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President Biden said on Thursday that Republican efforts to __________ were “sick” and “un-American,” vowing to prevent states from taking what he called “despicable” actions.
limit voting rights
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Trying to convey the sheer scale of the nearly quarter-mile-long container ship that has been stuck in the _________ since Tuesday evening, some news outlets compared it to the length of four soccer fields. Others simply called it gigantic.
But the main thing to know was this: After powerful winds forced the ship aground on one of the canal’s banks, it was big enough to block nearly the entire width of the canal, producing a large traffic jam in one of the world’s most important maritime arteries.
Suez Canal
By Wednesday morning, more than 100 ships were stuck at each end of the 120-mile canal, which connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean and carries roughly 10 percent of worldwide shipping traffic. Only the Panama Canal looms as large in the global passage of goods.
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What does attribution mean/reference in journalism?
the source of the quote, who said it
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This setting features prominently in what show, what season?
Stranger Things 3
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Alexi McCammond, the new editor in chief of ________________ resigned before her first day on the job over racist and homophobic tweets she posted a decade ago, when she was a teenager.
Teen Vogue
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On March 20, officials in Miami Beach enforced an emergency curfew in response to ________________.
tourists gathering for spring break
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Which TWO countries tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, according to a newly declassified report of foreign efforts to influence the 2020 vote?
Russia and Iran
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What is the inverted pyramid? Why is it used?
journalism style of organizing facts in order of importance
so readers can stop reading at anytime and still walk away with the most important piece of information
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Gonzaga University is the top seed in this year’s N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament. Where is the school located?
Gonzaga is located in Spokane, Wash.
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What is this? What is its significance?
Beeple’s “Everydays — The First 5000 Days,” a piece of digital art known as an NFT, sold for $69 million at a Christie’s auction.
A non-fungible token (NFT) is a unit of data stored on a blockchain (a digital ledger) which can represent a unique digital item like art. An NFT is a cryptographic token, but unlike cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and many network or utility tokens, NFTs are not mutually interchangeable, i.e. not fungible.
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Tribal leaders across the country celebrated last week as Representative Deb Haaland of New Mexico became the first Native American to lead a cabinet agency. Which federal department does she now lead?
The Department of the Interior
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A major supplier of the _________ vaccine, ________ is now restricting vaccine exports as infections surge at home. The impact is beginning to be felt worldwide, particularly in poorer countries.
AstraZeneca
India
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Which of the following stories' messages is significantly distorted through the use of an irrelevant detail?
- A soft profile about a local politician's part-time rock band that mentions his political differences with his band mates
- A feature story of a local business owner running for political office in which she admits to having employed illegal laborers
- A news report about a local citizen protesting property tax rates that includes details about an immigration violation he committed twenty years previously
- A profile of several local Jewish and Arab business leaders that mentions ongoing hostilities in the Middle East
A news report about a local citizen protesting property tax rates that includes details about an immigration violation he committed twenty years previously
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After years of fans calling for the director’s original version to be restored, the four-hour “___________’s Justice League” is now on HBO Max and bears very little resemblance to the version of “Justice League” released by Warner Bros. in 2017.
Zach Snyder
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On March 17, the World Meteorological Organization said it would no longer use ___________ as a way of identifying tropical storms.
the Greek alphabet
The decision was made after nine Greek letters were pressed into service last year during the record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, which exhausted the normal list of 21 storm names prepared by the organization.
Greek letters had been used to name storms only once before, in 2005, another busy hurricane season that produced Hurricane Katrina, among others.
National Weather Service officials said the Greek alphabet got in the way of the main reason for naming storms — to help the public readily identify and track them. Many people were confused by the sounds of the Greek letters, and public attention often focused more on the use of the alphabet itself than on the destruction caused by the storms, officials said.
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A San Francisco superior court judge denied Thursday the city’s request for an emergency court order requiring______________.
the school district to bring all students in all grades back by the end of April.
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A volcano erupted in Iceland on March 19, near Mount Fagradalsfjall, about 20 miles southwest of the capital.
What is the capital of Iceland?
Reykjavik
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Write the following sentence in the chat following AP Style rules.
Nineteen hundred whales and seven calves traveled into the San Francisco Bay at 6 p.m. and ate 300 pieces of shrimp.
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1. "It was molten! It's ----ing molten!" is from what movie?
2. Name two famous actors who make brief cameos in this movie, who have also starred with the main character in 3+ movies?
Chef.
Robert Downey Jr and Scarlett Johansson
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How many movies have Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson starred in together? Name at least one non-Marvel movie.
9.
Avengers, Ultron, Infinity War, Endgame, Captain Marvel mid-credits scene, Winter Soldier, Civil War, the Nanny Diaries, The Perfect Score
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Crimes targeting Asian Americans have risen dramatically since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition that tracks incidents of violence and harassment against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S., reported nearly _________ instances of discrimination against Asians in the past year.
3,800
500
What's pictured in this photo?
Newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments containing verses from the biblical Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets, dating back nearly 2,000 years.
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The topic is: seniors
Identify a potential angle.
Draft the 4 "starter/formula" questions for this angle.
The seniors have decided to build a Little Free Library as their senior class gift.
1) What is the GOAL of the LFL? Why build it?
2) What are the potential OBSTACLES to building it?
3) How do the seniors plan to surmount this obstacle? What is the solution?
4) How did this idea originate? How did the senior class gift tradition begin at Nueva?
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The 2021 Oscars nominees were announced this week. Which movie got the most nods?
“Mank,” the director David Fincher’s black-and-white meditation on old Hollywood
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As of August 2019, the number of Little Free Libraries has increased to more than _________ such bookhouses in 91 countries around the world.
90,000.
Todd Bol's original goal was the creation of 2,510 Little Libraries. This would surpass the number of libraries founded by Andrew Carnegie, in a program where library buildings were constructed and endowed in cities across the United States.