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"Rachel & Her Children" by Jonathan Kozol, 1996.
Reviews work on human & social problems of poverty & homelessness in U.S. as illustrated in lives of woman & her children.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Homelessness is a major social problem facing America today, and while many may see it as an intractable problem, it is not clear that this is so. What is reburied first is a close analysis of the causes of homelessness and an understanding of the characteristics of the people who find themselves homeless. Jonathan Kozol offers an analysis of one family that faced this issue that points up some of the dynamics of the issue and that should be applicable to other situations and cases.
Kozol wrote the book Rachel and Her Children in 1988, and at that time the subject of homelessness was serious but was not yet a critical issue to all forms of government. Eight years later, in 1996, most functioning Americans and all government agencies are very aware of and concerned about the number of homeless..."
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Jonathan Kozol - The Children of Mott Haven, 2001.
An in-depth look at the lives of the children in Mott Haven, in the South Bronx as seen by Jonathon Kozol.
1,845 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 59.95
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In this paper the author begins by making a direct comparison to the American Hymn, Amazing Grace, and Jonathan Kozol?s profoundly disturbing profile of the lives of the children of Mott Haven, in the South Bronx. The author moves on to examine Kozol?s book in depth and his findings regarding the children of the South Bronx. He concludes by comparing the ?Children of Plenty? with what he regards as the ?throwaways?, the children who he considers have nothing and no future.
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?Like children everywhere, they vacillate between child-like innocence and alarmingly grown-up insights; but this is not the suburban version of ?growing up too fast;? they have seen junkies shooting up in the hallways of their buildings, gang members bagging dope and loading guns on the fire escape. Death is accepted as the passage to a better place. ?
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"Rachel and Her Children", 2003.
A review of Jonathon Kozol's "Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper examines Jonathon Kozol's "Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America" which discusses the many problems associated with homelessness, such as keeping the family together. It argues that the cause of homelessness is simply the lack of housing and gives reasons for the lack of housing.
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"Jonathon Kozol argues in Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America that the cause of homelessness is simply a lack of housing. The families he describes in this book including the woman he calls Rachel and her children are ..."
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Jonathan Kozol's "Amazing Grace", 2007.
This paper discusses Jonathan Kozol's book "Amazing Grace" about the problems of innocent children from poor neighborhoods, especially AIDS and drugs.
3,175 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 91.95
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This paper explains that, in "Amazing Grace", non-fiction writer, educator, and activist Jonathan Kozol, describes his visits to the poor neighborhoods of South Bronx and Harlem where he is exposed to what it is like for children to grow up desperately poor. The author points out that one of the most important aspects of this book is that Kozol lets the people speak in their own words about their poor lives, their problems and how they think the rest of the world views them . The paper relates that one of the really painful revelations in "Amazing Grace" is the difficulties welfare recipients have receiving services---the long waits and the disrespect with which they must put up. The paper includes many quotations from the book.
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"One of the people Kozol speaks to is Mrs. Washington who contracted AIDS from her husband that she loved and thought was faithful to her. She is sick and needs to go to the hospital, but according to the State of New York, she is not sick enough in order to collect Social Security Insurance. She explains that sometimes one must sit in the waiting room of the hospital (the one for poor people) for three days before being seen by a doctor or given a bed. When a room is available, the nurses are usually so busy that the old lady ends up changing her bedding by herself."
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Jonathan Kozol's book, "Amazing Grace", 2004.
Review and critique of the fifth chapter of Jonathan Kozol's book, "Amazing Grace".
1,901 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper offers a positive review of Jonathan Kozol's book on poverty-ridden ghetto neighborhoods. The paper talks about the accuracy of Kozol's description of those neighborhoods, and the author of the paper compares his own experiences growing up in a ghetto with the experiences described by Kozol.
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"Gender is a key issue when analyzing the sociological issues that Kozol describes in his book. He begins Chapter Five by outlining the problem with poor women, who find that better health care services and other facilities are available in prison than on the outside. Many of them AIDS victims and drug abusers, these mothers have endured every tragedy imaginable from rape to battering. Women are therefore the worst victims of the class and race conflicts that beset their neighborhoods. As they are entrusted with raising children, the cycle of despair continues endlessly. Far from acting as victims, many women demonstrate remarkable strength and act as bastions of hope for their children. Many of the people Kozol interviews for his study are women, as the author tries to focus on the impact of poverty and race specifically on young people. When he delves into the myth of the ?breakdown of the family? on page 180, it becomes clear that family problems are but a symptom of the bigger picture and cannot be blamed for society?s ills or looked at in isolation from other problems. When hospitals and schools are in the conditions they are in the Bronx and other poor neighborhoods, how can the family unit be truly to blame? Besides, many white and wealthy families experience divorce."
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"Savage Inequalities" by Jonathan Kozol, 1996.
