Privelage, Power and Difference
What Can We Do?
Becoming part of the solution
Allan G Johnson
Authors Arguement:
Jonshon argues that topics such as racism, sexism, and othe topics of that nature should not be to the side and not taken care of but brought up and recognized as a problem that needs to be fixed. he argues that in order to fix what the present problems we need to learn from the past and accept what we need to do. Not only those who have the problems but all those who see and who are surronded by it.
Quotes:
1) "It's easy to have opinions, it takes work to know what you are talking about."
I choose this quotes because when I first read it, it reminded me of when that loud person in a crowd thinsk they know everything and they are right just because they are the loudest. WHen it comes down to the fact of having your own opinion on certain subjects its absolutely right to have them, but when they are degrading and disrespectful that puts you in the wrong. What Johnson is arguing here is that peopl just believe that their own opinions are right no matter what evidence is shown, so maybe once in awhile we need to step back and realize that we are not always right and to look around before we are that "loud" obnoxious guy in the crowd.
2)"Make noise, be seen"
In order to make a change you need to make a stand. Sometimes peopel who have the best intentions don't have the heart to have their great ideas thrown out there. For change to be had their needs to be noisiness and a loud voice to beheard over the mess of nonsense. But still not that "loud" guy
3) "Don't let other people set the standard for you."
Johnson is trying to get across that by your own power and strenght and knowledge you need to stand up and say what you believe in even if your standing alone. Not something radical or rebelious but for a good moral reason it should be said. if you know it is right and you want to challenge others do it. It's peoplelike that that get stuff done, that make history, that make change.
Comments:
I really enjoyed this article I thought it brough out alot of passion in me and it was a good article to end the semester on. It was encouraging for me to knwo that I will stand up for what I believe in and its ok, because other people ar pushing for that too. I hope everyone folllows Johnsons advice as we all go to become teachers.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Monday, November 17, 2008
Talking point #8
Citizenship In School:
reconceptualizing Down Syndrome
Christopher Kliewer
Authors Arguement:
Kliewer is arguing that people with disabilities, Down Syndrome ecspecially should not be cast away from the average student in school settings. They should be able to learn at the same level as the other student who do not have disabilities because it alters their learning and deprives them from the full acedemic experience.
Quotes:
1) "it's about all of us working together, playing together, being together, and that's what learning is. Don't tell me any of these kids are bein set up to fail."
I picked this quote because I have felt very strongly for awhile of why special education students are shunned off. They are usually put into their own wing of the building interacting with the same people all the time and through much of their acedemic carrer. Life is really not like that, there isn't a bubble to protect them always. if we are trying to involve handicapped people in every day life and want to make it normal, their should be equal involvement in the other classrooms. Students should be together, if special help is needed then that is understandable, but segregating them is not doin anything but teachin more and more that they are diffrent so they don't belong, they do belong.
2) "They didn't think it was realistic, that she could handle it, that she could handle the job. Here they have her educating America's future, but they're scared to let her work at a movie place."
This just shows you have little people are educated in anything. Just because a person has special needs or has some handicaps does NOT mean they are going to sit on a couch for the rest of their lives waiting for people to wait on them hand and foot. These people have brains, and talents, and understandings of the world and how things work. I love the fact that someone with special needs can come back and show someone up by teaching whne they doubted their abilities to work at a movie store. Goes to show dont underestimate people.
3.)"Don't think, she said, "that those special needs kids drain anything. That class would not be half what it is if any one of those kids got segregated. We are all in this together."
I hope that my classroom when I become a teacher is like this. i feel that special needs children bring so much more, more innocence, imagination, and creativity, just because things don't look the same to them as to us doens't mean it's worng, it means it diffrent and wonderful and full of life. And who wouldnt want a classroom full of life. And thats what they bring life to a whole new meaning.
Comments:
I really enjoyed reading the descriptions of the children and of Shayne. The technical stuff got in my way and I tended to skip over it, but I enjoyed learnign about a new portion of special needs. I plan on etting my special eduaction credits and I hope one day I can be a teacher with a classroom with mixed children and it won't matter to me because they are all students willing to learn and I'll embrace it all.
reconceptualizing Down Syndrome
Christopher Kliewer
Authors Arguement:
Kliewer is arguing that people with disabilities, Down Syndrome ecspecially should not be cast away from the average student in school settings. They should be able to learn at the same level as the other student who do not have disabilities because it alters their learning and deprives them from the full acedemic experience.
