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Stoneman Douglas Shooting Article Evaluation
This Wikipedia article immediately gives us the basic facts of the school shooting. I would say that this article is credible because sources are cited every two to three sentences. Along with this, there are 105 sources that wikipedia is pulling from. After clicking on some of the sources, I have noticed that most information comes from news stations such as NBC and CBS. We can trust this information because it comes from a credible news source instead of a blog or biased article.

The Stoneman Douglas High School shooting took place on February 14, 2018, but the article was last edited on February 21, 2018. This means that information is being updated on the number of people effected and the sentence of Nikolas Cruz. The article states that seventeen students died in this awful mass shooting and fourteen were sent to the hospital. The article also gives a background of Cruz’s life as well as where Cruz was during this day. The article even includes the type of gun Cruz used.

Along with specific details of the incident, the page also includes sub-headers at the bottom, touching on political reactions, gun control advocacy, and the FBI mishandling information. This ties into the bigger conversations people are having about the school shooting. We know that this information is unbiased and credible because the writer stays neutral, adding facts instead of opinions.

I would say that this information is to date and full of great quality information. The article does touch on what we have talked about in class with male violence. We touched on how bullying can greatly affect the lives of young men and women, and how men turn to the violence they see in the entertainment industry and father figures, for example, to get out their anger. The article also touches on Cruz’s violent background and things he has said, acting out. I think Nikolas Cruz is a classic case of what can happen to someone who has been brutally bullied or who has suffered through very dark things. However, although we have talked more about gender roles in violence, the article brings up how people are fighting for gun control as a solution.

Stoneman Douglas High School shooting

Margaret Sloan-Hunter Article Assignment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sloan-Hunter

Author's Note

1. I added what I found on her early life, more descriptions on what she did during her career, and created a separate section for her education and death. I also included exact dates and titles of schools. The article was at first very vague. Here are the different sentences I added throughout the article. I also downloaded a section of a book about Flo Kennedy. Margaret Sloan-Hunter was mentioned briefly on two pages about her career. I tried searching through the second edition of "Black Women in America" but did not find her in the book.

2. I was proud of finding information in a book instead of a website. Meeting with Aimme Harrison was informative. The hardest part/most frustrating part was going through the second edition of "Black Women in America" and trying to find information.

3. I would really like feedback on my grammar and wording, I hope it all makes sense, but if it doesn't please let me know!

These are the sentences I added throughout the article. --Margaret Sloan-Hunter was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and grew up in Chicago.

--Margaret also became one of the first editors of Ms. Magazine, a magazine supporting the feminist movement. Along with editing, she traveled to speak on issues of sexism and racism throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

--Before reaching 18 years old, Margaret Sloan-Hunter did work organizing tenants’ unions, rent strikes, and campaigned against the lead poisoning plaguing housing on the West side.

--Margaret Sloan-Hunter paired up with Jane Galvin-Lewis, another former writer of Ms. Magazine, to challenge racism and sexism as interlocking oppressions. To get involved further, Margaret Sloan-Hunter and Jane Galvin-Lewis paired up with Florynce Kennedy in 1973 to speak on college campuses around the Country. Their events became places for other black feminists to find each other and create support groups. This led Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Florynce Kennedy, and Jane Galvin-Lewis in creating the NBFO or National Black Feminist Organization. In this organization, many women worked to define the specific oppression black women face.

--Margaret was an intersectionality activist, fighting for African American, feminist, and lesbian causes. Margaret was an intersectionality activist, fighting for African American, feminist, and lesbian causes.

--Finding her voice at an early age, she won many awards for public speaking in high school. Margaret went on to Chicago City College and Malcolm X College to major in speech. After this, she received a degree in Women’s Studies at Antioch University in San Francisco.

--Margaret died in Oakland, California when she was 57 years old. On September 23, 2004, her family confirmed she faced a prolonged illness.