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.

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                                                         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.


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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.