finished reading “Amazing Grace” by Jonathan Kozol. Kozol went to the South Bronx and met a little boy named Cliffie. Kozol was taken by Cliffie on a walk in the neighborhood. He learnt that this city is harsh. There are lots of meanings in this story‚ this story shows that everyone struggles with something in their life right now. Everyone struggles‚ therefore sometimes people are sad and stressed. In Amazing Grace Cliffie was telling to Kozol how once he gave homeless man his pizza‚ kozol asked “Did
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Amazing Grace‚ by Jonathan Kozol‚ is about the author’s interviews with‚ and thoughts about‚ some of the poorest people who live in the poorest sections of New York. The facts stated in Amazing Grace startled me with the prevalence and desperation of the poverty situation in areas like the South Bronx and Mott Haven. These are areas where there are hundreds of thousands of people living in broken‚ crowded‚ and rundown apartment buildings‚ “That‚” says Kozol‚ “most people would not even kennel their
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The excerpt “Amazing Grace” from the whole book Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol‚ introduces a little boy‚ Cliffie‚ who lives in South Bronx‚ New York. Cliffie takes Kozol on a tour through the poor and dangerous city from St. Ann’s Church. The government clumped all the people in poverty in the small area. Many drugs and diseases flowed through their environment‚ yet the kids managed to stay very happy and live the best of their lives. Kozel explains
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Amazing grace is a good book to read. After reading this book‚ I think the author wants to tell us a big problem is the segregation of poor social class in South Bronx. He tries to explain the living condition of these poor people‚ and the inequality between them. On top of this‚ he also described that the public administration tried to abandoned this neighborhood. Kozol divided the book into six chapters. The whole book organized through interview and interaction with children‚ teacher and others
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The book‚ Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol is about his experiences with the children and families in the South Bronx‚ New York. In this story‚ Kozol is taking a walk with a seven year old boy‚ Cliffe‚ who is energetic and charmingly strange. In this walk‚ Cliffe shows Kozol around the neighborhood. By this walk around the neighborhood‚ Kozol learns about how the South Bronx is polluted‚ where people take drugs‚ and the teddy bears on the trees
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A Tale of Two Jonathans When I was a young child‚ my elementary school years were packed with fun times‚ learning‚ and promise. I was always discovering exciting new things‚ meeting interesting new friends‚ and enjoying being a generally happy child. My school‚ Beryl Heights Elementary‚ an accredited school‚ met or exceeded all of the standards set forth by those in power‚ and as an institute of learning‚ would teach me the skills needed to become a productive citizen. While the aforementioned
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Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools Jonathan Kozol‚ Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools is an intense expose of unjust conditions in educating America’s children. Today’s society of living conditions‚ poverty‚ income‚ desegregation and political issues have forced inadequate education to many children across the country. Kozol discusses major reasons for discrepancies in schools: disparities of property taxes‚ racism and the conflict between state
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Death at an Early Age: The Review Brandon Kennedy I am reviewing Jonathan Kozol’s auto-biography‚ Death at an Early Age. This piece of literature provides the reader with an in-depth‚ personable account of schools of the 1960’s and the corruption that had flourished. Throughout this piece Kozol told of grim stories about public schools throughout Boston‚ Massachusetts; many of which would be incredibly disturbing. I believe Kozol’s thesis was the following: although legal segregation had been
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is more difficult for the student to get help and get more of individual interaction with the teacher. Jonathan Kozol‚ who is an educator‚ compared schools from poor and upper class neighborhoods‚ in which he discovered there was a huge difference between the schools. The schools that are in poverty neighborhood had less resources to help students for their future. For example‚ according to Kozol‚ “the science labs…are 30 to 50 years outdated…The six lab stations in the room have empty holes where
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“The Amazing Grace” The Amazing grace is a good book to read. By my standards is kind of violent and crazy. Within the next few pages here I intend to address two issues. First I will try to give a personal review of what I saw this book to hold‚ and second I will try explaining the reverence which this book has to the field of Public Administration. First try to picture children in a slum where the squalor in their homes is just as bad as that which is in the streets. Where prostitution is rampant
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