David F. Wiley English-111-OFA Summary and Response First Draft Jonathon Kozol‚ the writer of Illiterate America in 1985‚ takes time to study Illiteracy and poverty in America and he wrote a Novel in 1988 called “The Homeless and Their Children” where He told a story of a woman and her four children called Joanne (Kozol‚ 1985). Jonathan spent a lot of time to get to know Rachel and her children who lived in a homeless hotel in New York called the Martinique‚ which was located at Sixth Avenue
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School” a report written by Jonathan Kozol‚ contains certain elements that are similar of those in “Changing the Face of Poverty”‚ a literacy narrative by Diana George‚ such as; the use of first person‚ strong diction‚ and the use of stereotypes. Both authors use first person in their writings “Changing the Face of Poverty” and “Fremont High School”. When using first person‚ the author has the ability to make the readers feel closer to the characters; such as when kozol speaks about“.. when I first meet
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Dawkins plunges into the history of spirituality and how it became a major part in creating the rules of civilization. He pursues answers from the past‚ delving into the literary pieces of Thomas Jefferson in an attempt to understand why and how God was thought
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open mind to see the perspective in the other point of view which does not believe the presence of God. In the debate between Prof Richard Dawkins and Dr John Lennox‚ the strength that Dr John Lennox has is that he stands by firmly in his belief that he greatly challenged the remarks made by Prof Richard Dawkins‚ that science overlaps religion. Prof Dawkins stated that “Faith is blind‚ science is evidence-based”‚ and added that religion tells that there is no understanding in things but just be
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Cited: "Illiteracy And Low Literacy In The United States." Journal Of Visual Impairment & Blindness 90.3 (1996): 286. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 3 Feb. 2012. Kozol‚ Jonathan. “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society.” The Power of Language / The Language of Power. New York: Longman‚ 2011. 227-33. Print. Nevills‚ Pamela‚ and Pat Wolfe. Building the Reading Brain: PreK-3. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Corwin‚ 2009. 24‚ 30-31
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second are Dawkins’ memes transmitted culturally. Much scholarship has been done on the first and for our present purposes it should suffice to say that “the contents of the collective unconscious have never been in consciousness‚ and therefore have never been individually acquired‚ but owe their existence exclusively to heredity” (Jung 1). The second‚ however‚ shall henceforth be our primary concern. Towards the end of his 1979 book The Selfish Gene‚ the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins invented
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In “Still Separate‚ Still Unequal” by Jonathan Kozol‚ the goal is to present the readers with information that proves that even in the 21st Century there are schools that are well segregated and that do not have basic necessities. Kozol goes into detail to provide various statistics that show percentage of inner city schools where up to 98% of students are either African Americans or Hispanics. He then moves on to discuss that many of these schools also do not have basic necessities “not enough seats
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Richard Dawkins The text ‘Good and Bad Reasons for Believing’ is written by Richard Dawkins. It is an open letter which he wrote to his daughter‚ Juliet‚ when she turned ten and is part of his book‚ ‘A Devil’s Chaplain’. Dawkins feels his daughter is old enough now to not believe everything she is told blindly but should investigate what she is told to find out if it is true or not. This letter is also meant for theists and religious scholars whom Dawkins attacks in the letter. Dawkins is an evolutionary
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creationism was more probable. Creationists like John D. Morris has “called attention to the fact that small changes do not lead to true evolution.” (Morris) Yet‚ famous evolutionists such as Richard Dawkins always asks‚ “Do you seriously mean to tell me you believe that all life was created within a week?” (Dawkins) when creationists try to explain that the World was brought to existence in 7 days. Evolution exists because there is hard evidence‚ such as fossils and petrified impressions that the world slowly
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homeless story by story case by case sharing his personal interviews with these unfortunate people. What Kozol describes deeply in the book throughout true incredible stories goes beyond our expectation. Especially in chapter 5‚” Distancing ourselves from pain and tears” which is one of the center of the book‚ the author raises more concern about our attitudes toward poor homeless people. What Kozol means by “distancing” in the chapter is that people do really care about homelessness. They do understand
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