The English Literary society at the English Department will be sponsoring a production of "A Christmas Carol" on Saturday, Nov. 15 at 4:30pm (doors open) by TNT Productions. They are the same group that brought "Hamlet" in the spring. The performance is free for all of our students.

This weeks assignment is a story from page 76-77 in the text book. You should write a story about either Health or the Environment using two of the vocabulary words on page 77. You should also decided if your are going to write a broadsheet story or tabloid story as per example described on the previous pages in the chapter.

excitement of responding to, and trying to make sense of, the flow of news.
The challenge of trying to sort out the wood from the trees, the important
from the unimportant, the honest from the dishonest, the reasonable from
the hyperbolic. The independence of mind and of spirit, the accompanying
sense of the ridiculous, that are available to an outsider, an observer of
rather than participant in events, processes and organizations. The fact
that so many people read or hear what you have to say, and that some of
them even pay heed to it. The privilege of being able to, and actually
being paid to, write or broadcast what can fairly be described as a sort of
first draft of history, albeit with all the foibles and frailties that
performing that task typically implies.
"Yet that is also where the limitations of journalism begin. Our
perspective is always a fairly short-term one. Our readers want to know how
something that happened today might be connected to something that happened
yesterday, or last month. Furthermore, our preoccupations are forever
vulnerable to the fads and fashions of instant hopes, fears and worries.
And, like all instant analysts, the journalist is constantly at risk of
overinterpreting the short-term and underrating or underinterpreting the
longer-term trends. Something that did not seem to matter at all yesterday
becomes, tomorrow, the only thing that does seem to matter.
"Thus it was that on 10 September 2001 international terrorism by
religious zealots was not thought to be an especially important topic. It
was just one fear among many on the standard lists of present and future
threats, but not a very immediate one. After 8:46 a.m., American Eastern
Daylight Time, on the following day, such terrorism was, for a time,
transformed into the only topic that mattered."
***
See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374279659/newsscancom/ref=nosim
for Bill Emmott's "20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the
Twenty-First Century" -- or look for it in your favorite library.

WORTH THINKING ABOUT: FANATICISM YESTERDAY, TODAY, & TOMORROW
Bill Emmott, editor in chief of The Economist, writes:
"There are many wonderful things about being a journalist. The
excitement of responding to, and trying to make sense of, the flow of news.
The challenge of trying to sort out the wood from the trees, the important
from the unimportant, the honest from the dishonest, the reasonable from
the hyperbolic. The independence of mind and of spirit, the accompanying
sense of the ridiculous, that are available to an outsider, an observer of
rather than participant in events, processes and organizations. The fact
that so many people read or hear what you have to say, and that some of
them even pay heed to it. The privilege of being able to, and actually
being paid to, write or broadcast what can fairly be described as a sort of
first draft of history, albeit with all the foibles and frailties that
performing that task typically implies.
"Yet that is also where the limitations of journalism begin. Our
perspective is always a fairly short-term one. Our readers want to know how
something that happened today might be connected to something that happened
yesterday, or last month. Furthermore, our preoccupations are forever
vulnerable to the fads and fashions of instant hopes, fears and worries.
And, like all instant analysts, the journalist is constantly at risk of
overinterpreting the short-term and underrating or underinterpreting the
longer-term trends. Something that did not seem to matter at all yesterday
becomes, tomorrow, the only thing that does seem to matter.
"Thus it was that on 10 September 2001 international terrorism by
religious zealots was not thought to be an especially important topic. It
was just one fear among many on the standard lists of present and future
threats, but not a very immediate one. After 8:46 a.m., American Eastern
Daylight Time, on the following day, such terrorism was, for a time,
transformed into the only topic that mattered."
***
See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374279659/newsscancom/ref=nosim
for Bill Emmott's "20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the
Twenty-First Century" -- or look for it in your favorite library.

WORTH THINKING ABOUT: FANATICISM YESTERDAY, TODAY, & TOMORROW
Bill Emmott, editor in chief of The Economist, writes:
"There are many wonderful things about being a journalist. The
excitement of responding to, and trying to make sense of, the flow of news.
The challenge of trying to sort out the wood from the trees, the important
from the unimportant, the honest from the dishonest, the reasonable from
the hyperbolic. The independence of mind and of spirit, the accompanying
sense of the ridiculous, that are available to an outsider, an observer of
rather than participant in events, processes and organizations. The fact
that so many people read or hear what you have to say, and that some of
them even pay heed to it. The privilege of being able to, and actually
being paid to, write or broadcast what can fairly be described as a sort of
first draft of history, albeit with all the foibles and frailties that
performing that task typically implies.
"Yet that is also where the limitations of journalism begin. Our
perspective is always a fairly short-term one. Our readers want to know how
something that happened today might be connected to something that happened
yesterday, or last month. Furthermore, our preoccupations are forever
vulnerable to the fads and fashions of instant hopes, fears and worries.
And, like all instant analysts, the journalist is constantly at risk of
overinterpreting the short-term and underrating or underinterpreting the
longer-term trends. Something that did not seem to matter at all yesterday
becomes, tomorrow, the only thing that does seem to matter.
"Thus it was that on 10 September 2001 international terrorism by
religious zealots was not thought to be an especially important topic. It
was just one fear among many on the standard lists of present and future
threats, but not a very immediate one. After 8:46 a.m., American Eastern
Daylight Time, on the following day, such terrorism was, for a time,
transformed into the only topic that mattered."
***
See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374279659/newsscancom/ref=nosim
for Bill Emmott's "20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the
Twenty-First Century" -- or look for it in your favorite library.

WORTH THINKING ABOUT: FANATICISM YESTERDAY, TODAY, & TOMORROW
Bill Emmott, editor in chief of The Economist, writes:
"There are many wonderful things about being a journalist. The
excitement of responding to, and trying to make sense of, the flow of news.
The challenge of trying to sort out the wood from the trees, the important
from the unimportant, the honest from the dishonest, the reasonable from
the hyperbolic. The independence of mind and of spirit, the accompanying
sense of the ridiculous, that are available to an outsider, an observer of
rather than participant in events, processes and organizations. The fact
that so many people read or hear what you have to say, and that some of
them even pay heed to it. The privilege of being able to, and actually
being paid to, write or broadcast what can fairly be described as a sort of
first draft of history, albeit with all the foibles and frailties that
performing that task typically implies.
"Yet that is also where the limitations of journalism begin. Our
perspective is always a fairly short-term one. Our readers want to know how
something that happened today might be connected to something that happened
yesterday, or last month. Furthermore, our preoccupations are forever
vulnerable to the fads and fashions of instant hopes, fears and worries.
And, like all instant analysts, the journalist is constantly at risk of
overinterpreting the short-term and underrating or underinterpreting the
longer-term trends. Something that did not seem to matter at all yesterday
becomes, tomorrow, the only thing that does seem to matter.
"Thus it was that on 10 September 2001 international terrorism by
religious zealots was not thought to be an especially important topic. It
was just one fear among many on the standard lists of present and future
threats, but not a very immediate one. After 8:46 a.m., American Eastern
Daylight Time, on the following day, such terrorism was, for a time,
transformed into the only topic that mattered."
***
See http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374279659/newsscancom/ref=nosim
for Bill Emmott's "20:21 Vision: Twentieth-Century Lessons for the
Twenty-First Century" -- or look for it in your favorite library.