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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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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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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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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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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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In “The Human cost of an illiterate society‚” Jonathan Kozol attempts to convince his reader that illiteracy is extremely harmful to a society‚ and that it is the ultimate destruction of a human being’s life. He explains with great detail how being ignorant (unknown) at something so universal like being able to read the directions on a medicine label‚ can lead to a lifetime of hardship and long term agony. Kozol develops his reasoning by contributing meaningful but real world examples
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