Homelessness is an emotional topic.If it wasn’t for my mother and the goals I set for myself I would be homeless as well. As a child I never understood why people were homeless when every one has a choice in life. Then I got older and realize that being homeless can come from a few things like parents being incarcentarted‚ abuse and neglect‚ foster care‚ and drugs. I personally know someone that is homeless she is smart and pretty but the drugs got the best of her and now she is addicted.The saying you
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Being a Good Person How can people make the life of others better? This is an important question that everybody has to ask themselves. However‚ not everyone can to answer it. It sounds easy‚ but it is not. Mahatma Gandhi said‚ “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” This phrase is the beginning of many changes in their attitudes. For example‚ some people donate organs‚ other people work as volunteers in natural disasters‚ and others opt to donate relief aid to children or seniors
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A few years back I remember not knowing or thinking that I would ever be homeless or anything close to it‚ but life is full of surprises. I lived in Los Angeles‚ my father had lost his job and felt hopeless in such a big city. As the bills continued to pile up so did my fear of what was going to happen next. After the bills and mortgages were too high we had to leave our entire lives behind and more nice enough to let us stay in their living room. At that moment I had no idea what was going to happen
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misinformed about the true disadvantages of those who are. In most cases‚ the main cause of being homeless is obviously financial issues‚ however it could be due to one having a large sum of debt or simply losing their job/career with bills to pay‚ thus having a family can play in the role of assistance when something similar happens with the possibilities being endless. Those without family‚ tend to be homeless based off of my personal experiences speaking to an array of the disadvantaged. Most importantly
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I’ve never been homeless‚ but in my life my family has created personal bonds with a few homeless people. When I was really young and living in my first house‚ a man‚ whose name I can’t remember‚ lived with us for awhile. I didn’t think of much of it other than that I was not allowed to go in his room or touch his things because that was impolite. I didn’t know that he was homeless because I was too young to understand the concept of homelessness‚ but also because my parents treated him as they would
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years old and I was at the moment homeless‚ moving from home to home with my mother and older brother. Due to some unfortunate circumstances including some trouble that my other brother had with the law my complex kicked me and my family out and only gave us 24 hours to move out. It was an experience I will never forget. The pain I saw my mom go through will always remain very vivid in my memories. I called many places home during those twelve months I’ was homeless‚ but I was fortunate to always have
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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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people come across the homeless and wonder if they should help out or not. The reason people question if they should help is because some homeless people sometimes put themselves in that situation. However not all homeless people cause it upon themselves to be put it bad situations like that. To begin with‚ there are many famous people who were once homeless at some point in their life. No one in life choses to be homeless it’s just something that happens. Some people become homeless because of losing
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Homeless was not something that was construct overnight; it has existed for a long period of time. Often fellow Americans and the Government choose not to see the homeless or even have contact with them. Homelessness is not favoritism towards anything such as race‚ religion‚ and gender it is simply had no boundaries. Not all homeless people are stereotyped as being drug abusers‚ mentally ill or even alcoholics. Homelessness is a subject that a few individuals do not take into consideration or have
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Being homeless doesn’t just mean not having a job‚ it also means that you don’t have stability of any kind. Many homeless people suffer for the reason that they go from having everything in life to not having a roof‚ food‚ money‚ people to talk to or even tranquility. Homelessness doesn’t only affect older people but it also affects younger kids. It’s very difficult for homeless people to stabilize there life’s. For the same reason is that there are so many homeless people which are also not so healthy
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