Being Adopted

Adoption        My Angle: What teens feel when they are adopted? How does the thought of adoption feel? What is the meaning of Adoption? Adoption is a process whereby a person assumes the parenting for another who is not kind and, in so doing, permanently transfers all rights and responsibilities from the original parent or parents. Unlike guardianship or other systems designed for the care of the young, adoption is intended to effect a permanent change in status and as such requires societal recognition, either through legal or religious sanction. According to TeenBreaks.com a young girl talks about being adopted below is a little preview of her story.   I was put up for adoption when I was 6 months old. When I was 4 years old my adopted mom told me that I was adopted, but I didn’t understand it. Now I am 14, and I know the whole story. My biological mother was 15 when she had me, and was 14 when she had my older brother. She knew it would be too hard to take care of a one-year-old and a newborn, so she put me up for adoption. The people who adopted me are actually my aunt and uncle, but I always call them mom and dad because they have raised me since I was 6 months old. So since my aunt and uncle/mom and dad raised me, I have always known my real mom as my cousin. I now spend almost every weekend with my real mom, but I know nothing of my real dad. He kind of doesn’t exist. -- Justine In my own adoption story, On November 17, 2006 I was 11 years old at the time I was adopted by a woman who i have been living with for 11 years since I was 7 or 8 years old. My mother Danielle Feigel lived with my father who abused both of us. My mother lost custody of me and 3 younger sisters because of him I was so upset with her I didn't want to talk to her because of it. Then when I turned 15 my mother and I began to get closer than anything. On October 17, 2010 she passed away now I can't see her anymore to have the long talks we used to have about school, relationships, and more. i miss my mom so much she will never be forgotten  My sources of information on adoptions are WWW.google.com, WWW.TeenBreaks.com and WWW.Wikipedia.com. My own experiences with adoption are also included in this article.

News Articles Before Break Assignment

                                                         Time Wasters

Is this story newsworthy? This article is newsworthy because its telling its viewers that when you have work to do that they really don't have anything to do and they try to get themselves out of the work.


What type of story is this?  news, entertainment, etc. The type of story that this article is a news story because it tells us information on when someone gets distracted they don't their work and the author tells us readers that when he gets distracted he has something to do after it.


What audience would this story appeal to? The audience that this story would appeal to is all older students in middle and higher grades not really pertaining to the younger students in elementary.


What about this story held your attention? If it didn't hold your attention how would you make it better? this story relates to me because i sometimes get distracted and say i don't have my work or i don't have anything to do. 

                          Drivers Get Tickets For Texting Behind The Wheel

Is this story newsworthy? This story is newsworthy because it talks about texting while driving and how you can get a ticket for it.


What type of story is this?  news, entertainment, etc. The type of story this a news story because while driving you can get tickets for anything but in this case its texting, texting can cause you to go off road, run into another car or even cause death for you or someone else.


What audience would this story appeal to? The audience this story appeals to the people that drive andto those ones who text while driving.


What about this story held your attention? If it didn't hold your attention how would you make it better? This story held my attention because as I said in question 2 and 3 texting is dangerous.


Other comments about the story.

Where do I fit in?

Where I fit in, in the media field is where I  use the cameras and the computers for my projects and other work for specific things like podcasts, recording on camera, taking pics of many different things like the class project.

Central Tech Eagles Closed Campus Policy

Closed Campus Policy-

1. Do you like school lunch? why or why not ?
2. What food do  the stores have that you don't like so much?
3. If you were to leave campus and if there weren't any stores/restaurants around you what would you eat ?
4. Before you couldn't go out the school to eat, what did you do? And were you hungry?
5. What do you do if you are hungary and cannot leave the school?
6. Do know the options that are given at school?
7. How do you feel about the new closed campus policy?
8. Have you ever felt hungary because the school lunch is sometimes horrible? 
9. If you don't like the school lunch what do u eat?
10. How long have you liked school lunch and why?

What is Cyberstalking?

What is Cyber stalking? 
  Cyber stalking is the use of the Internet or cell phones to harass an individual, a group of individuals or an organization. 
  It may include false accusations, monitoring, making threats, and  identity theft. It also can be damage to data or equipment, the solicitation of minors for sex or gathering information in order to harass.

