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The article Aria by Richard Rodriguez is an article that tell the story and depicts  the many difficulties that a child faced growing up in bilingual education faced.  Richard starts off by explaining how he felt that his native spanish dialect was unnatural in the society in which he now lived, and ow he was expected to know the more commonly known english language.  He states “ I consider Spanish to be a private language. What I need to learn in school was that I had the right-and the obligation- to speak the public language of los gringos.”   Richard then goes on to elaborate on this statement as he got older and said “ Because I wrongly imagined that English was intrinsically a public language and Spanish an intrinsically private one, I easily noted the difference between classroom language and the language of home.”  To me this is the most relatable to the author as I attended a Hebrew day school as a child in which we were taught half the day strictly...

Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol is and article from 1995 in which a man follows a child around the streets of Manhattan getting tour from the seven year old boy of all the hazards and ugly truths of the city for a lower class citizen.  Throughout his article Kozol uses descriptions of the young boys reactions to the many hazards that are constantly surrounding where he lives.  One such descriptions when the boy took Kozol to a spot i the park with a tree covered in stuffed bears.  This was the sight of a shooting that the young boy witnessed in which another boy was shot in the head and left for the public to see until the police cleared the scene.  after explaining the importance of the spot to Jonathan the young boy asks him if he wants a cookie, a causal and polite offering at a time of great sadness and personal emotional conflict. “All Lives Matter” by Kevin Rose is an article about how by using the term “all lives matter’ instead of “black lives matter” you...

 Hello all, My name is Nathan i have been working as a lifeguard, assistant swim coach, and swim instructor for 6 years and just recently got trained to certify lifeguards.  Over the summer I was was the pool manager at a country club.  I lived in Isreal for a short time and I plan on going back very soon. Hopefully in the future I can fully move my life to make Isreal my home.  I swam competitively until the end of high school and then I was introduced to the wonderful, fun, and exciting game of rugby. I also enjoy hiking, I find it very relaxing and its always a good workout. Recently I adopted a puppy from a rescue group,  she was left on the street at one month old in Tennessee, the group brought her to Rhode Island and I was so happy to give her a new home.   She is now 10 months old and is definitely still a handful.  But she is the only dog I've ever seen with an und -er bite.  

Nicholas Kristof uses his article U.S.A., Land of Limitations? to share his views on how America has turned from the “ land of opportunity’ to a country in which “ replicating the barriers and class gaps that drove them away.”.   Kristof’s main argument is that in present society social mobility, or intergenerational income elasticity, is becoming less fluid then it used to be.  This means that a child is more likely to stay in the same social class into which they were born than to be born into one social class then grow up and move up in social classes.  I agree with what Kristof is saying as I have also seen what he is describing if not a more difficult time as the article is from three years ago and a society has changed greatly since then and so has the earths population.  I think that the massive growth in population and advances in technology had an affect on the social mobility as the world has become more saturated and there is no longer a vast margin of o...