Quotes:
1) "it's about all of us working together, playing together, being together, and that's what learning is. Don't tell me any of these kids are bein set up to fail."
I picked this quote because I have felt very strongly for awhile of why special education students are shunned off. They are usually put into their own wing of the building interacting with the same people all the time and through much of their acedemic carrer. Life is really not like that, there isn't a bubble to protect them always. if we are trying to involve handicapped people in every day life and want to make it normal, their should be equal involvement in the other classrooms. Students should be together, if special help is needed then that is understandable, but segregating them is not doin anything but teachin more and more that they are diffrent so they don't belong, they do belong.
2) "They didn't think it was realistic, that she could handle it, that she could handle the job. Here they have her educating America's future, but they're scared to let her work at a movie place."
This just shows you have little people are educated in anything. Just because a person has special needs or has some handicaps does NOT mean they are going to sit on a couch for the rest of their lives waiting for people to wait on them hand and foot. These people have brains, and talents, and understandings of the world and how things work. I love the fact that someone with special needs can come back and show someone up by teaching whne they doubted their abilities to work at a movie store. Goes to show dont underestimate people.
3.)"Don't think, she said, "that those special needs kids drain anything. That class would not be half what it is if any one of those kids got segregated. We are all in this together."
I hope that my classroom when I become a teacher is like this. i feel that special needs children bring so much more, more innocence, imagination, and creativity, just because things don't look the same to them as to us doens't mean it's worng, it means it diffrent and wonderful and full of life. And who wouldnt want a classroom full of life. And thats what they bring life to a whole new meaning.
Comments:
I really enjoyed reading the descriptions of the children and of Shayne. The technical stuff got in my way and I tended to skip over it, but I enjoyed learnign about a new portion of special needs. I plan on etting my special eduaction credits and I hope one day I can be a teacher with a classroom with mixed children and it won't matter to me because they are all students willing to learn and I'll embrace it all.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Talking Point 5
In the Service of what?
The Politics of Service Learning
Joseph Kahne & Joel Westheimer
Authors Arguement:
The authors are arguing that service learning is very important to be done, but that focus should be more represented in the democratic way rather than the individuals feelings on service learning.
Quotes:
1."almost all discussions of service learning practices emphasizes the importance of reflection."
I agree completely with this quote because even with our service learning when we discuss our VIPS in class I feel like I gain more from mine and other peoples experiences. I really think when you look back on the things you accomplish because the more you look back at the good experiences the more you learn and take from it.
2."Similarily many contemporary scholars focus on change over charity and argue that the lack of connection between individual rights and communal obligations within our culture has left us with a bankrupt sense of citizenship."
I think that service and service learnign should be really fro oneself and not to change the world. yes it is wonderful that people are getting together to save each other and help other people out but its a great for a personally experience to get you used to a field, or to make you feel better. Service learning shouldnt be just because people are forcing you to do good, it should be self motivated because you need to do it for yourself.
3." The importance of a meaningful reflective component becomes clearer when one considers the kind of deliberation and student empowerment that such a curriculm can foster"
Basically learn from your experiences. This is completely true. The fact of what your learning comes through more the more you reflect upon it.
Questions/Comments:
I think this is important because I reflect on service learning and I know that it helps me more to realize what I am doing when I think about my service learning. I think it's more important to realize how your serving others and why you are doing it because it makes it that much more fuller.
The Politics of Service Learning
Joseph Kahne & Joel Westheimer
Authors Arguement:
The authors are arguing that service learning is very important to be done, but that focus should be more represented in the democratic way rather than the individuals feelings on service learning.
Quotes:
1."almost all discussions of service learning practices emphasizes the importance of reflection."
I agree completely with this quote because even with our service learning when we discuss our VIPS in class I feel like I gain more from mine and other peoples experiences. I really think when you look back on the things you accomplish because the more you look back at the good experiences the more you learn and take from it.
2."Similarily many contemporary scholars focus on change over charity and argue that the lack of connection between individual rights and communal obligations within our culture has left us with a bankrupt sense of citizenship."
