Sarah Koenig's Serial Summary

American journalist Clare Boothe Luce writes a speech to the Women’s National Press Club about how the press sacrifices sensationalist stories. Luce’s introduction talks about how the American press is wrong and how she tries to address the problem. She starts off by tells the other journalist how she is happy, but the audience makes her unhappy and challenged. This shows her hard work in writing and how the press lacks in writing true stories.

This means that you only have a certain amount of time to tell a cohesive story. Basically, by the end of the episode, you need to have drawn some sort of conclusion from your original subject. This narrative is as important as chapters are to the organization of a book. To make the narrative have flow effectively, you need to link quotes from interviews together with narration. Transitions between concepts can be done most effectively via well written narration or background music. The narration is most efficient if it either summarize or adds insight to ideas, and the music is most effective if it sets the emotional tone of the upcoming discussion. Both the interviews, like the narrative, must progress the story. For example, in the “This American Life” episode “Switched at Birth”, the podcast first discusses the experiences of the two women who were switched at birth, and then the experiences of the mothers whose daughters were switched. The interviews built on each other. The audience doesn’t want to learn about the experiences of auxiliary characters before hearing from the protagonist; it just doesn’t doesn’t logically

Hunter S. Thompson was the man responsible for what is known today as gonzo journalism. This type of journalism is written in the first-person narrative and places the reporter in the middle of the action, allowing for personal experiences, emotions, and biases in a way that defies traditional journalism. Thompson’s subversive style of journalism was so radical that according to Jennifer Marinelli’s (2010) post on the Michigan Online News Association, “Thompson didn’t just create a new form of journalism. He created a new way of thinking that is still important in today’s society” (para. 2). In other words, he didn’t just transform journalism; he transformed people’s minds. Perhaps this should not come as a surprise that such a man could

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay is a novel to be described as a heart-wrenching and inspiring story. This is a narrative that can make a person realize how something as simple as a book can make a strong impact on a their life. De Rosnay brought this book to life by using a high quality of writing, choosing a unique plot that still keeps the reader interested, and the specific character development of Sarah throughout the story.

In this week's read, Sarah is faced with the consequence of losing a friend before it's too late. Sarah is too much in her head about her dispute with Dr. Warren. The Dispute was over nothing much but feelings that Sarah had for Dr. Warren. Sarah accused him of being smitten with Rachel. She was upset about and decided to tell him that she was wrong. When in Watertown Before he left for the hill, she asked him to forgive her. I did not like when in the book she did not know if he did forgive her. The reason is, his voice was drowned out by the sound of the cannons. Sarah may never know because he died on the hill. I think the author, Ann Rinaldi, did this to put more focus on Sarah’s secret.

“Sarah’s Key, the New York Times bestseller by Tatiana De Rosnay, takes place in Paris to discover the dark truth of a Vel d’hiv child that links with a journalist’s research.”(#2) A little jewish girl named Sarah Starzynski was one of the many jewish children that were rounded up in the Vel d’Hiv event. June 16th of 1942, was when the roundup had hit full wave of all the Jewish families, the French police following government orders on that the fateful morning of Vel d’Hiv begun. Causing trauma and fear to the girl, she faced many challenges that were horrible, and tragic that no child should ever be put through. A mother of one and married to a frenchman, at the age of 45, a journalist living in France for over half her lifetime was given

The podcast I chose to cover was Bill Burr's Monday morning podcast. The podcast was independently started by Bill Burr himself back in May of 2007 then in October 2012 it became a part of the podcast Network all things comedy which it still runs on today. Bill Burr is a very well accomplished comedian having any specials on HBO Starz and Comedy Central and also a recurring show on Netflix and also my favorite comedian so when I found out he had a podcast I had to tune in. Each podcast episode 1 hour where Bill will dive into past, current, and recent events Sports, interviews with guests, and my favorite segment is when he offers advice to listeners. The advice column is my favorite part because people always assume they know what Bill Burr will say or what advice he'll give on the

Not much was known about Sarah Winchester, after all she was a secretive and mysterious person. She seemed to be content with her life; with her husband and daughter Annie – all was well for them. That was until about forty days after Annie’s birth, which was the day of Annie’s death. It was extremely heart-wrenching for Sarah and William. The death of her daughter plagued Sarah with a lingering sadness that lasted until her death. Things only got unhappier for Sarah…

The attitudes of the writers from the early Native American literature to the 21st century tell stories of the times in which they lived. Eastman is telling the events of Indian life, tradition, culture while living during the events of American Indians maintaining their lifestyle with the new settlers. “The Hunt, the war of the tribes, honoring tradition and most of all the acknowledgment of “The Great Mystery,” in which the lands and the people came to be(Eastman, 2008), describes the life of the Indians on the plains. Later writers such as Hunt wrote of the turmoil between the New government and the Native American tribes fighting for their right of sovereignty (Jackson, 1889), for a land they possessed before the new government. Her writing

Neglect is an obvious theme of the novel. First, Sarah has visual neglect, which does not allow her to see anything on her left side. People and food magically appear, when they walk into her line of vision or she rotates her plate of food. She struggles to use the left side of her body for simple tasks. Reading, drawing, and writing become nearly impossible and she needs signals such as a diamond watch to be able to locate the left side of her body. The visual neglect turns her world a full 180 degrees, and the whole message behind the novel is that sometimes you have to slow down and enjoy the little things you have always misses.

Shire intended to introduce a new dry-eye drug to the US market by featuring actress Jennifer Aniston to unveil an awareness campaign. The drugmaker expected to attain enormous impacts through publicizing with multiple channels in order to lay the foundation of the introduction of the new dry eye drug, Xiidra. The invention of this new drug is an attempt to deal with rare disease that has affected millions of people, which also showed Shire’s commitment to health.

Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence is a non- profit organization comitted to helping victims and survivors of domestic violence. On September 6th a survivor and founder of the organization named Kristen Paruginog came and shared her story and educated us on what domestic violence really is. Kristen was inspired to help other victims and survivors after her own horrible expeirence. She wants to be a voice for the men and women that don’t have one.

"Its the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth” (Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride, 302). Sometimes the journey of life will get hard and goals that have been set with seem to move further and further away, but in the end everything will work out for the better and the very journey that once was rough and bumpy is the very journey that will make everything worth it. Auden an 18 year old girl living through her last summer before going off to college is now learning of all the things she has missed out on throughout her childhood and life and now, with the help of others, she is learning that its not to late to change and it never is. Auden's journey relates to the journey of famous author J.K

The interdependence was powerfully shown by the flow of the interview. Each person actively participated in the interview, which simplified the opportunity for Lamb to ask his abundance of follow-up questions. Lamb asked open-ended, fitting questions that allowed Harden to communicate without concealment. Control was exercised by Lamb directing the interview to discover information about the author and his book. He abstained from using directive questions; his objective was not to obtain brief, specific answers. Consequently, he chose to employ nondirective questions. He shared the control with Harden by allowing him to fully answer his questions without Lamb trying to intervene and redirect him; his focus was to acquire as much information as possible. Lamb utilized broad topics to allow Harden to select the direction he wanted to take the

Throughout Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, character development plays a large role in the evolution of the story’s plot. Ten-year-old Jewish girl Sarah Starzynski experiences involuntary growth and development from her simple-minded and naive adolescence, to a struggle ridden adulthood. Sarah’s development causes her thinking to show perspective and maturity which allows her to survive World War II in France but also rips apart her childhood.