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    Satirical essay There are many homeless people out on the streets of the large cities in this great nation. With low unemployment rate and new jobs are being created every day‚ people are starting to ask why there are still homeless people in the alleys and on the sidewalks of this country. This seems to be a haunting problem even though it would be so easy for homeless people to get a job. The general requirements for applying for and keeping a job is have nice clothes to make a decent

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    Volunteering With Elderly

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    Are you researching volunteer opportunities in Brevard County? Why not volunteer with seniors? Many elderly‚ particularly those who are bedridden or confined to their homes and need home health care‚ feel isolated and lonely. Consider these following ways‚ courtesy of Champion Health Care in Melbourne‚ FL‚ to spend time with the senior population and give back to your community: *Meal Service Proper nutrition is important for everyone‚ particularly the elderly. Because it may be difficult for them

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    to help other people‚ it is very fulfilling for me.”[Ain‚ 2003]. Volunteering should be required be all high schools because it develops personal growth‚ shows leadership and provides networking opportunities. Volunteering is a personal deed that can help you eternally be at

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    Why Volunteering Is Good

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    For many people‚ volunteering seems like a waste of time. While it seems like something nice to do for the community‚ it can be hard to fit volunteering into a student’s schedule. While students volunteered at a rate of 31.2 percent in 2004‚ this number dropped to 26.1 percent by 2010. While most students are not volunteering today‚ they are missing out on professional‚ personal and health benefits. 1. Improved Resumes One of the most obvious reasons to volunteer is because it improves the student’s

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    Volunteering writing prompt A lot of junior high schools and high schools around the country require students to have a certain number of hours each semester in volunteering around their community. They believe that it is a good idea because it promotes good citizenship and cultivate skills. I do agree that it helps students build character and it gets them volunteer hours‚ but I also believe that if you require someone to volunteer it’s not really volunteering. That sounds like forced volunteerism

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    Volunteering Requirement Have High School students really been devoting enough hard work in the years they’ve been in school or should they require even more work to accomplish in order to graduate? In the article “Volunteering to Graduate: Do We Need More Requirements?” By Miriam Dodge‚ she talks about how volunteering hours is being required in some high schools in order to complete your high school requirements‚ but might be a requirement that shouldn’t be enforced. High school students should

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    Homeless Ethnography

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    The article that I choose as the one for deeper study was the article‚ “Writing and Retelling Multiple Ethnographic Tales of a Soup Kitchen for the Homeless”. The reason that I choose this article is because it relates to my own area of interest Ethnography and the study of culture-sharing groups. By taking this study I began to break it down into the characteristics of qualitative approaches: Focus: The article is very successful in defining who the target group for the study is to the reader.

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    Homeless to Harvard

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    10/18/2011 Homeless to Harvard. Homeless to Harvard is an inspiring story for all of us that tells about Liz Murray who dealt with the typical stresses childhood and then went from living on the streets to graduating from Harvard University. This incredible inspiring story is based on a young girl who becomes homeless at the age of 15 due to her parent’s addiction to drugs and the lack of parental involvement in her life. Although she lacked the stability of a family‚ the challenges she faced throughout

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    Homeless People

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    200 million homeless people living in the world right now‚ as stated by “Kevin Burger.” The majority of these homeless people are living on the streets. Half of the homeless don’t have a place to live or a shelter to stay in. It is my belief that there aren’t enough around the world. This is why New York City should open more shelters for the homeless. New York City should open up more shelters for the homeless so that they can get all the requirements they need. If we open more shelters‚ the homeless

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    Homeless Americans

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    be low‚ and wages high. Yet there is still an extraordinary amount of homeless people living in the United States. In an article entitled "The Criminalization of Homelessness" Celine-Marie Pascale tries to convey how the homeless are being treated unfairly by society. Criminalization might be a little too strong a word to apply to the punishment of homeless people‚ but Pascale is trying to make a statement about the homeless situation in the United States today. I would like to take a closer look

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