I think that service and service learnign should be really fro oneself and not to change the world. yes it is wonderful that people are getting together to save each other and help other people out but its a great for a personally experience to get you used to a field, or to make you feel better. Service learning shouldnt be just because people are forcing you to do good, it should be self motivated because you need to do it for yourself.
3." The importance of a meaningful reflective component becomes clearer when one considers the kind of deliberation and student empowerment that such a curriculm can foster"
Basically learn from your experiences. This is completely true. The fact of what your learning comes through more the more you reflect upon it.
Questions/Comments:
I think this is important because I reflect on service learning and I know that it helps me more to realize what I am doing when I think about my service learning. I think it's more important to realize how your serving others and why you are doing it because it makes it that much more fuller.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Talking Point #4 Christensen
Unlearning the Myths That Bind Is
Linda Christensen
Authors Arguement:
Christensen is arguing that the media we have as younger children imbeds into our brain early stereotypes, racisms, and superficial motifs. She reveals that as adults, and parents that it is our responsibility to stop these actions and not let them conitnue because it is not right to have these images being displayed to young children who develop into adults that have these ideas in their heads as being "ok."
Quotes:
1."Women who aren't white begin to feel left out and ugly because they never get to play the princess."
This must be the worst feeling as a non-white women. What little girl (or in my case now) doesn't want to be a princess, or pretend to be one, or be treated like one. When every single princess is white, every single queen and royalty is white, doesn't that give the image as a non-white women could never amount to a princess. This doesn't only make a women feel bad it is also racists, why can't an Africain American women be a princess? There isn't a good reason there should be a non-white princess in a fairy tale, in fact their should be many.
2."Happiness means getting a man, and transformation from wretched conditions can be acheived through consumption-in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle."
A woman does not need a man. Plain and simple. A woman doesnt need to change anything
about herself to get a man, because that just means giving up herself to become something she is not, in turn the man doesn't even want her for her. I hate those movies that the "misfit" girl suddenly becomes this beauty queen and fabulous, and everyone wants to be her friend, every guy wants her, she wins homecoming queen, and she lives happily ever after, all because she did her hair, put some makeup on and took her glasses off. Girls shouldnt feel like they have to be dressed upa nd glammed all the time. Perfection is not beauty it's just a process.
3."We don't call it deception; we call it good taste. And soon it feels akward going to the mailbox without makeup."
WHY?! I can't say this enough. Makeup isn't beauty, its a mask to pretend to be pretty. Material beauty is just that, material. It's just so frustrating to think without a clump of mascara hanging off an eyelash that your ot pretty. Not enough eyeshadow to make you beautiful. When did the time come that walking down the sidewalk to get your mail you need high heels, Gucci sunglassed and the purse that matched.
Questions/Comments:
I cannot wait to talk about this article in class. I really enjoyed reading this article because it was easy and laid back reading. I love that it showed all the diffrent ways that people are influnced as a child. it's hard to actually look at all those Disney movies and realize how much I loved them., but also realize how crazy the stereotypes are, and also how much they really did put images into my head that i kept with me for a very lond time. Oh I just need to talk about this in class, I have too much to say! One last thing, I think ever girl should be a princess once in their life, because every women deserves it nomatter what race :)
Linda Christensen
Authors Arguement:
Christensen is arguing that the media we have as younger children imbeds into our brain early stereotypes, racisms, and superficial motifs. She reveals that as adults, and parents that it is our responsibility to stop these actions and not let them conitnue because it is not right to have these images being displayed to young children who develop into adults that have these ideas in their heads as being "ok."
Quotes:
1."Women who aren't white begin to feel left out and ugly because they never get to play the princess."
This must be the worst feeling as a non-white women. What little girl (or in my case now) doesn't want to be a princess, or pretend to be one, or be treated like one. When every single princess is white, every single queen and royalty is white, doesn't that give the image as a non-white women could never amount to a princess. This doesn't only make a women feel bad it is also racists, why can't an Africain American women be a princess? There isn't a good reason there should be a non-white princess in a fairy tale, in fact their should be many.
2."Happiness means getting a man, and transformation from wretched conditions can be acheived through consumption-in their case, through new clothes and a new hairstyle."
