Essays on Children

Twenty eight years ago, Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities: Children In America’s Schools exposed educational disparities between schools. This book mentions the failures of public education, which he argues are the warnings of the broader case of urban degradation. The main argument of the book is…

In her vehement article, ‘The C Word in the Hallway”, Anna Quindlen addresses and exploits the issue of mental health in children and the ignorance that trails behind it. Quindlen utilizes pathos, ethos, and logos as well as multiple accounts of extended metaphors and repetition…

Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s School is a book written by Jonathan Kozol in the 1991 talked about the education difference between school in of different area and race. Education also play an important role in everyone’s life. Knowledge is power, and more education we…

Introduction Parents have always pushed their children toward success, encouraging them to be the best version of themselves. At first, they cheer on their children and help them back up on their feet; however, once their children grow older and accumulate more accomplishments, failure no…

Lawrence Taylor is a tackle in the football team, the Giants. He is a fierce player who scares many quarterbacks, a quality not known to appear on quarterbacks until Taylor arrived. He ended many quarterbacks’ careers and injured others by his aggressive play. However, he…

Micheal “Big Mike” Oher, a black homeless teenager, is one of thirteen kids to a crack-addicted mother. Micheal starts the movie as a hopeless kid who hasn’t had a permanent home or school for his entire life. Leigh Anne Tuohy, a rich white woman, and…

Most of the western country’s population don’t often know about the punishments used around the world and in most cases just assume that punishments and sentences are the same or similar given out in their states, but that can’t be further from the truth. Occasionally,…

Imagine, you and your friends sitting in your primary school classroom. Everyone is completing their own work when a student raises their hand to inform the teacher that their notebook has been stolen. All eyes fall on you. This was the reality for Danny, an…

If you are a teacher in a preschool or in one of the primary grades, you have probably come across head lice in some of your students from time to time. This is because head lice are more common to children than in adults. It…

Children provide their parents the existential role of participating in the continuity of the family, culture, and the community. Most societies especially in developing countries, are structured to rely on children for the future care and maintenance of older family members. The ability to have…