The Struggles of a Couple in the Heart in Toronto

They were disgusted, amused, shocked, outraged, or even excited by the story. “But we listened for the ones who would say, “Poor little girl,” or “Poor baby,” but there was only head-wagging where those words should've been” (Morrison 190). This continues with the fundamental idea that the community only seems to care on a shallow level. The real-life struggles of people turn into the town’s local gossip. Unfortunately, most people see this information as a new type of entertainment and see the people involved as just characters. In a sense, they refuse to view the lower class as people

Mental illness has played a pretty big role on homeless people and families. Researchers have said that most homeless people across the United States suffer from a mental illness. In the book The Glass Castle written by Jeannette Walls, there were multiple signs of mental illness within the author's parents. Homelessness can be caused by many reasons, but one of the main reasons for homelessness is mental illness. It is very likely that a person could have a mental illness before becoming homeless.

The issue my team chose to research and tackle was homelessness in the Ozarks. Specifically, we wanted to look at the demographics of the issue and then ultimately we wanted to look into the effects the issue of homelessness is having on another serious issue, mental illness, and vice versa. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines homelessness as one having no home or permanent place of residence. It defines mental illness as any of a broad range of medical conditions that are marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, or emotions to impair normal psychological functioning and cause marked distress or disability and that are typically associated with a disruption in normal thinking, feeling, mood, behavior, interpersonal interactions, or daily functioning. Some of the examples of mental illnesses given by Merriam-Webster are major depression, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or panic disorder. The main aspects of the issue that will be covered are the current status of the issue, the causes, current organizations involved in finding solutions, and what more needs to be done.

In life especially, 2,000 years ago, there was a path that women were expected to take. Marriage being the number one decision and path they were supposed to endure. Today, women role in society has changed tremendously since the 1800s. Women are now a little more equal to men. In Chopin, Kate. The Story of an Hour and Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Birth-mark, two stories about gender role and marriages, show how it was like in the 1800s. Their opinion of marriage was correct even though somethings were flawed.

"In the Park" and "More" show the negatives of belonging and not belonging, the former through a pessimistic tone and choice of diction, and the latter through repetition and the juxtaposition of colour. "More" shows the main character's lack of belonging through the absence of any form of connection to others, with the closest form of interaction being criticism from its boss. The director uses repetition of dull activities such as waking up, working and sleeping while maintaining close-ups of discouraged facial expressions to illustrate the lack of meaning in one's life without belonging. "In the Park" shows the dissatisfaction of the female main character's life through an ongoing pessimistic tone, which describes her children's actions with words such as "whine", "bicker" and "aimless" and associates the children as problems due to belonging to a family.

S., Shtasel, D., & Bassuk, E. L., 2014). Psychiatric problems and homelessness is being caused very much by a lack of social support that is given to them, as well as negative social relationships, and the events in their lives that cause stress (Keuroghlian, A. S., Shtasel, D., & Bassuk, E. L., 2014).

Luckily, only 5-7% of the mentally ill have to be institutionalized(5), and most of them can find community programs and housing to help their conditions. Other factors can be domestic violence. Many women have to choose between abusive relationships or homelessness, and nearly 25% of single homeless women said they became homeless because of an abusive relationship in their previous place of residence.(1) Health care afford ability is a minor reason for homelessness, but a reason none-the-less. More than half of people living in poverty or homelessness had no health care of any kind.(1) The reason for homelessness is an easy question to answer, how many homeless there are in the United States is a harder one.

Cartoonist Mark Knight uses the Baby Catherine affair to make the point that Prime Minister John Howard and his party’s standing with the electorate has parallels with the fate of the abandoned infant. Mr Howard became embroiled in the issue, when a Sydney newspaper was criticised for condemning the mother for abandoning her baby, but the PM stoutly defended the paper’s stance.

