1. What are some of the consequences associated with adolescents who are homeless? How is an adolescent’s health affected when faced with homelessness? Consequence associated with homeless adolescents are depression‚ anxiety‚ low self-esteem‚ poor health and nutrition. They also have an increased rate of getting infection‚ diseases and sexually transmitted disease(STD). Some reason why they have higher rate of disease are because of lack of means to get job and money‚ they participate is risk behaviors
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chronically homeless either: families – especially in the economy we are in right now –are being foreclosed on and among other people may find themselves temporarily displaced. Homelessness has been a major issue in the United States that has gone largely unnoticed and has been on a solid upward rise for the last decade or so. Homelessness demeans people and makes those who are without shelter far more likely to be in danger of exposure to the elements‚ disease and more recently a rise
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1) According to Johnson (2015)‚ “More than 500‚000 people - a quarter of them children - were homeless in the United States this year…” (P.1). This means in 2015 alone‚ there was that many people homeless. This has not been the only problem with homelessness‚ according to Capps (2015)‚ “In 2013‚ just 28 of every 100
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that homelessness isn’t a good thing; so‚ how come the majority of cities aren’t doing anything about the 500‚000 people living on the streets just in the United States? Lots of people are misinformed about what homelessness really means to the community. These topics that the population should be properly informed about include: actions that communities have already done for the homeless‚ what actions don’t help‚ things an average person could do to help‚ and why criminalizing homelessness has a
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in magazine about society’s treatment of the homeless people in Latvia. There are different opinions in society about how should the homeless people be treated. Some people think that there is no homelessness tolerated in normal society. But the problem is that there are people who think to homelessness as the normal lifestyle and can not imagine themselves living in different and better conditions. Those homeless people have voluntarily chosen this kind of lifestyle as the only way to feel absolutely
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Allen Cross Ms. Kalicki ENC 1101 20 March 2015 Too Broke To Pay Attention In her essay‚ “Homelessness on Campus”‚ Eleanor Bader discusses the cause of homelessness among college students‚ and how little is being done to prevent or remedy it. Citing the struggles and situations of specific students‚ Bader illustrates the problem facing the country. Early classes‚ mid-terms‚ lengthy research papers‚ final exams; all college students face these problems throughout their academic career. Imagine though
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I was strolling on the streets of New York City on my way to work as a science teacher at New York City Schools. I glared at the homeless people on the streets pondering‚ how did they get there? When I was younger there were many people living on the streets. Now that it is 2052 and I’m forty-two years old‚ the number of homeless people increased rapidly. I’m hoping I never end up like them. Eventually‚ I got to school and I went to my class. Like every day‚ I take a glimpse from the door and all
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Variety of Social Factors Causes Homelessness National Coalition for the Homeless is a charity that fights to end the homelessness through grassroots organizing‚ public education‚ and policy advocacy. They have pointed out the causes for the increasing number of homeless people in the U.S since 2000 in the article “A Variety of Social Factors Causes Homelessness.” Why is the number of the homeless people increasing day after day in the U.S? Poverty and the homelessness are the current controversial
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What factors contributed to the growth of homelessness in the 1980¡¦s and 90¡¦s? This essay explores the different reasons as to why someone may become homeless. Poverty plays an important part in being homeless. According to The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia ¡§homelessness is the condition of not having a permanent place to live‚ widely perceive as a societal problem only beginning in the 1980s.¡¨ A person can become homeless for a number of reasons‚ there are also a lot of different types
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Homelessness: The Effects of High Costs Housing Excelsior College Debra Parks April 22‚ 2012 Abstract: How many times have we saw people standing on the street in their dirty clothes with a sign saying‚ “work for food”? I wonder how this person got into their situation. In the past I’ve thought laziness‚ they don’t want to work‚ or maybe they have schizophrenia and are unable to work‚ or sometimes‚ I didn’t even see them. What is the solution
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