...In “Still Separate Still Unequal” Kozol visits a school in Harlem and he talked to a little girl to get an insight on how they thought, “I asked her if she thought America truly did not “have room” for her or other children of her race. “Think of it this way, if people all of a sudden found us all missing they’d feel relieved” (Kozol 174). This shows that kids feel they are being thrown away, they don't have hope for the future because they just feel neglected. The mindset the kids in these areas are showing is very negative, this leads to kids being in the streets. Living that lifestyle that they are portrayed to be. It is not their fault in reality. It is the governments, setting them up negatively with nobody but their parents and themselves to help. Another...
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...Composition “Still Separate Still Unequal” In the article “Still Separate Still Unequal” Kozol shows his concern and anger toward the inequality of the school system and the racism that still permeates it. Kozol has a very unique relationship with the people who are the subject of this essay. When I had first read this article I had assumed it had been written by someone who also faced such racism in his life and had a desire to see that be abolished, much to my surprise this case was nothing like what I had first assumed. This man was just touched by social injustice and wanted to see this issue resolved. Unfortunatly, those who face the most social injustice and separation are those of African American or Hispanic decent. I think this gives...
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...In his article “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid,” author Johnathan Kozol argues that despite efforts to integrate schools, they, in actuality, remain segregated. “The truth…is that the trend for well over a decade, has been precisely the reverse.” (348). Kozol offers a plethora of facts and figures backing his argument that minorities are disadvantaged; however, he does not propose a solution to the problem. Also, the author focuses on large, urban populations, which many readers may find difficult to relate to. Kozol does, however, offer personal accounts from students in poor systems, adding an emotional element to his argument, as well as offering insight into the effect preschool has on preparing students for standardized testing that is prevalent in No Child Left Behind. Kozol begins by providing statistics to show that in several large cities, public schools primarily consist of minority students (black or Hispanic) despite being in integrated neighborhoods “schools like these are not in deeply segregated inner-city neighborhoods, but in racially mixed areas.” (349). Why, then, do these schools remain segregated? Kozol offers no real explanation, but offers the observation that while black and Hispanic children attend school in their integrated neighborhood, white children are pursuing education elsewhere. Kozol offers statistics that include demographics of schools named after prominent African Americans, pointing out enrollment is primarily...
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...other factors against us. Jonathan Kozol’s article "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid." is essentially about Kozol visiting various different schools and how the environments are and the podcast titled “Three Miles: This American Life” conducted by Chana Joffe-Walt show the unfortunate obstacles students of low- income families have to overcome for their education. I believe that although the education system should not take full responsibility for the low income students’ failure because there are other factors involved, it is certainly part of the problem. When students are not encouraged, they don’t do their best. They believe that there is no use in even trying. Furthermore, when students are limited in what they can learn, they may begin to believe that it does not matter what becomes of them; society doesn't care about them developing into the best they can be. Lastly, when students see all that they are not receiving, this makes them feel that they are not...
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...In his essay “From Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid,” the author, Jonathan Kozol, based his essay on the interviews and observation that he had with many of the still racially segregated schools in America and his personal thought of the situation. In the first few sections of his essay, Kozol stressed the racial problem that he observed with most of the Western schools that he visited, such as the public schools in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and etc, that approximately more than ninety percent of the students being enrolled in those schools are African American, Hispanic, and students of another race; furthermore, other schools named after great people, such as MLK and Thurgood Marshall, are also racially segregated schools as well. In an attempt to have a better understanding of the problem with those racially segregated...
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...The last federal law passed on racial discrimination was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Bennett). Fifty-three years later a person could figure that racial problems would be solved or at least extremely minimal, especially in the younger generations. This is sadly not the case; in the essays “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid” by Beverly Daniel Tatum and Jonathan Kozol, respectively, the authors show how the United States educational system is still flawed when it comes to racial equity. After many years of laws against discrimination, it is still present in schools and everyday life with no signs of stopping. Beverly Tatum showed an abundance of examples of why discrimination is still present in the US school systems. Tatum also gave reasons for those discriminatory encounters. The essay starts off describing an image of a typical high school cafeteria with all the kids of different races sitting together at different tables. But, the only thing people really notice is “Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” The...
