Taryn's Journalism Blog

Rewarding Our Kids                       Seven or eight dollars may seem like a lot to especially when you a kid. Usually this is around the set amount that a child would be rewarded for something they've done well. But, what if your child hasn't been good, do you still reward them with money? I mean it's not that much what harm  could it do, right? Well that seven or eight dollars probably seems like a lot more to your kids then it does to you. That much money for a kid is like winning the lottery even when they've been bad.             Rewarding a kid for not behaving or not acting appropriate teaches them that, you get rewarded when your bad. And that's not how it works in the real world. In real life you don't a raised salary if you are not doing your job. So that shouldn't be how we should treat out children to thi...

Hurricane Victor Yesterday morning around 2 a.m. cyclone Victor was detected by meteorologist at Nadi Wether Centre moving across the south-west Pacific, heading toward the Solomon Islands. More than 100 people are now homeless, with six people killed and 18 in hospitals. "We are devastated that our son, Frank, was killed,"  Mother of one of the men killed, Lisa Ramos said. "H e was returning home from a vacation to Australia when the storm hit." Police say that out of all the six people who died, three men drowned when their car was blown off the road into a river, and two women and a man were killed by flying debris. "We have heavy hearts over the six people who lost their lives today,"  Police Chief Marianna Adams said. In Honiara, more than 20 houses were destroyed and a number of other buildings sustained considerable structural damage.  "It could have been worse,"  Adams said. "B ut the emergency shelters established three ...

The Schnur Brunch The definition for family is “the descendants from a common ancestor,” but is that what truly defines family. In the Schnur family everyone was related whether it was blood or not. “It was different, because you had to learn everyone else’s story and where they came from,”oldest brother Chad Schnur said. “And just adjust to them being in your lives.” Chad Schnur is the oldest brother in the family and his older sister Suzanne Schnur and him soon got two new siblings. “I was so happy to just have a little brother and sister,” Chad said.” I kind of let go of what people would say. It was never them who made it hard it was the outsiders looking in.” Though they felt so happy about their new family, it soon would make things harder for Chad at school. “In the time I grew up a lot of people would make fun of me for having ‘two moms’ or ‘step siblings,’ Chad said. “Because those kind of things just never really happened or were talked about.” ...

(multiple choice) 1. Timeliness  The fact or quality of being done or occurring at a favorable or useful time. - Really recent  2. Proximity Nearness in space, time, or relationship. - Close the story is to us  3. Human Interest The aspect of a story in the media that interests people because it describes the experiences or emotions of individuals. - Something we find appealing -Appeals to human nature 4. Prominence The state of being important or famous. -How important the person is 5. Conflict A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. - Two sides against  each other  ( fighting) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (word bank questions) 6. Interviews A meeting of people face to face, especially for consultation. -gets information from a source  7. Research The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and ...

1. Who were the sources? The sources were Garland O'Quinn, Virginia O'Quinn, Samuel Lawerence, and Carrie Lawerence. 2. Summarize in 1-3 sentences the story: This story talks about Garland O'Quinn and how amazing he was at gymnastics. He found his love ad passion for this sport and eventually went off to the olympics. He then became a coach with his other previous coach and started to teach kids too.   3. How many paragraphs is the story? There are 33 paragraphs in this story. 4. How many words is the story (you can do this in the Google Doc itself)?  There are 1,051 words in this story. 5. How many direct quotes are there in the story? There are 17 direct quotes in the story. 6. How many different people are quoted in the story? There were 4 different people quoted in this story. 7. Which quote is the most impactful of all the ones included? Defiantly this quote it was a very emotionally attention grabbing and it almost made me tear up tbh... “Every human be...

1. Who were the sources? My dad, Aunt Suzanne, Aunt Deana, and Uncle Kenny were the sources. 2. Summarize in 1-3 sentences the story: I talk about family in my story, and was defines being family. The struggle of having multiple parents, step of half siblings used to be a huge issue mainly for my dad and Aunt Suzanne. It has grown to not be as big of an issue now today but some people would still consider them not 'real' siblings. Though they grew up and were taught just like to b siblings like anyone else. 3. How many paragraphs is the story? There are 31 paragraphs in my story. 4. How many words is the story? There are 753 words in my story. 5. How many direct quotes are there in the story? There are 15 direct quotes in this story. 6. How many different people are quoted in the story? There are four different people quoted in my story. 7. Which quote is the most impactful of all the ones included? I think that the last one was so that's...

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Short Answer: 1. Who are the owners of Austin Sports & Entertainment? Page A1 "Proposal to replace Expo Center.." The owners of the Austin Sports & Entertainment are Sean Foley and Andrew Nestor. 2. Why did president Donald Trump remove protections from two national monuments in Utah yesterday, according to the article on Page A5 "Trump takes step to reduce national monuments" Donald trump removed protections from two national monuments to "reverse federal overreach" and to "restore the rights." 3. Why will the University of Texas raise its tuition the next two years? Page B1 "UT seeks 2% tuition...." This increase tuition will be used for keeping up with inflation, to offer competitive pay, and to offer change and updates to the rooms and laboratories. 4. Who are the three finalists for the Heisman Trophy and what school do they play for? Page C1 "OU's Mayfield a Heisman finalist" The three finalists are Baker Ma...