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Read Leiningen Versus The Ants

 

Assignment: News Account
Total possible: 25 points

 

Imagine that you are a reporter covering Leiningen's war against those awful ants. In no less than five paragraphs, please write a newspaper or television news account about this situation. Be sure to include the literary elements which are prevalent in Stephenson's writing: setting, character, suspense, plot and irony. Decide what the conflict was really about and why it was important. As a good reporter, you must answer the essential news writing questions: who? what? where? when? and how?

Due: midnight, 10/1