The Homeless Man

In the article, “The Homeless Brother I Cannot Save”, by the author Ashley Womble in the Anthology, Reading and Writing for the 21st Century First edition, accessed on October of 2017, Ashley Womble who is the author and character in the article, tells her story based on her personal life and point of view. The author does an exceptional job in illustrating the communications barriers she deals with regarding her brother Jay, who has a mental illness with schizophrenic symptoms, and his rapid progression of the disease. The story takes place in the streets of New York in the year 2009, which introduces Jay and his actions regarding his diagnosed mental illness, that is later explained to readers that he leaves to become homeless avoiding his mental health distortion and personally letting it progress. Womble effectively demonstrates the difficulty of accepting her brother's health decline and not being able to aid or convince him to seek medical attention and for her brother's sudden disappearance. Although Ashley is not diagnosed physically with a mental disorder, she shows similarities of minor mental illness symptoms as she constantly wonders her thoughts and actions regarding her brothers well being and state of mind. Jay who is twenty is a legal adult of his own health decision making and which he refuses treatment and runs away. For Ashley, it pushed her even more insane to witness and accept her brother decline in compression, due to the lack of medical attention. Womble efficaciously does well on demonstrating her own mental well being, and her brothers own difficulty in society and being homeless and how it changed her life seeing her brother like that. Womble quotes “ But the more I pushed him to get help, the more my own sanity escaped me (91).

The essay, On Compassion By Barbara Lazear Ascher, addresses the subject by going beyond the origin and reasoning for compassion. She interprets this by examining characteristics of homelessness and ways to empathize with it in the city of New York, her home. The use of rhetorical devices allows the author to adequately teach readers the ideas and essence of compassion. Ascher’s use of organization, figurative language, and ethos allows the application of philosophy and sentiment to question our articulation of the subject.

Homelessness exists as a prominent issue that plagues society in various ways. It brings about hardship and controversy as individuals struggle to survive on a daily basis. Additionally, this complication tears families apart and ostracizes individuals from a society where they once belonged. A specific problem regarding homelessness consists of lack of interest from bystanders; some of these spectators refuse to even acknowledge homeless individuals sitting at their feet. As homeless people live their lives on street-corners, the more fortunate members of society choose to engulf themselves in their personal problems alone. Displayed by their clothing and accessories, most of these individuals possess the ability to help in some way;

The controversial issue of the homeless in New York has been an ongoing battle for several years. Many leaders like Andrew Cuomo have come to the conclusion that obligating homeless people into shelters should be enforced, yet others oppose the idea. They believe such harsh actions shouldn 't be taken. Journalist like Hinckley, who wrote "Can New York Force Homeless People into Shelters?" and Marc Santo, who wrote "Keep New York 's homeless off the streets!" have written articles with fact based information with details on the homeless living conditions. In my opinion, such actions shouldn 't occur. The homeless in New York have the right to choose their living conditions, therefore they shouldn 't be obligated to be put in shelters.

Have you ever wondered how people start to become homeless? Often, people all around the world become homeless by poverty,housing,etc. This is because poverty is a common thread surrounded by everyone who experiences homelessness. People that are homeless don't have any food or water, instead they live on the streets with less clothing and the eager to have food and water. In 2010 14.3% nationwide people are living through poverty. In 2009 43.6 million people are homeless up from 39.8 million in 2008. This research paper is going to explain the history of homeless, some effects that cause homelessness, and some solutions that can prevent homelessness from happening and what we can do to help homeless people.

Cities increasingly grapple with homelessness, while facing budget cuts to various services, but the failure to tackle homelessness creates more problems. While there are homeless people who are on drugs, some are there because housing is expensive and they have no reliable sources of income. Homelessness may result in the city spending more on welfare in a never ending cycle without finding a solution to homelessness. There are various factors associated with the risk of homelessness, including individual factors like those fleeing domestic abuse, and even those who can longer earn a living because of health conditions and disabilities. The problem of homelessness is further compounded when the homeless suffer mental health issues and alcohol or drug dependence (Benston, 2015). Homelessness is a problem that affects even the youth, and stakeholders ought to work together to tackle the problem, as city officials, and residents are the audience who should be concerned with the problem at the local level.

One day, in Miami there was a homeless man looking for change on the ground. Some kind man named Tyler saw him and went over to talk to him , Tyler started a conversation with him and got to know him and his story. Tyler learned that he was a veteran of the United States Marine Cor. he had came home from deployment and lost contact with his family and now can’t find a job. He’s been homeless for two years and eight months now and can’t find any help. He lost contact with family and has tried everything he could to find them. Tyler decided to give the man all the cash he had on him. Then, took him to the store and bought him a pay phone to stay in touch. The homeless mans name was Rob and his hometown was Collins, Ga. With the money Tyler gave

One sunny day on the busy streets of Chicago, a homeless man walked down the sidewalks scowling at nearby street peddlers. He went by the name of Richard Walker, better known as Rich, which was very ironic. He walked down the sidewalks through different people, catching sections of their conversation. “Look at Rich! Don’t give that old homeless man any money!” Although Rich was well used to it, didn’t mean he took it lightly at all.

Laying in my bed, I can hear gunshots firing off outside my window. In the morning on my journey to school, I may walk over a puddle of bullet shells, or have to cover my nose because an junkie overdose in the hallway. Although on that same journey, I see my cousin “sugarman” every morning before school. He would remind me to tie my shoes, and give me and my older sister a couple of dollars for lunch. One day, I woke up, then followed my normal morning routine. On my way to school, I notice he is not on the steps posted with his fresh all white Air Force Ones, and fitted Saints cap. Seeing His bright white smile, knowing he would always be in that spot waiting for us to pass him on the way to school, receiving those crumpled dollar bills; It hurt my heart to know that it all came to an end. Although the public housing projects I lived in consisted of abundance of violence, drugs, solicitation, I knew when I would visit my cousin in

Based on reading the article, “Homeless Man Interviews Himself” by Albert Bliss, I have come to the conclusion that this is overall an example of Closed-Form Writing. I firmly believe that this article conforms to the basis of the closed-form writing style but it dabbles in the open-formed style of writing. There are several examples in the essay that convince me of this.

Donnie Smith is a very kind man… to some. He is a very successful CEO of a multi-million dollar corporation. Although his family and close friends see the nice side of him, strangers don’t always see that side.

The time span this book occurred in is from July 2006 to April 2007 in Charleston, South Carolina. Portraying as a homeless man, Shepard starts off in Crisis Ministries, a homeless shelter that would have “the resources necessary to get him [me] back on his [my] feet,” (Chapter 1, page 9) which was a great kick-starter for his project. Shepard would move into an attic of one of his boss's, George, friend, Mickey, because it was the “best all-around deal that he [I] was going to find,” (Chapter 11, page 137) and because he wanted to leave Crisis Ministries, due to Shepard accepting that the Crisis Ministries was unacceptable to consider to stay in. Afterward, Shepard bought an apartment with his co-worker, Derrick's, cousin, Bubble Gum,

Just look at me, I’m a mess, look what they’ve done to me. I’m minutes away or even seconds from having my breath, my last look at this beautiful view. It was suppose to be a good day like any other day just me and my family but they came here today, they known as the distinctive ones. The old man used to called them the wacky fellows because they are different, because they are nasty, terrifying inhabitants.

My friends often describe me as a cynic and a pessimist. For the most part, they're right. Sentiment loses value when it permeates one's attitudes and behavior just as the value of a commodity decreases as it becomes ubiquitous, so as a rule I reserve expressing sentiment for rare occasions that I deem worthy. Fortunately, even the harshest cynics are surprised sometimes.

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.