Class in America: Gregory Mantsios In the article‚ "Class in America"‚ Gregory Mantsios (Myths and Realities 2000) shows us how what class a person is in affects his or hers life more than they think. This article is written sufficiently well however‚ it does have some weak spots. I will prove my thesis by examining his use of examples and showing factual data and statistics‚ but also show how this article could have been better. Mantsios believes that people in the United States do not like
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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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tasks of everyday life‚ the greater is the percentage of income that goes to pay for food and other basic necessities‚ and the greater is the likelihood of crime victimization. Class can accurately predict chances for both survival and success." Mantsios also argues that while most Americans‚ both rich and poor‚ are keenly aware of class differences‚ "Class is not discussed or debated in public because class identity has been stripped from popular culture. The institutions that shape mass culture
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the essay “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” by author Jean Anyon as tools to persuade her audience of Professional Educators. In the 1980 article‚ Anyon examines‚ through imperial research‚ how elementary students of different socioeconomic status (SES) receive differing educations. Anyon affirms that access to an equal education is not easily accessible to those of the lower working class. Furthermore‚ Anyon attests that students from higher SES backgrounds have an advantage when it
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Kozol is showing its readers that with mentoring‚ kids in these poor communities will shine (304). My opinions on poverty has not changed since I read this book. Before I read this book I always knew that many cases in which people go homeless is not because
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In their essays‚ both Anyon and Gatto’s made a similar and critical argument that schools have been teaching an "invisible curriculum". In his essay "The seven-lesson school teacher"‚ Gatto pointed out that the 12-year elementary education is no less than a jail sentence where "bad habits" (p.19) are the only curriculum have been learned (P.19). Anyon‚ in his "Social Class and The Hidden Curriculum of Work" also implied that there is a hidden curriculum being learned when students are only taught
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Haoran Wang Professor King English 1A 8 April 2015 Prompt 1 The “hidden curriculum” that Jean Anyon investigates is that “school works try to make children remain their social class with their parents and thus perpetuates the maintenance of the status quo and the ongoing gap between rich and poor.” Basically‚ the “hidden curriculum” is set up for children to stay within their parents’ social class. Jean Anyon discovered that the working class children are being educated for mechanical and low wage-labor
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Class in America: Gregory Mantsios In class in America Gregory Mantsios doesn’t waste any time getting straight to the point in his article. The point being that social classes do exist and also cause outstanding difference in the lives of so much people. He questions the theory that states‚ everyone has the same opportunity to be rich‚ as long as they determined and work hard. He argues that those who are born in the social classes other that those described as prominent or elite‚ are facing an
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"Class in America-2003" by‚ Gregory Mantsios is basically about the rich and the poor of America. In Mantsios essay he talks about upper class‚ middle class‚ and lower class Americans. The most common clad the Gregory Mantsios talks about is the middle class. The reason middle class Americans are talked about so much in this essay is because; the majority of the American population is middle class people. Mantsios discuses a few points o how
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Amazing Grace‚ by Jonathan Kozol‚ is about the author’s interviews with‚ and thoughts about‚ some of the poorest people who live in the poorest sections of New York. The facts stated in Amazing Grace startled me with the prevalence and desperation of the poverty situation in areas like the South Bronx and Mott Haven. These are areas where there are hundreds of thousands of people living in broken‚ crowded‚ and rundown apartment buildings‚ “That‚” says Kozol‚ “most people would not even kennel their
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