Bell’s Palsy the untold story
The idea for my feature article came from a video I watched about a toddler whose parents noticed that he could not wink properly. I will be writing an informative feature article, which will inform and educate people on what Bell’s Palsy is and what measures people can take toward curing it. I derived my article idea from looking at various articles on what the disease is.
As it is there are quite a few people that suffer from this condition in South African communities, but the parents are not aware of it, nor do they know how to treat it. 11 to 40 cases of Bell’s palsy are recorded in South Africa a year.
In my story gathering I used the internet to read up on Bell’s Palsy as well as social media platforms being YouTube for me to further understand the condition and how I am going to write my feature. My target magazine is Drum magazine. The am for this article is to spread awareness about the condition.
I feel that is article is necessary as there aren’t as many articles on the disease as there are on other syndromes and diseases. This piece will be beneficial especially in the black communities in instances that the mother did not get to further her studies and they are not too educated on different syndromes and diseases that affect children.
Bell’s Palsy being a medical condition that my anecdotal sources are going to be Doctors, more especially the paediatrician as my article will be more focused on toddlers. I will set up an interview with Dr Wayne Jones (0413633133) and Dr AJ Daniels (0414537445) who are paediatricians in Port Elizabeth. The experts that I will use are an organisation called the Smile Foundation SA (011) 325 648/ info@smilefoundationsa.org. I will also interview a young parent whose child has the condition.
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Dementia is a cruel disease, robbing us of the people we used to know so well. We took her for tests, and she was finally diagnosed with vascular dementia, a general term describing problems with reasoning, planning, judgment, memory and other thought processes caused by brain damage from impaired blood flow to the brain. We agreed on two things one, that we needed help. And two, that we did not want to put her into a home. Her familiar surroundings were terribly important, and her house had a spare bedroom for live in help. We started searching for a career.
Average sentence length= 100 words/6 sentences= 16.66
Ave words 100/6 complex words= 6
16.66(Ave sentence length) + 6(%Complex words) = 22.66*0.4= 9.06
(Fog Index =9)
Turning your business into success
In this feature article I will be discussing a young woman’s journey into the business world. The young lady’s story will give the reader a different view of buying and co-owning a business at a young age as well as studying at the same time. The article will be a profile feature that will showcase the ins and outs of the business world as well as the technique of running a business. My target magazine is CFO because it is a South African magazine for audiences that like business news. It reaches thousands of readers and it has twenty-two thousand South African newsletters.
I derived my story idea after watching a show where a young woman got into business as well as starting a YouTube channel which is also quite like that. When gathering information about a profile feature. I used Google books to help me put the story into perspective. I used books like Zero to One, the Art of Hustling Sell or Surrender as well as documentaries and Pressreader to gather the information on how to start a business as a young person.
For the anecdotal source I will of course interview the young lady Thando Mkhombo is a 27-year-old woman that is determined to fight against stereotypes of women in business. She runs a business with her co-owner, she will tell us more about her tuck shop and how it came to be. To add value and credit to my story I will look at articles in CFO magazines to see how they were written as they usually feature powerful businesswomen in their articles.
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In family photographs they look like three ordinary kids a gap-toothed boy who loved playing with his toy dinosaurs and his two older sisters who doted on him. But there might be secrets hiding behind their seemingly carefree smiles. Because it turns out that life in their home in Brakpan, Gauteng, was far from happy. Pictures show fire-damaged rooms in disarray, with clothes and toys strewn all over the floor. Most disturbing of all are two bloodstained mattresses pushed together on the living room floor this was where two of the siblings, were recently found shot dead along with their mother, Sandra Schwartz (39). There’s blood spatter nearby, next to a black leather couch where their sister, Lee-Ann (16), was also shot (Jacques, 2019).
Average sentence length = 122words/ 6sentences =20.33
Average sentence length = 122words/ 6complex words =4.91
20.33(Ave sentence) +4.91(% of complex words) = 25.24*0.4= 10.09
Fog Index = 10
References
Jacques, M., 2019. Bloodbath in Brakpan. In: H. v. Dyk, ed. YOU. Gauteng: Lyners Edwina, p. 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztaIinkR8q4 YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic1hKbk4CKc YouTube
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