...on a daily basis as they are driving down the streets, but that most ignore. In an age that questions whose problem the homeless population is, controversies arise over who should be taking care of these people. Homelessness is not a new concept in America. Having been around for over a century, the past few decades has become exceptionally worse. Homelessness is not something that is easily defined. Alex K. Rich and Geraldine Wagner tell their readers that most who study the problem of homelessness define the issue as “those who are forced to sleep in places not designated for sleeping.” Jennifer Bringle defines the homeless as people who do not have a “fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence” (4). However defined, the fact that they do not have a permanent residence is only the beginning of the problem. Although there are many controversies today surrounding the problem of homelessness and whether the government is responsible or not, the nation as a whole should take responsibility and work collectively to strive for an end to the problem. To some the way to end homelessness means leaving the change up to the homeless themselves. Critics today focus on the idea that people are homeless because of their own actions. In Ted Gottfried’s book Homeless: Whose Problem Is It, Ronald Reagan is quoted as saying, “The homeless . . . are homeless, you might say, by choice” (50). Also quoted in Gottfried’s book, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, says that the nation’s...
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...Denver Moore makes the concept of not judging a book by its cover perceptible throughout this novel. In this novel a man and woman named Ron and Debbie Hall have their lives refined forever when they meet an older man named Denver at a homeless shelter. Throughout the novel Denver and the Halls share their life story with one another. Even with the dramatic differentiations between the Halls and Denver consisting of class, culture and environment the characters all come to realize how alike they truly are. There are many social issues that emerge within the novel not only with the individual characters themselves, but also with all of the characters and families as a whole. Looking at the characters individually, they each struggle with their own issues. For example, Ron Hall ends up becoming successful within his career, but tends to become very materialistic and...
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...upper middle class neighborhood. The narrator, Katie Carr, finds herself in a situation where she is dealing with her husband, David, and his friend’s, GoodNews, mission to change their neighborhood by decreasing the number of homeless youth. Their solution to this neighborhood problem is to use spare rooms in the neighborhood’s houses as temporary shelter until youth are more established on their own. They gather all of their neighbors at the party and introduce this problem and their solution to obtain everyone’s opinion. As a result of this gathering, David and GoodNews illustrate their “goodness” to their community by encouraging people to become part of the solution. Even though the other side of their solution is presented to the audiene, five people feel that they have an obligation to change the lives of these homeless children. Katie Carr is facing a dilemma because she truly believes that she is a good person since she has become a doctor to help others. In addition, she considers herself to be a good mother and a wife. However, she opposes the idea of hosting and aiding homeless youth from her neighborhood in her house because she strongly believes that she doesn’t have to share her house with the homeless youth since that would limit her family and herself. Katie supports the fact that everyone has a moral right to have spare rooms in their houses and use their space accordingly to their preference. Her “internal” controls over this circumstance make her look selfish...
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...In the United States today, there are approximately 640,000 homeless people. When it comes to the topic of homelessness, there are so many differing opinions. Some people believe the homeless are a burden and that they should all be killed, while others believe that it is our God given duty to help these people and do all we can for them. Then there are some who could care less. Personally, I believe in service, so we should obviously help them all, but only to a certain extent. This is my belief because we shouldn’t have to waste all of our own hard earned money on them, but we should still help. The three ways we could all do in order to really help decrease the number of homeless people living in the streets would be to change society’s attitude about them, give to them, and push for change. If we all do these three things, we can really make a change. To begin, changing one’s attitude regarding homeless people is a huge step. An attitude is important in any setting. School, work, home, one’s attitude means everything. When someone has a bad attitude, he or she generally treat everyone else worse and thus, don’t work as hard. With a good positive attitude, people are usually much more generous, caring, and determined. When it comes to changing ones attitude, start with one’s self, then begin to help society change their attitude about homeless people. In the world today, people have catagorized homeless people as lazy, violent, crazy, addicted criminals who choose homelessness...
