Watch and write a comparison and contrast essay on three different media reports of the same news event. Choose a current news event and observe its coverage on three different major news networks. As you watch each, take notes on how long each report was, how objective each was, and any persuasive techniques that were used. Write 3-5 paragraphs comparing and contrasting the three news stories. Include the following: a summary of each, how long was each report? Were parts of each story reported objectively (facts, unbiased)? Did any parts use persuasive techniques (opinion, bias, emotionally loaded language/images, slogans, repetition)? Which report do you think gave the most objective coverage and which was the most biased? Use the comparison-and-contrast rubric to help evaluate your essay.

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.