It was a fiercely cold Christmas Eve night‚ somewhere around twenty degrees and from watching the weather it was likely to only get colder as the night progressed. Looking out the front window‚ the ground was covered in powdery white snow‚ sparkling‚ like it had glitter in it. I took in the brilliant sight right in front of me‚ it was‚ for lack of a better description‚ magical. Even the road that had not yet been driven on was covered in a perfect blanket of snow‚ but something else caught my eye
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Long Island‚ New York. We left at 3:00pm on a Friday when I came home from school. We took the N22 bus to the train station and when coming of the bus it smelled disgusting. It smelled like urine because well we were underground and there were many homeless people. It was hot down there so we could smell person’s sweat. We were walking through the station a long time because there were a lot of people there. We found that the train we wanted which is the Brooklyn 2 train just left so we had to wait
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What is Loneliness and Companionship Today Introduction Anna Quindlein’s article titled Doing nothing is something published on May 12‚ 2002 and William Deresiewicz’s The End Of Solitude published February 30‚ 2009 seek to explain how modernity has changed the way man socializes and spends time. Quindlein views this change from the perspective of a busy scheduled life more so for children who now lack time for themselves while Deresiewicz looks at it from the angle of a lonely but an overly
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8318841 6 have to make sure he has food‚ he has clothing‚ he has a house‚” said McInnes. (“Homeless Students: A Hidden Tragedy”). The effects of homelessness on children can be crippling. Learning disabilities are another effect that homeless children face. In fact‚ “homeless children are twice as likely to have a learning disability‚ than children in stable homes.” (“Faces of Homelessness”) These disabilities begin at birth‚ primarily due to poor health conditions and lack of special care‚ during
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Requiem is about Anna Akhmatova going through stages of grieving over her son being imprisoned and later killed by the NKVD‚ the soviet secret police. She experiences the different stages of grieving. In this particular section she is confronting death and accepting the fact that it is inevitable for her son as well as herself. It is as if she is welcoming it upon herself as she gives up hope for a different outcome. In this piece Akhmatova‚ a Russian poet‚ is attempting to create a memorial
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not even have to be their fault. For this reason exactly is why Americans should consider this a major crisis today. The amount of people becoming homeless in America is constantly growing. Although some people can get out of being homeless pretty quickly‚ more and more people are becoming homeless every day‚ and the more people that become homeless‚ the more people crowd the streets we live on. There is many different views on where these people should live such as on the street or in permanent
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situation where they have to ask for help. At one point‚ homeless people had dreams of becoming someone important in life. Despite the situations these people have gone through ‚ helping the homeless can change our community by lowering crime rates‚ and having hard workers. In New Orleans‚ you can spot a homeless person at every corner. Some are overly dressed for the long cold nights. Others‚ can’t even afford any type of clothes. Many of these homeless people carry a piece of cardboard asking for money
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How Should We Treat the Homeless? I think that to treat all homeless people in one certain way would be hard for me to do because there are many reasons for a person to be homeless‚ and some of them should be treated differently from others. I feel that the runaways and drug addicts don’t deserve as much as the unemployed and war veteran types. But I feel in my heart that all people with no homes‚ or lives for that matter‚ should get some sort of help to survive and get back on their feet so
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are significant. For example The National Coalition for the Homeless has a few different types of educational programs. One of their most effect programs is Outreach Runs. This program allows groups to bring and distribute socks‚ hotel size toiletries and bottled water to those living in parks and on the streets. In winter‚ groups bring clothing like thermal underwear‚ socks‚ gloves‚ hats‚ and jackets ("National Coalition for the Homeless"‚ 2014). When evaluating the benefits of this program‚ it is
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A Helping Hand in the Homeless Community By Cherish Miles There is a large number of homeless‚ mentally ill‚ and drug addicted people in the Costa Mesa area that many residents are unaware of. Fourteen years ago Lindah Miles‚ the mother of six children‚ was driving down Anaheim avenue in Costa Mesa on the way to the market. As she was driving she saw a little broken down old church named The Lighthouse. She noticed there were about forty homeless people waiting in a line outside. Out of curiosity
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