Homelessness Paper

For purposes of this paper, I chose to focus on the topic of homelessness for a number of reasons. One of the reasons why I chose to focus on the topic of Homelessness is because of my own personal views toward being homeless. I feel as though that having food, shelter and clothing is not only a necessity for all human beings, but also it should be a right in the country that we live in. We as Americans always talk about justice and are always fighting toward “Human rights,” but what good are these conversations if there are still people suffering on the street mercilessly without basic human needs. Human rights have to do with things which we are entitled to as human beings regardless of our status of race, religion, ethnicity, gender etc., …show more content…
Homeless U.S. Veterans have always struck me as being something that is unfair and downright wrong. Just the simple fact that a person who was willing to sacrifice his or her own life to fight for an entire country of people, comes back and is stranded out on the street without proper treatment and compensation is just heartbreaking and the very thought of it is frustrating. Finally, I chose to focus on the topic of homelessness because of my personal encounters with them in my everyday life. Ever since I was a little girl I always had a soft spot for homeless people and have always wanted to give to them, sometimes I would be walking down the street with my mom and I would see a homeless person and want to give them something, but she would tell me no. I never really knew why, but as I got older the people around me helped me to better understand my mother’s actions. I would hear people speak of their personal experiences with homeless people and how “conniving” they could be. For instance how some of them were not really homeless and they were just acting, or how they would use the money for drugs and/or alcohol and not