KO Journalism (Semester 2)

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/opinion/01fri4.html?searchResultPosition=8 - advocate piece - By being able to sleep more, students will be able to perform better in school - Teens will be able to stay awake in school and remain more attentive in class - better performance in after school activities like sports

opinion article outline practice article: http://time.com/4740297/homework-should-be-banned-from-schools/ type of opinion article: diatribe thesis: homework should be taken out of school curriculum reason 1: pushes workweek into after school hours, overtime for most laborers reason 2: takes time out of weekend and forces you to not have outside activities reason 3: can causes things such as anxiety, depression, and disengagement

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/06/opinions/daenerys-targaryen-leads-jon-snow-credit-opinion-mantoan/index.html Explanation Daenerys Targaryen has been the most admired character for the past six seasons, but now due to the last season, all things must come to an end and the character arc must evolve changing her "likeability." 1. Comparison to Hilary Clinton 2. Character Arc/ Comparison to other characters 3. Evolution of sexism on the show 4. Comparison to female roles in real life(presidential election) 5. Showing the character arc 6. Summing up the reason

Ben Baby A diatribe against the workload and school times. https://www.futurity.org/high-school-teen-sleep-academics-1932142-2/ Thesis: With a lot of work and not a lot of time, students get less sleep, and this affects their grades. Teens need more sleep because their mind is still developing. With them having a larger workload, teens get less sleep. This affects their grades, schools with later start times help much more.

Op-ed Article https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-pan-measles-exemptions-vaccinations-20190507-story.html Advocate Thirty years ago, measles outbreaks were caused by insufficient access to vaccines; today they are caused by misinformation. Reasons: One problem has been that public universities have been slower to respond. They have not been getting the vaccination. Some of the blame rests with unethical doctors, who are willing to take patients’ money and grant inappropriate medical exemptions to misinformed families, thereby putting other children at risk. Community immunity, the shield that protects babies and others who cannot be vaccinated, requires that the people surrounding them at school and in their communities are vaccinated.

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/documentary-details-largest-health-cover-up#9   I think this was an explanation piece because it basically explained what the main point of a documentary that illustrated corruption within the American Heart Association and many other so called 'non-profit organizations'. It also commented on the impact that this documentary may have had. While many people with heart problems rely on the American Heart Association and they are the main source of heart disease advocacy, the American Heart Association stripped down is just a money hungry scam that preys on sickly people. The American Heart Association encourages its followers to consume food that are known carcinogens and why is that? It is because they are being sponsored and paid by bigshot meat, dairy, and pharmaceutical companies. Not only does the American Heart Association make these companies profit off you buying foods that are unhealthy, they also make pharmaceutical compani...

Ava Radmanovich https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/caster-semenya-running.html 1. Advocate/ Praise 2.  Thesis: Female athletes should be celebrated and recognized more often, rather than just when an incident like this comes up and are described in a negative way. - Debates on what will define female athletes won’t save women’s sports, paying more attention to them will - ironic that there is such a big deal over a sport that usually would have relatively little coverage in the first place -  There is more focus on Semenya’s situation, not women’s accomplishments- without this picture posted, there would have been no recognition of the athletes pictured behind her otherwise

Sports requirement are a wonderful thing for the school. They force students to be active which helps them stay healthy, it allows students to create bonds with different people, and it makes students do something out of their comfort zone. This is a praise article. https://www.muhealth.org/conditions-treatments/pediatrics/adolescent-medicine/benefits-of-sports

This is a diatribe against Trump and his policies to oppress the free press. - Thesis: President Trump is purposely suppressing free press - He repeated attacking the press with words -  He is weaponizing an existing weariness about the press to further erode it - He also threatens the free medias - His actions are making negative impact on people's opinion on the press