Fighting Flu Without Big Gun

The push for swine flu prevention is in full swing. The Obama administration is worried about the sudden increase in the numbers of cases of the flu, while the projected public immunization date is still a month away. The Department of Health and Human Services is partnering with many different groups with hopes of spreading the word about better hygiene and flu prevention. The Obama administration is remaining positive about the situation, believing it is better to be over cautious than to under react.

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Dalzell, S.C.

Over Labor Day weekend, I took a trip to visit my best friend and her family in South Carolina. While I was there, we went to a little sub shop in Dalzell, S.C. It was an interesting experience. The food was decent, as long as you did not question what it was actually made of, and the atmosphere was pleasurable.
My friend has two little girls, Zarina, 2, and Zariah, 3, who were more than ready to eat some lunch. We ordered a pizza , but decided the girls would not be able to wait that long for food, so we added on an order of nachos as an appetizer. After a good half hour, the waitress brought out our styrofoam plates and plastic silverware. She informed us our pizza would be out shortly with our nachos. My friend was upset that our nachos had not arrived sooner and wanted to take them off the order, but the waitress told us we could have them for free because of the wait.
Our food arrived shortly after that. The pizza was delicious, but the nachos were another story. Mystery cheese seemed like a good name for the lumpy yellow substance on the chips. We learned the valuable lesson of not ordering the nachos at the sub shop in Dalzell, S.C.

Lead

The lead is the most important part of your article. It seizes your reader’s attention, pulling them deeper and deeper into the depths of your story. Writing a good lead can be very difficult. If you put too much information in your, you can make the story difficult to comprehend. Too little information can be dull and turn your reader away.
The key to a good lead is emphasizing the unusual. News is happening all around us and the audience can read it in many different papers. You have to pick out the most unusual piece of information about the story you are writing and use that to set your story apart from the rest.
Every part of your story has some essential components to it. These essentials become more important in the lead. The lead must be written by keeping an impartial opinion. If your thoughts and feelings begin to show in your lead, your entire story is going to be biased. It is also very important that you keep your audience in mind. If you are writing for a high school paper, you are going to use different language and topics than if you were writing for a health journal.