As with most viral stories, this one included a killer image: a camera shot of a 146-word, grammar-challenged final “essay” on Rosa Parks that, it seemed, had earned one lucky jock an A It's a one-paragraph, 146-word "final paper" on Rosa Parks. The student received an A-minus overall in the course , Willingham said. Here's the text ( h/t @BrianAGraham) : During an interview with ESPN, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill whistleblower Mary Willingham, who tutored and advised student athletes at the school for a decade, revealed a 146-word "essay" that earned one athlete an A-. Aside from being incredibly short, the paper, written about Rosa Parks, is filled with grammatical errors. The paper went viral as the Internet reacted to how simple the short essay on Rosa Parks was. But it turns out the paper was actually plagiarized. A reader sent along a photo of the first page of a children's book called " Rosa Parks: My Story ," by Parks and Jim Haskins. The entire essay reads as follows: Rosa Parks: My Story. On the evening of December Rosa Parks decided that she was going to sit in the white people section on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. The paper is about Rosa Parks and according to the video and the screen grab, it received an A-. But to see and read such a paper and know that it got an A- at a university like North Carolina A UNC Athlete Got An A-Minus In A Fake 'Paper Class' With This Ridiculous One-Paragraph Final Essay. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offered "paper classes paper" on Rosa Parks. Now, the whole controversy has a rather potent visual symbol to go along with it: a 146-word, ungrammatical essay on Rosa Parks that earned an A- for a real intro class.* The college essay penned by a student-athlete at embattled University of North Carolina gets right to the point. The 148-word Rosa Parks essay has also become a potent symbol in the growing The one-paragraph essay on civil rights icon Rosa Parks earned an A- and was exposed by former UNC professor Mary Willingham, who spent 10 years teaching UNC's athletes before she turned In January the University of North Carolina publicly apologized for offering "phony classes" designed to keep athletes 148-word "final paper" on Rosa Parks. The essay, titled "Rosa Parks: My The essay reads: On the evening of December Rosa Parks decided that she was going to sit in the white people section on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. During this time blacks had to give up there seats to whites when more whites got on the bus. Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. More in depth coverage of this at Slate.com.. I recommend reading the whole article but: "Online commenters have noted that AFAM 41—the class name listed at the top of the essay—was a legitimate intro course in the African American studies department and would have required more than a single-paragraph essay to complete. It was the Rosa Parks essay. If you’re one of the partisans—defensive or gleeful—who consumed every bit of spew from the scandal concerning sham classes at Chapel Hill over the last five A former professor at the University of North Carolina has brought forward a blunt example of how the college sped big-name athletes with subpar grades to the goal line of graduation, despite United States [English] Editions. United States [English] The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill has already been embroiled in a scandal for allowing its athletes to enroll in fake courses for easy credit. Now, the whole controversy has a rather North Carolina Rosa Parks Essay: U.S. Women's History Leslie Brown,Jacqueline Castledine,Anne Valk,2017-01-25 In the 1970s feminist slogans proclaimed Sisterhood is powerful and women s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of ESPNIn January the University of North Carolina publicly apologized for offering phony classes designed to keep athletes academically eligible since the 1990s. In an ESPN report, exUNC football
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