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Do I have the full picture?

While going through this week’s module, it was easy to see that myself as well as many other people do not have the full picture. We only discussed a few things that are not fully talked about, and there is still so much more that should be included. I would have liked to have heard these stories when I was in high school, but I only remember some from junior high. And I’m junior high I was not that interested in the stories. We have already discussed how different cultures history should be taught in school, to see how life was for everyone. So reading and listening now about how the full story may not always be told is not surprising. The Tiktok about Ruby Bridges is probably what surprised me the most. I was just so shocked that I have never heard the that much detail about what she went through at such a young age. She was bullied by children as well as adults and all she was trying to do was go to school. We all know to a certain extent how rude and cruel the world/ people can be, but to be able to throw rocks at a child and do all those terrible things is something that I could not imagine living through. I could not imagine having to live through what Ruby did at the age I am now so to have been through it at such a young age must have been terrible, truly unimaginable. 

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