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    shelters that tend to the homeless. With the San Gabriel Valley services being so distant and clustered, it was difficult to assess the overall feel of the homeless services. That is, it was difficult to find any homeless shelters even with the use of a handheld GPS and map, signifying that access to the homeless services is not as simple as it sounds. On the other hand, it was not at all difficult to find other services that seemed, to be very helpful for the homeless in general. A screenshot of

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    catastrophic situation. Also, I will demonstrate the causes and effects of the homeless resorting to violence, by using comparison and contrast to examine the views and standpoints on helping the forgotten, so that we might end this calamity once and for all. In an increasingly

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    the unfair, my-parents-hate-me reality of a teenager our perspectives change. My perspective on homeless people began at age 10 but shifted radically at the age of 13. When I was 10 years old my mom wanted to teach us about giving. All throughout my childhood we would make meals for people experiencing illness or death in their family. We finally were old enough to hand out supplies to the homeless and we loaded up our cooler with water bottles and granola bars. Here in Oklahoma the summers have

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    The Media Of The Homeless

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    people have become socially and morally numb to the issue. As homelessness worsens, the homeless are being seen less and less as humans and more as a nuisance such as pests and wildlife, or even just a statistic. Being at the bottom of the social class structure is rough, to put it lightly. There is nothing glamorous about living at the streets; in fact, there are very few positive points, if any, to being homeless but that doesn 't mean they are that much different from other classes. At the core

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    Homelessness and Mental Illness

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    Imagine a man on the streets, who society has forgotten. This man emits the smell of garbage; he has not bathed in months. This man sits quietly mumbling to himself. To the outer world he is just one of the many homeless, but little does society know that this man has a mental illness as well. Homelessness and mental illness are linked. These two happenings have similar beginnings. Homelessness is influenced by drug and alcohol disuse, being homeless at a young age, money problems, and trauma symptoms

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    According to “The Coalition of Homelessness”, as of September 2015, there are approximately 59, 305 homeless people living in the urban streets in New York City. Despite the high efforts implemented to eradicate homelessness, numbers are continuing to increase over the past decades (2015). Non-profit organizations such as The Homebase Community Prevention Program, and Coalition for the Homeless have been helping New Yorkers overcome homelessness, develop and maintain current policies on homelessness

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    season draws near, many of the homeless living in San Francisco are being encouraged to head away from the vicinity of the recently built Super Bowl City in San Francisco, California and move towards local homeless shelters nearby. Home to nearly 7,000 homeless people and growing, San Francisco is ranked 8th in the nation for its substantial homeless population city. According to “The 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress”, “...Most (69 percent) [of the homeless living in the USA] were staying

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    their lives. Homeless people are in need of some immediate relief . I am fully aware this problem doesn’t resolve itself but also can’t be fixed over night. I chose to write about this topic for the main purpose of obtaining more general knowledge about homelessness in this country. This essay will consist of the rise of homeless populations in the elderly and adolescents emerging adulthood along with stories of people who are homeless. Some homeless people have been homeless for many years

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    Being Homeless

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    Being homeless is one of the hardest things a person can go through. Not having a home to go to or a place to sleep is depressing. Not having a job or money leaves people desperate to survive and there is only so much help people can give. The problem with many countries, not just the United States of America, is that the percent of homeless people are steadily increasing. According to the Homelessness Overview of Current Issues and GAO Studies, there is close to 600,000 homeless people living on

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    It’s Dangerous to be on your own on the street (Jacob). My brother was homeless for a couple months; my brother only had a backpack with his ID, a blanket, pillow, and tools so when he got a job he had his own tools. One night when he was sleeping on a park bench his backpack was stolen. Thank God it was just his backpack because a couple weeks back a man got his throat cut over something. My brother did not know what it was about but now he is living with friends of my parents and he is looking

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