Five out of eight French unions have called for a continuation of the social protest against the new retirement law. The law raises the minimum retirement age from sixty to sixty-two, and the full retirement age from sixty-five to sixty-seven. (10.Don’t use numbers to excess. When you use numbers, try to round them off.) The hard-line unions say they want big changes in the law, which they say unfairly puts the burden on workers. They’re marching in cities across France in some two hundred planned demonstrations. No disruptions in public services are expected. For N-P-R News (5), I’m Eleanor Beardsley in Paris.

 

CRAIG WINDHAM: Winter has come early to parts of the American West. (8. Often, a “set-up” or “throwaway” lede will set the stage and invite listeners into a story.) Most of eastern Washington state is bracing for blizzard conditions today as a massive storm system rolls through the region. Hazardous driving conditions are expected across most of the state.

 

Animal welfare groups are looking for people to adopt about a thousand rats that were rescued from a home featured on the reality T-V show “The Hoarders.” Alexis Raymond from the group United Animal Nations says the rats are currently being pampered in a pet shop in San Jose, California. (9. Put attribution at the beginning of sentences, not at the end as with print)

 

I’m Craig Windham, N-P-R News, in Washington.

Part II (3 points each, total 30 points)

 

Rewrite each sentence in broadcast style, as directed.

 

Sentence 1. Rewrite for broadcast to reflect the following principle: Use a conversational tone, with clear, direct sentences and words of one or two syllables, where possible. Use present tense.

 

The mayor indicated that the city would have to revise its spending upward substantially for purposes of sidewalk construction.

The mayor indicated the city would revise the budget because of sidewalk construction.

 

Sentence 2. Rewrite for broadcast using present or present-perfect tense to give a sense of immediacy. Split it into two sentences.

 

White House sources said today that President Barack Obama had rejected a Republican plan to cut the budget deficit, believing it places too great a burden on the nation’s poor.

President Obama has rejected the Republican plan to cut the budget deficit. He believes it places too great a burden on the nation’s poor.

 

Sentence 3. Rewrite for broadcast and split into two sentences to reflect the principle that sentences should be kept short – preferably under 20 words. You can stick with past tense here.

 

A Union Pacific freight train carrying nitric acid derailed today near Lincoln, Nebraska, forcing the evacuation of two hundred homes and sending thirty people to a hospital for treatment of respiratory ailments.

A Union Pacific freight train carrying nitric acid derailed today near Lincoln, Nebraska. It forced evacuation of two hundred homes and sent thirty people to hospital for treatment of respiratory ailments.

 

Sentence 4. Rewrite for broadcast as two or three sentences, to convey one main idea per sentence.

 

The Air Force budget, which was unveiled today at the Pentagon, would close two air bases in Asia but also would spend thirty-three billion dollars on a new missile-defense, an item that immediately drew a veto threat from President Barack Obama.

The Air Force budget was unveiled today at the Pentagon. It would close two air bases in Asia. It also would spend thirty-three billion dollars on a new missile defense that President Obama threatened to veto on.

 

 

Sentence 5. Rewrite for broadcast to reflect the following principle: Write your script so it can be read easily. Spell out titles such as Governor and spell out numbers such as nine thousand.

 

Gov. Frank Fitzhugh today endorsed Sen. Scott Smith’s idea to shut down the state veterinary clinic, a move that would save $980,000 a year.

Governor Frank Fitzhugh today endorsed Senator Scott Smith’s idea to shut down the state veterinary clinic, a move that would save nine thousand eight hundred dollars a year.

 

Sentence 6. Rewrite for broadcast, in two or three sentences, to reflect this principle: The subject and verb of a sentence should be close together. (Note: Because you’re writing about history here, you’ll stay with the past tense.)

 

Ronald Reagan, who began his political career as the leader of the Hollywood film actors’ union, changed his tune when he became president, saying that unions hurt the productivity of American businesses.

Ronald Regan began his political career as leader of the Hollywood film actors’ union. When he became president he changed his tune. Unions hurt the productivity of American businesses.

 

 

 

 

 

Sentence 7: Rewrite for broadcast using the active voice, not the passive.

 

The bill raising the minimum wage was passed by Congress and sent to the president.

Congress passed the rise of minimum wage bill to the president.

 

 

Sentence 8: Rewrite for broadcast in two or three sentences, using a “set-up” or “throwaway” lede.

 

Former Chicago Mayor Rod Blagojevich, who resigned in a corruption scandal, will host a new reality T-V show called “The World’s Sleaziest People.”

Politicians are known to have scandals while in office. Former Chicago Mayor Rod Blagojevich is a host of a new reality T-V show called “The World’s Sleaziest People”.

 

Sentence 9: Rewrite for broadcast to put attribution at the beginning of the sentence, not at the end.