For our critiquing assignment in our Introduction to Stagecraft 1, I ventured to downtown Toronto, to a small indie theatre called, The Unit 102 Theatre. There I saw the production of MISS; written by Dora Award-nominated playwright Michael Ross Albert who wrote such works as Tough Jews, The Spadina Avenue Gang with the Storefront Theatre. The set takes place in the aftermath of a shocking accident in a boarding school classroom, the story explores the tenuous connection between a high school teacher, her fiance, and a troubled student whose lives have been irrevocably changed by tragedy caused by a miscarriage, an affair, and the fear of the consequences that are not yet revealed, and finally, murder. This is a one act showdown between three

Political factors also play into homelessness, when the federal government slashes funding for integral social programs like housing assistance the number of homeless persons skyrockets (Center for Public Interest Research, nd). Social problems are yet another contributing factor as to why a person may end up homeless, especially with drug and alcohol addictions, and as many as 25% of the homeless suffer from some form of mental illness (Center for Public Interest Research, nd). Many women and children are homeless as a result of fleeing domestic violence and there not being adequate shelters or programs to provide assistance (Center for Public Interest Research, nd).

Those who are homeless, living in poverty with no work, food, or shelter, have to go through many obstacles in their lifestyle. They are more susceptible to suffer from many mental disorders, from Bipolar to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, which are often due to the personal experiences of not only their childhood, but their lifestyle of homelessness. While many choose to live in their own distinctive ways, others are bound to it. Being isolated, with no real love and care from other people, most importantly, your family can cause the reasoning behind the mental disorders people suffer.

Mentally ill patients are overcrowding the streets because no shelter seems to welcome them. Their mental state simply worsens and they are forced to surrender to their living standards. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, in 2007 reported, “An estimate of 744,313 people were experiencing homelessness in January of 2005. Of that amount, 40 to 50 percent of that population were mentally ill and left untreated”. Ultimately, the mentally ill patients who are forced to live on the streets are unable to receive proper treatment due to lack of fundings. On top of that, homeless patients cannot afford proper diagnoses even if they were given the opportunity. The homeless are constantly moving locations in attempt to finding a warm, safe place to camp for the night. Many homeless turn to drugs or alcohol to keep

In the film Precious, this movie discuses a lot of maltreatment and physical abuse. This movie is by far one of the worse because it deals with mistreatment and negative talk on an innocent teenager who wants to be all that she can be, but she is insulted and told differently. Although it may be a bad movie, I always hope that this will inspire other people like Precious to speak out on what they are going through. There is a lot of drugs being used in the home and just plain out disrespect. Claireece “Precious” Jones who is 16 years old grew up in Harlem during the late 1980s. All of the poor and dirty crime that happens, none of which affects Precious as much as the constant mistreatment she receives at the hands of her brutally vile mother Mary. Precious is treated as a slave, fixing food, washing dishes, and tending to her wretched master as the worthless woman smokes, collects welfare, and watches TV. Precious lives a life that involves many sociological issues that have unarguably caused her great pain throughout her young life. Having endured poverty, sexual abuse, and verbal abuse her life has been far from perfect, but she realizes the need to defeat these negative sociological factors to achieve a life that seems to her as only a fantasy. During school, Precious tries very hard to blend into the background; she dreams of being normal, gracing the covers of magazines, and sporting an arm-candy boyfriend. The feeling that I felt when I watched this movie breaks my heart because there are people in this world that are indeed treated like this and this is very sad. It's very tough for teens and children to go through life hurting and crying out for help. This is what Precious face. Perhaps the most affecting element of the film is Precious' refusal to demand sympathy. The movie tells the story of Precious being abused and mistreated as a teenager, out of the apartment of cigarette smoke and pig's feet and bed springs and casual cruelty and into the world of unimagined possibilities. She's aided on the journey by a literacy teacher Ms. Rain, into whose hands she falls after being expelled out of school and a social worker who digs up her history of abuse. This movie was very depressing to watch. When it

These three pieces of literature contain two contrasting perspectives from different backgrounds and social classes. A song in the Front Yard and A street in Lawndale demonstrate the

Gender inequality, police brutality and transgender rights are just a few societal issues impacting the way our society functions today. However, the social issue I have chosen is homelessness, specifically the causes and effects of homelessness in America because of recent observations. Since moving to Akron, I have noticed that the amount of homeless individuals seems more present in urban areas. Considering this new observation, I began to wonder how people become homeless and how this affects not only Akron, but our society in general. Although the rates of homelessness are moderately decreasing, homelessness is a public issue because it influences our economy and public health. The stigma around mental illness plays a huge part in the rates of homelessness. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, about a quarter of the homeless population