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per·spec·tive
pərˈspektiv/
noun
a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.
"most guidebook history is written from the editor's
perspective"
| synonym | outlook, view, viewpoint, point of view, POV, standpoint, position, stand, stance, angle, attitude, frame of mind, frame of reference, approach, way of looking, interpretation Our next step is integrating news stories with perspective, so as to have a deeper understanding of how different news sources handle a story. Is it possible to remain unbiased? DIRECTIONS: 1.Open a word document 2.Below you will find three paired stories, labelled by number and letter. ie. story 1 a, story 1 b. 3. Read each pair carefully, noting language usage and tone 4. Copy and paste the story titles into your word document 5. Write a comparison paragraph of a minimum of 100 words that explains how each of the news sources handled the story. That means you will have 3-100 word responses. Use specific textual examples to support your analysis. Finally, conclude with an evaluation of as to what extent the story was written objectively, or has demonstrated bias. (What do you mean by "handled the story?" Look carefully at the text? What word choices did the author make- adjectives? verbs? Consider tone? Where is the focus? When you answer these, ask yourself why the author made these choices and then you'll be able to respond to the bias evaluation.) 6. Rubric: demonstrates accurate understanding of the articles; textual evidence; evaluation of the two news sources and language conventions(grammar, spelling, syntax.) 7. There are three paired articles. DUE BY midnight on Tuesday. STORIES 1a  Islamic terrorists kill at least 40 students in attack on Nigerian college
Islamic terrorists dressed in Nigerian military uniforms assaulted a college inside the country Sunday, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in their dorms and shot others trying to flee, witnesses say.
"They started gathering students into groups outside, then they opened fire and killed one group and then moved onto the next group and killed them. It was so terrible," one surviving student, who would only give his first name of Idris, told Reuters.
As many as 50 students may have been killed in the attack, which began at about 1 a.m. in rural Gujba, Provost Molima Idi Mato of Yobe State College of Agriculture, told The Associated Press.
"They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hostels, they opened fire at them," he said. The extremists also torched classrooms.
Nigeria State Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai told Reuters
 that he suspected that the terrorist group Boko Haram was behind the attack, but declined to elaborate.
Boko Haram is aiming to establish an Islamic state in northern Nigeria and has intensified attacks on civilians in revenge for a Nigerian military offensive against the group, Reuters reports.
Idi Mato said he could not give an exact death toll as security forces still are recovering bodies of students mostly aged between 18 and 22.
The Nigerian military has collected 42 bodies and transported 18 wounded students to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, 25 miles north, said a military intelligence official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
The extremists rode into the college in two double-cabin pickup all-terrain vehicles and on motorcycles, some dressed in Nigerian military camouflage uniforms, a surviving student, Ibrahim Mohammed, told the AP. He said they appeared to know the layout of the college, attacking the four male hostels but avoiding the one hostel reserved for women.
"We ran into the bush, nobody is left in the school now," Mohammed said.
Almost all those killed were Muslims, as is the college's student body, said Adamu Usman, a survivor from Gujba who was helping the wounded at the hospital.
Wailing relatives gathered outside the hospital morgue, where rescue workers laid out bloody bodies in an orderly row on the lawn for family members to identify their loved ones.
One body had its fists clenched to the chest in a protective gesture. Another had hands clasped under the chin, as if in prayer. A third had arms raised in surrender.
Provost Idi Mato confirmed the school's other 1,000 enrolled students have fled the college.
He said there were no security forces stationed at the college despite government assurances that they would be deployed. The state commissioner for education, Mohammmed Lamin, called a news conference two weeks ago urging all schools to reopen and promising protection from soldiers and police.
Most schools in the area closed after militants on July 6 killed 29 pupils and a teacher, burning some alive in their hostels, at Mamudo outside Damaturu.
Northeastern Nigeria is under a military state of emergency to battle an Islamic uprising prosecuted by Boko Haram militants who have killed more than 1,700 people since 2010 in their quest to install an Islamic state, though half the country's 160 million citizens are Christian. Boko Haram means Western education is forbidden in the local Hausa language.
Story 1 b
 Nigeria College Shooting: Dozens Of Students Shot Dead In Their Sleep
POTISKUM, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural college in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torching classrooms, the school's provost said – the latest violence in northeastern Nigeria's ongoing Islamic uprising.
The attack, blamed on the Boko Haram extremist group, came despite a 4 1/2-month-old state of emergency covering three states and one-sixth of the country. It and other recent violence have led many to doubt assurances from the government and the military that they are winning Nigeria's war on the extremists.
Provost Molima Idi Mato of Yobe State College of Agriculture told The Associated Press that there were no security forces protecting the college. Two weeks ago, the state commissioner for education had begged schools and colleges to reopen and promised they would be guarded by soldiers and police.
Idi Mato said as many as 50 students may have been killed in the assault that began at about 1 a.m. Sunday in rural Gujba. "They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hostels. They opened fire at them," he said, adding that most victims were aged between 18 and 22.
Soldiers recovered 42 bodies and transported 18 wounded students to Damaturu Specialist Hospital, 40 kilometers (25) miles north, said a military intelligence official who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
Two of the wounded later died, said Adamu Usman, a survivor from Gujba who was helping at the hospital.
President Goodluck Jonathan condemned the attack in a televised "chat with the media" Sunday night, and questioned the motives of Boko Haram, which wants to impose Islamic law across Nigeria. He said he wondered whether the victims were Muslim or Christian.
