struggles of veterans‚ women‚ and African Americans. You will also use what you know to make predictions for each group. What struggles do you predict these groups will face in the decades to come? Veterans Women African Americans What did they gain in World War II? Veterans were given a bill called the GI Bill of Rights‚ which guaranteed returning veterans a year’s worth of unemployment compensation and medical coverage for their deeds. the GI Bill paid for veterans’ job training
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With Veteran’s Day coming around the corner I decided to write about why veterans should be respected in our country. Some people believe that we shouldn’t have as big as an army or just that they don’t like veterans because they were in a war. This should be different. Those soldiers didn’t choose the war they were going to fight in they go out and fight for our country with everything that they have. These soldiers should be respected because of their courage‚ loyalty‚ respect.
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parents not to give money to homeless people they see on the street when they are alone and the parents are just stereotyping against homeless people because they are all not like that‚ there is many homeless people out struggling and other people should help them because the most attention homeless people get is around Christmas time and after that people just kick them to the side until the next year and the number of homeless people keep rising and most of the homeless population is made up of young
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Center on Domestic Violence‚ "homeless youth are typically defined as unaccompanied youth between the ages of 12 and 24 who are without family support and who are living in shelters‚ on the streets‚ in cars or vacant buildings or who are "couch surfing" or living in other unstable circumstances." On any given night in the US‚ there is about half a million homeless individuals. 40 percent of that are homeless youth. It is important to say that exact numbers of homeless youth are hard to determine because
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food is the most important thing to survive‚ but for homeless‚ it takes miracles to find food even for a day. some people got food for begging on the street or by food from the money they receive‚ others find food in unfortunate places; trashcan‚ or picking it from the road or eat others leftovers. Even if there are chances of getting food from‚ some also starve or even lead to death. Because of food being so hard to find‚ 57% homeless spend a day of being starved for not receiving food on the
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Difference of Vietnam Veterans There were approximately 536‚100 American soldiers that fought in the Vietnam War‚ and about 58‚220 were killed (Estimated n. pag.); this meant that there were many veterans of the war. The war in Vietnam was different than most‚ not because of the way it was fought or what it was fought over‚ it was different because of the veterans. The war created many Vietnamese veterans‚ and they were different than those of almost every other war. They were different in almost
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I urge the many women in our community to consider volunteering for the overnight shift at the Homeless Shelter at St. Peter’s‚ where the presence of women volunteers is needed. The Friends Program is spearheading this effort with funding from the City of Concord. I took a turn myself this last Sunday‚ and want to share with you my experiences so you will know what to expect. First‚ they snore. The cadence varies from one guest to the next but you do acclimate to the snorting and throat wallows
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of veterans committing suicide has been astoundingly high and worrisome for many years. According to information shared by Army Times on Thursday‚ new reports released by the Department of Veteran Affairs include in depth analysis using veteran records from 1979-2014. These records include more than 50 million veterans’ and are from every state‚ unlike previous studies. The analysis revealed that the viral “22 a day” videos and estimates were not far off from being fact. In 2014‚ 20 veterans took
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to the ever-growing homeless situation in our country. The homeless rate in the United States is increasing; homeless shelters are rapidly filling up causing them to turn people away. By creating lower income housing while at the same time‚ creating a work program to help the homeless get back on their feet will help to decrease the rate. Although some of the homeless do not want help‚ they are happy with the lifestyle they live. I heard someone say once that the homeless that do not want any
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being that there is over 3.5 million of them each year there is no hesitation that you’ve guessed it. I’m talking about our homeless. Homelessness is an increasing issue in Today’s society. The number of homelessness is growing at a startling rate. And more and more individuals are facing homelessness every day. We all have our own opinions‚ and statements regarding the homeless be it “avoiding eye contact‚ to just keep walking‚ or just ignore them.” and that makes us think that they will all just
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