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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Week 5 Essay # 3 Reading essay The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society by Jonathan Kozol rekindles the candle of the horrors of illiteracy within us‚ a candle that has been extinguished by our hectic lives. As he quotes James Madison’s statement‚ “A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives”‚ these words make us think about ourselves and the society around us. A country is run by Government. That Government is chosen by people. And one third
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Summary and Response April 22‚ 2012 In the essay‚ “Farm Girl”‚ Jessica Hemauer writes about her experiences growing up on a working farm and the positive outcome it had on her life. She shares how difficult and sometimes hated the farm life was as a child and how the difficulties and responsibilities helped her evolve into a stronger‚ better person. “A typical ten-year-old child does not have to wake up at five in the morning to do chores.” (Hemauer) Jessica thinks this upon waking in the morning
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This documentary analyzed the academic performance of Douglass High School in Baltimore‚ Maryland. This school is made up almost exclusively of black students. Many of these students come from poor families. A large number of students come from single parent homes and others do not have the support of either parent. This can cause them to put other issues ahead of schoolwork and academic performance. They have to worry about taking care of their brothers and sisters and working to provide money
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rate of high school dropouts that are Hispanic is staggeringly higher than other ethnic groups. Furthermore‚ the rate of dropouts that go on to get a GED is also significantly lower. Some 41% of Hispanics are high school dropouts‚ and of that 41% only 1 in 10 gets a GED. In an interview with Dr. Rosemary Gonzalez‚ she was told the statistics from this article‚ and asked to comment on her thought in general about the level of Hispanic drop out. Dr. Gonzalez stated that in her opinion it is high‚ and
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The majority of these few chapters took place in Central-North High school. When Connor‚ Risa‚ and Lev arrive at the school‚ they make a plan to go hide in the girl’s washroom until the lunch break bell rings. After a few hours‚ the bell finally rings and the three of them are about to leave when Connor and Risa realize Lev has left his stall. Yet‚ Connor and Risa don’t know that Lev had an escape plan to leave when the bell rings since he doesn’t trust them. When Lev escaped the washroom‚ he went
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"Children in America’s Schools"‚ a documentary movie based on a book by Jonathan Kozol called "Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools". "Children in America’s Schools" is a documentary movie based on the Jonathan Kozol book "Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools" and looks at the school system in America circa 1996. The movie describes the disparate quality of education that exists between poor and rich school districts in the United States. Entering schools in an economically
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photograph. Wendy Kozol‚ on the other hand‚ used several pictures to better explain her ideas in The Kind of People Who Make Good Americans. The author’s claim that the magazine‚ Life‚ helped to construct an imagined community of a middle-class at a time of economic turmoil‚ political friction and social change following World War II was further enhanced by the use of the visual portrayals from the magazine. Family portraits are often used to show a happy moment in a families life. Kozol uses family
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12/14/13 Letters to Young Teacher Letters to a Young Teacher by Jonathan Kozol is one of the most influential‚ beneficial books I have ever read! As I read Mr. Kozol’s letters to Francesca‚ a first year teacher‚ I felt as if he was writing to me. Kozol described a battle raging on between politicians and teachers. Politicians are in charge of setting educational policy that gets implemented in classrooms across America. The problem‚ Kozol explains‚ is that these politicians have not spent one day actually
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September 25‚2014 Subject : English 110 The Uniform Compulsion Rule High-School is the greatest point in our life. It is the time of growth as well as challenges too. Completing my high-school studies from Guinness Int’l Higher Secondary School which is located at Kathmandu‚ Nepal was one of the memorable experience of my life. As a high-school student there‚ I get to enjoy and utilize different range of facilities like extra curriculum activities‚ computer
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