U.S.A, Land of Limitations by Nicholas Kristof

        This article is very interesting and has brought some insight on how not everyone has the the chance to in a sence live in the "land of opportunity" because of many different reasons. I would really like to quote the entire article but I did chose three quotes that I thought in my opninion are good.  "Rick, Who thought he was one-eighth American Indian, pretty much raised himself, along with his brother and two sisters. His mom died when he was five, and his dad--"a professional drunk,"  Rick once told me --abandoned the family. A grandmother presided, and the kids hunted and fished to put food on the table."(Kristof). That is a lot for young children to have to worry about. Those kids should have been worried about is what and where am I going to eat lunch at school. They do not have a great start out of the gate and it is sad because all children should have opportunity to have a good education but it is hard when they have to worry about putting food on the table.
          "School might have been an escalator to a better life, for Rick had a terrific mind, but as a biy he had an undiagnosed attention deficit disorder and teachers wrote him off. In the eighth grade, the principle punished Rick for skipping school, by suspending him for six months. Rick was thrilled. By 10th grade he had dropped out for good." (Kristof). Rick did not have any stability at home so in school he would lash out and his disability was never treated properly. Six months is a really long time to suspend someone so of course any kid would be excited about that. When he went back to school he got so used to being out of school he did not want to be there anymore.
           "It turned out his ex-wife's had been towed and she had needed to pay to pay a fee to get it back. So Rick had given her $600 and skipped th emedicine. That's what put him in the hospital." (Kristof). Even though he needed to pay for medicine that kept him healthy he helped out his EX-wife and ended up in the hospital instead. That just shows how selfless he was even though he had a rough up bringing. He was a hard working man that proved that he did not have the opportunity that others might have had.