Comparing Kewaunas Ambition And Marita's Bargain

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“Marita’s Bargain” was written by Malcolm Gladwell and “Kewauna’s Ambition” by Paul Tough, and both Tough and Gladwell use similar techniques in these articles of text to elaborate on the success and broadening abilities of students. However, there are also keen differences which lead to one being more effective than the other. Gladwell goes in depth in “Marita’s Bargain”, implying and downright exposing the struggles of impoverished families and how it effects the following generation, and remarks “Lou Gehrig [Junior High] is in the seventh school district, otherwise known as the South Bronx, one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. It is a squat , gray 1960s-era building across the street from a bleak-looking group of high-rises… …show more content…

According to Tough, “Of the 128 students, including Kewauna, who started OneGoal as juniors at six Chicago high schools in the fall of 2009, ninety-six were enrolled in four-year colleges as of March 2012. Another fourteen were enrolled in two-year colleges, for an overall college-persistence total of 85 percent. Which left only nineteen students who had veered off track to a college degree: twelve who left OneGoal before the end of high school, two who joined the military after high school, two who graduated from high school but didn’t enroll in college, and three who enrolled in college but dropped out in their first six months.” The author appeals to logos as does Gladwell later in his text with various charts and data to prove the reliability of the program he was promoting, more or less. Here Tough has elaborated on this program started by someone he believes to uphold what he considers positive character traits to have strong character. Similar to that of what Gladwell has said, Tough explains that once in high school that students didn’t live up to their expectations. The fact that students who were mostly lost causes as well could affect the more positive results the program that OneGoal is hopes to find. Unlike OneGoal, KIPP is for impoverished children that are chosen at random from a lottery in middle school. The same

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