Review of movie and class

The movie of Shattered Glass was a great movie to see what ethics is all about but it was very very confusing.  I got lost many of time within the movie.  It jumped around a lot which made it hard to follow.  The charcter of Stephen Glass was treated poorly by his boss but then was later brought back to the New Republic.  I would recommend this movie to a lot of journalism classes so they can get a better understanding of code of ethics that a person has.

This class this quarter has been a blast.  It was great learning about photoshop and how to write different types of stories.  It was great to learn how to do all these different writings which are going to help in the furture with college and the life after college.  I really enjoyed the photoshop unit cause we got to do are own thing which was nice being that every other during the day we can't.  Mr. Kerbs you did a great job this quarter teaching, dont really have anything for you to work on this time.  Thanks for a good quarter.

Feature Story Newspaper

Editoral Story Newspaper

Hard New Story Newpaper

Photoshop Advertisment Project

Editorial Rough Draft

College cost these days

With the cost of college these days on the rise.  Students have been held back from applying to go to their dream college because of that college raising their cost of tuition.  I believe that colleges and the government need to help pay and or find some ways to make college more accessible and financially easier for students. This way the students that want to further their education can go to the college that they want to.

I think there are four things about college that really caught my eye. 

First, the overall cost of college.  The overall cost of college has gone up 6.6% since 2007.  This is crazy just to think about how much college is going to cost when we start having kids. This is going to be outrageous. 

Second, the cost difference from in state tuition compared to out of state tuition.  In state tuition is much cheaper than if you were to out of state for college unless you go to a state where reciprocity is available. That will cut your out of state cost down by quite a bit but it will still cost you lot of money.  Staying in state could save you a lot more money and I am sure that if you were to go out of state for college that a college in your home state would have the major that you want to go into.  This is a great way to save money.  

I was always told this and am still being told this “It doesn’t matter where you go to college; the only thing that matters is what you do after you’re done with your college education.”

Final thoughts is that I think scholarships and national grants are probably the best way to get your college cost down to as low as it could go.  You can never save enough money.  Take advantage of scholarships and national grants because it is all free money that does not have to be paid back.  You can never go wrong with free money that does not need to be paid back unlike all the different loans that you do have to pay back.

Editorial pre-writing

1. What is a problem/issue that our entire student body (our school, community, country, etc.) faces today?Cost of going to college these days.

2. What is your view/position on the problem or situation?Colleges and the government need to help pay and or find some ways to make college more accesible and financially easier for students.

3. What would you like to achieve with your editorial? (What is the desired result?)Help people truely realize how much college is these days.

4. How will you persuade your audience to adopt your viewpoint as theirs? List at least 4 persuasive points.
-Overall cost
-In state cost
-Out of state cost
-Loan debt

5. How will you motivate your readership to action in your conclusion?Telling them ways to reduce the cost of college.

6. How will your editorial serve a public purpose?This affects many people, so the more that read this the more it helps them out.