A few years back I remember not knowing or thinking that I would ever be homeless or anything close to it‚ but life is full of surprises. I lived in Los Angeles‚ my father had lost his job and felt hopeless in such a big city. As the bills continued to pile up so did my fear of what was going to happen next. After the bills and mortgages were too high we had to leave our entire lives behind and more nice enough to let us stay in their living room. At that moment I had no idea what was going to happen
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That is what places such as the Homeless Shelter that are designed specifically for people in these problems by government programs. Supply resources to all of these people‚ their families‚ their children‚ can only go so far before it becomes a real problem where everyone starts running out of food themselves. On the other hand‚ places such as the Homeless Shelter provide meals three times a day‚ which is sufficient for everyone. Not only do
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streets and on the highways asking for money because they’re homeless due to numerous circumstances. The money that they do get from strangers they may put to better use like buying clothes or food or maybe the bus fare to go home. Some don’t they use it to buy drugs and alcohol leading them back to their original dead end path. Which is why people should feel obligated to be compassionate toward those less fortunate because they’re homeless for numerous amount of circumstances. Helping those less fortunate
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be finished until every veteran has a roof over their head‚ and every community has the tools in place to keep Veterans from sliding back into homelessness. (The White House) As a country we are facing a large problem: many war veterans are in a homeless state. It is a problem that we can merely push aside. These are people who fought for our liberty‚ and we‚ as a country‚ need to work to prevent this issue from growing‚ and we need to work to eliminate the problem. There are several factors that
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How would you feel if you were walking down the street and saw a homeless veteran? Someone who served our country‚ but is now suffering? For their services‚ they deserve so much better than what they have right now. They suffered for our country and may have lost limbs for our country‚ yet why should they continue to suffer even when they should be honored and living a decent life? In Stanislaus County‚ there are countless veterans who are in need of assistance and compensation for their services
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There are many homeless people out on the streets of the large cities in this great nation. When unemployment still hasn’t gotten near zero and new jobs are being created every day‚ people are starting to ask why there are still homeless people in the alleys and on the sidewalks of this country. This seems to be an ever haunting problem even though it would be so easy for homeless people to just get a job. Let’s look at the general requirements for applying for and keeping a job. All you have
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likely to have asthma. 41% of these children have families‚ but 1/3 of these children’s parents can’t get a job because of their living situation. Without out income these children cannot buy the medicine that they might need‚ which causes about 5‚000 homeless children to die each year. If you subtract 5‚000 from our population yearly we would have 322‚558‚006 people by 2020 (not including other deaths) .The average amount of kids people have is 2 so if you multiply 5‚000 five times (the years from) and
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we don’t instead of having just a couple of states that have a high number of homeless people there will be like a competition of which states can rise the fastest of having the most people that can not have there own place to live and higher death rates.For example right now Los Angeles is the largest homeless population which 55% has grown to 12‚536 and that alone has said that california has one- third of the homeless population.(Los Angeles times) The increase of that outpaced the one in new york
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Compare-Contrast Essay Lesley Perry-Tanner ENG 121 Annemarie Hamlin November 28‚ 2013 There are many similarities as well as many differences in narrative and descriptive essays. A narrative essay many times reflects some type of personal experience. The narrative essay also tells a story and it has an intriguing way to keep the audience wanting to know more. The descriptive essay on the other hand usually just describes a person‚ a scene‚ or feelings to a reader (Connell‚ C.‚ & Sole
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"An Essay on Man" by English poet Alexander Pope is a philosophical poem‚ which was published‚ in the 18th century during a historical period called the Enlightenment. A huge emphasis was placed on the ability to think and reason during the Enlightenment. People during this era reflected about a variety of topics. Some people concerned themselves with the issue of God‚ which consequently caused many to question the church. Others were concerned with the organization of the Universe‚ and man’s place
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