Anti-homelessness legislation

When I went to Mexico for a week, it was an adventure I never thought I would experience. It was the first time I went outside of the United States. I always heard rumors and stories about other places around the world, but it didn’t have the same meaning and effect to me as actually being exposed and involved in it. A great number of things were different, but what really stood out to me was how many stray dogs and cats there were roaming about in neighborhoods. Of course the people who lived…

After reading about the HMIS program and its purpose, I came up with my own list of concerns that I had about HMIS. Then, I took these concerns and tried to best match them with the questions from Marx New Surveillance. I reviewed the questions and decided that based on my concerns with the program these were the best questions that would lead to finding out the ethics of HMIS. In a few sentences, using information you have found through resources listed above (or from your own search), answer…

Growing up in California, the heart of the tech industry, helped me recognize the negative effects that tech corporations have on low income communities. Coming from an immigrant, low income family, tech corporations have drastically changed my life and my comforts in my community. For 14 years I was raised in Menlo Park; a quiet and friendly neighborhood where everyone knew each other. Moving to East Palo Alto angered me. Besides from being mad, I was scared of moving. East Palo Alto has a…

Santa Monica’s politics are largely progressive and they translate to the types of people (such as artists) and businesses who call the city home. One resident says Santa Monica is what happens when “hippies get rich”. Thus, there are many upsides to living and working in this community. Primarily, the various government departments and social agencies, which make up some of the fabric and networks of this community, are plentiful and available. In addition, the city’s economy is strong,…

serious problem that many families experience. There are 1,408 homeless people in Stanislaus County. One major issue in the U.S that causes homelessness is poverty. We can solve this by trying to provide more unskilled jobs. This will work because only 14% of stanislaus county is educated. Another reason this will work is because climbing out of homelessness is virtually impossible for those without jobs. This will also work because putting them at a low skilled job can increase their skills to…

Homelessness: Is it a Problem? What’s the solution? Homelessness by definition is “without home”, which means that the homeless are without a home of their own. They could have a relative or friend they live with, or their circumstances could be worse and they could be sleeping on a bench or in their car. There are varying degrees of homelessness, but they are all bad. Homelessness is a problem that many people struggle with or have struggled with. Sometimes it is constant struggling with…

There are many homeless people all over the world, many think that that it doesn't exist in their town or their cities but it does it occurs everywhere there are about 3.5 million people who are homeless in America . There are many ways a person can end homeless, a person can lose everything by giving it all to games and drugs, another way is for a person to not be able to find a job because of their education and people also lost everything because of a tragic event that occurs to their love.…

I remember the day when I had the thought that would from that day on never fail to amaze me. I remember walking down Michigan Avenue in Chicago with the smell of Garrett Popcorn and sewage roaming the air. I remember seeing businessmen and business women making their way to work rolling their briefcases down the street. I remember the massive amount of tourists, including myself, stopping every five feet to take pictures of the beautiful sights of the city. I remember thinking to myself, “Why…

There are several different clear examples of different types poverty given through my experiences in english and through my time at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Through my trip to St. Anthony's I got a first hand look at economical poverty and deprivation. 12 Angry Men the son of the bigot juror is beat by his father which leads to social and emotional deprivation because he has created this hatred between himself and his son. And in The Catcher in the Rye we can see another form of poverty through…

Many people that climb Mountain Everest sometimes are not very experienced on how to succeed in climbing it, due to being a very dangerous mountain. Mountain Everest has helpers there that are very familiar on what goes on there. These helpers are called “Sherpas”, these people are way much stronger than us on altitude. Sherpas are the inhabitants of the Khumbu-valley, the national parks surrounding Everest. Some Sherpas are not very motivated or quite ready to go up the summit at times, these…