Action Preview Assignment

This photo was part of a winning sports photography portfolio because it shows a lot of emotion with the team in clear celebration, but the coach looks displeased.
The shutter speed is fast.
 I don't think this is a key moment since it happens at nearly all football games and it could have been planned.
A technique that is showed in this picture is using the fast shutter speed to capture the water coming onto the coach.

Student of the Month Story

In March 2014 Kevin Waterworth, a junior at Bowie High School, was elected because his involvement in school activities and good grades. Being chosen as Student of the Month is a great honor and achievement, and only the most deserving students are chosen.

Teachers nominate students on their grades and how much they participate during class. Ms. Stephens, Waterworth's science teacher, nominated him because "he always has great grades and when he has extra time after an assignment, he helps the students that are falling behind."

Students then choose out of ten students who they want to be students of the month. Noah Lawson said he chose Waterworth because "he is a really well rounded student that many people respect and I enjoy the time we spend together during baseball practice."

When the principle announced that Waterworth would be student of the month for March he was very surprised that he got chosen, but at the same time "honored to have gotten the title."

Many times the students who get chosen are treated differently during that month and after. Waterworth said "People have shown me more than respect than they used to."

Students of the month have a chance to do something around school. Waterworth thinks that " in english it should be focused more on reading than writing."

They also get to help and give advice to  students that are struggling in classes so Waterworth said that need to  "just focus on the work and don't get too distracted." When asked for tips on studing for tests they need to "just go over the material until they know all the material."

Waterworth has been in baseball at bowie for three years and volunteers at the zoo. After high school he wants to go to the University of Texas, in Austin Texas, to be a zoologist.

Nut Graf

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Student of the Month Story

Who- Kevin Waterworth
What- won student of the month
Where- at Bowie High School
When- during the the month of march is junior year
Why- he made good grades and involvement in school
How- teachers nominated him and his peers chose him

Kevin Waterworth, a junior at Bowie High School, just won student of the month for March 2014.                              Kevin was nominated by his teachers because of his good grades and his involvement in school,but it was the respect his peers hold for him that they chose him. He is grateful and honored that people thought well enough of him to think he deserved the title.

Inverted Pyramid

Learning to Interview

Sources

1. Teachers
2. People on the school board
3. students

Questions

1. Do you support the change in dress code? Why?
2. Why do you think this decision was made? 
3. how do you think the results would be different if you had students or teachers vote?
4. Did you want there to be school uniforms?
5. Will you follow the the new dress code?
6. Why do you think we didn't have the uniforms before now?
7. How much do you think the uniforms will cost?
8. Do you think everyone will be able to afford them?
9. How will the uniforms have a positive effect?
10. How will the uniforms have a negative effect?
11. What will happen to the kids out of dress code?
12. Do you think the uniforms will create a sense of unity between the students?
13. Do you think the students will feel that having a uniform violates their rights?
14.  Do you think the uniforms will cause the students to act any differently?
15. What will you do if a student can't wear the uniform because of religious reasons?
16. How do the uniforms differ from the boys and girls?
17. Will any students transfer to a different school so they won't have to wear the uniform?
18. Do you believe this is the start of many policies in school changing and getting stricter?
19. Do you think the uniforms will cause tension between the students and teachers?
20. What will you do to still be unique even though the uniforms are all the same?

Student of the Month Interview

Questions

1. What is your name? Kevin Waterworth
2. What grade are you in? eleventh
3. What subjects do you excel in, why? Science and math because I really enjoy them and they seem to come easily for me.
4. What subjects do you struggle with, why? English because writing doesn't come naturally for me.  
5. Were you surprised when you were chosen to be student of the month? Very
6. Are there any other students you feel could be student of the month? There was 
7. What advise would you give to people who get this title after you? Don't let the title go to your head.
8. How does it feel to be student of the month? I feel really honored to have gotten this title 
9.  How hard do you work to reach your goals, academically and personally? really hard
10.  Are you in any extra curricular activities, if so what are they and how long have you participated in them? I have been in baseball for three years.
11. Since you made student of the month do you think others will look up to you to set examples and be a role model. yes
12. What advise do you have for struggling students? Just to focus on the work and don't get too distracted.
13. Who is your role model, why? Steve Irwin because I watched him as a kid and he was a zoologist 
14. What is your plan after you graduate high school? which collage do you want to go to and what do you want to major in? I want to go to U.T. to be a zoologist
15. Have people treated you differently since you become student of the month, how? They have shown me more respect
16. Why do you think you were chosen for student of the month? Because i had good grades and I worked hard to get them
17. How do you study and get ready for a major test or presentation? I just go over the material as much as I can until i know all the material
18. What qualities do you have that you think made you stand out from the other people who were nominated for student of the month? I think I probably worked harder than the other people 
19. What would you want to change to make classes more interesting? In english I would make it so that it focused more on reading than writing
20. Do you volunteer for anything, what? I volunteer at the zoo.

