The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has released Dame Sally Coates’ report and recommendations following her review of the prison education system‚ entitled “Unlocking Potential: A Review of Education in Prison”. Coates key message in the report is that prison education should be central to the prison and rehabilitation system‚ as not only can it change prisoner’s lives‚ it can also contribute to safer communities‚ through reduced reoffending rates‚ and financial savings - the current cost of reoffending
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“Between the World and Me” written by Ta-Nehisi Coates was written as a letter to his son about the painful realities of what it means to be black and living in America. He follows a historical timeline that highlights the flaws in America’s systems and challenges the standard when it comes to addressing race in America. The purpose of the references and the book in its entirety is to educate young black people. He refers back to his childhood‚ his college career at Howard University‚ the struggles
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designed to protect you from it‚ the rule that would have you contort your body to address the block‚ and contort again to be taken seriously by colleagues‚ and contort again so as not to give the police a reason.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates‚ Between the World and Me‚ p. 9 Ta-Nehisi Coates‚ in a letter to his teenage son titled Between the World and Me‚ illustrates a candid depiction of the struggles that African Americans encounter on a daily basis. These struggles are due to the negative social structures of
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Letter to My Son depicts picture of suffering‚ terror‚ and irritation for the African American population. Coates describes how these emotions derive from the enslavement of African-American in the United States earliest origins‚ and that the denial of this connection is what limits African-Americans in modern society. Throughout his piece‚ Coates uses a combination of repetition‚ historical references‚ and writing style to better portray his ideas. From his opening line‚Coates begins
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I was very shocked about Coates’ theory regarding a gap between “the world” and his. Coates’ story and strong opinions about growing up in his era as an African American gave me a new perspective. It’s impossible for me to truly understand a lifestyle I never had‚ but reading about Coates’ upbringing gave me a small glimpse into someone else’s. I was not surprised that he felt isolated and distanced from the rest of the world‚ especially considering he was a minority in Baltimore. However‚ I was
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Ta-Nehisi Coates‚ like James Baldwin‚ attacks racism by attacking the concept of race itself. He says “I have not spent my time studying the problem of ‘race’— ‘race’ itself is just a restatement and retrenchment of the problem” (115). And yet Coates takes pride in—revels in—black American culture in a way Baldwin never really did. Baldwin was a true outsider: a black‚ gay‚ American expatriate. Coates‚ while realizing that black culture is entirely a product of subjugation‚ violence‚ and segregation
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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me The most powerful message in this book is that regardless of what black people achieve they are still undervalued in society and being black (and coming from a certain area) often comes with a barrage of other preconceived notions about a person’s identity. Coates recounts parts of his childhood where because of his socio economic background he was constantly in the face of violence‚ but as he grew up he realized this violence that was directed towards
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In the book “Between the World and Me”‚ Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a letter to his fifteen year old son about how to live as a black person in America. He includes his life story and how he began to realize the difference between living as a person and living as a black person in a country where his life could be taken at any moment despite how he carries himself‚ his accomplishments‚ or anything of that nature. He goes into detail of the transition of his teenage years to his college years where his
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Between the World and Me ‚ by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a letter that’s written to his fifteen year old son‚ Samori who witnessed the sudden deaths of Tamir Rice‚ Eric Garner‚ and John Crawford. This letter explains‚ through experience and historical findings how it is living in White America in a black body. Throughout Between the World and Me‚ Ta-Nehisi expresses his personal struggles on how it is being black in America. To him It was a constant struggle and at a young age he began to realize‚ via news
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VESPANOMICS UNIT TWO CASE Richard Coate GB534 Consumer Behavior Unit 2 Assignment Dr. Rita J. Gunzelman Kaplan University July 8‚ 2015 Vespanomics Unit Two Case Due to Vespa’s failure to meet U.S. federal emission standards the company was banned from sales in the U.S. This exit from the market under adverse conditions hurt the image of the company and its brand. When the company improved its product enough to re-enter the U.S. market in 2000 it had to create a marketing campaign aimed at repairing
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