 

Nine pounds of cocaine were seized in the raid, and six people were arrested, police said.

Police said they arrested six people during a raid on nine pounds of cocaine.

 

Sentence 10: Rewrite these two sentences for broadcast to reflect this principle: Don’t use numbers to excess. When you use numbers, try to round them off.

 

The mayor wants to put 1,110 police officers on the streets of Omaha, an increase from 988 this year. The plan would cost an extra $4,886,772 in its first year, budget analysts say.

The mayor wants to put about one thousand two hundred police officers on the streets of Omaha, an increase from about thousand this year. The pan would cost about five million dollars in its first year, budget analysts say.

 

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Speech Story: Jobs Speech at Stanford

 

On June 12, Steve Jobs gave a commencement speech to the Stanford class of 2005. Steve Jobs is the co-founder of Apple Inc. along with Steve Wozniak.

His speech consisted of three sections, Connect the Dots, Love and Loss and Death. In the first part of his speech, Connect the Dots deals with the beginning of his life and the reason he dropped out and how he found out what he was going to do with his life. He briefly attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He dropped out of college because he felt that it wasn’t right for his parents to be spending their money on something he wasn’t sure about.

“I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out,” Jobs said.

Once he dropped out, he stopped taking the classes that didn’t interest but the one class that did. He decided to just take one class, which happened to be a calligraphy class because he saw calligraphy all throughout the campus and thought it was beautiful. By taking this class, it helped him design the first Macintosh computer. If he didn’t drop out, he would have never taken that course and we wouldn’t have the type of computers we have. He tells these graduates to trust in something because your life is full of connecting the dots to make your life better. You never were you are going until you look back on what you have accomplished.

Love and loss was his next big point in his speech that dealt with finding what he loved to do and how in second it was taken away but found him again. He states that he found what he wanted to do in life at a young age at the age of 20. Woz and Jobs started the Apple Company out of his parent’s garage and by the time they were 30 it had grown from just two people to a $2 billion company. Then after 10 years Jobs hired Sculley, a guy that he thought was very talented, but after a year they saw things differently and Jobs was fired.

“What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn’t know what to do for a few months, I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down,” Jobs stated.

After being fired, he decided to start over with a new company called NeXT and another company called Pixar. During this time, he married the love of his life Laurene. Pixar became the most successful animation studio in the world. NeXT was bought by Apple and then he returned. He states the life can hit your over the head with brick but don’t lose faith. You says you got to find what you to be able to do great work and let nothing stand in your way. He tells them you will know it when you find it, don’t settle.

 

The last part of his speech was about Death. He talks about how life throw curve balls at you when you least expect it. He was diagnosed was pancreatic cancer and had surgery to get it removed. He tells the students live everyday like it’s your last because you never know it could be. He mentions that we are all destined to die, no one has escaped it. He wants people to live their lives to fullest and do what they believe in.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life,” Jobs stated.

 

 

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Event Story: Fundraising with Spaghetti

 

Holy Nativity Lutheran Church organized a Spaghetti dinner fundraiser for their church on October 16. The fundraiser is to help repair the parking lot and roof.

The church has been doing this fundraiser for the last 15 years and every year it is the members of the church that do all the cooking and prepping. It ran from 4 to 8 p.m. in the church’s dining hall. There is also a lovely bake sale that goes on in the library and those baked goods are also made by members of the church. They sell wine and soda to go with the meal. Before you get the meal, they start you off with an amazing Italian type salad and after the meal they give you a choice of amazing deserts.

*Holy Nativity is highly appreciated church among the community of Kenosha because the church always has something nice and fun for anyone of any age to do. The church has been around since the early 1950s and is basically a family to anyone that wants to join. Fundraisers help the church interact with the community and they love doing it every year.

“People from all over Kenosha and sometimes other counties around come to our spaghetti dinner because they know they are spending money on a good cause and that we welcome anyone. Sometimes we get new members to our church through our fundraisers,” states Dawn Knese, secretary of Holy Nativity Lutheran Church for about 8 years.

Donna Simmons, has been a member of the church for about 30 years and is in charge of the whole fundraiser. She started this fundraiser when the church was about to close its doors because they couldn’t get enough donations during services.

“I thought starting a spaghetti dinner fundraiser would be cool because a lot of people like food and will usually come to try it out. Our town is pretty small so it is easy for word to get around and just like that we got a lot of people that year and each year it keeps on growing,” states Simmons.

Holy Nativity relies on the fundraisers they do every year to help keep their church open. They have Bake Sales at least once every month to help with little repairs. While the Spaghetti Dinner and the May Rummage sale each year help repair the big things with the church. The next big fundraiser is in May so, come on down and see what this church has to offer.

