Final Exam Part 5

The biggest difference between the two presentations is that the online version has a lot more feature and information. However, the print version has a much better layout, with spread out photos and graphics not jumping between sentences. Overall, I prefer the online presentation simply because it's all in one place and not spread over 6 papers.

Final Exam Part 4

In August, Billy is late to a meeting at a South Austin job center. He's staying with a new girlfriend, a violation of the conditions of his parole, which require him to live at home.

This photo is good because of the very clear emotion that it captures. Billy's face shows how tired he is of the whole parole process. The caption also gives us all the information that we need.

Who-Billy

What-Job center

When-August

Where-South Austin

Why-A condition of his parole

How-?

Final Exam Part 3

A constant struggle
Billy tries to deal with disability, financial and mental health issues.

1. The main verb is struggle.
2. The subject is Billy.
3. This headline has the neccesary information and it is very interesting.

Final Exam Part 2

1. Billy's mother says he began stealing at an age when many kids are learning to read."That was when he figured out bad attention was better than none at all," Ruth Evanssays. "It's never stopped after that."

This made me realize how long he has been doing this, which will make it difficult to change.

2. In a 6-by-4-foot cinder block room in the courthouse basement divided by a glass security window — jail on one side, free world on the other — Billy weighs his options.

It puts you with Billy and makes you realize how hard this decision is.

3. The entire family accompanies Billy on his first visit to the Texas Youth Commission's parole office on East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. It's in a low, tan, unmarked building across the street from a convenience store. The Nos. 23 and 18 buses run there.

I think that the writer was trying to give the reader the clearest image he possibly could.

Final Exam Part 1

1. The number of juveniles diagnosed with mental disorders and sent to the Youth Commission has doubled in the past decade, and handling medication and other psychiatric treatment has become a big part of the agency's challenge. Diagnosed with attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder in elementary school and placed on Ritalin, according to his mother, Billy more recently was identified as having bipolar disorder,a condition characterized by wide mood swings.

3 of 4 Juvenile justice experts say sending youth offenders back to the same environment that produced them often promotes recidivism. But three-quarters of Youth Comission releases return to their homes — about 10 percent higher than in 2000

2. Timeliness- It's been more than a year since a sexual abuse scandal erupted at a Texas Youth Commission lockup, producing a cascade of investigations and reform efforts that have left the agency¹s very survival in doubt.

This made me think about how the agency has changed in the past year.

Conflict-One of his temporary roommates files theft charges against him when the rent money disappears. Another claims Billy stole some rings from her and pawned them.

This conflict was interesting because this was the first time in the piece that he had gotten in real trouble.

Oddity- In another building at Crockett State School, a social worker hands him the pile of crisp, purposefully unfashionable clothes the Texas Youth Commission gives all its new releases: yellow polo shirt, pocketless jeans held up by elastic and laceless white sneakers fastened with Velcro.

I really don't understand why they all get purposlly ugly new clothes when they get released.

3. "This is gonna be my third Christmas in a row locked up," he says. He begins to cry.

This is a good quote because you realize how often he's in these situations and that he honestly has many regrets. The question was probably something like, "Have you ever been here on a holiday?"

Photojournalism

New solar concentrator technology being developed by IBM promises to increase the output of conventional solar cells by as much as fivefold. The technology uses a large lens to focus the sun's light.

Courtney Brown inspects the damage Thursday where a 100-foot-tall oak tree landed in the kitchen and living room of her home in Hyde Park. A storm that hit late Wednesday night left trees downed across Austin, though meteorologists say it doesn't appear a tornado was responsible.

John Ramirez, 16, of Houston jams Sunday with the Austin band Cerronato at the Mexican American Cultural Center. Ramirez was one of four teens who competed for a cash prize and the chance to play at the Accordian Kings and Queens concert in Houston; he was among two finalists chosen.

Headlines

Red Cross Vessel Sinks
Aid Workers are safe, but goods are lost; U.S. gets approval to airlift supplies

Verb- Sinks
Subject-Vessel
This is a good headline becuase it gives you all of the information needed to understand the story.


Airport flap, office spending cost Kim votes, experts say
Imcumbent's mailers may have backfired in volatile campaign for City Counsil's Place 3 seat

Verb-Spending
Subject-Votes
This headline also gives all the information you need.


For NCsoft's man of many sounds, life at work's a joyful noise

Verb-Work
Subject- NCsoft's man
The headline doesn't contain much information but it does interest you in the story.


Study: Storm alerts uneven
Baylor student says weather service issues more warnings for cities than rural areas

Verb-Issues
Subject-Warnings
It is not a very good primary headline, but the secondary one is very good.


Master's degrees required for new teachers in Eanes

Verb-Required?
Subject-New teachers
The headline tells you exactly what the story is about


Momentum slowing for federal shield law to protect journalists

Verb-Slowing
Subject-Federal Shield Law
This headline also tells you exactly what the story is about.