Homeless: a social issue One of the major problems that a community suffers from is homelessness‚ which It’s a condition of people who lack regular access to housing. According to the institute for the study of Homelessness and Poverty at Weingart Center‚ an estimated 254‚000 men‚ women and children experience homelessness in Los Angeles County during some part of the year and approximately 82‚000 people are homeless on any given night‚ and is caused by several factors such as mental illness‚ drug
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101-01S Outline Date: Monday‚ Nov 1st‚ 2013 Introduction I. When you think of a homeless person or bum‚ do you think of a drug addicts‚ alcoholics‚ crack-heads? II. I want to inform the audience of the many reasons that cause homelessness and what brings a person to become homeless. III. It isn’t always drug or alcohol addiction that creates homeless situations. Body I. Who‚ and why are they homeless? A. Families with children. 30% B. Children under 18 years old 39% C. Veterans 13%
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After reading through the Equality of the Sexes‚ and looking up countless word definitions‚ I came to the assumption that Murray believed that women were not allowed to strive for self-worth and follow the path of knowledge in her time. In the eyes of the world‚ a woman is seen as “A weak‚ servile‚ an inferior soul”‚ and that they are robbed of their power to improve. Murray understood that there are differences of the mind‚ those who have a passion for knowledge‚ and those who are of inactive souls
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saw a homeless man ask for a place to stay. My father allowed him to stay for the night since it was snowing outside and the temperature was below freezing. I could not stand knowing that there were people on the street who did not have a place to sleep at night. Upon doing more research‚ I discovered that my town‚ Grand Rapids‚ did not have a homeless shelter. Because the town did not have many homeless people‚ it never felt the need to create a shelter. However‚ the number of homeless people
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Summary of “Homeless on Campus” In the article “Homeless on Campus” Eleanor J. Bader tells a story about homeless students living on campus. Also she shows how homeless students still have enough energy to go to college. Aehsa is a twenty year old girl that attends college at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn‚ New York. Aesha and her one year old son were forced to move out of their house because her husband started to be abusive. They were forced to leave on the streets and were moved
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clearly what is the form of your text is and why? The purpose of my text is to show the reader a first person point of view about an affluent business man who becomes homeless because of his antics and addiction to alcohol. Through the experience he faces realising the magnitude of the lack of consideration and care for the homeless. Which he never noticed due to his stable lifestyle. The purpose of making it a short story instead of a feature article which would show statistics‚ facts and expert
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Nieto 1 Mrs.Carters HRE 2O1 December 5/12 The Homeless Turning for Drugs Studies have shown that homeless youth on the streets suffer from drug addiction. The article Giving up on drugs: homeless younge people and self reported problematic drug use by Keys‚ Mallet‚ and Rosenthal‚ identifies the different issues homeless youth have to deal with. The research has been conducted through a series of interviews with young homeless kids from the age of 12 to 19. The kids interviewed talk about
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sun starts to set and the moon begins to rise. Some may see that number as a good number‚ but its thousand of people that are being destructed because they simply cannot sleep throughout the night due the conditions they’re having to manage with. Homeless people still uphold the title of being a person‚ they should live like a person. The reasons for homelessness varies so greatly‚ each individual has their own explanation. Some explanations
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a description of how the will not’s live‚ Salies offers ways to solve this homeless problem‚ all of which result in pushing these homeless people into the
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cruising down the road‚ a bit over the speed limit‚ when my friend‚ Janet‚ suddenly shouted nervously that we were passing through an under-resourced part of town. The Jeep rolled to a halt at the stoplight and a homeless woman stood by the curb‚ holding a cardboard sign with “Homeless‚ anything helps” scratched into it. Seeing that we had stopped‚ she approached the car and began tapping on the window‚ calmly asking for spare change. My friend quickly locked all the doors and anxiously banged on
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