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Kittatinny Budget

 

Gustavus G. Petykiewicz, mayor of Kittatinny has proposed a budget for 2016.  The budget has to be approved by December 1 of this year. Before that can happen, the council had a conference with the Mayor and everyone involved with the budget. There happened to be issues with the budget that the people of Kittatinny would like fixed.

Before the conference happened with the city council, the town of Kittatinny has been under a lot of financial stress. It all started when the Susquehanna Steel Corporation had to lay off 600 workers. Since then the town has been making tough decisions and this new balanced budget is an example of that.

The mayor called the meeting to order and stated that he comes to us with a heavy heart and doesn’t take this lightly because the budget has had to cut or raise prices on things such as taxes, police and sanitation.

During the conference, the mayor says for future improvement on the city and budget we could get Kittatinny to be a tourists attraction. The city could also bring in new employment by having an insurance company or a bank.

The biggest cut for the city is the Police Department. The proposed budget is saying we would have to lay off two cops and not have police force between the hours of 4 a.m. to noon. We would have to call Schuylkill County sheriff’s deputies which are about 20 minutes away. Also we would have to give them money for a new police cruiser which costs a lot because of all the equipment the car needs.

Chief of police, Roman Hruska is against the idea of having no cops on duty from 4 a.m. to noon. He says it is a terrible idea because he feels the people of Kittatinny are going to be deprived from police protection for a third of the day. Hruska states that if someone in the town has a domestic violence problem, which to them are the most dangerous, we would have to wait 20 minutes for Schuylkill deputies to arrive and it might be too late. Hruska thinks that police should be the last place to do budget cutting.

“I don’t know what the mayor was smoking. I won’t stand for it,” states Chief of Police Hruska

Bjarne Westhoff, president of Pennsylvania Police Association agrees with everything the Hruska has to say but believes that the mayor is doing this on purpose to get back Hruska. Hruska and Westhoff agree to take a ten percent pay cut if the mayor would do the same which he has agrees to do as well.

“The mayor and the Hruska don’t get along and if this is a personal dispute they need to keep it out of the work environment,” states Westhoff.

Denelda Penoyer, president of Kittatinny council disagrees with the budget of the tax increase from 4 mills to 4.3 mills. That means taxes will be $430 and it could be hard for the people of Kittatinny to pay because of a lot of workers had to be laid off. Since 600 workers were laid off they probably won’t be able to pay taxes at the regular price and if that is true, they sure won’t be able to pay it after it increases.  Also she disagrees with the $30 a month on garbage because for a whole year that is $360. She states that there is a city council meeting every Tuesday night and she encourages people of Kittatinny to come and voice their opinion. Martha Mittengrabben, president of AFSCME says she could help the town by reestablishing the contract the company has but would have to have an election to see if all the worker would agree.

“My workers are scared because they want job security since the work hard and they don’t want to risk it,” states Mittengrabben.

After reviewing the budget the council and everyone involved has a lot to think about. If you don’t like what you see make sure to come to a city council meeting before December 1 to voice your opinion.

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Interview Story: Different but not so Different

 

As a child you don’t think you are different but if people treat you different you begin to wonder. You ask yourself what it wrong with and that is exactly what Kathryn Dickman did when she was six years old.

Kathryn Dickman is 20 years old and is a junior at UW-Whitewater. She is a MAGD major with a Graphic Design Minor.

She grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin and attend Reuther High School. She is an only child to Clint and Jennifer Dickman.

She discovered she had ADHD when she was six years and in first grade. She knew once she started school she was different.

When she started school kids tended not to be near her because she was hyper and crazy as they put it.

“Kids would laugh at me and call me weirdo and crazy. And that was said by five year old. I never thought children would be like that,” Kathryn said.

Her parents started asking questions about it after she got into a fight so to speak with a fifth grader. Just letting you know she was in kindergarten at this time.

She says that she was outside playing with a bouncy ball and he came over and took it from her. Then all of a sudden she jumped on his back and was acting crazy.

Two teachers had to pull her off and then when asked about she couldn’t focus and was still so hyper. So the school asked her parents to get her tested.

So they did and a few months later they figured out she had it. From then on she has taken medication to help her keep calm during school.

Till this day she still has trouble focusing in class and on homework but always has had great grades. She tends to do most of her homework and classes between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. because that is when she tends to have more focus.

She knows this will affect her job career but she knows if she stays focused and keeps having the job she loves it will not be a problem for her.

“If I tend to do things that I love to do I tend to focus on it better and since I want to be game maker I should have no problem focusing,” Kathryn said.

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Most people can say we have been on this world for millions of of years while others say we have been here only for a couple thousand years (according to the Bible) but does any of that matter. We are all the same created by someone or something or many things. We wont know until we die and found out who created this beautiful world. Many say it is the one God but how can we be sure. While others say it was many Gods, or some just science brought us here. Just think about this, no matter how we got here we are all one and should not be divided.

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