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    was going to school‚ but kept forgetting my stuff for school so went back to my home and got my stuff. When I got out I saw 8 homeless kittens alone in the morning and I saw someone there‚ too. I know that the women that were there was the owner of the 8 homeless kittens and didn’t have a home or a shelter to live in. She went to me and wanted me to take care of the 8 homeless kittens so I did take care of the of the kittens. I brought food to the kittens outside scenes I didn’t have the stuff to take

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    David Amador Professor Smith ENG 1010‚ Online 17 October 2014 Homelessness: Why We Should Care Homeless people are people too; just like the rest of us more-fortunate. Odds are that you walk by them everyday if you live in a city‚ and if you are like the majority‚ you ignore them. We rush our steps‚ glance at our smart phones‚ hold our breath‚ clench our wallet‚ all in hopes that we get by without making contact with the beggar. Come on. The most beautiful thing that exists in this world today

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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 never thought I would ever be in this predicament. I never thought that my own mother would kick me out of my home‚ my home where my mum raised me and feed me for 16 years‚ where she used to call my name sweetly‚ Joshua. Well‚ I have thought about it before. It was the main threat my stepdad‚ Doug used against me whenever I pissed him off. And I pissed him off every day. Maybe I was better off on the streets away from him; well that’s what I like to think. I turned back and gave my old home one

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    Headline: When It Pays to Help the Homeless: Homeless Man Saves Family From Burning Fire While one grandmother thought that she was just helping out a homeless person‚ she was in for a big surprise. On one cold winter night‚ a grandmother in Texas noticed a homeless man wandering around the neighborhood. She knew just how cold Texas winters could be‚ and she could not stand to let the homeless man sleep outside without shelter. The grandmother lived alone with her two granddaughters in Houston

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    S‚ has a large homeless community that could benefit from our help and we feel that Drexel has the potential to do so. The goal for our campaign is to help our local homeless community while using the dining dollars that would otherwise not have been used. There is always an abundance of meal swipes left over as most students do not end up using all of them. The remaining amount of food that would have been purchased with those meal swipes can be donated to a local homeless shelter or soup kitchen

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    When seeing A Piece Of My Heart in theatre‚ it was a lot different than reading it. There were many characters that had compelling reasons for volunteering to go to Vietnam war. There were four nurses Martha‚ Sissy‚ Whitney and Leeann who were all part of the red cross but one of the characters that stood out to me most and who had the best reason to go to Vietnam for the first time to volunteer was Martha. Martha was a strong powerful woman that had experience in nursing and whose family was in

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    called homeless students because they often view homeless as irresponsibility‚ alcoholism and addict. As a definition of Quinton D. Geis‚ a student from University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Exploring the Academic and Social Experiences of Homeless College Students‚ 13)‚ homelessness could be students are living on the street‚ living in a car‚ or may be “couch surfing‚” spending a short amount of time at various living spaces and then moving to different locations. Some may live in a temporary shelter as they

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    In the book Homeless Families In America‚ Jonathan Kozol focuses on four important issues of poor children under six: Who they are‚ where they live‚ why they are poor‚ and the risks poor children face. The information presented pertains to children who live in houses and apartments because this is the population founded by household surveys. "According to three national studies homeless children aged 16 and under‚ somewhere 41‚000 and 106‚000 children are literally homeless at any given time"

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    LITERATURE REVIEW First‚ the author has done a literature review and has provided with a theoretical framework to understand the relationship between the crisis of shelter and the globalisation. The characteristics of the globalisation include taking advantage of innovations in technology which are done to lower the overall cost of transportation and production which can be done by pursuing cheaper and affordable land‚ labour and resources. Globalisation also encourages to increase the exchange and

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