   In the state of Florida, cyberstalking a minor under 16 years of age, is a third degree felony. 
 According to Action News in Jacksonville, Florida, a teen was arrested for cyber stalking. The teenager is accused of posting pictures on a porn site. 
  The police report stated after the pictures were posted, the victim started getting harassing phone calls asking for sexual favors. Police eventually linked the pictures to Shannon Marie Mitchell through her IP address. 
  In the report, Mitchell admitted to the harassment and said she would not stop harassing the victim.The teenage victim started to get weird phone calls and text messages. Police tracked it all down to the world wide web and social sites like Myspace and Facebook. 
  According to WCJB-TV in North Central Florida, an Ocala girl has been charged with aggravated cyberstalking. Marion County Sheriff's Deputies linked Mitchell and 15-year-old victim, to the adult porn site. The suspect, a senior at Vanguard High School in Ocala, maintains several social networking accounts. But it was her post on one particular site, that brought her to the Juvenile Detention Center in Ocala.
  According to deputies, Mitchell posted photos along with a phone number of her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend, who is 15, on a porn site. 
  "Along with putting the photo up there," Judge Cochran, spokesperson for Marion County Sheriff's Office said, "She also put some comments, basically, saying this person will do these particular sexual acts."
  Deputies say adult men started calling the 15-year-old girl. Investigators contacted the porn website, which provided the IP address behind the posts.  
  Deputies say Mitchell has been released from the Juvenile Detention Center and is waiting for her court date. If convicted she could face up to a $5,000 fine, and a maximum of five years in prison.
  According to Helium.com, federal authorities estimated there were 500,000 to 750,000 predators online daily last year. Stalkers find their victims in chat rooms, message forums, online blogs, and very frequently in the social networking websites.
  A few years ago, a 50-year-old security guard made advances toward a young woman and she rejected him. To get revenge, he impersonated her in chats, posted her phone number on message boards by making post in  her name. 
  The harassment took place at all hours of the night with men knocking on her door announcing that they wanted to rape her. He was convicted and received six years in prison.
   A 13-year-old girl met a man on the Internet, whom she believed to be a peer near her age. The 47-year-old man, posing as a teen, was able to get personal information that led him to her home. 
   A month after their meeting, the man kidnapped her from her home.  The signs of fighting and her broken glasses led authorities to believe that she fought with her assailant. The man was identified through his Internet messages and authorities tracked him down.
  He shot himself as the officers entered, and sadly, they found the young girl dead from a gunshot wound. Further evidence led authorities to believe that the 13-year-old girl was not his first and only victim.

   I have had personal experience with cyber bullying and cyber stalking. 

To protect yourself on social websites like Facebook, Myspace, Twitter etc, do not put personal information that can get out to people you don't know. The consequences are very serious. 

Distribution Editor

What is a Distribution Editor?

A Distribution Editor is someone who addresses envelopes and mails out issues of the newspaper to area high schools, businesses. Converts all sections of paper. 

What Is CyberBullying?

What is  Cyberbullying? Cyberbullyng "involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others."

According to Britian an 18 year old girl was the first person in Britain to go to jail for posting threats on Facebook. Keeley Houghton, 18, of Malvern, Worcestershire, has been sentenced to three months in a young offenders' institution after she posted a message saying that she would kill Emily Moore. She pleaded guilty to harassment. On July 12, Houghton updated her status on Facebook to read: "Keeley is going to murder the bitch. She is an actress. What a f@#@#@# liberty. Emily F^#^head Moore." Moore, also 18, had been victimised by Houghton for four years, the court heard, and had previously suffered a physical assault as well as damage to her home. According to the early show a 15 year old girl was cyberbullied to death in Massachusetts. Officials in Massachusetts believe there's been another deadly case of cyber-bullying in the apparent suicide of 15-year-old Phoebe Prince of South Hadley, Mass. Prince moved last year to the area from Ireland. While making the transition to a new town and a new country, Prince, officials believe, became the target of intense cyber-bullying, which may have contributed to her apparent suicide. CBS News correspondent Whit Johnson reports Prince seemed to be well-adjusted and happy, but underneath, friends say, the 15-year-old freshman was tormented -- a victim of cyber-bullying. According to CBS Phoebe Prince was not the only girl to commit suicide from the cause of cyberbullying. In 2006, 13-year-old Megan Meier killed herself after being harassed on MySpace by a neighbor's mother, posing as a 16-year-old teenage boy. According to ABC news Nine Massachusetts teenagers have been charged in the "unrelenting" bullying of a 15-year-old girl who killed herself in January, prosecutors said today. Two of them were charged with statutory rape. Phoebe Prince, a recent Irish immigrant, hanged herself Jan. 14 after nearly three months of routine torment by students at South Hadley High School, via text message, and through the social networking site, Facebook.

