Look around, have you ever realized how privileged you are? How you can walk into school and never have to deal with racism? You get to talk to your teacher and not feel like race will impact his/her answer. In Little Rock, Arkansas in the year 1957, sadly things were like this, African American kids could not enjoy school with other children of different races.This was the sole purpose of our entire unit. You see, we would have no clue about any of these things without various mediums, this includes photograph, video, text, and speech. We focus on a story called Little Rock 9, it was a situation where 9 African American children started attending Little Rock Central, a well known all white high school, which caused much distraught among the white people. As a result, mobs showed up in front of the school trying to scare the 9 children away.
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Accurate information is information that can be proven and has factual explanation to back it up. Inaccurate is biased and opinionated work that usual carries lies. In A Mighty Long Way Page 108, Carlotta mentions a newspaper that talked about the daily life of the Little Rock 9 kids. “Not entirely calm, by any means, but not in turmoil either”, this statement made it seem like everything was okay and that things had cooled. Carlotta states “... but from the center of drama, it sure felt like turmoil to me”. According to the previous evidence, we get a first hand account that cancels out whatever the newspaper said. The medium is called text, due to the fact that it was written in a newspaper that contained both lies and false facts. In “Little Rock Girl 1957” it shows a photograph of a black man, Alex Wilson, being beaten by a group of white people. In addition to that, they include a brief description that sends out a clear message meaning no chances of different interpretations making it accurate.
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Accurate information is information that can be proven and has factual explanation to back it up. Inaccurate is biased and opinionated work that usual carries lies. In A Mighty Long Way Page 108, Carlotta mentions a newspaper that talked about the daily life of the Little Rock 9 kids. “Not entirely calm, by any means, but not in turmoil either”, this statement made it seem like everything was okay and that things had cooled. Carlotta states “... but from the center of drama, it sure felt like turmoil to me”. According to the previous evidence, we get a first hand account that cancels out whatever the newspaper said. The medium is called text, due to the fact that it was written in a newspaper that contained both lies and false facts. In “Little Rock Girl 1957” it shows a photograph of a black man, Alex Wilson, being beaten by a group of white people. In addition to that, they include a brief description that sends out a clear message meaning no chances of different interpretations making it accurate.