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"There Are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz, 2004.
This paper discusses Alex Kotlowitz's book,"There Are No Children Here," which is about childhood in the Henry Horner projects of Chicago where children are not free to be children.
1,655 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that, at the Henry Horner homes, children are not looking to come over and play with the latest Matchbox cars because many of the children are already being lured by gangs and getting used by older kids in drug activities; friends are people you could trust, but at Henry Horner, Lafeyette, the child character in the book, didn't feel that he could trust anyone besides his family. The author points out that, to the kids of Henry Horner, the police become a threat because, even if they aren't doing something bad, they are constantly surrounded by bad things; therefore, if they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, they are immediately accused of doing something. The paper relates that children at Henry Horner are desensitized to experiences such as violence, gang drug exchanges, and death; the children and the residents there have to put their emotions away and become stone on the inside.
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"In an area where the summertime is feared and school is a safe-haven, where it is dangerous to make friends as they might try to lure you into a gang, where drug lords run your neighborhood enforcing rules like a dictatorship with the manpower to back it up, you are stripped of your freedom. Sitting in public with a little kid can be embarrassing sometimes. "Mommy, that woman is fat!" or "Daddy, why is that man crying?" are questions that children will ask loud and clear without hesitation. They don't realize that other people can hear them or that other people have feelings that might be hurt. They are egocentric. However, for a child living in the Henry Horner homes where LaJoe and her children live, a comment like this can become life threatening."
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"There Are No Children Here" ( Alex Kotlowitz ), 1999.
Critical review of this work on lives, socioeconomics, education, despair and hope of two poor, young, black brothers.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"In There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America, Alex Kotlowitz has written a powerful, sometimes discouraging, sometimes hopeful book, the story of two brothers, Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, who live in a world of crime, poverty, and little hope for an adequate education which would allow them to escape their dehumanizing circumstances. This study will discuss and evaluate ways suggested by Kotlowitz's book for improving education for disadvantaged children. The outlook is not as hopeful in general for such children as it is for the two brothers, because the author by his personal and financial involvement in their lives and education made them special rather than typical cases. Kotlowitz has given the reader that some hope exists for at least two children, has shed light on some of the problems in the education of the disadvantaged ..."
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Bissinger's "Friday Night Lights" and Kotlowitz' "There Are No Children Here", 1994.
This paper describes two books, "Friday Night Lights", by H. G. Bissinger, and "There Are No Children Here", by Alex Kotlowitz.and compares their portrayals of teenage problems, violence and economic struggles in American communities
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 2 sources, $ 55.95
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"Two books, "Friday Night Lights", by H. G. Bissinger, and "There Are No Children Here", by Alex Kotlowitz, both begin in the late 1980s. Both books are also about teenage boys struggling in urban and rural towns of America. Both authors document specific instances of violence which occur in the American communities. The citizens of both cities are greatly affected by the shocking events which occur within their cities as well as by local police forces, schools, and unemployment rates. But the similarities end there. The lives which the football players lead in Odessa, Texas are very different from the lives Pharoah and Lafayette lead in Chicago, Illinois.
The crime is so bad in the Lafayette's home town that he ... "
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'There Are No Children Here', 2006.
A review of 'There Are No Children Here' by Alex Kotlowitz.
766 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper presents a discussion about issues presented in 'There Are No Children Here' by Alex Kotlowitz. This paper explores the ways the system failed this family and argues the outcome for the family would have been different had a reformed system been used.
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"The second way that the social system failed the family was in not providing mandatory counseling and classes for LaJoe, the mother of the children in how to better their lives. Under the AFDC system multiple generations lived on the welfare doles from grandma down to grandchild. How could LaJoe be expected to know how to do any better when she had never seen an example of how it can be done? The social system let her down and consequently let those children down by sending a check that was not enough to survive on and never showing her a way out and off of the system. The old saying "give a man a fish and feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and feed him for life" was never more evidenced and proven than it was in this story. "
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"There Are No Children Here", 2008.
A review of "There Are No Children Here" by Alex Kotlowitz.
995 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper looks at how Alex Kotlowitz, in "There Are No Children Here", explores the inner-city decay and want which dooms many American children. The paper describes the experiences of the two African-American boys in the story who are forced to grow up in Chicago's notorious Henry Horner housing projects. The paper looks at how Kotlowitz portrays the violence and the drug and gang culture of the area. The paper discusses the relevance of this book to community health nursing.
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"Having offered a broad overview of the text and a "run-down" of its main themes, the next thing which must be addressed is the issue of bias - often synonymous with "balance" - as it manifests itself in the work. Although it can be overdone, one is left with the distinct impression that Kotlowitz is a liberal at heart; perhaps never is this more apparent then when he discusses a 1955 visit by Soviet officials to the then-fledgling Henry Horner projects. One of the guests, I.V. Kozvilia, Minister of City and Urban Construction in the Soviet Union, denounced the decision of city officials to erect buildings which featured apartment walls of cinder block and not of plaster. The curt response of the Chicago Daily News to the Soviet critique of its low-cost housing was that there was "little use for luxury" in such matters in capitalist America (Kotlowitz, 1987, p.22). One page earlier, Kotlowitz is quite aggressive in chastising a number of 1950s-era aldermen who opposed public housing in Chicago and who orchestrated a number of ploys designed to frustrate the initiative."
