Describe A Homeless Person

Homeless people are one of the major problems with america today, it is a very big problem that needs to be dealt with.

Homelessness is a social problem that is prevalent around the world. Homelessness has existed for much of "civilized" human history. In the last two centuries, homelessness and changed and expanded. Sociologists who study and research homelessness have argued over its formal definition for decades, though for some, the definition of homelessness seems self explanatory and obvious. The paper will examine homelessness, particularly as a sociological issue, or a social issue seen from a sociological perspective. The paper will additionally reference sociological theory as a means of explanation for homelessness, such its causes, the demographics/populations, and other prominent known characteristics of homeless people. There are individuals and groups who choose to be, from a normative societal perspective, homeless, but for a great deal of the homeless population, it can be a treacherous and tragic lifestyle that is a result of a distinct set of social, societal, and individual factors.

Many people throughout the world look at homeless people negatively, and that is some thing they do not deserve. People automatically assume homeless people are dirty, uneducated, and dangerous, but this is not always true. Many homeless people are war veterans and need help to get their life back on track, but they are too scared and hated to seek it. The stereotypes associated with homeless people make many people shy away from helping them and that is one of the reasons why they are really suffering. I chose homelessness as my topic because it is an issue that should be addressed and examined more carefully. People treat homeless people unfairly because of the stereotypes associated with them and choose to ignore them instead of helping them.

There are over 10,000 people that are homeless in Denver (Schrags, 2017). Losing a job, becoming sick or even a lack of affordable housing can cause someone to become homeless. To better understand the dispute on homelessness, we will look at the issue a few different ways. There are many perspectives but the main three perspectives are functionalism, the conflict theory, and symbolic interaction.

Homeless people have been around us for a long time. It occurs when the family faces problems and leave each other with nothing on them. Disabled people often get rejected from social services and end up in the streets. Veterans get robbed by the government and end up on the streets too. Everyone dreams of living in a house someday and not living on the streets. The government should make rules that help and benefit homeless people. Sometimes kids, at a young age, leave their parents because they have a lot of conflicts going on around the house. Homeless people’s lives are hard. Homeless people apply to get the job but get rejected by the manager because they have nothing on them and because they are poor. Sometimes a person getting out of prison will have a hard time getting a job too. Let’s see how there are sociological perspectives and how they view homelessness.

You feel an intense, out-of-the-skin awareness of your living self—your truest self, the human being you want to be and then become by the force of wanting it. In the midst of evil you want to be a good man. You want decency. You want justice and courtesy and human concord, things you never knew you wanted. There is a kind of largeness to it, a kind of godliness. Though it’s odd, you’re never more alive than when you’re almost dead. You recognize what’s valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what’s best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost. At the hour of dusk you sit at your foxhole and look out on a wide river turning pinkish red, and at the mountains beyond, and although in the morning you must cross the river and go into the mountains and do terrible things and maybe die, even so, you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and you are filled with a hard, aching love for how the world could be and always should be, but now is

The most influential person in an individual life happens to be the parents. Parents teach their children expected behavior, boundaries, and rules. Although, children are always more attentive to their parent’s behavior; something parents quite often do not realize. If the parents walk does not match their talk their; kids will not take in consideration what they have been taught. Kids always have that mentality of “if you did it, I will do it too because it is okay.” Children learn more from their parents character than their teachings; demonstrating that actions speak louder than words. Clearly, what individuals are exposed in their adolescents shapes their mentality affecting how they perceive situations and people. A lot of things

Lazy, drug user, alcoholic, and worthless are many of the stereotypes that can be ascribed to homeless people. As heartbreaking as it is, many want to work and not all homeless people are subjected to drug use. Moreover, are they worthless. The stigma attached to homeless persons has continued from the earliest days of American history. This issue of homelessness prompted me to make this my broad topic, while figuring out what is it that we need to improve on, in order to help the homeless. My goal is to open many people's eyes on what homeless men endure, but what factors could we, service providers, implement to better help them. We love to hear about women who have been victims of domestic violence, single motherhood, abused children, veterans, and abused puppies. Which are all important but what about the homeless men? I want to be able to give one viewpoints from a homeless man’s standpoint, which could alter the way we not only help them, but view them.

It began as a sharp whisper in the air,a kind of whisper that pierced the eardrum ceaselessly to foreshadow a harsh rain.It hissed harshly refusing to be ignored,the sky then shook,signaling the monstrous wind to destroy every feeble object in its path.This chaos was eerily beautiful and the sound that it carried was sweet euphoric music to my ears.I rested on a bench completely obscured from view in the Noel backyard.

In the ABC 6 article “Hawaii Bill Would Classify Homelessness as Medical Condition” the author, Cathy Bussewitz, discusses how prescribing housing to the homeless will result in less health problems for them. According to the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, chronic diseases are more difficult to manage when homeless. Therefore, Hawaii Senator John Green proposed to classify homelessness as a medical condition, allowing doctors to prescribe housing as a treatment. Senator Green suggests that Medicaid, a health care insurance program, provides the money for temporary housing. In fact, a study conducted by the University of Hawaii found that after homeless people had housing for six months their health care costs decreased by 43

Their it finally is, on Pg. 205, a statement made by Nick’s farther, “life on the streets of Boston was just another bullshit night in suck city.” Ultimately, one of my favorite parts in books, is when they make a connection to the title, then you have a flashback, remembering when you first read the title and didn’t have any idea what it meant. That statement clearly shows and describes how life must be for the homeless. Not only that line, but also before that he describes the struggles on a day to day basis. I’m sure what Nick’s farther said reflects the life of many because of the fact that the experience’s he’s struggling through and going through, like “waking up to the grass soaking wet,” or “rats passing through the cardboard box,”

A young twelve year old girl named Dasani lives in the Auburn Family Residence in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Auburn’s Family Residence is a shelter for more than 22,000 homeless children in New York. Dasani lives in a place where mold and roaches claims the walls, where vomit submerges the toilets, where kids like Dasani have to watch after their mom as they try to cleanse themselves in a shower that looks and smells like it hasn’t been cleaned since it opened. She begins her day taking on mom duties at the age of 12 taking care of her brothers and sisters and cleaning the living space. Dasani lives in place where in order to eat her food she has to wait on a microwave that is used by hundreds of other homeless individuals dying to eat their first meal. One might ask who could possibly live in this treacherous nightmare of an environment? This is the life of homeless people across the United States of America. This environment is why homeless kids are twice as likely to repeat a grade than their regular counterparts. This why homeless kids fall victim to depression, and are socially withdrawn. These are the exact reasons why homeless people are more likely to succumb to HIV/Aids, diabetes and tuberculosis. Any regular human being would know that this is unacceptable for anybody to have to live through everyday of their lives. There are concerns that not providing housing for homeless persons is proving to be detrimental to America’s

While thousands of miles away from my hometown, the same social constructs remained pathogenic in nature, and produced the same psychophysical symptoms within those who were trapped within it.

“You were outside,’ she said. ‘There was an eerie light. You were very pale. There were cobwebs and flies all over you. You were hooting, just like an owl.”

I hear them get closer and closer as the porch creaks every step to the door. My heart feels like its pounding through my chest, and sweat is pouring off my face as I sprint in a panic. I hear the key turning and the door opening just as I jump out the window.