is an issue that is constantly occurring in our community‚ which are homeless people. Lately‚ there have been more of them crowding and hanging around the libraries‚ especially Costa Mesa. Costa Mesa is a county supported library with fewer resources compared to a city supported library such as Newport Beach. Costa Mesa Library is not pushing away the homeless as much as Newport Beach. Orange County currently has 30‚000 homeless people today and that is not an accurate statistic. This trend has progressively
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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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Do you know what it feels like to be homeless? I don’t know what it feels like‚ and I don’t think anybody should should know how it feels‚ especially children. To be homeless means that you never know where you will sleep at night‚ or where you will live next month. That’s not exactly an ideal life‚ is it? So why should children be living like that? We need to help these people‚ and even though you might be thinking “ What can I do? What difference could I make?” ; your help could actually change
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The community I am focusing on is homeless families with children within the Gloucester County‚ New Jersey area. The problem area I am going to address is the educational barriers and challenges faced by homeless children and youths. Two of the very knowledgeable people who are experts in the community and the problems I am addressing are the executive director of Family Promise and a social worker/counselor from Gloucester County Special Services who advocates for these families and their children
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December 2014 Homelessness amid Veterans with Mental and Physical Disabilities One-third of adult homeless men and nearly one-quarter of all homeless adults have served in the armed forces. On any given night fewer than 200‚000 veterans may be homeless; and twice as many may experience homelessness during a year. I chose to explore the specific topic of “Veterans with Mental and Physical Disabilities” because based on recent and past studies‚ most homeless veterans suffer from mental and/or physical
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we should act in such ways as to make the greatest number of people as happy as possible. In the movie‚ Dr. Myrick acts as the utilitarian. He takes healthy homeless people with “no purpose” to live into his lab and performs experiments on them for research to help people who are not able to walk‚ to try and walk again. He thinks these homeless people will not be missed because they basically have no purpose in life. Although‚ Dr. Myrick’s intentions are good‚ he isn’t going about it the right way
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Homeless Man Sobbing Headline: When a Homeless Man Starts Sobbing in Burger King‚ He Never Expected a Stranger to Put a Photo of Him on Facebook. Summary: Katy Hurst was just trying to get lunch from a Burger King in Missouri. Suddenly‚ something caught her eye. She saw an elderly man in the window with his head on his hands. It took a moment for her to realize that he was crying. Introduction: While she normally tried to pack a healthy lunch‚ she had overslept that morning. Starving‚ Katy
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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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tried to get someone else to take the meeting and couldn’t find anyone willing to do it. When I came home‚ I called the police department to tell them about the man in the backyard. They told me to wait until you came back and tell you about the homeless man. He is probably the murderer.” Pointing her finger toward the detective‚ Mrs. Davis added.”Kathy was my friend.” Detective Wallace said‚ “Thank you for your help‚ if we have any questions. We’ll contact you.” Her voice filled with excitement
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POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER IN WAR VETERANS SC-PNG-0000009299 Alwin Aanand Thomson American Degree Program SEGi College Penang 1.0 INTRODUCTION Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a severe anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to any event that results in psychological trauma. This event may involve the threat of death to oneself or to someone else‚ or to one’s own or someone
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