`` This Is Us `` By Dan Fogelman

Homeless people are a vulnerable population in many respects that they always face discrimination and exclusion because of their housing condition. It is a social problem that typically low wages and shortage of affordable housing are the main factors contributing to homelessness. In fact, many poor people face significant barriers to maintain stable housing because they don’t have accessibilities to increase their economic stability. Overall, there are significant factors that contribute to homelessness that many homeless people usually struggle with limited access to resources, lack of information about services, and lack of support systems.

Not everyone is a criminal just because they have a criminal past. People can change through time and experience. Individuals are capable to recognize this through pieces of writing which shows the characters from the beginning through the end. In We Were Here written by Matt de La Pena in 2009, there were three main characters which are Miguel, Mong, and Rondell. Miguel committed a horrible crime and got sent to a group home for a year and was obligated to write in his journal, so the judge can understand his way of his thinking. Miguel meets Rondell and Mong at the group home. Then Mong decides to come up with a plan to escape the group home, run off to Mexico to be free with Miguel and Rondell. The three boys did not know each other that well, they were basically strangers who eventually became best friends threw their journey of escaping to Mexico. In We Were Here shows a major theme which a theme is the moral of the story. Within that journey ,Matt de La Pena, the author of We Were Here shows symbolism which created the theme even though you might have a bad past everyone has the chance to change.

“We don’t really care about diversity all that much in America” (132). In “People Like us” David Brooks takes a logical approach through examining the demographics of our neighborhoods, our educational institutions, and he touches on an emotional approach by having his audience examine their values; he does this with hopes of having his audience question their word choice for the American value diversity, and question if the way they are living their lives invites diversity.

This question is honestly the most difficult to answer. The entire book was intriguing from start to finish. I would say that what I liked the most about this book is all the pictures he placed on there. He captured every image with so much meaning. It is as it’s said, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” I got to see the faces of the fellow heroes in Fallujah.

The book “The Other America”, written by Michael Harrington, describes poverty in America in the 1950s and 1960s, when America became one of the most affluent and advanced nations in the world. The book was written in 1962, and Harrington states that there were about 50,000,000 (about 25% of the total population) poor in America at that time. The author did extensive research with respect to the family income levels to derive the poverty numbers, and used his own observations and experiences to write this book. This book addresses the reasons for poverty, the nature of poverty, the culture of poverty, the blindness of Middle Class America with respect to poverty, and the responsibility of all Americans in addressing the issue of poverty in America.

The rest of the family is somewhat boring and annoying like the two young kids Wesley and June. The way the author uses functions to portray images allows the audience to imagine and picture what it is she is trying

Clark Griswold is a husband and a father to two children, who just wants to have a “good ol’ fashioned family Christmas”. Clark is impulsive, awkward, and idealistic. His wife, Ellen, does her best to put of with Clark’s antics. She is a very gracious person, as well as being witty, and kind. Clark and Ellen’s oldest child, Audrey, is the stereotypical teenaged girl, sassy, whiny, and overly dramatic. Their son, Russ, is kind of indifferent to it all, he is also loyal to his

Even though boys were the last thing Emmy had on her mind she decided that she would. They fell for each other right from the start. After months of being inseparable Emmy finds out that she is pregnant. When she finally gets her nerves up to tell Art, he denies that it is his baby. When Emmy is three months pregnant on Thanksgiving, Art told her that they should maybe not be together anymore. Emmy has to drop out of high school and go to a teen mother's school, completely devastated her. She had an eight year plan and was in the Project Hope Program that would pay for her schooling and everything. Emmy has no one to help her--her mother is an alcoholic, the guy she thought loved her only cared about himself, and her friends became ashamed of her. The only one Emmy had now is her baby Rosie, but Rosie really just had her. She will not give up because of one obstacle in her path. Even though it will be hard to go on with her plans, Emmy is determined to succeed. (15)

Brian and Lori took a dissimilar route and attempt to ameliorate their parents even into adulthood. As time progresses, Brian and Lori learn from their child-like attachment and gain the mentality of their siblings. They learn to accept Rose Mary and Rex’s quirks and

