Being homeless means having nowhere to turn to‚ no shelter‚ and completely living on the streets. Many people walk by and completely ignore the homeless like a stray dog‚ loose on the streets. Being homeless does not make someone less than a regular human being.Homelessness is a shock to many because it depicts a human being just like us and our own society lacking the necessities we take for granted. First of all‚ who are the homeless? How did they get where they are? Being homeless is caused
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CRIMINALIZATION OF THE HOMELESS COMMUNITY Many individuals experience homelessness do not have certain needs‚ including affordable housing‚ adequate income and health care. Some homeless persons may need additional services such as mental health or drug treatment in order to be securely housed. This research paper will discuss what homeless means‚ various ways in which individuals become homeless‚ trends‚ laws that effect the homeless ‚ and do decriminalization of the homeless community help or hinder
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“Nobody wants to be homeless‚ it doesn’t even come across their minds in five years from now I would like to be Homeless” (Inocente). Inocente is a short documentary film about a 15 year aspiring artist who is homeless. She resides with her Mother and three brothers in San Diego‚ California. Inocente attends school and her class mates are unaware that she is homeless. She will not tell classmates that she is homeless because the fear of mockery and shame. Inocente has been homeless most of her life
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Jonathan Edwards incorporates simile‚ personification‚ and metaphor as his rhetorical techniques within his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Edwards incorporates rhetorical devices as a means to terrorize and persuade Puritans and to repent their sins. Throughout his sermon‚ Edward utilizes details and God himself to construct a frightening corollary for sinners in the after life. Edward emphasizes how dreadful and cruel the wrath of God truly is. For instance‚ Edward compares the "destruction"
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structured while in the service they were organized and controlled. The problem today is that veterans are becoming more and more homeless. For too many of these citizens‚ help is hard to come by. According to Green Doors‚ 96% of veterans come from poverty‚ low-income families. Many say that homeless veterans are males‚ but female veterans are becoming more homeless as the years go on. In the year 2006‚ 150 female veterans were from the Iraqi and Afghanistan Wars; then in the year 2011‚ there were
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America can spend all of this money and manpower on countries‚ how come the government does not help the homeless individuals inside their own borders. An unjust situation is the amount of homeless men‚ women‚ and children in the United States of America. One may think that shelters are keeping homeless people out of the streets and solving the problem‚ that is not the case. While they do keep homeless people out of the streets there is a successful and less expensive way. That way is long term housing
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When walking through a major city‚ have you ever wondered why most of the homeless community seems to suffer from a mental disability? The truth is over 50% of the homeless suffer from mental illness; in fact‚ the rise in mental illness in the homeless community can be traced as a direct impact from the Reagan administration from the mid 1980’s. After becoming elected‚ former president Reagan passed several acts which deliberately released hundreds of thousands of uncured mentally ill patients from
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discriminate between races or skin color‚ although some may be a bit more prevalent. Homeless people range from former veterans‚ to immigrants‚ to families struggling to find a solid paying job and a stable lifestyle. Also‚ although most people relate a homeless person to an underdressed‚ rugged man‚ the homeless population now leans towards families. There are more and more homeless families on the streets every day. Homeless families can be an effect of discrimination because of race‚ a result of violence
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On 1741 in Enfield‚ Connecticut‚ puritan minister Jonathan Edwards‚ gave a harsh sermon to a congregation to disclose how angry God is at those who sin and that only by His grace they can be saved. In Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God the minster uses an emotional appeal to convey what would happen to the people who were considered as God’s enemies because they have not been born again. For example‚ the author admonishes‚ “...the devil is waiting for them‚ hell is gaping for them‚ the flames
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each. The proceedings allowed observers to put names‚ faces and stories to this previously "invisible" group of homeless people. It was the first time that street sleepers were willing to publicly declare their identity. The Chan brothers are among those who sued the government. Both saw their lives go downhill at an early age. Chan Kwok-kei‚ 58‚ was the eldest of six children. He blames himself for being on the streets. "I was a bad child‚" he said. "I’d often skip school‚ go out and have
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