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    American’s Educational Apartheid by Johnathan Kozol and the essay Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Tatum you see that both essays have many similarities and differences in the points that they are trying to convey as well as the conclusions that each of the essays come to. Each essay presents different problems in the education system in the United States with racial equity‚ such as the point being raised by Kozol that many schools in major cities across the

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    Amazing Grace In the documentary-style book Amazing Grace‚ Jonathan Kozol writes about the realities of living in Mott Haven‚ one of the South Bronx poorest neighborhoods. His goal is to inform readers of the realities of children living in a slum and the unfairness of it all. The population of 600‚000 live in the South Bronx of New York City and 43‚000 make up Washington Heights and Harlem which is separated by a narrow river‚ make up one of the most racially segregated concentrations

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    education to all children. All children are provided schools to attend. However‚ the quality of one school compared to another is undoubtedly unfair. Former teacher John Kozol‚ when being transferred to a new school‚ said‚ "The shock from going from one of the poorest schools to one of the wealthiest cannot be overstated (Kozol 2)." The education gap between higher and lower-income schools is obvious: therefore‚ the United States is making the effort to provide an equal education with questionable

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    America’s education system is experiencing a dilemma that is going unnoticed. Schools today are not just being inadequately funded‚ or overcrowded‚ but something more interesting. Jonathan Kozol explains the issue at hand in his book‚ The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America. Jonathan Kozol started out as a fourth grade teacher and holds an English degree from Harvard University. He has written a number of other books highlighting topics of our education system. He has

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    first section of Richard Dawkins’s River Out of Eden‚ mainly in Chapters 1 and 3‚ Dawkins discusses how evolution‚ itself‚ is gradual. “Do good by stealth. A key feature of evolution is its gradualness” (Dawkins 83). Gradualism in evolution is looked at in depth in both Chapter One‚ entitled The Digital River‚ and Chapter Three‚ entitled Do Good by Stealth‚ where Dawkins elaborates on the topic even further. Dawkins‚ a man of somewhat argumentative nature‚ is quick to shoot down false claims made

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    so it seemed. In these articles by Gregory Mantsios‚ Jonathan Kozol‚ and Jean Anyon‚ the same education Americans claim to hold so high comes under question. These authors provide excellent insight on the negative relationship between social class and education. However‚ they fail to address an important element that ultimate responsibility falls on the individual for his or her own education‚ regardless of social class. Anyon‚ Kozol‚ and Mantsios analyze the detriments of stereotype expectations

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    In the book Homeless Families In America‚ Jonathan Kozol focuses on four important issues of poor children under six: Who they are‚ where they live‚ why they are poor‚ and the risks poor children face. The information presented pertains to children who live in houses and apartments because this is the population

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    a Compare and Contrast role model: Richard Dawkins When choosing a role model according to my Christian worldview there are several positions taken into account. Their position and belief on Sexuality‚ Social Issues‚ and the Nature of God are areas in which our agreeing or disagreeing is a major contributing factor throughout the decision making process. Because of our foundational beliefs‚ Richard Dawkins does not meet the most lenient of qualifications according to my Christian worldview in order

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    Opportunities in America‚ especially for those who have minimum wages and big families to support‚ are very limited. Jonathan Kozol presented a speech about poverty in America. In this‚ he talked about his experiences staying in a homeless center in New York‚ one of the wealthiest places in the nation‚ and how he “never found his way back home.” The people are easily unseen and greatly forgotten. Because of this‚ families in poverty do not get the same possibilities as wealthier people do. Opportunities

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    In Jonathan Kozol‚ “Still Separate‚ Still Unequal”‚ he explains to a managerial audience how our school systems today may be more segregated than at any time since 1954. With this segregation comes two different educational lifestyles. In order for the author to express the unsatisfactory educational conditions in predominantly black schools he uses several different modes. The most common mode that he used were pathos. In the very beginning he used the word “disheartening” on page 203 to describe

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