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...parents will come back. These are the things that homeless children think about almost every day. There are thousands of children in Orange County who are hungry, homeless and have no future in their education. In this society, the Orange County is one of the richest cities known to America, however no one knows there are unfortunate citizens currently living in the city as well. It is important that the city needs to know what is going on with these poor unfortunate children, and how it is affecting our society and to our future generations. There are homelessness families all over in America, but there are around 28,000 homeless children in Orange County according to the Orange County Department of Education in 2010 to 2011. Roughly there are mothers who are around in their late twenties with two children to support. According to familyhomelessness.org, there are 84% of families experiencing homelessness who are female-headed. Majority of these homeless women did not receive a high school diploma. Also there are 42% of children in homeless families who are under the age of six. Knowing these facts, it should show the society that this is a social issue and it is something that the society should not take lightly. Children living on their own is horrifying experience for them. For every kid out on the street, they cannot find the happiness and hope if they don’t have a chance to live a second chance in life. These homeless kids should not be left out on the streets, but they...
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...adults, adolescents, and families can be found living without a place to call their home. The amount of homelessness is increasing at an alarming rate; this resulted fundamentally from America’s present-day economy system and the lack of prevention help. Homelessness has an effect on the community economically, socially, and politically; specifically taking an impact on public safety, local governments, and living costs. Anyone can become homeless; nobody chooses to be put in such position. According to Fargo et al., as stated in their article about the variations of homelessness, “as of a single night...
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...In 2010, almost 649,917 people were considered homeless by the HUD in America (Curtis 2229). Within the population, at least 15% of the people were considered chronically homeless, which means they have been homeless for fifteen or more years (Semuels). In today’s world, the definition of homelessness is constantly changing every day (Curtis 2228). Many people consider homeless people to all be the same, but each homeless person is heterogeneous because they have their own characteristics and personalities (Lee 505). Much like Americans who...
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...Charms Elite Homeless Shelter, a non-profit organization. Here at Charms Elite Homeless Shelter we understand that your term is almost up, but we strongly urge you to think about our adjure. Nobody knows exactly how many homeless people there are altogether. Estimation varies widely because the population is constantly changing with people becoming homeless and homeless people finding shelter. Although we are unaware of the exact population we do know some statistics about our homeless. About 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. Life on the streets...
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...for homelessness would also mean that judges and magistrates could specialise in resolving such disputes, in a manner which is more appropriate and takes into account the persons involved. By analysing The Vagrants, Gaming & Other Offences Act 1931 and other academic articles, it will be shown the current court system doesn’t adequately punish homeless persons in a way which considers all of the facets of their life. In Queensland, the Vagrants, Gaming & Other Offences Act 1931 has come under scrutiny for it being “archaic and ill-adapted to our modern society”1. The...
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...Homeless and Abandoned Everyone at some point has gone without at something in their lives. For some, it may be as simple as going without a cell phone or cable television. However, some people go without a place to call home. “In January 2014, 578,424 people were homeless on a given night. Most were staying in residential programs for homeless people, and the rest were found in unsheltered locations” (Henry, Cortes and Shivji). American author John Grisham wrote “Somewhere for Everyone” a story that depicts that homelessness is more of an inconvenience rather than exploring the underlying issue on how to eradicate the subject on hand. The same can be said about abandoned children. Jessica Valenti clearly explains in “Not Wanting Kids is Entirely...
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...among those who are greatly impacted are of the LGBT – lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. There are many reasons to why young adults are forced to live on the streets. Through this research we can answer some basic questions, including to why so many LGBT youth are becoming homeless. In recent years the LGBT youth have recently sky rocketed in a high proportion which is estimated to be of 600,000 or more homeless youth across the country that is between 20 to 40 percent, which is according to the( National Gay and lesbian Task Force Policy Institute). In New York City 15,000 to 20,000 LGBT youth are among the homeless population which was according to a city count that was conducted in 2008. However it is clear that the LGBT youth experience homelessness and only about 5 percent of them have gone and identified themselves as lesbian, gay, or bisexual, that’s according to the federal centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One reason that the rate is emerging is because these youth are being pushed out of their homes do to their family’s response to their sexual orientation or gender identity. In most cases many face abandonment and rejection from families, and in other reason most...
