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    Unequal Freedom Summary

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    Student’s Name: Instructor’s Name: Course: Date: Unequal Freedom: Response In her book Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor Evelyn Nakano Glenn examines citizenship and labor as the key structures through which gender and racial inequalities were shaped‚ contested‚ and evaluated in the United States of America. The author has organized the book into seven to elucidate the complex relations between dominant groups and their subordinate counterparts in three different

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    Jonathan Edwards

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    In Jonathan Edwards’ personal narrative‚ he uses language to convey a remorseful attitude towards his own spiritual condition. The imagery of hell as seen by Edwards creates a punishment in “the lowest place in hell.” He feels like he is the “very worst of all mankind.” In the simile‚ “as bad as the devil himself‚” his followers make him feel as though his “wickedness” and “vileness” are greater. This portrays his remorseful attitude. By utilizing the simile‚ “like an infinite deluge or

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    Separate‚ Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid‚” Jonathan Kozol brings our attention to the apparent growing trend of racial segregation within America’s urban and inner-city schools (309-310). Kozol provides several supporting factors to his claim stemming from his research and observations of different school environments‚ its teachers and students‚ and personal conversations with those teachers and students. As we first take a look at the frightening statistics Kozol provides‚ this

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    Jonathan Edwards

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    For Jonathan Edwards those that have received the Holy Spirit as a free gift receive the affections that the Spirit brings with it. The Spirit is the one that causes mankind to act in line with the will of God and according to Edwards those actions only come about through the affections in which they feel. This is not something that happens only for Christians though. In fact‚ Edwards argues that all humanity is driven by the affections of the heart. Meaning that those that have not received the

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    Jonathan Kozol illustrates a grim reality about the unequal attention given to urban and suburban schools. The legendary Supreme Court case Brown v Board of Education ended segregation in public schools in America because the Court determined that “separate but equal is inherently unequal.” Over a half century after that landmark case‚ Kozol shows everyone involved in the education system that public schools are still separate and‚ therefore‚ still unequal. Suburban schools‚ which are primarily made

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    Jonathan Edward

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    “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Jonathan Edwards’s sermons were addressed during a time of spiritual restoration‚ the Great Awakening. During his sermons‚ Edwards uses a selection of persuasive methods‚ containing descriptive images and simple metaphors to influence sinners to repent. Edwards used many images to convey the power of God to the people because many of the people he preached to were illiterate and couldn’t understand complex words. One of the imageries that Edwards uses

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    the authors that there is a problem in the United Sates education system when it comes to race and segregation but I do not think that the issue is as wide spread as the authors make it out to be but in other areas the situation is only getting worse and this lack of diversity in schools can only lead to further problems with race relations. In comparing the essay Still Separate‚ still unequal: American’s Educational Apartheid by Johnathan Kozol and the essay Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together

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    Jonathan Tsirlin

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    Jonathan Tsirlin Com 1010 10/24/14 STOCK MARKET INFORMATIVE SPEECH Grab Readers Attention 1. Imagine turning a few clicks or a phone call into millions upon millions of dollars. Every day Billions of dollars are traded over the stock market‚ yet the majority of people still don’t know much about it. Credibility: I personally invest my personal capital and maintain an online virtual portfolio. Yesterday‚ I closed a position with a $8‚000 profit on my virtual account. Also‚ I am involved in a stock

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    In Jonathan Kozol’s book‚ The Shame Of The Nation‚ he presents the idea that the racial segregation and isolation of schools across America causes harmful effects to the children immersed in segregated schools. Throughout the first chapter‚ "Dishonoring The Dead‚" Kozol masterfully draws the reader in to listen to his message using the stories of real people and the shocking facts and figures that he has collected in his experience in the schools in our nation. He is persistent in his efforts to

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    Why are People Unequal in Society? According to Philosopher’s of the time of enlightenment the nature of society created inequality. These philosophers also believed that it was the job of the government to limit inequality and try to create conformity. Now we are able to see that inequality emerges with each and every interaction. This is because every individual possesses qualities which may be better or worse than another’s. These qualities include things such as intelligence‚ athletic ability

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