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    Kozol In his book, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope, Jonathan Kozol pulls back the veil and provides readers with a glimpse of the harsh conditions and unrelenting hope that exists in a community located in the South Bronx called Mott Haven. Mr. Kozol provides his own socially conscious and very informative view of the issues facing the children and educators in this poverty ravaged neighborhood. Just his commentary would paint a very bleak picture of the future. It is the

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    In his book, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope, Jonathan Kozol pulls back the veil and provides readers with a glimpse of the harsh conditions and unrelenting hope that exists in a community located in the South Bronx called Mott Haven. Mr. Kozol provides his own socially conscious and very informative view of the issues facing the children and educators in this poverty ravaged neighborhood. Just his commentary would paint a very bleak picture of the future. It is the words

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    reading Amazing Grace, one is unable to escape the seemingly endless tales of hardship and pain. The setting behind this gripping story is the South Bronx of New York City, with the main focus on the Mott Haven housing project and its surrounding neighborhood. Here black and Hispanic families try to cope with the disparity that surrounds them. Mott Haven is a place where children must place in the hallways of the building, because playing outside is to much of a risk. The building is filled with rats

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    on an area in south New York called the Bronx, which is a poor community composed of mainly African-American and Hispanic people. The author, Jonathan Kozol, focuses the novel specifically on the children who live in a section of the South Bronx called Mott Haven, which is America’s “epicenter for the plague of pediatric and maternal AIDS” (Kozol 3) and is “one of the centers of an epidemic of adult and pediatric asthma.” (Kozol 3). The people of Mott Haven do not have sufficient access to healthcare

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    New York Currently there are about 600,000 people who live in the South Bronx and about 434,000 who live in Washington Heights and Harlem. This area makes up one of the most racially segregated areas of poor people in the United States. In this book we focus on racially segregated areas of poor people in the United States. In this book we focus on Mott Haven, a place where 48,0000 of the poorest people in the South Bronx live. Two thirds of the people are Hispanic, one-third is black and thirty-five

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    far from sight. Many neighborhoods are inhabited only by the most hopeless of poverty - ridden people while others downtown or across the park do not care, or are glad to be separated from them. Such is the problem in New York City today and in Mott Haven in Jonathan

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    Grace is an informative book published to inform the people about conditions in one of the nations poorest congressional districts. The book is centered on interviews among children and their family members that live in the area of Mott Haven, located in the South Bronx. One can interpret that living conditions in this area of the wealthiest nation in world are considered subpar to say the very least. Is anyone listening? Is anyone paying any attention or caring that there are people dying everyday

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    area is the first to be developed with row houses in the Bronx. The neighborhood has a shopping center than spans across 4 blocks in length and over 6 blocks in width and is popularly known as “the Hub”. The shopping center consists of small scale business, franchises, and currently a few designer stores. Aside “the Hub”, the community is scantly populated with corner stores commonly known as Bodegas; with about 4 supermarkets. Mott haven is a busy place which is

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    and the conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol talks about South Bronx in the united states of American, which is one of the poorest neighbourhood and what the children and families in the neighbourhood deal with compared to other rich neighbourhoods. The children from the south Bronx are separated from others communities such as the white communities because of the colour of the skin. Within the neighbourhood parks of south Bronx where the children play, they wittiness drug lords, people selling

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    and, more generally, comprehending the collected data in order to create a “detailed description of the case” (Creswell 2013, p. 101). The description will be thorough, in-depth, and will contextualize the case in the unique setting of the South Bronx, thereby serving as a validation strategy (Alley 2016). The description serves to depict the complexity of the case itself and allows the data to be analyzed sequentially based on the actual progression of the case. The next step is to identify emerging

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