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...substantially separate and unequal. In the United States, poverty is a common social, political and economic issue that has troubled Americans for years. Despite being better off today nearly 50 million Americans, including more than half of which are children currently live in poverty. In his poem, “Cause I Ain’t Got a Pencil,” Joshua T. Dickerson describes the damaging effects poverty has on...
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...culturally specific experience shows a one-sided perception of society. They believed the best way to correct this was to examine women’s daily experiences and theorizing them in order to embrace feminist methods and building up their theory and knowledge. Although developed out of the feminist agenda, gender history has relatively different objectives. They recognize being feminine or masculine are to some degree social constructs. It examines how institutions gendered institutions and how institutions gender individuals. In a short time, gender has become an essential category of historical analysis with class and race; which is the case for some feminist historians, but not for some feminist scholars. There are still ongoing debates on whether or not gender belongs in specific categories. Joan Scott (Gender and the Politics of History/Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis) and Judith Butler (Gender as Performance and Performativity) are two influential feminist scholars who chimed in on these debates about the meanings of gender. Joan Scott is a Feminist historian and author in this area of study and Judith Butler is a philosopher and one of the most challenging influences in feminist, queer, and literary theories. They are both theorists; someone who considers giving facts and comes up with a possible explanation. Theorists observe various phenomena and use reasoning to come up with practical ideas that must be proven. Theorists come up with abstract ideas and...
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...that need to take place before the division of labour, and the hold of power in couples can become equal in modern life. Functionalist sociologists Young and Willmott developed a theory in the 1970s called the symmetrical family. The symmetrical family described a family life which was improving for all of its members, becoming more equal and becoming more democratic. Young and Willmott argue that there has been long-term trend away from segregated conjugal roles and towards joint conjugal roles and the symmetrical family. Segregated and joint conjugal roles are distinguished between by sociologist Elizabeth Bott. Segregated conjugal roles resemble Talcott Parsons’ instrumental and expressive role theory, in which a couple have separate allocated roles such as the male being a breadwinner and the female a homemaker. Joint conjugal roles are where the couple share tasks such as housework and childcare and spend their leisure time together. Thus, Young and Willmott’s symmetrical family would support the argument that the division of labour in couples is now growing increasingly equal, and the argument that the hold of power is now equal in modern life due to the democratic element of the symmetrical family. They argue that roles in this type of family although are not identical, are now much more similar. The reasons...
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...“A Love Song for Ms. Lillian”: The Victimless Courtesan Critical Analysis A victim can be defined as a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime; in the novel, Miss Lillian simply does not fit this description. The narrative focuses on the life of Miss Lillian, the town “courtesan”. Although her job title is not one that people adore, she has notable respect in the community. Women envy her because their husbands admire her beauty and sometimes use her services. Miss Lillian is a respected member of the Guyanese society despite her line of work. She has some misfortunes throughout her life, but in no way can be considered a victim. In the short story, A Love Song for Miss Lillian, author Mark McWatt depicts the Guyanese society as a tolerant community due to the considerate way the citizens refuse to victimize Miss Lillian for her profession. Miss Lillian is respected by members of the government and people with high power in the Guyanese society. Judge Ramcharitar wouldn’t allow Raymond to refer to Miss Lillian as a “prostitute” because she has honorable status in the community. This is displayed in the quote, “Come, come, my boy, one would never use that term to describe Miss Lillian; she’s too beautiful, too refined: her traffic in the pleasures of the flesh is too delicately managed and too intricate and exciting for such a word to describe it justly” (McWatt,168). Due to her fame and beauty, Miss Lillian is seen as more than a prostitute and anything less...
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...FAO, first advocated the Women in Development (WID) approach, which was useful in making the importance of women's productive work more clearly visible, as well as in recognizing women's essential role in development. This approach focused on using development resources to improve women's conditions, for example through projects for women. However, the WID approach tended to focus solely on women as a separate, homogeneous entity and to ignore the basic structure of the unequal relations between women and men. Because it failed to take into account the wider social and economic context, WID often ignored the issues of how men might be affected and how important gender interactions are. | Over time, WID evolved into Gender and Development (GAD), which focuses on analysing the roles and responsibilities that are socially assigned to women and men, the social relations and interactions between women and men, and the opportunities offered to one and the other. The GAD approach defines gender and the unequal power relations between women and men as essential categories of analysis. Rather than focusing solely on women and «women's projects», GAD provides a framework and an obligation to re-examine all social, political and economic structures and development policies from the perspective of gender relations. In order to implement this new conceptual approach, gender mainstreaminghas emerged as the common strategy...
