Tuesday, October 11, 2011

How shakespeare died

Shakespeare death according to John Ward's diary, him shakespeare and some other people had met up and had drinks. it seems that shakespeare has drank too much that night and tried to walk away in the rain, he caught a serious fever and shortly died that day. but people to this day don't really know if he died of a fever from being in the rain for a long period or if he was intoxicated from drinking.

Monday, August 29, 2011

New York Times

It's tough to pin down an average, since a lot depends on experience and position. If you go by the April 2007 numbers put out by the Newspaper Guild, an New York Times reporter with 2 years' experience makes a minimum of $87,000 a year. The October '06 numbers put a starting New York Times reporter at about $83,000 a year, minimum.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Friday's Class 8-19-11

In class, we read the story " And of Clay Are We Created, by Isabel Allende. It was an emotional story, about a news reporter accompanying a victim of an avalanche during her final moments. One thing i noticed about the story was that there were important quotations in the center of each page, and behind the words, were flowers that represented the girl's name. (Azucena translates to "Lily")

And of Clay..

On Friday we read the rest of the story "Of clay we are made". I found to be a very inspirational story, while we were reading it I thought the theme would be "treat the others how you would like to be treated". I think it is that because if I was in Azucena's play I would want someone like Rolf to be with me all the way through.

Dictionary


A book that lists the words of a language in alphabetical order and gives their meaning, or that gives the equivalent words in a different language

You can use a dictionary to find exact definitions of unknown words.

And of Clay Are We Created

This story shows a lot about the character, Rolf Carle. He is just an average reporter. Or some might say. After reading the story, I see Rolf to be a caring, loving man that would put himself aside to help another. For example, Rolf stays days with the trapped young lady, Azucena. He tells her that everything will be fine and that they will try their best to get her out of the mud she was caught in after a massive tragedy. While trapped in mud, many reporters come by to do their job. Take pictures, and ask questions. Rolf is the only one that actually wanted to help but sadly, could not do so. Azucena let herself sink into the mud and die.In conclusion, we see Rolf as a great person that puts others before himself.

Contradict:To say the opposite of what someone says
"I must say I contradict with your point of view."