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Reflection: Christensen

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This is one of my favorite articles that we have been given to read. The author Christensen is doing some really important work by informing people because ignorance is not bliss. Growing up with a sister only thirteen months apart from me and having two brothers five years younger than me I got to see an array of children intended content. My sister and I would fight about who got to be certain characters because they were pretty, and got the guy, but why did that matter to me I was 8? The Princess and the Pauper Barbie movie was by far our favorite movie, it was about two lost sisters who sang, had people try to murder them and each married a man at eighteen. There is no sense of reality there whatsoever. My parents raised my sister and me as independent women who would get our education first and never settle, yet growing up that movie was something we loved. I am nineteen now and in no way have the thought of marriage. These princess movies have shoved in young girls faces looks ...
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Argument: Kozol and ALM

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This author Jonathan Kozol in "Amazing Grace" argues that poor communities in America are being taken advantage of because they can't do anything about it. Looking at what Kozol observed while in Mott Haven put into perspective how bad the balance of power has gotten in this country. These ghetto neighborhoods are overlooked and seen as a hopeless case so those with the tools to help think why to bother to help. Everyone in the town of St. Ann's has to deal with their own set of problems such as illness. Asthma is the most common illness in St. Ann's for children. AIDS and drug use is also spread throughout the town. With people being sick though they do not have the funds to pay their medical bills. When they go to the hospital to get the treatment they are either refused or wait days in triage with other sick or injured people. Options for health care are also terrible where people have to choose their medical needs between worse or less bad. S...
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Journal #2 : Demographics and Diversity

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After looking at the RI Department of Education’s website, finding the school that I volunteer at and seeing the statistics I was not surprised by the numbers presented. Inside the classrooms, the kindergarten teachers are in charge of 25+ students with one aid coming in and out of the classroom. The website says that the student to teacher ratio in the elementary school is 1:18 while statewide it is 1:13. I have been in Mrs.C’s classroom for two weeks now, but when she was absent this week and I went into Mrs.D’s classroom a third of the class was split up, so when we went into room 107 there were around 30 kids in the room. Even with the help of the teacher, her aid, my friend and I, it wasn’t enough to keep the kids calm. For the two hours and change that we were there for the students were being disciplined for acting out hitting, throwing, talking, and just behaving badly. The decorations in Mrs.C’s room are decorated with five rules that the students all have memorized if yo...
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