文档介绍：The Man in the Water
Roger Rosenblatt
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The Man in the Water
B ackgisaster
The Rescue Site
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Responses in the media
News media outlets followed the story with diligence; it made headlines
"A Hero - Passenger Aids Others, Then Dies," Washington Post, January 14, 1982
“the sixth man”, “the man in the water”
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The Man in the Water
"He was about 50 years old, one of half a dozen survivors clinging to twisted wreckage bobbing in the icy Potomac when the first helicopter arrived. To the copter's two-man Park Police crew he seemed the most alert. Life vests were dropped, then a flotation ball. The man passed them to the others. On two occasions, the crew recalled last night, he handed away a life line from the hovering machine that could have dragged him to safety. … and the helicopter pilot, Donald W. Usher, returned to the scene, but the man was gone."
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The Man in the Water
The man was later identified as Arland D. Williams Jr., a bank examiner working for the Federal Reserve system in Atlanta. The 14th Street Bridge was renamed in his honor.
In June of 1983, Williams was awarded a medal by President Reagan.
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Genre
What kind of article do we have for this lesson? Where do we generally find it?
What does this article concentrate on? Does it focus on the description of the disaster or how people are saved? Why?
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News fall into basic categories: hard news and soft news.
“Hard news” includes stories of a timely nature about events or conflicts that have just happened or are about to happen, such as crimes, fires, meetings, protest rallies, speeches and testimony in court cases.
These stories have immediacy.
“Soft news” is defined as news that entertains or informs, with an emphasis on human interest(人情味) and novelty(新奇) and less immediacy than hard news.
“Soft news” can also be stories that focus on people, places or issues that affect readers’ l