The times news started the story with a very strong tone “In the deadliest school massacre in the nation’s history”. The massacre began about 11:30 am. The two gunmen, who believed to be Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, wearing ski masks, stalked through the school as they fired semiautomatic weapons at students and teachers and tossed explosives. One bomb exploded in the library, and one is in a car. Two more cars were rigged with bombs. There were totally 30 bombs found several places found at school. The killer’s arsenal included a 9 millimeters semiautomatic rifle, two pistol-grip shotguns, one handgun and at least 100 rounds of ammunition. About 3 pm, hundreds of police officers police officers evacuated the building and searched for the gunmen. A fire truck and an armored car were used to get close to the building. Dozens of students raced out the building, some slipping in the mud, others holding up their hands in the air or behind their heads. 15 people were killed in the massacre including two gunmen. Most of the bodies were found in the school’s entrance, the library and the common cafeteria. Many of students rescued from the massacre were interviewed. One says that she can’t believe the massacre was happening to her school. Students revealed that gunmen were part of a group of misfits who called themselves the trench coat mafia, which expressed disdain for racial minority and athletes. They were easily noticed at the school since they wore the long black coats every day. Residents who had known them didn’t consider they were threads. School official had reports of trouble from the murderers that they were arrested for breaking into a car and they once threatened a particular student. Two friends of the gunmen were in custody for questioning associated with the shooting. The families of those killed were being notified and mass shooting revived memories of similar tragedies last year. President Clinton sent a crisis-response team to aid the school community and the victim’s families. President expressed he was profoundly shocked and saddened by the tragedy and said the nation should focus on praying for victim’s families. The siege after the shooting was broadcast live without commercial breaks all afternoon. The school shooting lead lawmakers in Alabama and florida to postpone consideration of bill that would prohibit cities and counties from suing gun makers for the cost of gun vilence.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
zhi yang: memorial activity articles
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/us/17columbine.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=columbine+memorial&st=nyt&oref=slogin
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E4DC1731F931A15756C0A96F958260&scp=1&sq=columbine+memorial&st=nyt
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E1DC103CF935A35756C0A96F958260&scp=2&sq=columbine+memorial&st=nyt
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E4DC1731F931A15756C0A96F958260&scp=1&sq=columbine+memorial&st=nyt
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9907E1DC103CF935A35756C0A96F958260&scp=2&sq=columbine+memorial&st=nyt
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Explication of differences between newspapers. jaewon
Although papers have common factors in terms that they deal with the news, they also have the different way of sending their news articles to readers. Here, I introduce some of that I've found through this class.
Diffenency lay on the point where each news paper focus. In case of Guardian articles, they deal with the story honestily, which means they
try to inform this cruel accident which happened to Columbine high
school to the readers in a organized way and time order for the purpose
of reporting story. Therefore, they use some writing skills such as
contradiction as in the " Laughing as they killed:...",wrritten at 4.22.1999. Here the story begins with peaceful scene like "a fine spring day ....the mood around the table was buoyant,. holidaylike"before this massacre happened. As the story moved forward, it turned around from its former view, introducing what really happened to this peaceful.This contradiction method is efficient because it wanted to readers to
concentrate its detailed story. This newspaper is helpful for the people
who want to know the accident clearly because they don't know anything.
Unlike this , NYT focus on some part of the accident. This avoid general information. This told story from the some aspects as if they think the reader have already contacted the general story from somewhere else, so , is 's enough for them to focus on some different point. From the article" The suspects... " written at 4.23.1999, this dipicted the suspects confusily by interviewing several students who have opposite memories about suspects unlike guardian which traced them why they did by analising material evidences. They introduced their opinion and facts differently by comparing students' memory. In case of the article "responsibility:..." , NYT also compare two groups which have different point of view about the issue "should parents br responsible for their kid's wrong doing. NYT access to the matter not directily. It tried to keep nutral position comparing the possible opinion groups. Then, they place their opinion about which group might be more pursuasive or as third position.
Diffenency lay on the point where each news paper focus. In case of Guardian articles, they deal with the story honestily, which means they
try to inform this cruel accident which happened to Columbine high
school to the readers in a organized way and time order for the purpose
of reporting story. Therefore, they use some writing skills such as
contradiction as in the " Laughing as they killed:...",wrritten at 4.22.1999. Here the story begins with peaceful scene like "a fine spring day ....the mood around the table was buoyant,. holidaylike"before this massacre happened. As the story moved forward, it turned around from its former view, introducing what really happened to this peaceful.This contradiction method is efficient because it wanted to readers to
concentrate its detailed story. This newspaper is helpful for the people
who want to know the accident clearly because they don't know anything.
Unlike this , NYT focus on some part of the accident. This avoid general information. This told story from the some aspects as if they think the reader have already contacted the general story from somewhere else, so , is 's enough for them to focus on some different point. From the article" The suspects... " written at 4.23.1999, this dipicted the suspects confusily by interviewing several students who have opposite memories about suspects unlike guardian which traced them why they did by analising material evidences. They introduced their opinion and facts differently by comparing students' memory. In case of the article "responsibility:..." , NYT also compare two groups which have different point of view about the issue "should parents br responsible for their kid's wrong doing. NYT access to the matter not directily. It tried to keep nutral position comparing the possible opinion groups. Then, they place their opinion about which group might be more pursuasive or as third position.
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