“memorizing facts and repeating government-approved viewpoints.”
Uses very opinionated quotes from the Stop WOKE Act to give insight to the political agenda of the idea.
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“If a school bans required topics from their AP courses, the AP program removes the AP designation from that course”?
Uses quotes from the College board to have analysis of these certain claims.
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The Woman King portrays the Agojie as liberators. In the film, the Mahi, a people established north of Abomey and allied with the Kingdom of Oyo, are seeking to capture Dahomey’s subjects, to sell them into slavery. But the reality was quite different.
Describes the movie and how it portrayed her as a positive figure, but than contrasts with saying how the reality was quite different. This contrasts makes these examples of what happens in the movie and reality stick more with the reader.
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Historians estimated that nearly one million enslaved Africans were put on ships to the Americas in Ouidah between 1659 and 1863. The port was the second largest supplier of African captives to the trade, behind only Luanda, in today’s Angola.
Uses historical background to give context to why people think the movie is masking some parts of this kingdom's history
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“That scene just triggered me … I’m 3 months [postpartum] and I was crying my eyes out. It was too much.” Some of their male partners, these women reported, laughed at their squeamishness; others got it. “I don’t understand why TV shows don’t have to have a warning for birth trauma triggers,” another poster added. “Birth trauma is actually pretty widespread even if people don’t talk about it and the impact from seeing a birth scene when you have experienced birth trauma is huge.”
Brings more of a personal perspective on the issue, by using viewer's reactions and concerns for watching the scene. Brings a human element into the essay.
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“Save the child by all means, for it is easier to get wives than children.” (Although there was once a rumor that Seymour was delivered by c-section, we don’t know what happened to cause her to die shortly after Edward VI’s birth—possibly, puerperal fever, an embolism, or a retained placenta.)
Uses primary sources to support a claim about how what was shown in the episode is highly unlikely and only done for shock factor.
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I asked Sara McDougall, a scholar of medieval history who writes about gender, whether Queen Aemma’s c-section scene rang true.
To get more credit before making a claim, the author references and uses information from a scholar. By using a scholar to gather information, she is using the credibility of this scholar's expertise to make the claim that such a scene in Game of Thrones is unnecessary grotesque and inaccurate.
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