The homicide rates in New York City neighborhoods are ridiculous: “In speaking of rates of homicide in New York City neighborhoods‚ the Times refers to the streets around St. Ann’s as “the deadliest blocks” in “the deadliest precinct” of the city” (Kozol 5). It is tough to predict when events like this happen. One must try to stay away from potential danger and indeed take this seriously in hope to prevent any injury. Nevertheless‚ one hopes crimes can be stopped by the local authority before it gets
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electing a president that is not as politically fit as another candidate. 2. Kozol states that‚ “The answers to these questions represent a reasonable test of our belief in the democracy to which we have been asked in a public school to swear allegiance.” People pledge liberty and justice for all just about every day‚ when such a high number of illiterates are not brought to justice due to their illiteracy. 3. When Kozol says that being illiterate leads to circumscribed existence‚ he means that being
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David F. Wiley English-111-OFA Summary and Response First Draft Jonathon Kozol‚ the writer of Illiterate America in 1985‚ takes time to study Illiteracy and poverty in America and he wrote a Novel in 1988 called “The Homeless and Their Children” where He told a story of a woman and her four children called Joanne (Kozol‚ 1985). Jonathan spent a lot of time to get to know Rachel and her children who lived in a homeless hotel in New York called the Martinique‚ which was located at Sixth Avenue
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complains how school keeps infantilizing students and as a result‚ it prevents students from growing. In order to face this problem‚ improvement is needed. One of the ways to do that is by changing the school system. In “Social Class” by Jean Anyon‚ she has done researches that compare several types of schools‚ which are categorized based on the social classes. In fact‚ the type of schools such as professional or elite school‚ which are mentioned in Anyon’s essay‚ can lead to a solution to Gatto’s
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School” a report written by Jonathan Kozol‚ contains certain elements that are similar of those in “Changing the Face of Poverty”‚ a literacy narrative by Diana George‚ such as; the use of first person‚ strong diction‚ and the use of stereotypes. Both authors use first person in their writings “Changing the Face of Poverty” and “Fremont High School”. When using first person‚ the author has the ability to make the readers feel closer to the characters; such as when kozol speaks about“.. when I first meet
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Cited: "Illiteracy And Low Literacy In The United States." Journal Of Visual Impairment & Blindness 90.3 (1996): 286. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 3 Feb. 2012. Kozol‚ Jonathan. “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society.” The Power of Language / The Language of Power. New York: Longman‚ 2011. 227-33. Print. Nevills‚ Pamela‚ and Pat Wolfe. Building the Reading Brain: PreK-3. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Corwin‚ 2009. 24‚ 30-31
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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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