Voices of Hope

“When Words Fail, Music Speaks”

Eastview High School was proud to present Voices of Hope Sing-a-thon on Friday, February 20th 2009, to benefit the Angel Foundation. This foundation helps to improve the quality of life throughout the cancer experience by providing financial assistance, education, and support to cancer patients and their families. All proceeds from this event will help to support families in possibly paying their rent, mortgage, grocery bills, for gas, and all payments that affect the care and treatment their family member who has been diagnosed with cancer.

The Sing-a-thon originated out of Eastview High School and will be directed by Judy Sagen. With a class of 54, Judy Sagen asked the students how many people knew someone first hand with cancer and to her surprise fifty four hands went up. One student in the class however is different. Hannah Skalback recently found out her mother was suffering from pancreatic cancer, and the doctors had estimated she had about three to six months to live. This event started off with the singing of the National Anthem sung by Brooke Kilgarriff, who also introduced many of the acts while showing off her Miss Twin Cities sash and crown. Throughout the day the 640 seat performing arts center was full with people entering in and out, while non-stop performers take the stage. Ending the sing-a-thon was a local band Ferris. Ferris are made of all Eastview High School alumni, and they were all thrilled to be a part of this wonderful cause.

I talked to an Eastview High School sophomore named Emma Webster who not only attended Voices of Hope, but was a participant in the great cause as well. “I felt proud to be able to use my voice to create hope for everyone who is touched or affected in any way by cancer.” She stated, “For our first year we did extremely well. We raised over 20,000 dollars and we handled the stress of the whole thing with class and just enjoyed the entire night.” Emma was very proud to have helped put the whole thing together as well. She personally has many people in her family who have had cancer, and is affected by the disease a lot. ““My Uncle currently has prostate and bone cancer and my grandpa had prostate cancer as well. My grandma had melanoma cancer and Hannah Skalbeck from women’s chorale has a mom suffering from pancreatic cancer with a prognosis of six months to live.” When asked what her favorite part of the night was, Emma replied, “I just loved seeing people get up on stage and not caring if they were good or bad, they just got up there for the cause. My favorite performance was Joel Jacobson because he put his heart and soul into his performance and didn’t care what people thought of him. But closing out the night was the band Ferris and it was so much fun when a bunch of us girls got right up in front of the stage and just danced and had a lot of fun.”

Notes

Five Freedoms of the First Amendment:

-Religion

-Press

-Speech

-Assembly

-Petition



The fraser Standard (1986)

Bethel school District vs. Fraser Inapproperiate speech for class president"Innaproperiate behavior" during a speech. Can sensor student that is vulgar or indecent even if it does not cause a material substantial disruption



Hazelwood Standard (1988)

U.S. supreme court significantly reduces the level of first amendment protection provided the most school sponsored student media at public high schools(schools have the right to sensor if they think the message goes against the school rights)

-applies only to school sponsored speech.



Frederick Standard (2007)

Olympic tourch travels through townprinciple morse cancels schoolsenior frederick unveils banneron sidewalk across street " Bong Hits For Jesus"Suspended for 10 days

What is News Notes

Definition:Current events that are news worthy that are published or broadcasted to an audience.

List and describe the six criteria of newsworthiness.
1. Timeliness
2. Proximity (how close you are to it)
3. Significance - Events
4. Prominence - People
5. Unusualness
6. Human Interest

What are the advantages of print journalism?
1. You have a lot more control on what you are going to read
2. Much easier to keep, much more tangible
3. More details and much more information

What are the advantages of broadcast journalism?
1. Better connection with the audience
2. More current news, get it faster when it is broadcasted
3. Much easier to change wrong information

Why has online journalism (convergent media) become so popular?
The reason it has become so popular is because you can get both print and broadcast journalism on the web and is very convenient. It is free and it also is the very current news.

The Robosno

Commercial Analysis

Company Name: Bud Light
Target Audience: Older people/drinkers/Business people
Persuasive Method: Humor
Camera Shots: Showing the close up of the beer bottles. Also being outside when they throw him out the window was funny because you aren't expecting it
Slogan: "The difference is Drinkability"
Message: It was a really good commercial and had a clear message.

Company Name: Coca Cola
Target Audience: Anyone who can drink pop
Persuasive Method: A little bit of humor, a little but of interest maybe.
Camera Shots: Had really good camera shots, they made the commercial interesting.
Slogan: "Open Happiness"
Message: Had a clear message, but I didnt really understand exactly because the guy never even got the coke. Kind of confusing

Company Name: Audi
Target Audience: Adults who can drive
Persuasive Method: Action
Camera Shots: Looked like the action scenes were put together from pictures which was cool vs. just changing camera angles.
Slogan: "Progress is Beautiful"
Message: I think the message wasnt effective because it was just a long commercial. Was pretty interesting but I didnt really like it.

Company Name: Cheetos
Target Audience: 5-60 Somewhere around there, they have a pretty big target audience
Persuasive Method: Humor
Camera Shots: Camera shots made it interesting going back between the girl and the cheetos and the birds
Slogan:
Message: I think this was a good commercial and they did a good job displaying the message.

Company Name: Dennys
Target Audience: Anyone who likes breakfast foods
Persuasive Method: Humor
Camera Shots: Very good camera shots
Slogan:
Message: The message was displayed pretty well but it didnt really make that much sense to me.