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Eleanor J. Bader dives into a serious topic in her report, Homeless on Campus. She discusses the problem of homelessness amount college students, its affects, and a few of its causes. Her purpose is to shed some light on this issue by sharing many stories of students who have faced this problem themselves, and faculty members who have witnessed this problem first hand. If her purpose were different, her writing style and her gathered information would be different.Although many of the people she interviewed talked about how there is not a specific program in place to help solve this problem, there is never any mention of a solution. This leads me to believe that in this report all she is really trying to do is illuminate the problem and make people empathetic to the situation, not provide a solution to the problem or the problem’s root itself. …show more content…
We are given a quick synopsis of Aesha’s life in the first couple sentences. Bader describes her as follows, “Aesha is a twenty-year-old at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. Until the fall of 2003, she lived with five people— her one-year-old son, her sons father, her sister, her mother, and her mothers boyfriend — in a three-bedroom South Bronx apartment. Things at home were fine until her child’s father became physically abusive.” Bader then goes on to describe all of the temporary homes Aesha and her son ended up living in, and the toll it took on her physically, emotionally, and academically. This story makes you automatically feel sorry and empathetic towards Aesha’s situation. This is exactly what Bader is trying to do throughout the entire report. Bader then talks about a couple of other students with similar situations, which provoke the same types of

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