Critical review of work on economic & educational disparities between rich & poor schools.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"In Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol argues that America's public school system has been victimized by ongoing segregation which locks school-age children into a static caste system; he uses Francis Keppel's term caste (63, 80, 199) denotatively to describe a social and economic structure whose restrictions it is impossible to supersede in spite of the popular (and flawed) notion that America is the land of opportunity. Kozol charges that funding is systematically withheld from poorer schools, and he uses this claim of fact as the basis for a cause-and effect argument: poor educative conditions result in inferior education, grave academic deficiency in students, and a reinforcing the stereotypes of both affluence and indigence.
Kozol's book is the result of his investigation of inner-city schools between 1988 and 1990. He documents the sharp..."
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"Savage Inequalities" ( Jonathan Kozol ), 1999.
Reviews work on ways govt., society & school system fail poor black children in U.S.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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" Jonathan Kozol's Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools looks at the ways the government, the society, and the educational system fail poor children, especially poor black children, in the United States. Kozol's work examines six cities, where he finds common problems which work against the education of poor children. His major argument is that the government simply does not spend enough on the schooling of poor children, while spending far more on the schooling of more wealthy, white children. To Kozol, the problems of the schools are not the fault of the children themselves, but rather of the system which has let them down. He does not merely offer this view as an opinion, but bases it on his thorough research, including his Appendix which shows clearly how far more is spent on children living in wealthy districts than on children living in poor districts. This.."
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Savage Inequalities ( Jonathan Kozol ), 1994.
Critical review of this work on the socioeconomic roots of failures of the U.S. educational system.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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Jonathan Kozol in his book Savage Inequalities details how the public schools have failed large numbers of children and why. He was a teacher in the 1960s but had not been in a classroom in some time. He returns to the classroom in East St. Louis, a troubled area with a depressed economy and consequent economic problems in the public schools. East St. Louis is a black community deliberately created in a bottoms area which is given added problems by the water that drains from the Bluffs, while the Bluffs pay nothing to alleviate these problems in the Bottoms. Kozol discusses the problems of this area--economic, social, the crime rate--and shows how the schools relate to these concerns. He describes the different classes and the few white faces seen in these classes. He also notes how the press and.."
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"Rachel and Her Children", 2003.
An examination of Jonathan Kozol?s "Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America".
2,300 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper provides a summary and critique of Kozol?s book, followed by an examination of how these factors help provide a better understanding of the health issues facing women in American today. A summary of the research is provided in the conclusion.
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"Today, the American economy is booming and we will soon have a new rich, white guy for president -- everything is great and everyone has enough to eat and a warm place to live -- right? Right!? Well, if you are among the 400,000 children who continue to experience the ravages of homelessness in affluent America, you may feel a bit differently about our rosy prospects. The grim reality is that things were not much different for women and children in America in 1985 when, a few days before Christmas, Jonathan Kozol spent most of a winter at a homeless shelter in New York. The compelling and heart-breaking stories told by the mothers about their lives and their children resulted in Kozol writing Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America. While all of the stories presented are different, there are some common themes which Kozol identifies which impact the ability of homeless women and children to obtain adequate healthcare in America."
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"Savage Inequalities", 2001.
This paper is an analysis of Jonathan Kozol's "Savage Inequalities: Children in America?s Schools."
3,660 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 101.95
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This paper examines the plights of the poor and of racial minorities in American culture in Jonathan Kozol's "Savage Inequalities: Children in America?s Schools." This book deals with children and claims that children have not earned any of the wealth nor poverty they inherit, nor do they control their fates in such a way that they may be accountable for them. It discusses life in East St. Louis, an exclusively black and minority city and describes how children are affected by living in ghettos.
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"In 1991, Jonathan Kozol became the published author of Savage Inequalities: Children in America?s Schools. Its a dark and brilliant expose' of inequalities in race and caste institutionalized into the core of American culture, its cities, states, and even federal system. Many authors have surely written about the so-called plights of the poor and of racial minorities. However, it is almost impossible in many accounts to separate the personal failings of the poor from the institutional failings of the nation. Kozol?s book makes it extremely simple by dealing particularly with a type of the poor and of the racial minorities which can in no way be feasibly blamed for their plights, nor considered victims of their own wills rather than that of the ruling class. He deals with children. As the book itself says, all children are naturally equal, for they have not earned any of the wealth nor poverty they inherit, nor do they control their fates in such a way that they may be accountable for them. By exploring the lives of children, then, we can see the truest, most terrible institutional inequalities."
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Are We Blind To Suffering?, 2007.
An analysis of the book "Amazing Grace-The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation" by Jonathan Kozol.
1,040 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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The paper explores how the author treats the issue of people's blindness to the suffering of New York's poorest children. The paper examines the the roots of this blindness, its effects and the religious institutions' attitude to this blindness. The paper explains that the roots of blindness toward suffering are deep and difficult to overcome and they exist in just about everyone, even those who have suffered themselves. The paper discusses how people turn their backs on suffering because they do not want to acknowledge that it exists, or that they might have some way of helping others out of their suffering. The paper shows how it is a blindness to reality and it exists worldwide.
