Tonya Rising
Everest Online College
SLS 1505 Basic Critical Thinking
Instructor Julia Montoya
1. What details to of the events has each writer selected of focus on?
All writers seem to focus on the assassination going into detail about he was about the address the crowd and how the murder happened and why intended to kill the black activist leader.
2. How has each writer organized the details that have been selected? Bear in mind the most news organized present what they consider the most important first and the least important information last.
In the Life article, the writer discusses the tragic scene at the podium where Malcolm X was shot and killed. Also the writer organized the details of events that happened in the hall the New York Times focused on the assassination of Malcolm X and what he would may say about the bombing prior, to speech arrival, Associated Press organized their details by first stating his ethic background, what he did and how he was killed. The New York Times talked about the bombing and if Malcolm X know who could have did it.
3. How does each writer interpret Malcolm X, his followers the gunmen, and the significance of the assassination?
Also from the Life magazine did focused on how he talked about “Whitey.” Then the New Post focused what his followers thought about the situation. Also the New York Times focused on how his followers been with a groups of Muslim. Then Amsterdam news focused on a conspiracy with the Muslim community. The Associated Press on Hagan and how he murdered Malcolm x.
4. How has each writer used language to express his or her making of the reader? Which language styles to find most effective.
Each writer wrote and explained the emotion of people before and after the, of Malcolm X. They wrote the articles showing and writing in a way to make readers see and feel what happened and how it affected people.