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Slave huting in the Balkans
The problem of human trafficking currently plaguing the world has grown so acute, especially in the Balkans, that it has been met by a number of extra-legal responses, one of which is “slave huting,” in which a family or organization puts e money to hire a private detective/mercenary to liberate--focibly, if necessary---the victim from the criminals.
If you ask the question "how and why" things happen, then you probably like reading feature stories in newspapers and magazines. What is a feature story? A feature takes an in-depth look at what’s going on behind the news.
---or won’t---do their jobs. And the mafia wants me because---well, for obvious reasons, I guess.” he laughs. Gallows humor in a seedy roadside motel on the outskirts of Sarajevo.
year. It’s been close but we’ve always made it. Once he accepts a job---he will stop at nothing to free these young women. He is alleged to have killed over five men who tried to stop him. He is a wanted man in three countries. “The police want me because the fact that I exist--- the fact that I am necessary---is a black spot on their reputations---proof that they can’t
first place? Were any of them even still alive? Mr. Alaric is only sure on three things. They are all from Eastern Europe and Asia. They are under 18. And they had been bought and sold as slaves in the bustling human flesh markets of Balkans.
It may be a profile of a person or a group -an athlete, a performer, a politician, or a community worker or a team, a choir or a political organization. Or perhaps it’s an indepth look at a social issue -- like violence in Canadian schools or eating disorders among young women.
UNICEF estimates that about 1.2 million women and children are trafficked annually. The majority of them are trafficked out of Asia and Eastern Europe, especially the republics of the former Soviet Union. UN officials say that governments who signed onto the global antichild trafficking drive in Japan in 2001 must urgently tackle the root causes of the human slave trade, such as povery and inequality.
It gets into the lives of people. It tries to explain why and how a trend developed. Unlike news, a feature does not have to be tied to a current event or a breaking story. But it can grow out of something that’s reported in the news.
A feature story is usually longer than a news story -- but length is not a requirement! What’s more important is the form the story takes. Think of the feature as the journalistic equivalent of an essay. Follow these guidelines:
Shut up and lift
Huang A-wen is the owner of Taipei’s Center Gym, the only gym in Taipei owned by an actual bodybuilder. A former Mr. Taipei and Mr. Taiwan champion, “coach” Huang has been training himself and others in the principles and regimens of bodybuilding for over thirty years. Remember as a teenager when you broke out in that horrible acne just before the class photos? To comfort you, your mother said, “What’s on the surface doesn’t matter, honey. It’s what’s on the inside that counts.
Here’s an example of how a feature can explain and explore a story that makes news:
Before he embarks on another mission, Harvey Alaric spreads the photos of several young women onto the linoleum floor and tries to imagine their lives. Did that one ever kick her habit and give up the streets? Or did she return to a life of prostitution and addiction? Had that young one---she had been 12, hadn’t she?---been returned to the abusive family that hd sold her in on the
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You’d do well to check that “Daily Affirmation” crap at the door if you want to work out at Center Gym. “Work harder---no rest! Suck it up. Don’t be a thinking man, be a doing man.” Huang A-wen, a.k. a Coach, admonishes the struggling, sweating supplicants at the Church of Muscle. But no on works harder than coach himself.
start with a premise or theme present information and opinions that back your point bring the reader to a conclusion.
The feature often explores several different points of views, even when the story is about one particular person.
For Mr. Alaric, vague assertions and broad measures aren’t enough. Mr. Alaric is a slave hunter. He hunts for slaves in the back alleys of Pale and Srebrinica, not to capture them, but to liberate them. And liberate them he does, often at gunpoint, and guarantees their safe return to their homelands. “I haven’t lost one---no one--- in all of these
In no uncertain terms, Coach describes his philosophy on bodybuilding and life in general. “People always say---don’t care about the outside---take care about your heart. That’s total bullsh’t!” he declared. “Nobody cares about your inside---maybe your family, your good friends---but everyone else, they care about the outside. Your personal appearance.
The problem is particularly acute in the violent backwaters of the former Yugoslavia; in cities such as Pale and Srebrenica, where there is little policing. UN soldiers here maintain an uneasy peace between the once warring ethnic enclaves.
