Some of the Realities of the Homeless Tents as far as the eye can contemplate from overlooking the walkway of the bridge. A tent city is an area set up with tents or makeshift housing to house homeless or dislocated people. Poverty and homelessness is affecting quite a lot of people in the USA. “Tent cities have much in common with the squatter camps of the Great Depression, but to simply call them Hoovervilles is to ignore their complexity” (Bransford, 2009, p.388). These tent-cites are popping up all over the countryside. Especially in poverty-stricken areas, where people can go unnoticed by the public. The author’s article is written to inform with a sympathetic tone which makes for a stronger article. To sum up “Camping for Their Lives”
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In using direct interviews from different sources lends credibility to the author’s point of view. Not only does it lend credibility, these interviews and facts are humanizing and bringing heart to the author’s plight. For example, “It’s just going back to the same thing,” says Lynch, 50.’I remember my grandparents and my dad talking about labor camps, and going town to town to work” (Bransford, 2009, p.385). Lynch is the self-proclaimed mayor and a drifter of Taco Flat. In this interview Bransford is bringing past and present together and showing that the struggle is still the same. Along with the direct interviews, the author is mixing in fact statements to help attain his point. He used an associate professor in urban studies and planning department from Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Rahul Mehrotra. “It’s really a reflection of the government’s inability to provide housing affordably across society,” Mehrotra says. Informal urbanism also thrives wherever people face exclusion from the mainstream markets for work and shelter, he adds, whether they are excluded for ethnic, economic, or political reasons” (Bransford, 2009, p.388). Using a contrast of different interviews and facts along side each other helps the author paint the picture of the problem of homelessness that is going on, especially in Fresno. That it is not just one race or happening to one person’s economic situation, that it is and has happen to all types and walks of life’s. Overall the author’s article does a good job bringing the homeless issue to light using interviews form different
In using direct interviews from different sources lends credibility to the author’s point of view. Not only does it lend credibility, these interviews and facts are humanizing and bringing heart to the author’s plight. For example, “It’s just going back to the same thing,” says Lynch, 50.’I remember my grandparents and my dad talking about labor camps, and going town to town to work” (Bransford, 2009, p.385). Lynch is the self-proclaimed mayor and a drifter of Taco Flat. In this interview Bransford is bringing past and present together and showing that the struggle is still the same. Along with the direct interviews, the author is mixing in fact statements to help attain his point. He used an associate professor in urban studies and planning department from Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Rahul Mehrotra. “It’s really a reflection of the government’s inability to provide housing affordably across society,” Mehrotra says. Informal urbanism also thrives wherever people face exclusion from the mainstream markets for work and shelter, he adds, whether they are excluded for ethnic, economic, or political reasons” (Bransford, 2009, p.388). Using a contrast of different interviews and facts along side each other helps the author paint the picture of the problem of homelessness that is going on, especially in Fresno. That it is not just one race or happening to one person’s economic situation, that it is and has happen to all types and walks of life’s. Overall the author’s article does a good job bringing the homeless issue to light using interviews form different