people 1.5 million of these children may experience acute and chronic health problems. These children have four times as many respiratory problems‚ five times more gastrointestinal problems‚ and four times more 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
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given poverty a voice by telling its readers that society had a role in darkening the children’s lives such as Eric’s and Silvio’s (301). Kozal has also given poverty a voice by telling its readers that it is unfair and dumb to put a mother and her children into homes where crime is around in every block (302). Angelo for instance‚ grew up at a time when crime was getting worst. Benjamin‚ also a kid who suffered watching siblings die because narcotics. These kids did not deserve to be put in the homes
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8318841 6 have to make sure he has food‚ he has clothing‚ he has a house‚” said McInnes. (“Homeless Students: A Hidden Tragedy”). The effects of homelessness on children can be crippling. Learning disabilities are another effect that homeless children face. In fact‚ “homeless children are twice as likely to have a learning disability‚ than children in stable homes.” (“Faces of Homelessness”) These disabilities begin at birth‚ primarily due to poor health conditions and lack of special care‚ during
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qualified as homeless. This means they spend their nights living in their car‚ a shelter‚ or on the streets. Not only do they not have a roof over their head‚ but they usually have no food in their stomach. Not ingesting the proper nutrients is also know as malnutrition. Malnutrition affects a person’s weight‚ causes disease‚ and has a negative impact on a child’s educational development. It is critical for the human body to receive enough vitamins and nutrients every day. However‚ most homeless people
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Almost 100‚000 of those people are chronically homeless‚ which means they have been homeless more than four times within three years and have slept in places not meant for human habitation. America has a homelessness problem‚ and we need to do something to fix it. The homeless shelters are nothing but shelters. We need something that is effective to get these people off the streets‚ and that something is Housing First. Housing First helps the homeless with mental and physical disabilities‚ along with
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Homeless Children. Then and Now “We make a living by what we get‚ but we make a life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill Homeless children is still a huge problem. Children do not have a place they can call home. These destitute people live in bad environments‚ and grow up in an unsafe environment. During the 19th century‚ homeless children were extremely similar to homeless children today. Despite children not having a home and living in hazardous environments‚ present-day‚ we have shelters
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Outline Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to help fight homelessness Central Idea: With more help for the homeless we can better America Attention I. Imagine for a moment that your not in this classroom. A. Instead your outside‚ but you not walking to class or your dorm‚ your living there. B. Imagine for a moment that you yourself are homeless. 1. You have no shelter 2. When it rains your wet 3. When its cold your freezing 4. You have no money
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tries to explain the living condition of these poor people‚ and the inequality between them. On top of this‚ he also described that the public administration tried to abandoned this neighborhood. Kozol divided the book into six chapters. The whole book organized through interview and interaction with children‚ teacher and others people such as pastor and nurse. Moving from individual experience through interview in order to criticize the government allow these problems to exist in the United States
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Amazing Grace‚ by Jonathan Kozol‚ is about the author’s interviews with‚ and thoughts about‚ some of the poorest people who live in the poorest sections of New York. The facts stated in Amazing Grace startled me with the prevalence and desperation of the poverty situation in areas like the South Bronx and Mott Haven. These are areas where there are hundreds of thousands of people living in broken‚ crowded‚ and rundown apartment buildings‚ “That‚” says Kozol‚ “most people would not even kennel their
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The excerpt “Amazing Grace” from the whole book Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol‚ introduces a little boy‚ Cliffie‚ who lives in South Bronx‚ New York. Cliffie takes Kozol on a tour through the poor and dangerous city from St. Ann’s Church. The government clumped all the people in poverty in the small area. Many drugs and diseases flowed through their environment‚ yet the kids managed to stay very happy and live the best of their lives. Kozel explains
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