Usman said almost all those killed were Muslims, as is the majority of the college's student body.
Jonathan likened the assault to that on Nairobi's premier shopping mall last week, where Islamic extremists from Somalia's al-Shabab movement killed 67 civilians – but only after allowing many Muslims to leave. Boko Haram has said some of its fighters trained with al-Shabab in Somalia.
Story 2 a
  Last Gasp of the Climate Change Cult
The United Nations, as forecast -- the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate or whatever -- has predictably issued their latest report based on the hoax of man-made global warming, and they say that it is getting warmer and that we are causing it. I think it's a blatant, flood-the-zone technique. We're not getting warmer. For the last 15 years, it has not gotten warmer. Everybody's running around in the global science community saying, "Global climate change," trying to explain why it hasn't warmed.
They're using, "Well, it's been hurricanes, volcanoes, Sahara dust and so forth." I don't know, folks. We live in an era where nothing is real except the nothing. The real nothing is what's passed off as real, and what is real is mocked and laughed at, made fun of and discarded. Algore, four days ago, called for making climate change denial a taboo. Algore said, "There needs to be a political price for climate denial." A political price?
Now, remember, we have a Constitution, and there is in the Constitution the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments. One of them, the first one, is freedom of speech -- and specifically political speech was singled out as protected. Global warming is a political issue, and if you doubt that, the very people pushing it are all political people, be they scientists or otherwise. But Algore is a politician. He's not a scientist. He has no formal scientific training. He never has had.
He's a politician.
The number one advocate for global warming is a politician, and here's a guy now who has made millions, multiple millions of dollars scaring people with this big, fat lie. It has been proven to be a lie and untrue. He has made millions off of this, and he's suggesting that anybody who disagrees with him be punished, or outcast, or pay some kind of a price. Public humiliation or a tax increase or something. This is precisely the mental attitude of dictators and statists who don't tolerate dissent.
They want to criminalize dissent. They want to criminalize people that disagree with him. Algore is apparently not interested in entering the arena of ideas and winning debates with any of this, or any of the people that disagree with him. "Within the market system we have to put a price on carbon, and within the political system," he said, "we have to put a price on denial." Do you believe this? A price on denial!
He said this at the Social Good Summit in New York City. Algore said, "It is simply unacceptable for major companies to mimic the unethical strategy of the tobacco companies in presenting blatantly false information in order to protect a business model." He added, alleging what some oil and coal companies are doing, "There needs to be a political price for denial."
"He urged attendees to challenge denial of climate change in conversations in families and communities and elsewhere. 'We can win this conversation and winning a conversation can make all the difference,' Gore said. 'Don’t let denial go unchallenged.' Gore noted how racism and later homophobia have become increasingly unacceptable." So now denying the politics of global warming is akin to racism and homophobia, and it must be treated the same way.
Story 2 b
Humans almost certainly cause global warming, scientific panel says
A panel of the world’s leading climate scientists strongly asserted Friday that “it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause” of global warming since 1950 and warned of more rapid ice melt and rising seas if governments do not aggressively act to reduce the pace of greenhouse gas emissions.
At a meeting in Stockholm, where the panel released its latest assessment of climate change, the scientists for the first time established a budget for the amount of carbon that can be released into the atmosphere. Even if that target is reached, carbon emissions will have a harmful impact on the environment well into the future.
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Little doubt humans are the cause of global warming, says IPCC report.
“As the ocean warms, and glaciers and ice sheets reduce, global mean sea level will continue to rise but at a faster rate than we have experienced over the past 40 years,” said Qin Dahe, a Chinese scientist who co-chaired the working group that produced the first of the report’s three segments, a summary for government policymakers.
“As a result of our past, present and expected future emissions of [carbon dioxide], we are committed to climate change, and effects will persist for many centuries even if emissions . . . stop,” said Thomas Stocker, a German scientist who served as the other leader of the working group.
Improved models
The 2,000-page report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, appointed by the United Nations, will not be available until Monday, following a weekend of editing and corrections. But a summary highlighting 20 findings was provided early Friday.
Some key findings were that the planet is warming at an accelerated pace without any doubt, that humans are causing it with 95 percent certainty and that the past three decades have been the hottest since 1850.
Carbon concentrations in the atmosphere have increased 40 percent since then, and carbon, methane and nitrous oxide are at levels unprecedented in at least 800,000 years.
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have steadily lost mass in two decades, and glaciers are shrinking worldwide. Sea-level rise could reach three feet by 2100.
The panel expressed high confidence in its findings because climate models that help scientists observe surface temperature patterns have improved in the past six years, since its previous climate assessment. The current assessment is the IPCC’s fifth since 1990.
Scientists arrived at their conclusions by drawing on more than 9,000 publications. They considered more than 54,000 comments from about 1,050 people in 52 nations.
Yet the summary did little to dissuade a small but forceful chorus of scholars who deny that humans cause significant global warming or that Earth is suffering from warming effects.
The Heartland Institute, a nonprofit group funded by individuals and corporations, denounced the IPCC’s findings in a statement, citing a competing report called Climate Change Reconsidered II, released about a week ago by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change.
Consistent with the positions of the institute, which helped pay for it, the NIPCC found that “the human impact on climate is very small, and . . . any warming that may be due to human greenhouse gas emissions is likely to be so small as to be invisible,” said the institute’s president, Joseph Bast.
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