The United States was full of prosperity in the 1950s. The standard of living was higher that it had been in years, and many people were living in luxury. Although there were many who were enjoying the lives they lived, there were also many Americans who were trapped living well below the standard of living. Michael Harrington shed light on this situation when he published The Other America in 1962. In his expose’, Harrington exposed how 40 to 50 million American citizens were living in poverty, and that to most Americans these people were invisible. He expressed how the lifestyle of people living in poverty was so different from those who were not that it created a “culture” of poverty. Harrington believed

This family comes together in a time when they all need it. Phillip at one point tells Judd he’s on his side and has his back no what the situation is. Then every time Judd and Wendy meet on the roof to talk they are creating a turning point during a bad time. It can be see that each brother, sister, brother, brother, and/or mother, child moment is a growing point where something/someone else is thinking and acting different. The Altman family displays resilience by walking away at the end and assuring each other that they have their backs.

This is Us is a television program series that was created by Dan Fogelman and airs on NBC Network. This is Us is a bizarre and creative show that takes on the classic family drama. The series follows a single family through a year, while unloading the back story of two generations. It has some theme dealing with race, gender, and sexual orientation but the main plot in this drama are a group of complicated, amusing, delicate, flawed people trying to figure out life together. It has plenty of humor and expectation but there is sense of sadness, as it reminds the viewer frequently that life is temporary and the experience of life is short. This is Us is a feel good family drama.

Claire is the wife of her husband, Phil (Ty Burrel), a realtor in a household with three children. Phil is the main source of income for the household while Claire is a stay at home mother which contributes to the stereotype that the women of the house are inferior to their husbands and do not provide anything for their family as much as their husbands do and that men have more power over their families and women are just there to take care of the children and their house. Claire appears to be high strung, naggy and uptight while Phil is loveable, funny and gets along with the kids more. The family structure of a woman who relies on her husband for financial support is similar to that of the sitcom “Leave it to Beaver” (1950s), where Ward is the breadwinner for the family who obtains a white collared job. His wife June depicts the stereotypical woman who spends her time cooking and cleaning. Similarly, Claire contributes to the idea of the traditional stay at home mother and housewife. Claire

Queer Theory is the best approach by which to examine Angels in America because using Queer Theory allows us to see/ illuminates the difference between socially constructed gender and sexual acts based on sexual identity. Queer theory argues that gender is a cultural construct, that the social norms of men being masculine and women being feminine were manipulated as a culture to be seen as normal. In Angel in America, Roy Cohn is an attorney with power in his work place; he expresses a strong masculine character with “clout”, strong political power. He mentions that he is a powerful man and how with only a few phone calls he is able to get a hold of the president. These are expectations of how a masculine male is supposed to act, with power, confidence, and without fear. Being a man of politics, Roy lives up to the expectations of what society believes a strong man is supposed to be and how he is supposed to behave. When he goes to see his doctor and he is told that he has AIDS, Roy refuses to admit that he has AIDS and Homosexual. Roy tells his doctor, Henry, “You Think these are names that tell you who someone sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that.” (Pg. 51) He argues that his identity is not homosexual because they do not have “clout”; that he is a man of clout and has a lot of it. Roy states, “Homosexuals are men who know nobody and who nobody knows. Who have zero clout.”(Pg. 51) An example of Queer Theory, Roy tells his doctor that labels like Homosexual, Gay,

When Chelsie was 17, she moved out to Denver, Colorado to be with her mother. This was a significant time in her life due to absences that her mother had taken throughout Chelsie’s childhood, and adolescent years. Once she arrived in Colorado, Chelsie enrolled in a new high school to complete her senior year. Half way through that year, she met a man named Gavin, who became the love of her life as they developed a relationship together that they would forever cherish. After earning her high school diploma, Chelsie decided to seek employment. Soon after, Chelsie was faced with a life changing decision, when she realized that she was pregnant at 18. Supportively, Gavin and Chelsie stuck together, knowing how drastically both their lives were about to change.