A woman does not need a man. Plain and simple. A woman doesnt need to change anything
about herself to get a man, because that just means giving up herself to become something she is not, in turn the man doesn't even want her for her. I hate those movies that the "misfit" girl suddenly becomes this beauty queen and fabulous, and everyone wants to be her friend, every guy wants her, she wins homecoming queen, and she lives happily ever after, all because she did her hair, put some makeup on and took her glasses off. Girls shouldnt feel like they have to be dressed upa nd glammed all the time. Perfection is not beauty it's just a process.
3."We don't call it deception; we call it good taste. And soon it feels akward going to the mailbox without makeup."
WHY?! I can't say this enough. Makeup isn't beauty, its a mask to pretend to be pretty. Material beauty is just that, material. It's just so frustrating to think without a clump of mascara hanging off an eyelash that your ot pretty. Not enough eyeshadow to make you beautiful. When did the time come that walking down the sidewalk to get your mail you need high heels, Gucci sunglassed and the purse that matched.
Questions/Comments:
I cannot wait to talk about this article in class. I really enjoyed reading this article because it was easy and laid back reading. I love that it showed all the diffrent ways that people are influnced as a child. it's hard to actually look at all those Disney movies and realize how much I loved them., but also realize how crazy the stereotypes are, and also how much they really did put images into my head that i kept with me for a very lond time. Oh I just need to talk about this in class, I have too much to say! One last thing, I think ever girl should be a princess once in their life, because every women deserves it nomatter what race :)
Monday, October 6, 2008
Talking Point #3 Carlson
Gayness, Multicultural Education, and Community
Dennis Carlson
Authors Argument:
Carlson is arguing that communities, and schools should teach to the people how to realize everyone is normal, and their isn't normal and abnormal people, just people. he also states that it is the job of teachers and leaders to use the words "gay," "lesbian," "homosexuals" etc. in their language because it isn't something to be ashamed of just another aspect of life diffrent from the "normals."
Quotes:
1."gay people have for the most part been made absent, invisible, and silent within this community and at the same time represented as the deviant and pathological "other.""
When I first read the quote I thought to myself I never thought as gay people as invivible or silent, or others. It makes me wonder who really starts by pointin out someone as diffrent. How do we even know what the normal is, or wat should be the normal. It saddens me to think that some people stay silent just because fo their sexuality. When did it happen that people had to be classified by sexuality and not by the person they are.
2."(i.e., black, working class, female, homosexual, etc.) are disempowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic,criminal, lazy, lacking in intelligence, and in other ways 'abnormal'."
WHAT?! I cannot even believe people would write this or even believe it for that matter. I just got so mad after I read that. Not only because I am a female but really, just because of a persons race or sexuality they are dumb and lazy. I would love to know where these people come up with these ideas and how they even get out to the public without the snot beaten out of them. As a future teacher I hope to God I can teach the children I have to be open minded so they don't grow up to be one of these people who have ideas like this. Sometimes I wonder..
3. "The objective of classroom discourse is thus not so much to acheive consensus on on "truth" or "objective" depiction of reality, but rather to clarify diffrences and agreements, work toward coalition-building across diffrence when possible, and build relationships based on caring and equity."
This is our future job, this is what as furture teachers we need to strive to do. I read this quote over a couple of times and I thought to myself, I hope that I can really do this, I hope I'm up to the responsibility I hol as ateacher to shape and mold young people to become better then what I am and how everyone else is. I am really inspired to make changes to young lives.
Questions/Comments:
This was really hard to read for me, I don't know if it was the lanuage or what it was but it was the most difficult piece I've read in the class. I could sort of grasp Carlson's concepts but I mostly understood my quotes, and it was quite hard to even pick some quotes out. I think his writing style was more informative then relaxed so it wasn't as easy to get into. i really did enjoy the fact that we are talking abotu sexual identity though because it is going to be a factor in the classroom, ecspecially being a high school teacher as I'm trying to be. I cant wait for class to talk about it though!
Dennis Carlson
Authors Argument:
Carlson is arguing that communities, and schools should teach to the people how to realize everyone is normal, and their isn't normal and abnormal people, just people. he also states that it is the job of teachers and leaders to use the words "gay," "lesbian," "homosexuals" etc. in their language because it isn't something to be ashamed of just another aspect of life diffrent from the "normals."
