Kozols Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Everyday Life

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Term Paper Title	Kozols Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Everyday Life
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Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life

Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials and Tribulations of Everyday Life

Introduction

     Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and
tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest
congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may
seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else.
What is normal?  For the children of the South Bronx, living with the pollution,
the sickness, the drugs, and the violence is the only way of life many of them
have ever known.
     In this book, the children speak openly and honestly about feeling ‘
abandoned', ‘hidden' or ‘forgotten' by our nation, one that is blind to their
problems.  Studying the people themselves would only get us so far in
understanding what their community is really like and why they feel this way.
Jonathan Kozol really got to know the people individually.  We can take his
knowledge and stories to try for a better understanding of the environment in
which they live.  By doing this, we can explore the many reasons why the people
have problems, what some levels of intervention could be, and possibly find some
solutions to making the South Bronx a healthier and safer place for these
children and others to live.

Problem Identification

     The environment in which we study these people can only be defined by
first taking a look at possible reasons why the people have problems.  Some of
the problems discussed in Amazing Grace  have festered throughout the United
States for some time now.  The high numbers of drug users in the community, the
high amounts of gang-related violence, and the numerous cases of people who have
contracted the AIDS virus are just some of the problems that have arisen in this
ghetto.  There are many differences between this community and others in the
United States, one of which is that the government has grouped these people all
together and made a ghetto of the lowest income families.  This has ostracized
them from the rest of the nation.  It has given them many abandonment issues to
deal with, while also telling them they are not worthy of living among the
wealthier population.
     Environmental factors are involved in the problems arising in the South
Bronx.  Pollution, for example, could be the biggest source of the high number
of children in the community who have asthma.  Asthma is a condition in which
one has trouble breathing.  ...

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