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.