Using news you can peruse (pdf), choose a newspaper or magazine profile of a sports figure or an entertainer with whom you are familiar. identify a passage in the profile in which the subject reveals something surprising about herself.

journal entries should include a link to the profile and two to three paragraphs answering the following questions:

how do you think the reporter got the information?

can you tell from the article that the reporter developed a rapport with the story's subject?

if so, how do you think the reporter developed the rapport?

label your journal entry 8.2 profiles.

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What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Read the passage.which statement best describes how pacing of events heightens tension