My opinion on this subject that its crazy and people like men don't  know how to treat women. On Facebook there are about 300 million people using it. 
i have had personal in counters with cyberbullying and cyberstalking. In the past week or two there have been 20 phone call at my house and me and my sisters cell phones with people playing on the phone asking for me then they tell me that they don't like me or they found something about me that doesn't have anything to do with me. Then they put my friends into the  mix. I believe I have a stalker on my hands but don't know how to handle it. The reason why i telling you this is because so many people kill themselves because they feel that were humiliated so they take out the pain they have the hard way. There are an estimated 10 to 20 million non-fatal attempted suicides every year worldwide.

My Story Proposal

What is your story idea?

Cyber-Bullying and Cyber-Stalking-
Cyber-Bullying and Cyber-Stalking involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others.  The practice of Cyber-bullying is not limited to children and, while the behavior is identified by the same definition in adults, the distinction in age groups is referred to as Cyber-stalking or Cyber-harassment when perpetrated by adults toward adults, sometimes directed on the basis of sex. Common tactics used by Cyber-stalkers are to vandalize a search engine or encyclopedia, to threaten a victim's earnings, employment, reputation, or safety. A repeated pattern of such actions against a target by an adult  constitutes Cyber-stalking. 
What is your angle?  
My angle is an avenging angel may take on “helpers” in a variation of a mean girls Cyber-bully group. ... Demystifying and Deescalating Cyber Bullying
Who is your target audience? 
My target audience is for everyone who uses the internet like facebook, Twitter, and Myspace.
What are some potential sources for you story? 
My potential sources for my story is on facebook and myspace examples are writing mean things about a lot of people and when those perpetrators try to hack into your computer to get all of your information.
Any other information or comments about your story.
If the internet gets complicated like using your email that means that someone hacked or spamed you  

 

Journalism Story Structure

What are some characteristics of the reader that are mentioned in the intro? 
Some characteristics of the reader that are mentioned in the intro are that the readers have short attention spans.

What is the first step to writing an organized story? 
The first step to writing an organized story is to organize your interview and research notes so that they make sense to you.

After conducting your interview, what are the steps to getting ready to write the story? 
After conducting an interview, the steps to getting ready to write the story are:

• Rewrite your interview and research notes so they make sense to you
• Catorgorize the info in your notes under each of the 5 W's and H or under other topic headings that emerge.
•  Prioritize. Which facts are most newsworthy? Which quotes are most interesting? Consider numbering your facts in order of importance and putting stars next to the best quotes.
• Which quotes correspond to which facts? Match them up.
• Write a statement of one or two sentences that explains your story. Imagine you're telling a friend about it. This statement will guide you as you write your lead and the rest of your story. Make sure your statement explains your angle.  

What is the inverted pyramid structure?

The inverted pyramid structure is the most common way journalists organize their stories. But it's not always the best way. 





What is the inverted pyramid “in a nutshell”? (3 bullets)
 Here's the inverted pyramid format in a nutshell: 

•   Begin with the lead: a sentence, less than 30 words, that summarizes the most important information of the story. Imagine that you have only 20 seconds to tell someone what happened -- what would you say? That's your lead paragraph. 
•  Next comes important but no absolutely necessary info. 
•  Then, keep adding and organizing paragraphs in order of relevance and importance until the least relevant and least interesting info is at the bottom.       

How does the Martini glass structure differ from the pyramid? 
A Martini glass differs from the pyramid You begin with an inverted pyramid summary of the story's most important facts. This is usually just a few short paragraphs. Once that's done, you shift into a chronological order of what happened.



How does the Kabob structure differ from the pyramid?
In the Kabob format, the story begins with an anecdote about a specific person. Immediately after this, be sure to include a nut graph -- a paragraph that summarizes the story idea and the who, what, when, where, why and how.  The pyramid gives a way for journalists to be organized.
What is the lesson summary?

A Lesson Summary is the  Journalism is not free-writing. Before you start typing up your story, sit down and jot down the highlights. Organize your ideas. Create an outline. If you get stuck, try carving your story up into broad sections, such as: 
     I. The Problem
     II. What it means
     III. What happens next

How do reporters come up with stories?

Reporters come up with stories by going out in the world and looking for something to talk about,  like how they do on the news. They do research on whatever and wherever theres a  news story.

what ideas that i think that we need are sports brodcating not just football but all sports that go on here @the institution of technology@levy it wuld be nice for the volleyball team to gt sme praise