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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, £ 63.95
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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, £ 41.95
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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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"Amazing Grace", 2005.
An sociological analysis of Jonathan Kozol's book "Amazing Grace".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 24.95
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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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?Amazing Grace?, 2004.
A review of the book, ?Amazing Grace?, by Jonathan Kozol, on ghetto life in America.
1,224 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, £ 28.95
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This paper examines how, in his book, "Amazing Grace", Kozol focuses on the children of the South Bronx, children who struggle to survive, thrive, to find joy and spiritual connections amid the turmoil of the ghetto. It shows how, although nihilism, hopelessness, anger, and violence run rampant through the neighborhood, the children with whom Kozol speaks and befriends exhibit an ?amazing grace.? It looks at how Kozol allows the residents of the South Bronx to speak for themselves through interviews and to demonstrate with their own examples why racial segregation, ghettoization, gang violence, and poverty are symptoms of a national problem rooted in avarice and racism.
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"Ironically, the ?founding father? of the community, Richard Morris, built the South Bronx on profits gleaned from slavery: he had owned a plantation in the Caribbean. The local high school is named after Morris. The South Bronx can?t seem to escape its historical roots: racism pervades the district and there is a sense that its residents still live as slaves. A local teenage girl tells Kozol that the outside, white-dominated world looks toward people in their community as ?obstacles to moving forward,? as disposable and irrelevant. Moreover, Kozol notes that the mass media and the government fails to capture the raw emotionality of this harsh reality. Streets named after Black heroes like Martin Luther King stand basically as mockeries of racial justice and equality. "
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"Amazing Grace", 2002.
This paper critiques the non- fiction book, "Amazing Grace" by author Jonathan Kozol.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 1 source, £ 61.95
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This paper discusses that "Amazing Grace" is focused on accurately depicting the lives of children and adults living in the South Bronx and in Harlem. The author critiques these themes in respect to how Kozol suggests that juvenile delinquency in these communities is a way of life, rather than an ethical decision, based mainly on the conditions of poverty found therein.
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"Amazing Grace", 2004.
This paper looks at the relationship between health and illness and the social context.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 16.95
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In this article, the writer discusses the relationship between health and illness and the social context in which they exist. The writer bases the study on Jonathan Kozol's book 'Amazing Grace', which deals with the poor in the South Bronx and the problems they face.
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"Health and illness must be understood in a social context because society is responsible in part for the conditions that people live in and which in turn have major consequences in terms of their health. Many poor in America have no health insurance nor do they have the money to buy medications or even to buy healthy foods and provide balanced nutritious meals for their families. In the South Bronx, there are poor people living together and in Washington Heights and Harlem another poor making up the ... "
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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, £ 41.95
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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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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, £ 38.95
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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 & 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, £ 32.95
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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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"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, £ 32.95
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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" 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, £ 32.95
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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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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, £ 37.95
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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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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, £ 25.95
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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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Teaching Multiplication Using "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", 2008.
A discussion of how Cindy Neuschwander's book, "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", may help in teaching children multiplication.
1,175 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper proposes an effective new approach to teaching students in Grades 4 to 6 multiplication, using Cindy Neuschwander's, book "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream", which features the concept of multiplication as a shorter way to find an answer than counting. The paper explains that the book's approach involves teaching the children why one needs to learn the multiplication tables, since children are often preoccupied with the reasons they are asked to do things. The paper also explains that the book places emphasis on applying math to everyday real-life situations that children can relate to. To conclude, the paper maintains that "Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream" will help to motivate children towards learning multiplication by making it into something fun.
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Introduction
A Three-Part Lesson Plan
Exploration
Overview
Conclusion
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"Children in Grades 4 to 6 are more given to questioning and this can become a device in postponing work sessions, in asking why something is undertaken. Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream has appealing illustrations reinforcing the idea of a world of many particularities. Using the example above, if a city neighbourhood has 200 televisions in about 200 dwellings but the class estimates that there are perhaps 50 to 75 dogs, what does this tell us about how people live?
"Flash cards indicating equations of 5 x 6, for instance, or 7 x 2, should be incorporated into the day at more than one point. Most children can attend to a focused lesson but will welcome the card's reappearance, later on, as a very old method of 'saturation' that also helps to break up the day. The teacher makes the reminder that times tables are learned a little at a time beyond formal efforts to memorize tables in printed form, till students do not need to think each time but realize they can recall more equations. The teacher should state that no one learns them perfectly, this human touch of stating which table she may have to pause and think through each time helping the task of memorization seem less daunting."
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