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"Most people do not know they are blind to suffering, and probably would argue if they were accused of this blindness. As Baum notes, "people are involved in destructive action without being aware of it." However, this book makes it quite clear that this blindness is destructive and can lead to misunderstanding, ignorance, and intolerance. Early in the book, Kozol quotes a political science professor who states, "'If poor people behaved rationally, [...] they would seldom be poor for long in the first place'" (Kozol 21). This professor is not only blind, he is woefully ignorant of the conditions and lack of social support at work in the neighborhood the author writes about so passionately."
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Economic Justice in American Communities, 1999.
How Jonathan Kozol?s two books, "Rachel and Her Children" and "Savage Inequalities" demonstrate that the concept of community is one that may be seen in too limited a way in the United States.
1,606 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 52.95
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"Jonathan Kozol?s two books, Rachel and Her Children and Savage Inequalities put actual people under the microscope of his compassionate gaze. Kozol?s books demonstrate that the concept of community is one that may be seen in too limited a way in the United States. The children who are trying to become educated and the families who try to live in East Saint Louis, Illinois, certainly have a community of their own but their community does not have any of the economic resources of some of the wealthier Chicago suburbs that he uses as a contrast. "
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Savage Inequalities, 2005.
This paper reviews "Savage Inequalities" by Jonathan Kozol that focuses on the inequalities of the educational system.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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The paper offers a report on the book "Savage Inequalities" by Jonathan Kozol, in which Kozol addresses some of the failures he sees in the American educational system. The paper explains how Kozol specifically looks at how they reflect institutional discrimination and the failure to address the needs of minority children. The paper notes that these are the inequalities of the title, seen in the way schools in predominantly white neighborhoods are more likely to have sufficient funding, while schools in poor and minority neighborhoods do not.
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"In his book "Savage Inequalities," Jonathan Kozol addresses some of the failures he sees in the American educational system, especially as they reflect institutional discrimination and the failure to address the needs of minority children. These are the inequalities of the title, seen in the way schools in predominantly white neighborhoods are more likely to have sufficient funding, while schools in poor and minority neighborhoods do not. Kozol himself has been a teacher, though he has not been working in the classroom for some time. For this book, Kozol returns to a classroom in East St. Louis, considered an area with a depressed economy and with many economic problems in the public schools. East St. Louis is also a black community, one that has a number of problems because of the drainage system from an area called the Bluffs, which contributes nothing to correcting this problem."
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Hardship, 2002.
A review of the books "Amazing Grace" by Jonathan Kozol and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou with an emphasis on the theme of hardship.
1,669 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 54.95
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This paper examines the two novels "Amazing Grace" by Jonathan Kozol and "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou. It discusses how although set in different times and places and with different gender and ethnic perspectives, they are also in many ways substantially the same, for each one reminds us that as humans we are capable of great things, of compassion that is limitless and eternal and of love that can redeem anything. "Amazing Grace" is about a group of New York children, their families and the community in which they live. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" is written through the eyes of a young black child growing up in a community where there is both segregation and discrimination regarding skin color. It looks at how other people use the hardships in their lives to inspire themselves and how Angelou and Kozol both remind us that in fact a lot of people have considerably harder lives than others do.
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"In this book, Kozol creates a finely detailed, very convincing picture of a contemporary American urban ghetto, with the hunger, poverty, disease, drug use, and violence that are part of the daily lives of people who live in such neighborhoods. By relying on interviews (with people from the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx), Kozol gives a distinct face to each of these problems while also showing how they interact and intersect with each other to create the seemingly insoluble problems of poverty. This shows me that it isn?t ever enough to simply say no to drugs in a community that doesn?t offer education, jobs, stable marriages, or validation of the importance of women?s contributions."
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"Amazing Grace", 2005.
An sociological analysis of Jonathan Kozol's book "Amazing Grace".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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In this paper, "Amazing Grace" by Jonathan Kozol provides an in depth sociological view of how the people of Mott Haven live within a harshly divided economy in New York City. It explains that by providing interviews in his field work with these people, Kozol is able to get varying opinions that the government or Mayor Giuliani would not like admit or provide to the general public. The author of the paper contends that in this manner, his book helps empirically define poverty in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx, revealing how people are really living in a racially and economically divided city.
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"This book review will analyze the various aspects of poverty that occur within New York City within Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol. In this manner, the book relates the problems of poverty for minorities within Mott Haven, South Bronx, and the unbelievable living situations that these people must endure. In many cases Kozol seeks to understand why these impoverished conditions exist, and he accurately provides a sociological case studies of why Mayor Giuliani's leadership has worsened conditions. In essence, Kozol provides an empirical sociological outlook on poverty in New York City with a strong ethical and moral look as to how these conditions can be corrected. Amazing Grace is a book filled with data that is helpful to the reader when understanding poverty within the Mott Haven community of New York City. These Bronx neighborhoods are so impoverished that Kozol found ..."
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