News Values

Timelines- http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/17/sxsw-accident-third-death/6523431/
This article was updated about 5 minutes ago according to the timeline on the website.  
"SXSW crash claims 3rd life"                                                             
AUSTIN, Texas — A third person died Monday from injuries sustained in last week's tragedy in which a drunk driver plowed through a crowd outside a nightclub at the South By Southwest music festival.
A car hit the victim, Sandy Le, on Thursday outside The Mohawk nightclub, according to the Travis County Medical Examiner's Office.
Le was an Austin resident but was a native of Pass Christian, Miss., according to her family.
Jamie West, 27, of Austin; and Steven Craenmehr, 35, of Amsterdam, were killed. Twenty-two others were injured. Seven people remain hospitalized.
Rashad Owens, 21, of Killeen, Texas, has been charged with capital murder and aggravated assault with a motor vehicle. He's accused of driving drunk, fleeing from police and intentionally driving into a crowd of festival-goers.
Police say Craenmehr was on a bicycle, and West was on a moped with her husband. West's husband remains in the hospital.
SXSW ended its 28th year early Sunday.

Proximity- http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/AustinAmericanStatesmanNIE/
This article has to do with proximity because it concerns Austin which is where we live.
"Austin schools tally 1,000 students who intentionally hurt themselves"
Found on Austin American Statesman 

Prominence- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/asia/india-flight-370-missing-airplane.html?ref=world&_r=0 
This is prominent because it is very talked about and current. 
"India suspends its search for Flight 370"

PORT BLAIR, India — After scouring more than 24,000 nautical square miles, India on Sunday suspended its search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the waters around the isolated Andaman and Nicobar Islands chain while officials in Kuala Lumpur consider where else to search.
“We’re taking a temporary pause,” said a senior Indian military official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he had not been authorized to discuss the search publicly. “We are conserving our resources so that we can renew the hunt with great vigor.
Four Indian military ships and six aircraft have spent most of the past four days scanning huge expanses of ocean on both sides of the Andamans, of which Port Blair is the capital. Malaysian officials believe that Flight 370 was deliberately flown off course, and one theory has been that it was headed toward the island chain.
But the Andamans are not on either of the two vast corridors of territory where the Malaysian authorities now believe the plane ended up, based on its last transmission to a satellite at 8:11 a.m. on March 8.
There are hundreds of deserted tropical islands in this area, and nighttime radar coverage of the skies is not always robust, military officials said. So it is possible that a Boeing 777 could have flown over the area and perhaps crashed on or near an uninhabited island without being noticed, officials said. But India’s military has done such a thorough search of the region since Wednesday that such a scenario, always unlikely, has become almost impossible to believe, officials said.
Still, they are eager to demonstrate their willingness to continue searching until all hope fades. Holi, one of India’s most important religious holidays, is on Monday, but military officials said their men will not celebrate it this year.
“Holi or no Holi, we will search when the task comes,” the senior military official said. “The families of those missing come first.”
Since the ships would need 10 or more hours to return to port, officials have instructed captains to remain in the search area while the Malaysian government reconsiders where to send them.
On Friday, officials here had some brief hope of a break in the case when pilots spotted smoke rising from the Sentinel Islands, a set of small islands with nearly impenetrable jungle and an aboriginal population that largely shuns the outside world.
But a helicopter flew over the smoldering area and determined that the fire was probably set by local residents for agricultural purposes. The helicopter came back with photos of yellow flames and two nearly naked men on a pristine white beach, brandishing spears.
“The islands there are tribal, and the policy is to leave them alone,” said V. Anbarasan, the commandant of the Indian Coast Guard in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. “There’s no wreckage there.”
India has been eager to demonstrate its ability to police these waters, as they include busy shipping lanes and China has become increasingly assertive in the nearby South China Sea.

Impact- http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODE/AustinAmericanStatesmanNIE/
Found on Austin American Statesman
The explosion in Harlem had an impact on on all the people who were affected and the rest of the world as they mourned the dead.