Quotes:
1."gay people have for the most part been made absent, invisible, and silent within this community and at the same time represented as the deviant and pathological "other.""
When I first read the quote I thought to myself I never thought as gay people as invivible or silent, or others. It makes me wonder who really starts by pointin out someone as diffrent. How do we even know what the normal is, or wat should be the normal. It saddens me to think that some people stay silent just because fo their sexuality. When did it happen that people had to be classified by sexuality and not by the person they are.
2."(i.e., black, working class, female, homosexual, etc.) are disempowered and represented as deviant, sick, neurotic,criminal, lazy, lacking in intelligence, and in other ways 'abnormal'."
WHAT?! I cannot even believe people would write this or even believe it for that matter. I just got so mad after I read that. Not only because I am a female but really, just because of a persons race or sexuality they are dumb and lazy. I would love to know where these people come up with these ideas and how they even get out to the public without the snot beaten out of them. As a future teacher I hope to God I can teach the children I have to be open minded so they don't grow up to be one of these people who have ideas like this. Sometimes I wonder..
3. "The objective of classroom discourse is thus not so much to acheive consensus on on "truth" or "objective" depiction of reality, but rather to clarify diffrences and agreements, work toward coalition-building across diffrence when possible, and build relationships based on caring and equity."
This is our future job, this is what as furture teachers we need to strive to do. I read this quote over a couple of times and I thought to myself, I hope that I can really do this, I hope I'm up to the responsibility I hol as ateacher to shape and mold young people to become better then what I am and how everyone else is. I am really inspired to make changes to young lives.
Questions/Comments:
This was really hard to read for me, I don't know if it was the lanuage or what it was but it was the most difficult piece I've read in the class. I could sort of grasp Carlson's concepts but I mostly understood my quotes, and it was quite hard to even pick some quotes out. I think his writing style was more informative then relaxed so it wasn't as easy to get into. i really did enjoy the fact that we are talking abotu sexual identity though because it is going to be a factor in the classroom, ecspecially being a high school teacher as I'm trying to be. I cant wait for class to talk about it though!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Talking Point #2 Rodriguez
Aria
Richard Rodriguez
Authors Argument:
Rodriguez argues that ones self identity can often be altered in the face of adversity. he also argues that ones personally family and traditional lifestyle can be completely changed when one is trying to become a member of the society of power. Rodriguez stresses that a person should keep their individuality no matter how they have to change their lives.
Quotes:
1."In an instant, they agreed to give up the language (the sounds) that had revealed and accentuated our family's closeness."
I picked this quotes because it made me feel sorry. Not just for Rodriguez, but for all people who speak different languages and have to change their tradition to be accepted into the society of power. it's not fair for people to have to change, but it is a reality. It's very diffrent being in the white majority of people, I will never have to change anything in my life to fit in nor will I ever knwo what it is like to give up tradition just to fit in.
2."That day, I moved very far from the disadvantaged child I had been only days earlier. The belief, the calming assurance that I belonged in public, had at last taken hold."
I know Rodriguez is expressing joy in the quote but I looked at the underlying tone of it and thought of how horrible he must have felt prior to that day. Not being able to speak, or hold a conversation, or express his own thoughts just because he wasn't speaking English. Not only does this sadden me it makes me angry at this power that white people seem to have. I guess the questions could go on and on, but I never seem to get an answer that quite fits my question.
3."But the special feeling of closeness at home was diminished by then. Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being home; rare was the experience feeling myself individualized by family intimates. We remained a loving family, but one greatly changed. No longer so close; no longer bound tight by the pleasing and troubling knowledge of our public separateness."
It seems to me that there is a sense of new hope here, but no such great happiness. Rodriguez expresses how much tradition and family mean to him, and by loosing all of it he feels as if he has lost his family in a way. Now they are excepted into "public" because they all can speak English but they have lost the bonds their family shared because they were not excepted.
Questions/Comments:
I really enjoyed reading this, I got a firm sense of what it is like to give up what you think is right to become soemthing you never knew you had to be. Rodriguez shows diffrent sides to this whole situation. He shows what it is not to be able to talk in public because it is not a public language, he shows what it is like to be excited to be able to speak in public finally, and also he expresses what it feels like to loose ones personal identity. I really felt that his family enjoyed changing their language to English by the end but it all went wrong, they felt cast out again. By the end of the story all I coudl think about was, they shouldn't of changed to begin with.
