Bringing twins together

The lovely twins in the first picture are born in the Zuberi family lie in Pakistan; the others are living in UK. The relationship between them is set up by the SOS children’s village, which is the world’s largest orphan’s charity. The online story is showed by a parent of twins in the


http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/bringing-twins-together is telling us a special story that the twins in England are sponsoring two identical orphans in Pakistan.



From the content, the efforts and hardships are described in detail in the main passage. In addition, the warm-hearted emotions are revealed between the lines. We can feel the good hearts of the twins who are England but have a strong affinity with Pakistan. The article begins with the description of Sheena and Tania, who are not only biologically identical, but their lives have consistently followed a single path. As a truly remarkable history of ‘identicalness, both of them are excellent at study as well as work. The affinity about the Pakistan is exactly a connecting link between the preceding and the following. So the following parts are narrated the process of the sponsoring, which is impressive to the readers.



The structure, which depends on the content, is not as well as the content itself. Maybe the author’s emotion appeal is too obvious and intense, which makes the news’s structure’s level is not clear enough.



The two pictures are settled reasonably co-ordinately in the whole passage. Readers can be attracted in the first sight and interested in reading the story immediately, especially some of who are parents of twins as well as the author.



Actually, this is the second story of the SOS children’s village. When I analyse the two articles, the markedly advantage is that the links and related news are easily and expediently get access by the audiences. As the related articles are districted-based, readers can know about them more explicitly and purposely.



In a whole, the story works well despite of shortcomings. If you want to know more about the SOS children’s village, click the following website:

http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news.

Review On The "40 billionaires pledge to give away half wealth"

When I see the news’ title “40 billionaires pledge to give away half wealth” at first sight, I am attracted to it immediately. Then the subhead impresses me again. The sentence tells us the main point of the article in a succinct way. The name “Gates, Buffett” can draw lots of audience’s attention, because they are so famous that everyone in the world know them and want to know the news about them as well. In addition, there is a big photo and 35 explanatory words in front of the whole page, which embodies the authenticity of the story.




After reading through the whole news, it is obvious that there are three features which increase the readability and advantages of it.



Firstly, what are special are the lists of wealthy people who are giving pledge in the right side of the page. It aggregates approxiamately40 people from different parts of the world into a clear list, which make readers obtain this valid information conveniently.



What’s more, the story quotes some letters on the givingpledge.org. It gives some definite and clear words from these famous people, some of which are important and representative. This is not only a good way to set up the authenticity, but also give a relevant link which has a close relationship with the story. And the other links about “Bill Gates” or “charity” on the right side of the letters play the same role as well.



Last but not least, the most professional performance in this article is that the report provides the corresponding video narrating the more specific content on this event. And there is a convenient and direct entry next to the headline which make people get access to the linked video quickly, avoiding people not knowing there exists a video in the bottom of the online page.



In a word, the article works perfectly. It make readers convinced about the event, meanwhile, it has established the authenticity.



The news is in the website:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38556042/ns/us_news-giving/

Review On The Charity News Of SOS Children Village

The “Twenty years of SOS Children's Villages in Armenia”, which was reported on 7th, July, 2010, has been described the 20th anniversary of the Children's Villages in Armenia. The article is really an excellent one.


In general, the content of the whole story consists of three parts. In the beginning, the reporter gave us a succinct description to recall the sad and shocking facts caused by the horrible 6.9 earthquake twenty years ago. The accurate numbers of the suffers, especially the homeless children, shock the readers constantly. Actually, this is a good way to lead us to keep reading the following passages, because it arouses the sympathy of people, who are always pay attention to the charity, particularly the orphans left by the tremendous disaster. The main part of the article provides information about the process of the event in the SOS children’s village, and there are several important and representative persons running through the entire text. The last part is the “the mother’s word”, which is emotional and heart-warming. The independent paragraph is a good and commendable way to impress readers by the touching approach, in order to make people remember the common but great mother and the SOS children village.

A story will not be successful without the rich content. In addition, the structure and design are of great significance, too.

In terms of the design, we can conclude that the news includes words, pictures, and links. There are two things which are worthy of appreciation. On one hand, the picture taken from the locale of the event is really deserved to be mentioned, as people can know and see the lovely children with rare smiles on their faces. The screen shot of map tells us the location timely and precisely. On the other hand, the clear and convenient links are on the right side of the entire page, which supplies for other relevant news in the lately months. It is mentionable that several links about charity news of different fields such as aids in Africa and entrance to the donation online page are showed directly. All these galleries are effective for people with good heart to get access to the pages which they want to.

To conclude, the article really works. The new journalist can learn a lot from the news, which is delivered in the website:

http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/archive/2010/07/twenty-years-of-sos-childrens-villages-in-armenia

Review Of The Charity News

From the online news story about “Jackie Chan Brings Water to Drought Areas”, on May, 20 in this year, we can see that Jackie Chan has really done a great charity event to the vulnerable groups in the drought stricken area. We can deeply touched by the short article about the fact of charity.


Primarily, people who are interested in paying attention to such online news about the stars who are highed on doing charity will be attracted easily by the famous public person through the big distinct title. The title has clearly showed the content of the news, telling us the character and the place where it happened. Another characteristic is that the first paragraph has been narrated in black body way, as a quotation, in order to indicate the topic of the news and draw readers to keep on reading the following reports.

After reading the whole news, the first thing I am aware of is the length. It is much shorter than other articles, which can make readers read it more patiently. And the news of about 250words simply and clearly speaks the truth of Jackie Chan’s charity activity. We can go through quickly to know what the information the news brings to us.

This story has quoting several sections from Jackie Chan’s blog, which is directly and authentically described some details of the story. It not only shows the respect to the protagonist in this charity activity, but also provides a more clearly way to make readers understood.

Nevertheless, the writing method of quoting seems a little lazy. Lack of details about the activity is the disadvantage of the news. People have to know more information and see photos from Jackie Chan’s blog through the link, even though the link is evidently showed in the end and gives access to the blog. In another way, the link is a good publicity for readers to know more about Jackie Chan, no more than the charity events.

As to the structure, there are six paragraphs running through the article. It is a pity that the structure is not good and clear-cut. As we all know, a bright layer of structure is absolutely necessary in an article.

In general, this news is a good one. As it has its own attractive power and regular readers, but its weaknesses are obvious, such as the unsharp structure and lack of details and pictures.

All in all, this is the review on the online news story, which is showed in the website: http://www.looktothestars.org/news/4436-jackie-chan-brings-water-to-drought-areas