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...twentieth to the twenty-first century, American public schools found themselves faced with continued challenges in the efforts to equalize access to educational opportunities for African American children. This period of transition was the result of actions that began nearly half a century earlier. On May 17, 1954, the United States Supreme Court rendered its decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. Reactions to the decision were varied and touched a range of emotions among nearly all citizens of the United States. For some, Brown was heralded as the triumph over legal barriers to better educational opportunities for racial/ethnic and minority students. Yet, for others, it endangered a way of life that in the eyes of some, ensured “separate but equal” under Plessy vs. Ferguson (1898). Whatever the perspective, Brown meant a departure from past rules and values. It meant change. Problem In “Public Education in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: High Hopes, Broken Promises, and an Uncertain Future,” Nieto (2005) outlines key legislation over the past seventy-five years in U.S. education that has aided in leveling the educational outcomes for minority students. After the ruling in Brown vs. Board of Education (1954), policies aimed at providing equal opportunities to racial/ ethnic and minority groups began to emerge. As such, changes in population in terms of race, ethnicity, social class, and other differences helped to form the educational experiences of all students in U...
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...is the least likely in the EU but the evidence indicates that sex discrimination remains a possible explanation of the unexplained gender pay gap between men and women. Key words: labor market, discrimination, women, skin color, sexual orientation. JEL: J71 Introduction It’s all about the money, isn’t it nowadays? We need to buy our food, pay our bills and educate our children. Money is the “necessity bad” today. But even in our modern, global, without barriers world, world in which they teach us that everything is possible, there is still big inequity. The chance for some people to achieve job and to feed their families is much lower than to the others. Even nowadays not only dream and ambitions are enough. When it comes for having a job and building career there is also comes the problem with discrimination in the labor market. This topic is one of the most difficult for researches and usually is hard to be proved that this still exists nowadays. In the following paper we will discuss discrimination in the labor market in different countries and areas. Some nations are more tolerant than the others. Some nations are more acceptable to one type of different people, than the other. To show how different nations act in different discrimination cases is the main subject of this paper. We think that this topic is very important nowadays, because of the globalization and opportunities which exists in the...
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...significantly taller than females. If we have two groups, then the technique that we will use will still be a t test. If we have more than two groups, then we will have to use a different test called Analysis of Variance (ANOVA, for short). The good news is that the decision rules for hypothesis testing that we learned last week are still exactly the same: Set #1: If the absolute value (ignore any negative sign) of the test statistic is greater than or equal to the critical value, then you reject the null. If the absolute value of the test statistic is less than the critical value, you do not reject the null. Set #2: If the p value is less than or equal to α, reject the null. If the p value is greater than α, do not reject the null. (Remember that we must either reject or not reject the null—we never accept the null.) In order to conduct these tests, we will need to use the data analysis feature of Excel, which probably is not installed for you, but that’s OK, because it’s available and pretty simple to install—just follow these steps: 1. Start Excel 2. Click on the Office Button (the round circle in the top left corner) 3. Click on the Excel Options button (bottom right on the popup) 4. In the menu on the left hand side, click on Add-Ins 5. At the bottom center, click the Go… button 6. Check the first two boxes (Analysis ToolPak and Analysis TookPak-VBA), and then click OK After installing the add-in, then you...
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...acceptance of any and all cultures/ethnicities. ► Equal treatment of all patients ► Not conforming to stereotypes Humanities in Healthcare cont. ► Broadening your exposure to different cultures and through the arts and artifacts presented, you become more aware and better prepared to give quality healthcare amongst the diverse communities. ► The 3 works being presented will display the perseverance, struggles, and some history of the Black American ethnic group. The Literary Work Objective Analysis ► Caged Bird by Maya Angelou A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting...
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