Richard Rodriguez
Authors Argument:
Rodriguez argues that ones self identity can often be altered in the face of adversity. he also argues that ones personally family and traditional lifestyle can be completely changed when one is trying to become a member of the society of power. Rodriguez stresses that a person should keep their individuality no matter how they have to change their lives.
Quotes:
1."In an instant, they agreed to give up the language (the sounds) that had revealed and accentuated our family's closeness."
I picked this quotes because it made me feel sorry. Not just for Rodriguez, but for all people who speak different languages and have to change their tradition to be accepted into the society of power. it's not fair for people to have to change, but it is a reality. It's very diffrent being in the white majority of people, I will never have to change anything in my life to fit in nor will I ever knwo what it is like to give up tradition just to fit in.
2."That day, I moved very far from the disadvantaged child I had been only days earlier. The belief, the calming assurance that I belonged in public, had at last taken hold."
I know Rodriguez is expressing joy in the quote but I looked at the underlying tone of it and thought of how horrible he must have felt prior to that day. Not being able to speak, or hold a conversation, or express his own thoughts just because he wasn't speaking English. Not only does this sadden me it makes me angry at this power that white people seem to have. I guess the questions could go on and on, but I never seem to get an answer that quite fits my question.
3."But the special feeling of closeness at home was diminished by then. Gone was the desperate, urgent, intense feeling of being home; rare was the experience feeling myself individualized by family intimates. We remained a loving family, but one greatly changed. No longer so close; no longer bound tight by the pleasing and troubling knowledge of our public separateness."
It seems to me that there is a sense of new hope here, but no such great happiness. Rodriguez expresses how much tradition and family mean to him, and by loosing all of it he feels as if he has lost his family in a way. Now they are excepted into "public" because they all can speak English but they have lost the bonds their family shared because they were not excepted.
Questions/Comments:
I really enjoyed reading this, I got a firm sense of what it is like to give up what you think is right to become soemthing you never knew you had to be. Rodriguez shows diffrent sides to this whole situation. He shows what it is not to be able to talk in public because it is not a public language, he shows what it is like to be excited to be able to speak in public finally, and also he expresses what it feels like to loose ones personal identity. I really felt that his family enjoyed changing their language to English by the end but it all went wrong, they felt cast out again. By the end of the story all I coudl think about was, they shouldn't of changed to begin with.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Talking Point #1 Goldberg
110 People Who Are Screwing Up America
Bernard Goldberg
Authors Argument:
Goldberg states that Kozol has too much of a liberal attitude towards the education system. Goldberg argues that Kozols attitude in the education system is highly used and that people don't only use the liberal system but the children leaving these education systems are being turned out with blinders on, and that liberal is the way to be.
Quotes:
1."They got there for lowering the level of civil discourse in this country -- or for their shameless willingness to destroy decent people."
I really enjoyed this quote because it shows how angry Goldberg is about the situation in which peoples morals are being subjected to change, and I really agree with him on that.
2."Once, it was understood by almost everyone that there is no free lunch and that you got yours, as the old commercial had it, "the old-fashioned way" -- you earned it!"
I'm not so sure that I agree fully on this, but in a way I agree. I'm not at the age yet that it truely is hurting my income paying for other people, but I know what it is like to have to work for my money and I think everyone needs to take the initiative to work.
Questions/Comments to share:
This article really did interest me. I thought it was quite entertaining about all the people we see in the media no a days get ripped to pieces. We all see them on TV and think that maybe what they have to say is worthe listening to but will reading Goldberg I began to think, wow maybe they don't really make sense. I was bored by the end because facts don't interst me as much as much as peoples views.
Amazing Grace
The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Jonathan Kozol
Authors Argument:
Kozol argues that peoples lives get ripped away from them when tragedy strikes, and illness or misfortunate event happens. He believes that no matter why a person is in the situation they are in they deserve a better life, that the poor, sick, or others deserve to have the same life as those who earned it, whether they did or not. He also argues that even though people live in poor quality homes and towns they deserve to have a good life, without the threat of robbery, shootings, or any other urban city behavior.
Quotes:
1.
