admit to you that I was scared to go. Luckily‚ I over came my fear and head into the trip as confident and a championship boxer heading into a match with a tomato can. When we got there‚ it was a mess. It seemed like everywhere I looked there was a homeless person sitting among the trees or and beggar on the street asking everyone who walked by for money‚ I was definitely in another world. But when I saw these people‚ I didn’t feel fear‚ I felt sorrow. I wanted to help‚ I wanted to give that guy a home
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understand the long-term effects of trauma; therefore‚ they do not understand why the victim cannot move forward. When attempting to understand the question we must first consider people who dealt with similar situations such as Iraq war veterans. Why does one of the veterans return to normal functioning while the other one develops Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Though there is no clear-cut reason the “physiological phenomena persist‚ traumatized people cannot tune out the repetitive stimuli that
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The Iraq war has ended as of December 2011. Osama Bin Laden has been killed as of May 2011 and yet the war in Afghanistan is still ongoing. The jihadist terrorism threat that our nation once feared from Al-Qaeda has diminished. Many question the justification of the United State’s involvement in the Middle East over the past decade. What have our intentions been this whole time and have the lives of those brave military men and women lost been worth the fight? What more do we have to show
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child being taken away already she will not be too trusting with the system. Scenario 2 John has been homeless for most of his adult life. He is often seen on the medians of busy intersections asking for food and money or wandering through the park talking to himself. John used to seek housing in a homeless shelter but often chooses to sleep in the local park. During the winter‚ the local homeless coalition attempts to talk to John about staying in the shelter but he refuses. Staying out in the cold
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5/24/15 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and our Veterans What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? According to the PTSD website‚ PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a life threatening events such as military combat‚ natural disasters‚ terrorist incidents‚ serious accidents‚ or physical or sexual assault in adult or childhood. Unfortunately‚ a lot of our military veterans are diagnosed with PTSD. Veterans who have experienced trauma or have witnessed
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help their community. Colleen won first place for the essay. She gave homeless people as gift. On her birthdays‚ she volunteers helping people. Collen said that this had made a difference in her life and hoping it made a difference in someone else life. Collen does a lot for her community to make things right and helping people who need it. Simone Butler was a runner up for the essay. She was in the kitchen cooking for the homeless people. It made her feel good about helping someone and impacting someone
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dream of a real life person‚ with a inspirational life story. It brings out the so called baby in people. Will Smith does the best acting of his career so far. He also made it more believable acting with his own real son. Sleeping in bathrooms‚ homeless shelters‚ and shabby hotels when he’s got no money to afford a room. In my own opinion I could never survive those things. Chris never gives up on the idea that he can land a job and provide his son with a better life. . In my case i cried when
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Conflicts‚ debates‚ war-it’s all just politics. But is it really just politics? In the world and society that we live in today‚ there is not a such thing as just politics. Within politics‚ there are moral issues involved‚ and there are differentiations in opinions and views on countless topics between politicians and American citizens themselves. Each individual is titled to their own beliefs‚ but when everyone must come to an agreement‚ it may escalate to the infringement of many freedoms that
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Carol Bloomfield HCS/539 December 8‚ 2014 Andrea Linder Healthcare Analysis The mission of the Veterans Health Administration (VAMC) in Chillicothe‚ Ohio is to provide exceptional care and to be the provider of choice for all Veterans (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs‚ 2013). It is necessary for the leaders of the VAMC to have an active marketing and business plan to increase the number of veterans served. Marketing and planning are essential to having resources to meet the future needs of the
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Our group supports Proposition HHH in the City of Los Angeles. This said‚ we agree that key leaders’ have yet to create a solution to the problematic rise of homelessness in the city‚ which has been long overdue. When our group sees the astonishing data and the numbers increasing by the years‚ we see individuals who are sleeping and laying on the street calling that their home. Our group acknowledges the fact that money is a vital component in assisting this matter‚ but something else needs to be
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