Short Story Of Tom Buchanan

In his essay “Still Separate, Still Unequal: America’s Educational Apartheid,” Jonathan Kozol brings our attention to the apparent growing trend of racial segregation within America’s urban and inner-city schools (309-310). Kozol provides several supporting factors to his claim stemming from his research and observations of different school environments, its teachers and students, and personal conversations with those teachers and students.

To show first hand to the whites the inequality’s and hardships that the blacks face, the entire first section is in a narrative and a descriptive format. The use of these types of essays lets the readers feel more involved in the story and feel things for themselves. Split into two sections within itself, this first paragraph juxtaposes two stories — one about a “young Negro boy” living in Harlem, and the other about a “young Negro girl” living in Birmingham. The parallelism in the sentence structures of introducing the children likens them even more — despite the differences between them — whether it be their far away location, or their differing, yet still awful, situations. Since this section is focused more towards his white audience, King goes into a description of what it was like living as an African American in those times— a situation the black audience knew all too well. His intense word choice of describing the boy’s house as “vermin-infested” provokes a very negative reaction due to the bad

This exemplum shows the author’s viewpoint well; not only is the school overpopulated with 1,500 students, but it is also mainly filled with minorities, as given by the principal’s statement “this would not happen to white children.” (page 244) It reinforces his purpose by giving the audience an example of how his perspective is true in order to allow the readers to consider the author’s argument.

For my Argumentative Essay “Modern Day Re-Segregation in Today’s Schools”, I will be addressing Professor Kelly Bradford and my fellow students of Ivy Tech online English Composition 111-54H. As I chose Martin Luther King’s “Letter from A Birmingham Jail” as my core reading topic, I have gained an interest in not only the fight for civil rights that Mr. King lead in the 1950’s but have gotten interested in how there is still a large gap in equality in education due to the current situation of not only educational segregation but social and economic segregation. Through my research I have discovered that not only segregation in the schools is on the rise, but that socioeconomic segregation exists and is fueling the decrease in academic success by impoverished students. Through my writing I want to demonstrate that the socioeconomic isolation and segregation not only affects those that are directly bound by it, but that it affects every American in some form or other. I am submitting my writing as a formal academic manuscript.

The local schools were a source of communal pride and were priceless to African-American families when poverty and segregation limited severely the life chances of the pupils. A major part

Jonathon Kozol’s, “ The Shame of the Nation”, mainly covers the the discoveries of Jonathon Kozol of the discrimination and segregation that is still implemented today throughout schools in the United States, since the Supreme Court had tried to eradicate ruling of Brown v. Board of Education. Kozol travels a wide plethora of schools, where he records his findings, many troubling and of the apparent discrimination still experienced by minority school children in places like the Bronx. Essentially, this book was an eye opener to the average american. One would have never thought that the experiences Kozol was told by some of the children had talked about would ever have happened in an average public school.

By comparing the black and white schools, it is seen that the white schools show that white education was luxurious and the system of the government was unjust to everyone. The author points out that black children continued to the colleges that trained them to be carpenters, farmers, handymen, masons, maids, cooks, and baby nurses which was not the case for the graduating white children.

The education system in Bayonne was also far from ideal, and Gaines shows the injustices Black children face versus their white peers. The students are forced to get down on their knees to use the benches as desks or do their work in their laps (36). The students are so incredibly disadvantaged that they do not even have desks to write on to do their work, whereas the White children presumably have a well furnished school. This clear distinction between children’s’ learning environments shows just how bad the racism in Bayonne truly was. They are merely innocent children and they are already treated differently from their white peers. Gaines describes Grant’s class to show readers the circumstances of the Black community in comparison to the White school district. Additionally, the school year, according to Grant is only,” five months, and when the children are not needed in the field” (36). Even though slavery had been abolished almost a century prior, the Black children were still deprived of a proper education due to the field work that they were forced to complete. Grant also has to attempt to ration his supplies, because the school board does not give him an adequate amount for the year and at one point tells a

“Black students were expelled at three times the rate of white students.” (Steven Hsieh, 2014) Until now, we are still finding unequal treatment from school in American Society from different aspects, such as school discipline, early learning, college readiness and teacher equity. However, education is more than learning from books. Education enables individuals potential to utilize human mind and open doors of opportunities to obtain knowledge. But the US educational system doesn’t serve the majority of children properly and gaps remain between white and black students. What’s more, nowadays, a lot of schools only treat education as a curriculum and test scores; ignoring the stimulus of curiosity. Therefore, “Between the World and Me” is a book written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, who weaves his own personal, historical, and intellectual development into his ruminations on how to live in a black body in America. In this book, Coates writes about education and pleasures of his own educational experience in Howard University. Although bad education hides the truth and restricts students’ ideas, education also contains pleasures, which broaden people’s mind, help people build their own thoughts, and prevent people from prison. As a result, there are more pleasures in American education that positively impact on black body than dangers.