Conflict- http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/world/middleeast/palestinians-split-in-gaza-as-hamas-blocks-fatah-rally.html?ref=world
This is a conflict because it had a group splitting into two sides 
"Palestinians Split in Gaza as Hamas Blocks Fatah Rally"
GAZA — Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, prevented supporters of the rival Fatah party from holding a rare demonstration here on Sunday in solidarity with President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority ahead of his meeting with President Obama, which is set for Monday in Washington.
Hamas police officers and detectives confiscated posters of Mr. Abbas and Palestinian flags and arrested several organizers of the rally as they gathered in a central square in Gaza City. It was a sign of the enduring political and geographical schism between Hamas, in Gaza, and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, a factor that further complicates already difficult American-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts.
Hamas’s 2006 victory in legislative elections, followed by a brief factional war that pushed Fatah out of Gaza completely, has entrenched the division between the factions. Hamas, which does not recognize Israel, has since confined Fatah’s forces to the West Bank. Numerous attempts at reconciliation have so far failed to produce tangible results, with each side accusing the other of being unwilling to make any real concessions.
Amal Hammad, a Fatah official in Gaza, said a coalition of Fatah and leftist organizations calling itself the Popular Campaign to Support the President had called for rallies on Sunday and Monday and had requested permission from the Hamas authorities 48 hours earlier. Hamas did not respond, she said, adding, “We considered this as an approval.”
Preventing the rally, Ms. Hammad said, “does not serve national unity or national reconciliation.” She said that Hamas arrested seven organizers, confiscated five cameras and prevented buses and taxis from bringing people to the site of the rally.
Islam Shahwan, the spokesman for the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza, said in a statement, “Due to the great internal polarization among Fatah currents and in order to maintain the state of general security, and to make sure that such activities won’t be employed for the trading of accusations between these currents, we decided that such activities should not take place.”
The aim of the rally was to shore up Mr. Abbas against Israeli and American pressure and maintain what Ms. Hammad described as “national principles.” Those, she said, meant rejecting any Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state and insisting on East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, which the Palestinians aim to establish in the territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war. Similar rallies were being organized in the West Bank.
The Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that resumed last summer after years of stagnation are reaching a critical juncture. Secretary of State John Kerry originally set a goal of reaching an agreement within nine months, ending in late April. Though the details of the negotiations have been kept confidential, there appears to have been little progress.
Now the Obama administration is trying to broker a framework accord that would outline the core principles of a comprehensive agreement and serve as a basis for continued talks.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has made Palestinian recognition of his country as the nation-state of the Jewish people a central condition for any agreement, but the issue has emerged as a major sticking point, with Mr. Abbas adamantly refusing to recognize the Jewish character of Israel.
Although the United States has long recognized Israel as a Jewish state, Mr. Kerry said in Congress last week that it was a “mistake” for people to raise the issue “again and again as the critical decider of their attitude” toward a peace agreement.
Moshe Yaalon, Israel’s defense minister and a hard-line member of Mr. Netanyahu’s conservative Likud Party, said in an interview on Israeli television this weekend he disagreed with Mr. Kerry’s remarks “in the most unequivocal way,” adding, “We cannot make an agreement without the other side recognizing our right to exist as the nation-state of the Jewish people within any borders.”

Human Interest- http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/03/17/reports-lwren-scott-found-dead/6525343/
This story is human interest because a well known fashion designer and girlfriend to Mick Jagger was found dead.
Reports: Fashion designer L'Wren Scott found dead
Fashion designer L'Wren Scott and longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger has been found dead of an apparent suicide, reports ABC News and the New York Daily News.
Scott's body was found hanging from a scarf on a doorknob by her assistant at her New York apartment around 10 a.m. today, reports the Daily News. The medical examiner's office will determine the cause of death.
A spokesman for Jagger said the singer was "completely shocked and devastated" by Scott's death, reports the BBC. Scott had been in a relationship with the Rolling Stones frontman for more than a decade.
Jagger is currently on tour with his band and recently arrived in Australia.

Novelty- http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/03/17/tom-hiddleston-sings-like-pirate-pirate-fairy/6513689/
This  story was interesting because it had a well known actor doing something that you don't hear about often.
"Tom Hiddleston sings like a pirate"

Tom Hiddleston can sing like a joyful pirate at sea, and there is video to prove it.
Hiddleston stars as a young Captain Hook in The Pirate Fairy (due out on Blu-ray/DVD April 1), a role that requires him to show off his vocal cords.
If there were any doubts that the guy who plays Loki in Thor and The Avengers could belt it like a man of the sea, those are gone. This clip shows Hiddleston in the studio, and those images are spliced together with scenes featuring his animated character. Hiddleston is singing so hard that the veins are bulging in his forehead.
And when he sings of the ship's masts, Hiddleston points joyously to the studio ceiling. The only thing that could possibly make this better would be if he were wearing a puffy pirate shirt instead of his dapper white button-down.
The Pirate Fairy has Hiddleston playing another villain, this time alongside the headstrong fairy Zarina (voiced by Christina Hendricks), who gets caught up with the pirates. They pretend to make Zarina the captain of the ship to get to her powerful Blue Pixie Dust.

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