A 5 month old baby was fighting for his life, his parents Autumn Chenkus and Charlie Higgs were talking to the five doctors and a nurse at the hospital. Maverick, the baby needed a heart transplant. All the doctors told Maverick’s parents that they couldn’t do anything to help Maverick. They told them that Maverick had only 6 months to live, but Maverick’s mom didn’t want to accept the fact that her son only had months to live, so she thought maybe the internet might have clues on how to keep her son alive. The doctors told them that Maverick was born with a severe heart defect. The doctors said that Maverick didn’t really qualify for a new heart because it will put him to risk for tumors and other infections. Maverick’s mom e-mailed one study’s author and they didn’t mention anything about an increased risk for tumors or anything like that so she was sure they would do the heart transplant so her baby won’t have to die. Maverick’s mom thought that maybe they didn’t want to give her baby a heart transplant because then he might grow up with disabilities, and the doctors try to select patients most likely to get the longest life so they can give the heart to them, because now there’s thousands of people still waiting for a new heart but there’s only a very few donors. Maverick had his first surgery when he was only 4 days old at Morgan Stanley Children’s hospital, but the surgery didn’t go as well as the doctors planned or hoped. Maverick’s condition then worsened so the doctors decided to perform second surgery months later but that surgery didn’t work either. A few months later the doctors told Maverick’s parents that Maverick was eligible for a heart transplant but then about a few days later they said he wasn’t a candidate for a transplant anymore. Later, his parents kept making more research and talking to more hospitals about Maverick’s problem, they talked to doctors and they gave Maverick a heart transplant in Boston. They had said maverick being at heightened risk for tumors and infections was false information they gave them. Even though Maverick spent most of his life in the hospital it was worth it, he’s healthy and better, and his mom said she’s glad she didn’t give up, now Maverick amazes her.
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Well im going to write about Magdalena ~ , well people call her ” Maggie ” for short . Well she is a very crazy , short , amazing , funny girl . I don’t remember how me & her met but i think it was last year in history , and now this year we are super close . She makes my days , shes like a sister to me , but yeah we have had our ups & downs but we always find a way to fix them , also because we can’t go a day without eachother lol . Well i dont know what else to say but theres alot more to say about her , i just can’t put it in words , but yeah i love her to death .
Local news
The season’s first freeze is heading to Central Texas tonight . The National Weather service has issued a freeze warning for tonight ahead of a strong blast of cold Canadian air due to move through the region by this afternoon . Basically the service is warning people / residents to protect their animals , vegetation , and cover unprotected pipes . They say that there could be the second freeze warning of the season for an even larger area of Central Texas by Thursday . Temperatures are gonna be dropping to the 20’s & 30’s , but the temperatures will rise in the weekend with highs in the 70’s and low’s in the 50’s .
Associated Press
The associated Press is an American multinational non – profit news agency headquartered in New York City . The AP is a non – profit cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers , radio and television stations in the United States , all of which contribute stories to the AP staff is represented by the Newspaper Guild union , which operates under the Communication Workers union , which operates under the AFL – CIO . Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers , paying a fee to use AP material without being contributing members of the cooperative . As of 2005 , the news collected by the AP is published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers , in addition to more than 5,001 television and radio broadcasters . As part of their cooperative agreement with The Associated Press , most member news organizations grant automatic permission for the Ap to distribute their local news reports . The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to use for re – publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper all all local news of spontaneous origin published herein .
Inverted Pyramid
Just as they use many different kinds of leads , journalists use many different kinds of frameworks for organizing stories . Journalists may tell some stories chronologically . Other stories may read like a good suspense novel that culminates with the revelation of some dramatic piece of information at the end . Still other stories will start in the present , then flash back to the past to fill in details important to a fuller understanding of the story . To understand what the ” inverted pyramid ” means , picture an upside-down triangle one with the narrow tip pointing downward and the broad base pointing upward . The broad base represents the most newsworthy information in the news story , and the narrow tip represents the least newsworthy information in the news story . When you write a story in inverted pyramid format , you put the most newsworthy information at the beginning of the story and the least newsworthy information at the end .
Common Sense By : Thomas Paine
In common sense , Thomas argues for American Independence . His argument begins with more general , theoretical reflections about government & religion , then progresses onto the specifics of the colonial situation . Society , according to Paine is everything constructive & good that people join together to accomplish . Government , on the other hand , is an institution whose sole purpose is to protect us from our own vices . Paine says that government’s sole purpose is to protect life , liberty and property , and that a government should be judged solely on the basis of the extent to which it accomplishes this goal .
William Randolph Hearst <3
William Randolph Hearst , the man behind Hearst Castle , is an important figure from the twentieth century whose influence extended to publishing , politics , Hollywood , the art world and everyday American life . His power and vision allowed him to pursue one of the most ambitious architectural endeavors in American History , the result of which can be seen in magnificent grounds and structures of Hearst Castle . Hearst was born on April , 29 , 1863 , in San Francisco California , as the only child of George and Phoebe Hearst . At the age of ten , Hearst and his mother toured Europe , gathering ideas & inspiration from the grandeur and scale of castles , art & history . This experience fueled Hearst’s life long aspiration to recreate this majesty for his own enjoyment .
John Peter Zenger Trial :o
On April , 16th , 1735 , the New York Supreme Court met in the second floor courtroom of New York City Hall . After attorneys James Alexander and William Smith , who were also Popular Party Members , had attempted to represent John Peter Zenger at his trial , the Court decided to disbar both of them . The court did this because it was known that no attorney in the Province of New York would be as bold in the defense of John Peter Zenger as Alexander & Smith . A man named John Chambers was then assigned as a council for Zenger and entered a plea of not guilty . After John Peter Zenger had languished in jail for a year , his trial began on August , 4 , 1735 inside a small court room in the New York City Hall .
Muckraking …
Muckraker any of a group of American writers , identified with pre – World War reform and expose literature . The muckrakers provided detailed , accurate journalistic accounts of the political and economic corruption and social hardships caused by the power of big business in a rapidly industrializing United States . The muckraker’s work grew out of the yellow journalism of the 1890’s , which whetted the public appetite for news arrestingly presented and out of popular magazines , especially those established by S.S. McClure Frank A . Munsey & Peter F . Collier . The emergence of muckracking was heralded in the January , 1903 issue of McClure’s Magazine .
Yellow Journalism
Yellow journalism was a style of newspaper reporting that emphasized sensationalism over facts . During its heyday in the late 19th century it was one of many factors that helped push the United States and Spain into war in Cuba and the Philippines , leading to the acquisition of overseas territory by the United States . The term originated in the competition over the New York City newspaper market between major newspaper publishers Joseph & William Randolph Hearst . At first Yellow journalism had nothing to do with reporting but instead derived from a popular cartoon strip about life in New York World .
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