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Understanding Alex Through Music, 2000.
This paper is a character analysis of the main character in the novel "A Clockwork Orange"
1,980 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 1 source, $ 62.95
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This paper is a character examination of the protagonist Alex, from the novel "A Clockwork Orange". It specifically deals with the role that music plays in this character?s life. It shows how Alex develops a need for control over himself and over his friends as well and how he finds it through music.
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"In the dystopian future that Anthony Burgess creates in the novel "A Clockwork Orange", our protagonist, Alex, shares with us his passion for violence. Alex finds an aesthetic quality in the physical torture and rape of faceless victims. Alex has other passions as well. As a child of the new ultra-violent generation, chaos is ever present in this young droog?s life. Because of this, Alex develops a need for control over himself and over his friends as well. It is through music that Alex finds this control and it is through music that we learn the most about his character."
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Alex Molnar, 2007.
This paper looks at Alex Molnar's approach to changing behavior and argues that even though Molnar's approach is an old idea, it is still one of the best.
5,157 words (approx. 20.6 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 129.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that throughout the country, at-risk adolescents regularly experience many varied behavioral problems in school, including low grades or proficiency scores, a high number of school absences, disciplinary infractions, grade retention and dropping out. In many cases, the writer notes that the continual experiences of economic pressure, unstable family relationships, and a negative environment, in conjunction with the stress and uncertainty of daily life responsibilities and expectations may be too overwhelming to handle. The writer maintains that an approach by Alex Molnar for changing behavior, that dates back to the 1980s, is a reversal of this negative paradigm - thinking that a student has a positive reason for his/her behavior. The writer claims that this is an old way of looking at an old problem in a new way. The writer concludes that what Molnar suggests for educators to do unfortunately goes contrary to standard human behavior--thinking the worst before the best. However, as shown many times, if these teachers are able to transpose their own thoughts and behaviors, they can greatly enhance the entire classroom ecosystem.
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"Although problematic behavior by adolescents has long been a given at public schools in the United States, it was not until the end of the 19th century that cities began to face the issue and only early in the 20th century that an emphasis was placed on the emotional health needs of these troubled youths. Since then, this issue has received increasing prominence with the dissemination of numerous studies, models, and authoritative reports on how to work with children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral needs by educators and government."
"Studies began to research information about the causations of problem behavior, which was then incorporated into specific prevention and intervention programs. As they began to analyze similar problem areas, researchers recognized the common antecedents."
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Alex Haley's "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", 1991.
This paper reviews "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley that relates how Malcom X discovered his black identity.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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""The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley, the author of Roots, is a powerful book because it carries through on the theme of discovering black identity. Malcolm X was one of the primary religious leaders and reformers of the 1960s, but it took him a number of years to shed his old preconceptions of who blacks were in America. As he learned to accept his black identity, Malcolm began his short-lived career as a powerful force in the fight against racism in the United States.
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. From the very beginning, even though Malcolm had not discovered his black identity, he had a very clear picture of what it meant to be a black in the United States. "When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded ... "
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"The Autobiography Of Malcolm X" ( Alex Haley ), 1999.
A sociological analysis of the book on major shifts in racial politics and religious views of this Afro-American leader.
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"In Alex Haley's transcribed work, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), readers are treated to several valuable lessons in sociology. Without summarizing the book in great detail, the story of Malcolm X reveals the significance of social and economic stratification in affecting people's religious beliefs and people's perspectives on social problems and life chances
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"In Alex Haley's transcribed work, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), readers are treated to several valuable lessons in sociology. Without summarizing the book in great detail, the story of Malcolm X reveals the significance of social and economic stratification in affecting people's religious beliefs and people's perspectives on social problems and life chances. This story shows a Malcolm X who grows out of a socialized value system emphasizing violence and hatred, into a de-socialized system emphasizing a new ideological orientation on race relations, to a re-socialized system nearing the viewpoints of Martin Luther King--a civil rights leader once despised by Malcolm. This research will examine this process of social development through the eyes of Malcolm X.
The Nation of Islam began in the early 1930s in the United ..."
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Themes of Alex Garland's Novel "The Beach", 2000.
An exploration of the complex themes of "The Beach", identifying three major themes.
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This paper explores the complex themes of "The Beach". It defines the main themes as discovery, the darkness in man's heart, and the conflict of man versus man and analyses these themes with concrete examples from the book.
