Was the Portrayal of Kobe positive in the article

  I think that the portrayal of Kobe by the article was positive. The text talks about how he broke some fingers on his shooting hand and so he had to practice taking shots with his left hand and how he took one hundred thousand shots. That points out how serious he takes his craft and how hard he's willing to work at being the best at what he does.

  The text also brings out how Kobe wakes up at 5:30 in the morning to start working out. This is another point that the article makes in order to point out that Kobe is a very hard and serious worker. At the end of the article it talks about Kobe playing on the 2008 Olympics basketball team and how he scored 27 points and held an elite scorer to only 4 points. The over all reception that I got from the article is that Kobe is the best basketball player in the NBA and he works long and hard to be the best. The article also lets the reader know that Kobe has made mistakes, but he makes up for them. He's a family man, he's always with his wife and he loves his two daughters a lot.

Like I was Jesus

 

What is the FRAME?

The frame of the story is that it tells about the Christian Organization and it follows it’s members as they preach and minister to young kids.

What is the Main Idea?

The main idea of the article is that the organization preaches to kids who at their age can’t completely understand the message that is being preached to them.

Choose 3 pieces of info that came from research and 3 pieces that came from interviews.

Research

• It keeps careful count of the number of youngsters it has saved: last year, there were more than one million worldwide.

• By the 1980s, a series of court decisions had effectively removed religious groups from campus during the school day.

• In 1996, the Fellowship gained a renewed sense of mission when it sued Milford Central School in upstate New York for preventing it from holding Good News Clubs on school premises.

Interview

• The majority of the missionaries were white, some had heard of the clubs through their local churches; a few had themselves been saved by the Fellowship.
• The Bible clubs were held on a quilt under a drooping oak tree in the neighborhood park, close enough to the basketball court that children coming to play could be recruited for worship.
• While several parents had chosen not to send their children to the clubs, usually with a quick “No thanks, we’re not interested”

Kobe Bryant Doesn’t Want Your Love

 

 

What is the FRAME?

The frame of the article is that it breaks down Kobe’s life in a lot of aspects. First it talks about his childhood, and where he lived and grew up at, how he loved watching his father play basketball. Then it follows him as a man, and how he actually plays professional basketball now, and how hard he practices and what his daily life is like.

What’s the Main Idea?

The main Idea is that Kobe is a very hard worker at his craft and that his hard work has paid off him. He has made a lot of mistakes but he kept on working to better himself and and learn from his mistakes.

Choose 3 pieces of info that came from research and 3 pieces that came from interviews.

Research

• A few years ago, Kobe fractured the fourth metacarpal bone in his right hand
• Kobe went to the gym over the summer and made one hundred thousand shots.
• According to his specifications, Kobe's shoes have been designed with a special alloy band inside the arch to cut, he believes, hundredths of a second off his reaction time.

Interview

• Yesterday, a Sunday with no scheduled Team U.S.A. practice, Kobe went to the gym and made five hundred shots.
• This morning, he was supposed to be up early working out and doing Pilates, but he canceled.
• For the next ninety minutes, we talk. About how he loves sharks and would like to go down in a shark cage, how he would like to skydive -- both of which after he retires.

How Susie Bayer's T-Shirt Ended Up on Yusuf Mama's Back

1. What is the FRAME of the essay?
The frame of the essay is the author starts out in America were the original owner of a T-Shirt lives, and she ends up in Africa where the new owner of the T-Shirt lives. It's kind of like the story starts out at point A, where for all Susie Bayer and any other American who donates their clothes know is that when you donate your clothes it goes to some one in Africa who really needs it.Then the story ends at Point B, where the clothes are now in Africa, however the process of it getting to someone who really needs it is very complicated and not as simple as anyone who doesn't have insight would think.
2. What is the author doing in the intro?
In the intro the author is summerizes what happens to the clothes that we donate. The author summerizes in a way that very logical thinking, like the clothes goes to Africa to someone who needs it, However the intro also sets the reader up to understand that there is more to it than clothes leaving America and going to someone in Africa who needs it.
3. What is the main idea?
The main idea is that we as Americans donate clothes that we no longer want or feel as being useless, but the majority of us don't understand what goes on behind the scenes when it comes to where the clothes go.
4. List 3 interview questions that aren't stated directly?
a) Susie Bayer bought a T-Shirt for her workouts with the personal trainer who comes regularly to her apartment....
b) She alway goes to the same vendors, whose merchandise and prices are to her liking.
c) She bloodied another woman's nose in a scuffle over a bale of Canadian cotton skirts.
5. List 3 Research facts.
a) "maungu" is a term used in East, Central, and South Africa that means "person of foreign descent".
b) About 45 percent of the clothes that Americans donate is destined for sub-Saharan Africa.
c) The clothes that are donated to Africa is basically killing the African Textile companys. As clothes are donated to Africa they are sold by merchants for cheap witch undercuts the African Textile companys and causes them to lose profits.