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...society. The overall image that emerges from the effects of homeless people is negative: they’re seen as lazy, drug users, alcoholics, and worthless. This study recovers some of the homelessness perspective for an American audience through research, data, and an interview by a homeless person living in Georgia. This study will allow explanations and will challenge three widely held assumptions of the homeless people living in America: 1) Homeless people are lazy; 2) Homeless people are all drug and alcohol users and abusers; 3) Homeless people brought it on themselves. This research is to add nuance to our understanding about the social problem stated. Homelessness qualifies as a “social problem” because it doesn’t just affect the homeless but the nation as well. This paper will hopefully contribute more knowledge and understanding about the effects of homelessness in America. There has been a plethora of research done on homelessness in America since the 1980’s, but there has been changing quality and has left areas uninvestigated. According to Ravenhill (2011), In 2000 there was a survey done by researchers that included; the state of knowledge, finding growing interest in the social and economic factors underlying homelessness, increasing sophistication in the identification of ‘risk’ facts, and evolving expertise in helping people resettle. However, they noted a real absence of research tracking homeless people overtime. This is very essential for understanding the...
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...service professional must identify these problems that can range from inadequate housing, unemployment, to mental illnesses. Once they identify the problem, they find a solution to the problems so that clients are able to take care of themselves. The developmental process or problems are stages clients experience throughout life. Developmental theorist “suggest that human development is a continuous process and that there are certain phases and stages that individuals experience during a life span (Trotter & Swartwod, 2007). During a life span developmental problems that clients have come from different situations in the home, family, community, culture, country, and sociopolitical climate. Clients experience each stage differently in their life and it could have a trickle down affect when it comes to dealing with problems in their life. The developmental process allows human services to get to the root of the problem. It helps find out what factors in life led to these problems. Next you have situational problems which are sometimes unpreventable. Situational problems arise from accidents, violent crimes, natural disasters, and major changes in life such as a move, job...
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...THE PLACE OF DEEMED HOMELESS IN GOOD GOVERNANCE AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH OF INDIA TITLE: GOOD GOVERNANCE AND URBAN POVERTY PROGRAMS Author 1: Priyanka Bhattacharya, 1st Year, BBA.LLB(Hons) Author 2: Bharat Aseri, 2nd Year, BBA.LLB (Hons) ABOUT THE AUTHOR A girl from a metropolitan city of India, Priyanka Bhattacharya, was always in her way to be at the top. Doing her schooling from two famous schools of India, South Point High School and Gokhale Memorial Girls’ School, her capacity to write, think and dream increased and was ready to reach the top. Ups and Downs were a part and parcel of her life but hope and sincerity was her ultimate. After passing her first boards examination in class 10 her passion towards success increased because she knew in this world if one has success one is admired else are nailed to the cross of Jesus Christ. Working hard was not her part of the meal but the impulsive nature to get something and thirst of success which she always wanted to quench made her to this way. She passed her 10+2 examination with 88% of marks and being the state topper in accountancy in her WEST BENGAL BOARD OF HIGHER SECONDARY EXAMINATION, securing 98% marks out of 100. Awarded NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP by the Central Government she pursued corporate law for a better future and a better career and she is currently studying BBA.LLB in NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, ORISSA. Deprivation from all the enjoyment and happiness of the poor and homeless people touched her...
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...age, sex and familiarity with other people also affect how we communicate, since we differ to others that we respect or speak with. In this essay I will analyze how perceptions are formed by different people but of the same person. It is believed that perceptions are developed at an early age, as different life events take place the influences of our likes and dislikes start to form. After reading a few chapters of Communication in a changing World by Bethami A. Dobkin and Roger C. Pace, I can understand how it is possible for everyone to have different perceptions. Clearly, exposure can influence attraction under a variety of conditions. It is possible; however, that exposure has another important effect on person perception as well. In particular, mere exposure may increase the perceived similarity of others to us. There are two ways in which mere exposure could alter our beliefs about the similarity of others. First, repeated exposure could have A direct effect on perceived similarity, no matter the corresponding changes in attraction. We like to assume that the people we meet share at least some of our own attitudes, values, and beliefs .Using three of my family members, all of different ages and characters I conducted a small survey of perceptions using a picture of a man who appeared to be resting in the grass at a park, I allowed each observer to review the picture separately and write down their observations on a sheet...
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