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"The primary theme of this novel is discovery. This theme includes both self-discovery and the discovery of something new and unique; an unfound and undisturbed paradise. The beach is a legend amongst young travelers in Asia. It is rumoured to be a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sane and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle and plants that have remained untouched by man for a thousand years. On this beach, there are said to be a few carefully selected internationals settle in a communal Eden. The narrator is Richard, a twenty-something man who has been subjected to far too many Vietnam War movies. He is adrift in Southeast Asia, Bangkok, and he desires something different, the ultimate travel spot unspoiled by man. Like most of the travelers he meets, Richard is bored with the usual dissonance of Thailand and craves something more exciting and risqu?. Richard is a regular, young, English man in his early twenties. Up until his recent journey to Bangkok, he has had no significant life-altering events in his life; he is a typical product of his technologically advanced environment and he wanted some action in his life."
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"The Pursuit Of Loneliness" by Philip Slater and "Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Haley, 2000.
A comparison of the authors' views on failures and broken promises of American society and culture.
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"Different writers illuminate aspects of American society from different perspectives, sometimes personal, sometimes empirical, sometimes speculative, and sometimes analytical. Often, commentators find that American society is wanting in some respect and failing to provide the nurturing and supportive social environment people need
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"Different writers illuminate aspects of American society from different perspectives, sometimes personal, sometimes empirical, sometimes speculative, and sometimes analytical. Often, commentators find that American society is wanting in some respect and failing to provide the nurturing and supportive social environment people need. In some cases, as with the analysis by Philip E. Slater in his book The Pursuit of Loneliness, the writer finds that American society has developed in a way that undercuts certain important values even as it substitutes others, while in other instances, as with The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the author shows how American society fails to deliver on certain of its promises to an entire class of citizens.
Slater finds that there are certain deeply-seated human..."
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Malcolm X, 2006.
An examination of the book "The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told To Alex Haley", by Malcolm X and Alex Haley.
2,422 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 74.95
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In this examination of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley", by Malcolm X and Alex Haley, the author highlights many pertinent points from the book and about the life of Malcolm X. The author tells us that the book looks at the era in which Malcolm X lived as a time when racism was running rampant in the United States. As a result of his experiences Malcolm X became an angry activist who hated everything that white society represented. The paper describes how Malcolm X himself became a racist and he believed that all whites were evil, after his conversion to Islam. The author delves into this further pointing out what made Malcolm X change his way of thinking to become a well known civil rights activist, who is still thought of in a positive light today. Finally the paper reiterates the major changes that Malcolm X went through during his life to make him a key leader of the black civil rights movement in the United States.
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"Malcolm continued to have a great loyalty to Muhammad, even when Muhammad became too old to actively participate in Nation events. Malcolm then became more and more active in the groups decision making processes. It was at this time that Malcolm and Muhammad noticed that have had some differences in ideology. While they both wished to fight for black rights, Muhammad's goal was to create a completely separate black nation-state that would have a different economy and culture than the rest of the country. Malcolm, however, believed that this would only happen if they took care of the poor black people living in ghettos first. Malcolm wanted the group to become more involved with politics and to change America as a whole, rather than just trying to separate black America from white America. These differing philosophies, as well as Malcolm's growing influence led to Muhammad trying to have Malcolm killed. While this was very difficult for Malcolm, it led to another change in philosophy for him."
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A Clockwork Orange, 2002.
Examination of Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange", focusing on the main character, Alex.
812 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper analyzes how Alex is sent to Borstal and punished, after which he is returned to society essentially no better than before. Alex is given a choice and chooses the brainwashing that allows him to be returned to society, supposedly a better person. The writer explains that Burgess affirms in this novel, is the power of the human spirit and the belief that we have to respect that spirit even when it is anti-social.
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"Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange looks to the near future and extrapolates from his own time to one where many young people have become urban marauders, taking out their frustrations in violence and living completely amoral lives. Alex tells his own story as well, doing so in the cynical pseudo-language of his generation. Burgess uses the issue of "free will" and the way human beings prize it as a way of taking the reader from his or her contemporary world to the fictional world of the future."
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"The Lemon Orchard", 2002.
Shows how author Alex La Guma's political views are portrayed through his novel, "The Lemon Orchard".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This essay will argue, if we understand the historical and biographical context of this story, that these questions become resolved as we see them reflecting key aspects of Alex La Guma's literary and political attitudes.
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"Roots", 2005.
Shows how Alex Haley successfully portrayed the history of an African-American family in his book, "Roots".
1,139 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 39.95
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The paper presents Alex Haley's "Roots" as a brilliant piece of anthropological detective work. Haley traces the roots of his ancestors back eight generations to his great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather Kunta Kinte. The paper shows that, in creating "Roots", he traces his ancestors back to the original town that Kunta Kinte was abducted from in Africa. The paper concludes that Haley's characters are rich and full of life and that he does an excellent job of re-enacting the past to give us a true feeling of the African-American experience from abduction, to slavery, to freedom, and redemption.
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"While pregnant, Bell dreams that "at a white folks' party game, they had announced that the first prize would be the next black baby boy to be born on that massa's plantation" (P. 337). Kunta calmed Bell down by assuring her massa would never do anything like that, but he was scared because "he had heard of such things being done--of unborn black babies being given as presents, wagered as gambling bets at card tables and cockfights" (P. 338). They name the child Kizzy, and Kunta proceeds to teach her several of the words from the language of his tribe, the Mandinka."
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