Savage Inequalities‚ written by Jonathan Kozol‚ shows his two-year investigation into the neighborhoods and schools of the privileged and disadvantaged. Kozol shows disparities in educational expenditures between suburban and urban schools. He also shows how this matter affects children that have few or no books at all and are located in bad neighborhoods. You can draw conclusions about the urban schools in comparison to the suburban ones and it would be completely correct. The differences between
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themselves through these different people’s experiences in everyday life as an illiterate person. The people who are shown in this story are fully grown adults who are unable to write or read. These people have difficult to do day to day chores. Since Kozol does not provide this information it makes it harder for the reader to completely understand or identify with these people and really know how it could be fixed. Literacy is given by different examples in each short story. The author believes that
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In the text Twenty Questions by G Lee Bowie‚ I chose the chapter “Why Shouldn’t I Be Selfish”? In that chapter the two selections that were chosen were The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins and The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand. The two discuss and give examples of how selfishness is simply for survival and how being selfish can benefit that individual. The term selfishness stated by Ayn Rand is defined as “concern with one’s own interest” (525). In both selections of the chapter both philosophers
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explanation‚ Augustine believed that the Old Testament was more a historical event leading to some now wrong conclusions. Dawkins argues that Augustine’s teaching on original sin can be argued with as evolutionary biology disagrees with Augustine’s teachings. Dawkins would also argue that the idea that sin originated with two people is irrational and unbelievable. I agree with Dawkins here and I believe a metaphorical approach to the Old Testament is a more reasonably approach to understanding the messages
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differences in education between schools from different races and wealth communities. Kozol did observations on a variety of public schools in St. Louis‚ Bronx‚ and Rye both in New York. Kozol visits the areas where he explains how it is unsanitary and very low on staff that lacks the basic tools and supplies for teaching. For some schools it has very outdated equipment that has been there for at least 40-50 years old. Kozol adds on and contrast the conditions poor living and how children adapt in those
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While reading the passage titled Fremont High School by Jonathan Kozol‚ one can notice some similarities between Fremont High School and The Poisonwood Bible. First off‚ I see a resemblance between the characters in both of these writings. For example‚ the high schooler named Fortino can be compared to Nathan Price. I see them as similar as the way they predetermine the course of one’s life. Nathan Price does not give a lot of liberty to his family‚ the same way that Fortino indicates that his
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existence of God. Still these intellectual arguments often prove inadequate; either to prove or disprove. Through this seminar I intend to compare two different stands on the existence of God; that of Thomas Aquinas‚ the medieval philosopher‚ and Richard Dawkins‚ the neo - Darwinist. Here we aim not to get involved in the vast world of metaphysics‚ theodicy or natural science but to logically analyse two different reasoning processes involved. While dealing with the same we must have the cultural and scientific
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but does some of his own opinions as well. One of Dawkins views is that when it comes to religion people usually believe what their parents do: what they grew up believing. Many individuals do not look for evidence or justification in their religion‚ but believe in something because that is all they know. Another one of Dawkins’ views on religion differs from Humes in that Dawkins states that believing in God requires more clarification. Dawkins questions why the existence of the universe has to
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As part of the summer reading assignment this year‚ I read the book Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this documentary-style book‚ he told about the horrible yet completely realistic conditions of the most poor‚ rundown neighborhoods and districts in New York City. Kozol wrote the book for the purpose of telling the stories of the children who lived in these parts of the city. He dedicated his work to those children and it was his goal to inform readers that slums were in fact in existence and
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ties that may forever bind them to the class that their parents unknowingly established for them. Jonathan Kozol talks about the observations and conversations that he had with students and teachers while visiting Freemont High School. Kozol explains that Freemont High School is a dilapidated facility where “the average ninth grade student reads at fourth or fifth grade level” (705). Kozol then went on about a conversation that he was having with a group of students when one in particular‚ Mireya
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