Compare and contrast “Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison” and “Village Schools and Traveling Soldiers.” Explain the differences in the articles’ points of view regarding education.

Both the stories are talking about education as a way of understanding, bridging the gap and enlightening people.

Explanation:

Both of these stories deal with fundamental theme of providing education of something to a people who do not have access to it.

“Teaching Shakespeare in a Maximum Security Prison” and “Village Schools and Traveling Soldiers" both are about people who are in either an undesirable position or in a difficult position and often do not get to study enough.

This is shown as a way to bridge the gap between them and the society and making them more enlightened. It is also about understanding their position as a people.

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the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

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