Synthesis Kozol Amazing Grace

Synthesis
Kozol Amazing Grace
Cleveland and Stephenson suggest that the poor fail to seek opportunity and therefore are poor. They also claim that poverty is caused by refusal on the part of individuals to take responsibility for their own economic well-being. However Robert states that it is the government's fault that there is a lack of opportunities. He also states that it is because people cannot receive a decent wage that they are poor. Neither point is right or wrong. Both sides have valid reasoning and evidence to why the poor are impoverished. I believe that people are poor…