"The $150 million spent to build the dazzling new structure..., is almost exactly the same as what they city spent in the same year to purchase the massive prison barge that it has moored at Hunts Point in the South Bronx, where it accommodates the graduates and dropouts of much less attracting high schools on six floating floors of prison cells"
The imagery of this really makes me think about how much money cities and states pay for people who have messed up in the world, rather than spending it on the people who barely can make ends meat.
2."'I am in hell an you are not and so I hate you and I have to try to bring you down to where I am.' I feel pity for them and fear because they're lost."
It seems Kozol is trying to see where these people are coming from and he feels their pain. I liek this quote because I feel the same way, I believe everyone can change how they act but sometimes people just get sucked into living their lives poorly because of the chances they've missed out on.
Questions/Comments:
I really enjoyed reading Kozol, it made me think about how it is to live in an un fair situation. Kozol points out the problems that reallt effect people and why they are in the situations they are in. I'm just confused as to what he was trying to say, that we as people need to change the way we are, or that the goverment and the authorities are the ones that need to take responsibility and change the way people live. kozol and Goldberg should sit down together and come up with an epic plan to get the world in a perfect place.
Bernard Goldberg
Authors Argument:
Goldberg states that Kozol has too much of a liberal attitude towards the education system. Goldberg argues that Kozols attitude in the education system is highly used and that people don't only use the liberal system but the children leaving these education systems are being turned out with blinders on, and that liberal is the way to be.
Quotes:
1."They got there for lowering the level of civil discourse in this country -- or for their shameless willingness to destroy decent people."
I really enjoyed this quote because it shows how angry Goldberg is about the situation in which peoples morals are being subjected to change, and I really agree with him on that.
2."Once, it was understood by almost everyone that there is no free lunch and that you got yours, as the old commercial had it, "the old-fashioned way" -- you earned it!"
I'm not so sure that I agree fully on this, but in a way I agree. I'm not at the age yet that it truely is hurting my income paying for other people, but I know what it is like to have to work for my money and I think everyone needs to take the initiative to work.
Questions/Comments to share:
This article really did interest me. I thought it was quite entertaining about all the people we see in the media no a days get ripped to pieces. We all see them on TV and think that maybe what they have to say is worthe listening to but will reading Goldberg I began to think, wow maybe they don't really make sense. I was bored by the end because facts don't interst me as much as much as peoples views.
Amazing Grace
The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Jonathan Kozol
Authors Argument:
Kozol argues that peoples lives get ripped away from them when tragedy strikes, and illness or misfortunate event happens. He believes that no matter why a person is in the situation they are in they deserve a better life, that the poor, sick, or others deserve to have the same life as those who earned it, whether they did or not. He also argues that even though people live in poor quality homes and towns they deserve to have a good life, without the threat of robbery, shootings, or any other urban city behavior.
Quotes:
1.
"The $150 million spent to build the dazzling new structure..., is almost exactly the same as what they city spent in the same year to purchase the massive prison barge that it has moored at Hunts Point in the South Bronx, where it accommodates the graduates and dropouts of much less attracting high schools on six floating floors of prison cells"
The imagery of this really makes me think about how much money cities and states pay for people who have messed up in the world, rather than spending it on the people who barely can make ends meat.
2."'I am in hell an you are not and so I hate you and I have to try to bring you down to where I am.' I feel pity for them and fear because they're lost."
It seems Kozol is trying to see where these people are coming from and he feels their pain. I liek this quote because I feel the same way, I believe everyone can change how they act but sometimes people just get sucked into living their lives poorly because of the chances they've missed out on.
Questions/Comments:
I really enjoyed reading Kozol, it made me think about how it is to live in an un fair situation. Kozol points out the problems that reallt effect people and why they are in the situations they are in. I'm just confused as to what he was trying to say, that we as people need to change the way we are, or that the goverment and the authorities are the ones that need to take responsibility and change the way people live. kozol and Goldberg should sit down together and come up with an epic plan to get the world in a perfect place.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
About Me
HI. My name is Emily I'm a sophomore at RIC and I'm majoring in Secondary Education with a concentration in English. I love to read and I'm a really big dork. I worked at a summer camp this past summer and thats when I knew for a fact teaching was I needed to do with my life. I love coffee, and I'll always have one. I'm a hyper and fun person. And thats that!
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