disabling condition and have been continuously homeless for at least a year‚ or have had at least four episodes of homelessness in the last three years. About 40% of homeless men are veterans‚ On any given day‚ about 200‚000 veterans are homeless. When it comes to races being homeless‚ 39% are white‚ 42% are African-Americans‚ 13% are Hispanic‚ 4% are Native-American‚ & 2% are Asian. Life for a homeless person is pretty much how you would expect‚ horrible. Homeless people suffer high levels of stress from
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American Story: Tent City USA is a documentary about the homeless in Lakewood New Jersey. The purpose of this documentary is to help make people aware of the conditions some Americans live in due to the unbalanced system. The intended audience is anyone who might not know of how hard it is to survive in the United States. It brought to light that anyone can be affected and forced to be homeless such as artists‚ veterans‚ and ministers. Anyone and everyone is accepted into their community with one
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homelessness. 44% of the homeless who have jobs are paid at a small amount to where they can barely support themselves. Especially with those who have limited skills and little experience don’t have a wide range of jobs to choose from. In addition to that‚ the homeless face more problems due to limited transportation‚ education‚ and training programs. Especially in such a competitive environment‚ nearly everyone has a difficult time finding a stable job but it is worse for the homeless who face additional
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have perceived that this life‚ the way we have been brought up has condition us to be unseeing to some obvious situations in this world. Visibly picture in your head what it means to be homeless at that same time think why are those people homeless? During this recent article‚ Michael Sullivan wrote‚ I was homeless; ‘the look’ judged me worthless‚ to share with all readers in different communities. Sullivan has an overwhelming sense of personal experiences shared which gives a great insight to draw
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it was thought that there were over 75000 youths at risk of becoming homeless‚ mostly due to the breakdown of the family or the introduction of a step family‚ 65% of these young people experienced violence as their family broke down and 20% experienced sexual abuse. The really sad thing about the number of youths at risk of homelessness is‚ in order to be detected as at risk something extreme has to happen e.g. the young homeless person was arrested for causing a disturbance or ends up in hospital
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However‚ in doing this‚ homeless individuals/families may have been prioritized and awarded a housing voucher to find out that there are no current unoccupied homes/apartments for them to move into. This will not only affect their status of homelessness‚ but can trigger feelings
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I believe that people are naturally good to others‚ because there isn’t as much cold-hearted people as there is with the good-people. In the world there is a lot of good people that will go out of there way to help anyone that they can. During hurricane Harvey majority of the people that were stuck at there homes couldn’t go anywhere they would have to stay out there house till someone came to get them. People say there isn’t enough people good people in the world but after everything that happened
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Animal Shelter overpopulation is becoming a more serious problem day after day. Many people do not have their dog spayed/neutered‚ and this can contribute to overpopulation. When a dog gets pregnant unexpectedly the family usually decides they can’t afford all the puppies or don’t want them‚ so they take the puppies to a shelter. An average litter of puppies usually consists of about five to six puppies‚ this means five spaces in the shelter will be taken. Each time families let their dog/ dogs go
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In the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave‚ mortality was related to living alone in that living along doubled a person’s chance of not surviving the heat wave. On the other had‚ and form of social connection lessened the chance of dying. Some of the main reasons that this relationship exists are because most of the people living along were older people and increasingly people with poor mobility were living alone. Living alone as an aging person was thought to be the ideal way for them to live because it gave
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According to the ASPCA‚ approximately 7.6 million animals enter animal shelters nationwide every year. Of those 7.6 million animals‚ 2.7 million of them are euthanized (“Pet Statistics”). When one goes about adopting an animal‚ animals are given a second chance at a healthy‚ happy‚ new home. A vast majority of the population‚ will avoid the risk of owning an animal with possible health and psychological issues. Without knowledge of the animals’ history‚ adoption should be a better way to go about
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