Monday, September 29, 2014
Data Journalism Critique
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/sep/25/comparing-the-minimum-wage-across-europe-using-the-price-of-a-big-mac
I picked this story because I thought that it was interesting that the Guardian uses a lot of visuals to help tell there stories. I like the way that they use the graph to show how many big macs you can purchase while on minimum wage. It is interesting to see the difference from the top of the list to the bottom. I do not like the way that the map is used, I just don't think it really adds to the story. I think that if they had just used the table that would have shown the reader more than the map does. Once I saw the map I lost interest. The table did a better job than a video would have because you could see the comparison of the big macs and minimum wage. I think that data visualizations really help stories that need to show comparisons and such.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Thanksgiving Traditions
Families have many ways to celebrate Thanksgiving.
This blog post is a glimpse of what my family does for the holiday every year. We believe that traditions should be traditions.
The very first thing we do on Thanksgiving is watch the Macy's thanksgiving Day parade. We have done that since I can remember.
Than when Santa Claus comes to town we had to my aunts for dinner!
Some families like to eat different meals every year but we stick with the normal things like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, rolls, stuffed celery, deviled eggs, and cranberry sauce. I like just about everything but...the cranberry sauce, that goes to the dog.
An interesting fact is that American's will use about 46 million pounds of turkey just on Thanksgiving.
But the most popular part of our Thanksgiving meal would have to be desert, which included pumpkin pie and my mom's famous chocolate mint pie (okay, maybe not famous, but it should be)!
We also play games on Thanksgiving. It is a tradition to play games anytime our family gets together. Usually on thanksgiving we play rummy for quarters.
But...the biggest tradition would have to be the shopping that comes along with Thanksgiving. When my sister and I were younger we would go to our grandparents house after Thanksgiving dinner so our parents could go Black Friday shopping.
When we got older wee have to joys of getting to start our own Black Friday shopping. It gets earlier every year since shopping now start after dinner time on Thanksgiving.
It is hard to keep these traditions going because my sister and I are growing up, but I hope to keep some of these traditions for my own kids.
This blog post is a glimpse of what my family does for the holiday every year. We believe that traditions should be traditions.
The very first thing we do on Thanksgiving is watch the Macy's thanksgiving Day parade. We have done that since I can remember.
Than when Santa Claus comes to town we had to my aunts for dinner!
Some families like to eat different meals every year but we stick with the normal things like turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, squash, rolls, stuffed celery, deviled eggs, and cranberry sauce. I like just about everything but...the cranberry sauce, that goes to the dog.
An interesting fact is that American's will use about 46 million pounds of turkey just on Thanksgiving.
But the most popular part of our Thanksgiving meal would have to be desert, which included pumpkin pie and my mom's famous chocolate mint pie (okay, maybe not famous, but it should be)!
We also play games on Thanksgiving. It is a tradition to play games anytime our family gets together. Usually on thanksgiving we play rummy for quarters.
But...the biggest tradition would have to be the shopping that comes along with Thanksgiving. When my sister and I were younger we would go to our grandparents house after Thanksgiving dinner so our parents could go Black Friday shopping.
When we got older wee have to joys of getting to start our own Black Friday shopping. It gets earlier every year since shopping now start after dinner time on Thanksgiving.
It is hard to keep these traditions going because my sister and I are growing up, but I hope to keep some of these traditions for my own kids.
Monday, September 15, 2014
Sunday, September 14, 2014
Online Writing (Just a Test...Not real)
The search is on tonight for twelve year old Zachary Lee who
never made it into his foster home after he was dropped off in Sunderland.
Police believe that Lee’s mother could be the one who has taken him based on a
documented history of such attempts.
Lee has only been in the United States since August 29th
and is unfamiliar with his surroundings.
Zachary has been described as a white female standing about
ten feet tall and weighing 95 pounds.
He has brown shoulder length hair and
brown eyes and has a French accent.
His mother, Patricia
Kane is 49 years old with white or blonde hair and brown eyes. She is about six
feet tall and weighs 125 pounds.
Her route of travel is unknown.
Police are asking anyone with any information to call 802-442-5421 or submit an anonymous tip to www.vtips.info.
Monday, September 8, 2014
It's week three back at school and this year could not get any crazier. It seems like all I do is go to school and work. I have no idea how I am going to make it through this semester. I am supposed to be getting married in less than a year but I have no time to even see my boyfriend. For example this weekend I have to work almost 30 hours after going to school all week and not seeing him at all. So what we had a couple hours to see each other not including sleep time. That really puts a damper on our relationship. Thankfully, he supports me in every way and hopefully we will make it through. So here it is week three...two reporting shifts to go, a producing shift, one NewsLinc shift, eighteen credits to work at one shift at the hospital, one work shift, and a wedding to be part of. Holy crap it's going to be a long week.
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