Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol

This article really opened my eyes to how awful life can be for some people. If more people really knew how bad things were for people in some areas I think more change would be done. People today are so focused on their own lives and being successful and wealthy, that they are unaware of how lucky they are to have the opportunities that they have. Not enough people care about anyone other than themselves or who they have to treat good in order to move up in society. This sort of reminded me of the idea we talked about in class when students are misunderstood or ignored and they shut down, the people of these run down trashy areas have been ignored and have shut down. I think that it is absolutely disgusting that we let people live in such awful conditions.



The state of New York doesn't even seem to care, they are only making it worse on the cities already suffering. "There's trashy things all over. There's a garbage dump three blocks away." The city of New York keeps putting things like trash dumps and incinerators in poverty stricken towns because they do not want to put them in the higher class wealthier towns. They make the impression that the people there are trash so they can put trashy things there with them. They take away the voice of the people and just do not care what they want or do not want in their city.



It really bothered me to read that people from other cities come into these poverty stricken cities and dump their trash everywhere. Its completely unfair that anyone would do this. Those people need the help of people outside their city, and all they get is trash and ignorance. Further research revealed to me that a lot more of the US is going through these problems of being ignored and left to waste too as shown in this article.

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