The problem of human trafficking currently plaguing the world has grown so acute, especially in the Balkans, that it has been met by a number of extra-legal responses, one of which is “slave huting,” in which a family or organization puts e money to hire a private detective/mercenary to liberate--focibly, if necessary---the victim from the criminals.
If you ask the question "how and why" things happen, then you probably like reading feature stories in newspapers and magazines. What is a feature story? A feature takes an in-depth look at what’s going on behind the news.
---or won’t---do their jobs. And the mafia wants me because---well, for obvious reasons, I guess.” he laughs. Gallows humor in a seedy roadside motel on the outskirts of Sarajevo.
year. It’s been close but we’ve always made it. Once he accepts a job---he will stop at nothing to free these young women. He is alleged to have killed over five men who tried to stop him. He is a wanted man in three countries. “The police want me because the fact that I exist--- the fact that I am necessary---is a black spot on their reputations---proof that they can’t
first place? Were any of them even still alive? Mr. Alaric is only sure on three things. They are all from Eastern Europe and Asia. They are under 18. And they had been bought and sold as slaves in the bustling human flesh markets of Balkans.
It may be a profile of a person or a group -an athlete, a performer, a politician, or a community worker or a team, a choir or a political organization. Or perhaps it’s an indepth look at a social issue -- like violence in Canadian schools or eating disorders among young women.
UNICEF estimates that about 1.2 million women and children are trafficked annually. The majority of them are trafficked out of Asia and Eastern Europe, especially the republics of the former Soviet Union. UN officials say that governments who signed onto the global antichild trafficking drive in Japan in 2001 must urgently tackle the root causes of the human slave trade, such as povery and inequality.
It gets into the lives of people. It tries to explain why and how a trend developed. Unlike news, a feature does not have to be tied to a current event or a breaking story. But it can grow out of something that’s reported in the news.
A feature story is usually longer than a news story -- but length is not a requirement! What’s more important is the form the story takes. Think of the feature as the journalistic equivalent of an essay. Follow these guidelines:
Shut up and lift
Huang A-wen is the owner of Taipei’s Center Gym, the only gym in Taipei owned by an actual bodybuilder. A former Mr. Taipei and Mr. Taiwan champion, “coach” Huang has been training himself and others in the principles and regimens of bodybuilding for over thirty years. Remember as a teenager when you broke out in that horrible acne just before the class photos? To comfort you, your mother said, “What’s on the surface doesn’t matter, honey. It’s what’s on the inside that counts.
Here’s an example of how a feature can explain and explore a story that makes news:
Before he embarks on another mission, Harvey Alaric spreads the photos of several young women onto the linoleum floor and tries to imagine their lives. Did that one ever kick her habit and give up the streets? Or did she return to a life of prostitution and addiction? Had that young one---she had been 12, hadn’t she?---been returned to the abusive family that hd sold her in on the
源自文库
You’d do well to check that “Daily Affirmation” crap at the door if you want to work out at Center Gym. “Work harder---no rest! Suck it up. Don’t be a thinking man, be a doing man.” Huang A-wen, a.k. a Coach, admonishes the struggling, sweating supplicants at the Church of Muscle. But no on works harder than coach himself.
start with a premise or theme present information and opinions that back your point bring the reader to a conclusion.
The feature often explores several different points of views, even when the story is about one particular person.
For Mr. Alaric, vague assertions and broad measures aren’t enough. Mr. Alaric is a slave hunter. He hunts for slaves in the back alleys of Pale and Srebrinica, not to capture them, but to liberate them. And liberate them he does, often at gunpoint, and guarantees their safe return to their homelands. “I haven’t lost one---no one--- in all of these
In no uncertain terms, Coach describes his philosophy on bodybuilding and life in general. “People always say---don’t care about the outside---take care about your heart. That’s total bullsh’t!” he declared. “Nobody cares about your inside---maybe your family, your good friends---but everyone else, they care about the outside. Your personal appearance.
The problem is particularly acute in the violent backwaters of the former Yugoslavia; in cities such as Pale and Srebrenica, where there is little policing. UN soldiers here maintain an uneasy peace between the once warring ethnic enclaves.