Kozol and Goldberg

Premises:
- Whites against Black
-Poverty
-Illness
-Drug Abuse
-Opportunities
-Success/Failure
-Religion
-Sex
-Depression
-Enemies/Friends
-Issues in the classroom
-Racism
-Jobs
-Hungry/Starvation
-Home Life


Argument:

Both Kozol and Goldberg argue that poverty, sickness, and wealthy-ness are big issues in society. If you are rich then you get a higher education compared to someone who is living in poverty because they are surrounded by filth in their enviorment. When someone is sick, they have to wait days in the waiting room, compared to someone who is wealthy they will be seen asap. If a child has all distractions such as family issues and poverty and illness, they are not going to be focused on their school work, leading them to do poorly in school.

Evidence:

"There are children in the poorest, most abandoned places who, despite the miseries and poisons in the world has pumped into their lives, seem, when you first meet them, to be cheerful anyway." (6)

-This quote really fasicnated me because it seems as though people who are living in these conditions are used to living this way, and they know things really suck so they try to make the best out of their life. They are happy that they are even alive. This is the attitude is the way everyone should be and there would be no hate in the world.

"Why are the bears in the tree i ask. he doesnt answer me but he smiles at the bears affectonetly. I saw a boy get shot in the head over there he says a moment later, in a voice that does not sounds particualary sad. Then looks up at me and asks if i want a choc. chip cookie" (6)

-This is shocking because it seems as though this boy is not bothered by the horrors in the world because he has seen the worst compared to people in a higher soceity they do not see these things, they simply hear them on the news. It is just amazing how people can live in a world like that.