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    My article i choose to write on is called record number of homeless students facing adversity in the classroom. In my unit 9 assignment I am imagining that I am a teacher and my audience is students that is homeless and i’m encouraging students is to dont give up even when life gets rough. Abandoned and left homeless by her drug abusing parents, Burns high school senior Dawn Loggins of Lawndale, North Carolina was forced to rely on her friends spare couches and empty floors for shelter (Graham,

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    access to our consumer society? stating “increased affluence means there are greater numbers who have access to the trappings of a consumer lifestyle” but ‘there are some groups who are excluded from consuming based on income, those being the poor, homeless, migrants and other groups, this being a characteristic pattern of inequality in our contemporary consumer society’ he classes people in two ways that of the ‘Seduced’ those people participating in our consumer society and the ‘Repressed’ those people

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    was a homeless person sitting there, I would walk around them, as though they weren’t there. This is one of my thresholds that happened last year. My experience on the short-term missions trip changed my view of the world. The trip was only a week long, but during that time, I experienced many things that changed my life. The missions trip was to Boston, to help the homeless people there. Instead of calling them, "homeless," we would say, "people affected by homelessness."

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    life in a one-hour documentary entitled, Jewels in a Test Tube. While on sabbatical, as the Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor of Chemistry at MIT, Lynda Marie accepted the call of ministry on her life, and received ministerial training at Harvard Divinity School (HDS). While at HDS, she earned the Certificate in the Study of Science and Religion from the Boston Theological Institute. She also conducted ethnographic research, and her findings were published in an article entitled, Domestic

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    When I was little, I pitied the homeless and wanted to help them in any way I could. Part of that being I was a Girl Scout and was taught to help those in need. Another part being, I pitied those who completely messed their life up by one mistake. I grew up in a place where people who were homeless chose drugs over paying bills and ended up being evicted. At that time, I thought that they made a tiny mistake and it completely messed up their life and their priorities were out of order. Since then

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    In recent years, America has been in an epic battle bigger than any war we have ever been in; the United States is losing an enormous battle against drug addiction. Recently there have been more and more overdoses and deaths in our nation caused by drug abuse. Would you want your children to grow up in a country addicted to drugs? With all of the deaths and government money being spent on those who are addicted, wouldn't it be great if there was a cheap solution to this huge problem? Imagine what

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    Anti-Homeless Policies in the United States Abigail Love IUPUI – Masters of Social Work Application Writing Sample   Homelessness in the United States is a multifaceted problem, there are many factors to consider when examining this homelessness including access to health care, economic conditions and public policy as well as a host of other issues. Problems with homelessness that need addressed are the stigmatizations of being homeless and how this perception has led to anti-homeless policies,

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    cannot maintain their operation without sufficient funding. However, increased funding for homeless programs can slightly reduce homelessness. In “Does Increased Funding for Homeless Programs Reduce Chronic Homelessness?”, Shawn Moulton estimates a “fixed-effects model” to examines the effect of new federal homeless funding on homelessness. The data from Moulton’s estimate implies that increased funding for homeless programs can decrease homelessness, and the data also indicates that the “first-year

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    The Impact of Stereotypes on Society I’ve always heard people say “you can see your blonde showing” or “you are a dumb blonde.” Just because someone has blonde hair, that doesn’t affect their intelligence. Different people in society are judged for many different things. Many people in movies and television shows, you will see the blonde referred to as the most dumb. Us Americans try to put labels on people, a majority of the time not meaning to. Stereotypes are labels that are unfairly placed

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    In my English 101 class, we as a class were asked to read the passage, “A Theory of Human Motivation,” by Abraham Maslow, and then write an analysis of the film, Homeless to Harvard: The Lizz Murray Story (The Analysis Assignment Instructions). We were told to use Maslow’s theory as an analytical tool and apply what he states in regards to human motivation to the characters in the film (201-205). Mr. Barrera, my English professor, helped with additional amplification and illustration in showing the

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