Persuasive Speech: We Are The World

Hello Prof Budzinski and Fellow Classmates, Accordingly, after viewing the California Homeless Youth Project 's videos, I felt a string of emotions all at once. I felt gratefulness, gratitude, despair, compassion all in one. In other words, I was seeing myself in those videos or someone I knew encountered in my past life. The struggles of the survival on the street is just getting by with the bare minimal. In one of the stories, a person spoke on everything he owned was in his backpack. If the backpack was lost or taken away from him, all would be lost. Can you image? Most important if you were caught, slipping you could wake up without anything, not even with the clothes on their back. I, previous stated, in an earlier discussion …show more content…
There is not enough funds or resources to tackle the problem effectively. Even if everybody in the world gave a dollar a day, the amount would not be enough to cure world hunger or promote change. Thinking back to the 1980’s when the song “We Are the World” came out and all the stars that were included in the song personally hand delivered the funds the raised to ensure the right people was to attain the funds. The negative stereotypes of the homeless are one thinks they choose to be homeless as someone stated in this week’s seminar is a stereotype towards the homeless that I feel is unjust to say about them. Life changes are usually the cause for the homeless along with drug addiction. However, in the early part of 2003, when AMC currently known as of now Chrysler closed their doors for the last time over thirty percent of those workers went homeless. They were not lazy; those people went to work faithfully every day. Ending result, the economy failed, therefore, places of businesses moved away mostly overseas in search of profit. The world itself originated homelessly and the government assistance it. This is my