Tom Buchanan is a man who has achieved any achievement you could possibly ask for by the age of twenty one. He has accomplished anything he wants to accomplish in his life, lots of awards, lots of money, a beautiful wife a child, he has worked long, hard and honestly for what he has, however, he has what to live for now? While that is very impressive and something he will remember the rest of his life, it can also be depressing.In consequence, Tom wants to find some excitement in life or simply something to do to fill a empty space in his life, that person is Myrtle Wilson. Although Tom seems to be a respectful gentlemen, we learn that he has little respect for women. When Nick visits Tom and Daisy’s house for the first time, Jordan tells Nick in private, “‘You mean to say you don't know?" said Miss Baker, honestly surprised. "I thought everybody knew." "I don't." "Why−." she said hesitantly,

Old money folk believe horses are the more prestigious way to travel; Tom being from East Egg has “a string of polo ponies from Lake forest”(6) giving him a sense of superiority. Gatsby “[hasn’t] got a horse”(103) since he recently came into his money, and is more into the modern luxuries the rich have to offer such as cars. The people of East Egg look down on West Egg residents because in their eyes they are not as good as themselves. The separation between the two classes cause the “American Dream” of being a member of the highest social class to be unreachable for anyone including Gatsby. Not only can Gatsby not reach the “American Dream” of being the highest social class, he will also never achieve the “American Dream” of a picture perfect

Anne was immediately confused by their presence because they seemed to be just like her except for skin color. On one occasion all the children were playing together in the lobby of a movie theater. Anne was with some local white children playing, but when it was time to enter the movie lobby the white children went in one direction and Anne went in after her friends. Her disapproving mother quickly stopped Anne and they left the theater. Before this instance Anne had never considered the coincidence that all the white children watched the movie from the bottom terrace and all the African America children from the top terrace. While thinking about the difference Anne realized that the bottom terrace and side entrance was much more luxurious than the raggedy top terrace, where she and her mother usually sat (38-2). After this the difference in skin color became much more apparent to her in everyday life. Anne was motivated to find the answers as to why she was treated differently because of the color of her skin.

Respected and well educated, this class comes from generations of family money. Passing the time with their certain interest, this class never has to work. Belonging to this society is Tom and Daisy Buchanan. The Buchanan’s, although extremely wealthy, are anything but happy; Myrtle, who dreams of becoming rich, sees her way out of the Valley of Ashes with Tom; while Daisy, beautiful and spoiled, is having an affair with Gatsby. Finding Daisy’s infidelity dishonorable, Tom however does not hesitate to lie to his wife about his own affair.

The author Ralph Ellison, of On Being the Target of Discrimination, informs the reader how discrimination affects kids growing up in this culture. He achieves this by putting the reader in the shoes of a six-year-old African American boy. The author explains that as the curiosity of this little boy blossoms he is limited because of his skin color. The readers experience through this boy how degrading the rules are and how it mentally affects someone. It is explained that the boy waited happily for the new school to be built right next to his house to find out that it was only for whites and he would have to walk past it every day on a long journey to the African American school.

E. Campbell. In this article, Campbell explains the contrasting rates of achievement performed by White non-Hispanics and other ethnic groups. He says that minorities such as Hispanics and African Americans have higher drop-out rates than do non-Hispanic Whites. Consequentially, we are becoming a more divided nation; Schools for low income children and children of color are being overlooked and inadequately secure, staffed, and funded. The statistics show that those economic choices of unequal funding of schools produce most of the differences of achievement, which show evidence of racial superiority and inferiority. Campbell also gives in great detail the unsanitary conditions of schools containing a higher percentage of low income students. Campbell states that most of the failing schools in Chicago are predominantly African American and Latino. Finally, Campbell mentions our country’s history of race relations such as the enslavement of Africans, the murder of Native Americans, and the seizure of land claimed by Mexico. He wrote that despite decades of resistance and struggle, only little progress has been made toward abolishing racial oppression and stratification.