Kozol's Amazing Grace: Trials And Tribulations Of Everyday Life

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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
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usually turned away and told to go to a hospital in her own district. Others,
who are admitted into these hospitals, are put on a special floor, mainly for
the lower income or Medicaid patients. (Amazing Grace, p. 176)
Another way the government discriminates against them is how they are
housed. Most of the residents are living in government housing where the
government pays their rent. When the government helped the people to get off
the streets and out of homeless shelters and then put them into low cost housing,
they put all of the residents in the same area. This created their ghetto and
kept them segregated from the rest of the world.

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