He argues that children who are living in these cities need the most help, racism is the cause of the in equality in schools, and more funding could be extremely beneficial to the students, schools, and communities but the media and politicians will not allow it. His discoveries are shocking but true. The first city Kozol tells the reader about is East St. Louis. The inner city is filthy and lies on a flood plain. Major companies built factories here and drain their waste into the city causing the children who live here to be at risk for many illnesses.
Is that fair? It can be compared to today’s economy and a parent telling their child they can’t get that new shirt because they can’t afford it. The only emotion felt for that family is sadness. Dr. King also talks about how the darts of segregation sting. That stinging could be compared to the beatings they have been administered for no
This shows that the animosity that Frankie had for her may have been caused by jealousy in how she lived and how he lived and he wanted her to feel just as uncomfortable in school as he felt at home. Greenlee uses description in her narrative to give you an idea of how savage the things that Frankie and his friends were doing to her were and also give the idea of how terrifying she was thru these horrible events. She describes how Frankie and his friends harassed her and often described them as dirty animals when doing so. For example, when she says, “Their hands, quick as filthy street rats, darting across my private parts” (Greenlee). She puts a visual in your head of a dirty street rat
Amazing Grace Question 1 Levi Bross Core III In the book, “Amazing Grace”, the author conducts interviews with a select few of the poorest people in New York City, who were living in the worst ghettos in the United States. These poor people mostly reside in the areas of South Bronx and Mott Haven, in which Kozol states, “most people would not even kennel their dogs in.” (pg. 51) This statement is eye opening and starling, in which it portrays how small and unfit these homes seem to be for people living in South Bronx and Mott haven. This statement also shows how inhuman the living quarters were, degrading a mere human to the level of a dog. I am sure that these people who have been born into a lifestyle of poverty or who have suffered from unfortunate events, do not make the decision to live in the worst ghettos of New York City.
‘Marks of weakness, marks of woe’ Blake uses marks as an abstract noun to describe the sadness of the people that he meets and also as a concrete noun to describe the physical cuts and scars. This is also commented on in Jon Crook’s critical reading of London where he states that the word shifts from a verb to a noun and that by making marks Blake discovers worlds, in London he has discovered a world of misery marked in the faces that he passes. The second stanza has a semantic field of sadness and pain, the repetition of ‘in every’ is an effective way to show that this sadness is affecting everyone in the city of London at the time. It shows the emotion in ‘cry of every man’ and ‘infants cry of fear’ that they are all going through the same pain. It also symbolises the lack of freedom when he says ‘in every ban.’ The last line in the second stanza is ambiguous ‘The mind-forg’d manacles I hear’ is a metaphorical phrase that reinforces the feeling of being trapped in London, the word manacles has connotations of slavery and that the people of London are enslaving themselves.
Ventilation in the slums is inadequate owing to the hopelessly unplanned nature of these areas.” (Doc. 5) Many poor city dwellers were forced to live in dark, filthy, overcrowded slums. There were many problems such as overuse of natural resources and pollution to not only the air but also the water. As of air, air, smoke had blackened the air. And water was being contaminated.
Le Gone du Chaâba deals with many issues, including integration and assimilation but also identity, social diversity and discrimination throughout the novel. Begag’s story centres around the young boy Azouz, and the other children who live in the Chaâba. Although the families moved to France to escape poverty and make a better life, if you looked at the Chaâba you would think they were living in an underdeveloped country, the slum is made up of a mixture of corrugated metal, wooden panels and salvaged bricks. A mess that eventually leads to the Chaâba being torn down due to it violating multiple zoning laws and having no real means of sanitation. But even though the Chaaba is especially run down and not at all fit for living in, here, Azouz’s parents have a lot more than when they lived in Algeria, though essentially the Chaâba is like they have lifted their town in Algeria and
She is one of the children who live in the neighborhood in which the beginning of the story takes place. Sylvia is very descriptive in a negative way about most of the people around her by saying things like, “Back in the day when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish” and “hated the way we did the winos who cluttered up our parks and pissed on our handball walls and stank up our hallways and stars so you couldn’t halfway play hide-and-seek without a goddamn gas mask.” (Bambara p.537) Sylvia and her friend Sugar do not seem to have much respect or admiration for anyone, including themselves and this is evident by the choices they make in behavior and thoughts of theft. The trip that Miss Moore takes the children of the block on this time is to a toy store downtown on Fifth Avenue called F.A.O. Schwarz. This was not a place that any of the kids had ever been or were even likely to visit because of their economic status.
Lit 1102 21 March 2011 The Lesson The lesson was one of the many touching stories written by author Toni Cade Bambara. The Lesson is a first person narrative told by a young, poor, black girl growing up in Harlem in an unspecified time period known only as “Back in the days when everyone was old and stupid or young and foolish.”(Roberts 373). In The Lesson, a field trip is imitated by a woman who takes it upon herself to expose the unappreciative children of the neighborhood to the world outside of their oppressed community. Miss Moore is the women and the only person who is properly educated in her neighborhood. The destination of the trip is to an elegant toy store which is located in New York’s Sax Fifth Avenue.
Reflection on Middle Childhood Middle Childhood is a period of time in which children gain a sense of self and build on cognitive abilities learned in Early Childhood. Sigmund Freud labeled this time in a child’s life the “latency stage” because sexual and aggressive urges are repressed, and possibly because physical growth is slow and steady. The subject of my middle childhood interview was Lisa, a nine-year-old Caucasian female in her home located in Highland Park, as well as a twenty minute observation across the street at a neighborhood park. She is an only child that lives with her mother in an apartment and visits her father in Stephenville twice a month, as well as two months every summer. Lisa’s mother, a teacher in DISD, divorced the father four years ago and intentionally moved to Highland Park for the quality of the school district.