Silent Home Case Study

Improved Essays
Per Reporter: Nikki and her children lives in what appears to be an abandoned trailer with Eugene (maternal uncle). It is unknown of how long the family has been living in the trailer. Nikki and Eugene claims that they are in the process of fixing the trailer up. The condition of the trailer is not suitable for the children to live. The windows are broken, no beds or toilets. The family goes outside to use the bathroom. There are no working utilities in the home; it is unknown of how long the utilities have been off. It is unknown of how the children are bathing. There was little to no food in the home; there was bread, peanut butter and jelly noticed in the home. Noodles were also noticed in the home, but there was no way of cooking them.

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    MILLERSBURG — A fund to benefit the family of April Rogers has been established at First-Knox National Bank in Millersburg. Rogers died in a Sunday morning house fire. She leaves behind husband, Volley, and children, Jace, Samantha, Savannah and Seth. In addition to losing a wife and mother, they lost most of their material possessions and many memories to the fire, according to Rogers' aunt, Pam Deal, who said the fund was established to receive monetary donations to help the family begin to rebuild. “They have absolutely nothing.…

    • 326 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The case study I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Help You has a misleading title. The case study is about how an OSHA inspector walked in the door and changed East Hampshire Homes forever (Borden & Cooper, 2002). Jay and Leigh Carlos were asked by a delegation of parents and relatives of mentally retarded adults to build a care home for their special needs family members. After months of studying the subject on should they open up a home.…

    • 427 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Charmion Browne’s youth her family was hopping from shelter to shelter in New York City. They had moved throughout multiple shelters throughout the years and were fortunate enough to not have to live on the streets from the shelters overcrowding. Several children that had been affected by the overcrowding had been sent to a jail in the Bronx that was no longer in use because there had been nowhere else for them to live. Browne’s family had lived in a house, shelters and an unused jail all in the matter of years.…

    • 659 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The book “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond is generally a portrait of the levels of poverty in America and it basically draws on the highest levels of real-life events of poverty that Desmond either witnessed or even heard about when he was carrying out field research in preparation to write the book. The events in the book took place in a period between 2008 and 2009. The book presents eight families that are struggling with the hardships of life and they spend more than 70 percent of the income on rent which leaves very little amounts for their utilities and daily expenses. Many are unable to cope with the amounts of rent the landlord's charge and they end up being evited. The main condition that seems to be holding these poor people…

    • 773 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This picture is black and white of young boy called Flavio, feeding rice to his younger brother Zacarias. My first impression of Flavio’s archive was that it seemed to be a very sad story. This photo shows the horrors of poverty and Flavio’s strength to survive, and even the courage to accept death without even thinking about himself but of his brothers and sisters. I did some research and found out that Flavio is a 12-year-old boy who has the huge responsibility of being an adult. He is able to accept this responsibility while still remaining vibrant and hopeful even though Flavio is suffering from a physical illness, poverty, overwork and worry.…

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Bud Fields Home Analysis

    • 200 Words
    • 1 Pages

    In the picture that I picked from of Bud Fields and his family from Hale County, Alabama. Everyone in the family picture seems helpless and dirty since they don’t have so much clothes to wear. In the picture everyone seem to share everything like the bed. It took place in Alabama during the summer in 1936. So I can’t imagine how hot the house was since they didn’t have no fans or anything the family seems miserable by it.…

    • 200 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The implications of the case notes stated that Eddie was a well adjusted child up until the time his step father became abusive towards his mother. The emotional bond through out his childhood allowed him to be well adjusted in his academic attainment and connect well among his peer group. Currently there is an overall lack of parenting due to the traumatic situation of abuse, Eddie is no longer being raised with guidelines of a nuturing parent and is fearful. The hindrance to "good enough parent" in this situation is Eddie's mother is not properly supported via a partner, has been increasingly socially isolated and lack self determination via employment. All three factors decrease her ability to parent at the current time.…

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    House On Mango Street Dbq

    • 860 Words
    • 4 Pages

    American Dream The American Dream is what all people want to pursue, its starting off with nothing and becoming something. But what happens when one small hurdle gets in the way? In Chicago, Illinois Sandra Cisneros wrote this story because she wanted to show us about her lifestyle and how she was not able to live her American Dream.…

    • 860 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Living in a “Kitchenette Building” What happens to dreams when there are ’s economic issues? In “Kitchenette Building,” by Gwendolyn Brooks, the speaker expresses how dreams are crushed by economic status. A family lives in a Kitchenette Building, with only caring for the “rent”, “feeding a wife”, and “satisfying a man”. The family has so much enough pressure with obtaining their basic needs, that they forget about the “dream” of a better life style. The speaker uses tone, symbolism, and diction to convey their frustration.…

    • 415 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tent City, USA is a documentary filmed in 2012, about the homeless community in Nashville, Tennessee. In this documentary it showcases an anecdote about the residents that lived in Tent City, located under a bridge owned by the Tennessee Department of Transportation. For 20 years, it has been a placed called home, in which it provided a community like setting that many enjoyed. Residents of Tent City had to follow the strict rules, which prohibited drugs. This place also provided a safe resident for women, since it had security around the clock.…

    • 779 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Evicted

    • 755 Words
    • 4 Pages

    In the United States of America along the western shore of Lake Michigan rests Milwaukee Wisconsin. The author of Evicted, Matthew Desmond, takes us into the lives of some of the most poverty-stricken neighborhoods in Milwaukee where families spend more than fifty percent of their limited earnings on housing. For many of the people within the book, eviction and hardship have become a daily part of life and even the smallest crisis can further complicate an already difficult situation. Scott was a nurse whose license come to be revoked after becoming dependent on painkillers and other opioids due to a back injury and the loss of his close friends.…

    • 755 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Tiny House Research Paper

    • 622 Words
    • 3 Pages

    A tiny house is much cheaper when compared with common houses. The common small apartments or one-family homes in major cities can easily cost up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. A good tiny house usually costs around 30,000 dollars regardless of the place where it is built or placed. Many people though may not have the current resources or savings in order to completely finance building a tiny house. There are some options available to these people which they can use to finance their tiny house.…

    • 622 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Introduction The author of Evicted, Matthew Desmond, exposes the restrictions those in extreme poverty may face daily. Based in Milwaukee Wisconsin, Desmond takes his readers into the lives of those living in poorly maintained housing where tenants experience health problems, eviction, and at times even death. The property owners are wealthy and thrive off profits made by those less fortunate, yet do minimal maintenance to preserve their rental units. The families residing in the rentals cope with roach infestations, poor plumbing, and broken windows.…

    • 1818 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I. Attention Getter: Having you ever imagined how it feels like to not be able to sleep on your cozy bed but on cold streets? Or you have to transit from one shelter to another and not knowing what is coming for you next? II. Thesis: Many people are suffering from being homeless.…

    • 806 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    CPoverty is an ongoing problem in the United States. Many people in the country live wondering about their next meal or their next source of income. In Orange Country, many families have given up their homes and moved their families into one bedroom motels. The documentary, Homeless: The Motel Kids of Orange County by Alexandra Pelosi, follows the lives of several children living in the Motel across the street from the happiest place on earth Disneyland.…

    • 969 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays