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This 9 page research paper summarizes the content of three essays that include a issue in education and then discusses possible approaches to each problem. The essays are "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" by Jonathan Kozol; "None of This Is Fair" by Richard Rodriguez and "University Days" by James Thurber. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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so doing, issues a poignant and compelling call for this problem to be addressed. Richard Rodriguez addresses the injustices associated with affirmative action, and humorist James Thurber refers obliquely to
his problems with higher education that resulted due to his problems with visions. The points made by these authors will be briefly summarized and discussed in light of possible approaches
to addressing these issues. Kozol, "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" Kozol introduces his subject by describing a dream, a nightmare, to be more specific, in which
he is wonders through a city where he cannot read any of the street signs or advertisements and he gradually recognizes that he is in the Soviet Union and the
signs are written in the Cyrillic alphabet. He also is without his pocket dictionary and his ID card and he wakes in a panic. He explains, "This panic is not
so different from the misery that million of adult illiterates experience each day within the course of their routine existence in the U.S.A." (Kozol, No date). He then offers a
detailed description of the multiplicity of ways in which illiteracy affects lives. This covers everything from not being able to read the letters brought home from school by their children,
to intimidation over rental agrees, not being able to pay bills by mail, and being intimidated by virtually everyone else in society. They cannot read the warnings on a package
of cigarettes, so they are "condemned to be unalerted, high-risk candidates for cancer" (Kozol, No date). Kozol tells of a mother who spent what little money she had on
a gallon of Crisco because she thought it contained the chicken pictured on the label. One of the most poignant stories he relates is that of a man whose car
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