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Saving The Homeless As A Nation: Kevin Fagan, the author of “Homeless, Mike Dick Was 51, Looked 66” is a staff writer for the San Francisco chronicle who has covered homelessness nationally through 2003 to 2006. In this essay, Fagan is observing the life of a man named Mike Dick, who is a homeless man in San Francisco. Fagan uses pathos in the essay as well as ethos, and comparisons to provide examples in forming an effective argument for creating a change involving the homeless around the nation. Throughout the essay, Fagan is one on one with Mike in his rough environment providing a first-hand experience for the target audience, who is the nation and country as a whole. When Fagan writes this essay, the target audience is clearly the nation or country. Fagan states this explicitly toward the end of the essay “The nation needs to commit as a whole” (Fagan, 336). Fagan shows his stance on the issue of homelessness around the world, he wants everyone to make an effort and help. He reaches out to the whole nation because homelessness doesn’t just occur where Mike lived in San Francisco, it happens all over the country. Another example of how the nation is the target audience is where Fagan states “In a rich country where actors can make millions of dollars, pretending on a movie screen, to be poor like Mike and go home to one of their mansions at night, we can do better” (Fagan, 336). This comparison creates a perfect visual of the diversity in our world today, we have…

BUM-A-RIDE’s business structure can essentially be divided into three basic disciplines: Supply, demand and evaluation. The supply function of BUM-A-RIDE is the business associated with acquiring the transportation, including fundraising, accounting, purchasing tickets and bus vouchers, and networking with transportation companies to find new forms of assistance available to our clients. The demand function is simply focused on finding those in need, encouraging them to take advantage of our…

It is not an unusual for New York residents and people across the America to encounter number of homeless people sleeping on pieces of card box with plastic cover in the street asking for a change. Some of them yelling insanely at random people, some are sleeping with a stress wrinkle on their face and some are just sitting there and staring. These homeless people did not choose to become homeless. These people were born to a family and lived with family before they ended up on the street. So,…

During this rating period, Zhenya Gezalyan continued her assignment as a GAIN Services Worker (GSW) in the Homeless Case Management Program Unit at the Southwest Family CalWORKs district. She performed the duties of a Homeless Case Manager (HCM) under the supervision of the rater, Terry McKinney. While under Ms. McKinney’s supervision, Ms. Gezalyan was primarily responsible for assessing the needs of homeless and at-risk of being homeless families applying for/or already receiving CalWORKs,…

The Extinction of Homelessness As 2016 begin to come to an end. Most families in America are focusing on the presidential election, planning year end events or even establishing resolutions for the new year. While the invisible part of most cities population is faced with regular pivotal decision. How will I survive a brutal winter without proper housing? On the surface this may appear to be an uncomplicated matter, to the casual, but it is genuinely a painstakingly complicated matter.…

Research shows that a homeless family is typically a single female in her late 20’s with two children under the age of 6. (Rog & Buckner, 2007; U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2007). Nowadays, it is uncommon for men to be in a family unit. Children, that young, experiencing homelessness can be affected in many ways. Homelessness can affect children emotionally, educationally, socially, and developmentally. During a time of homelessness, a mother and child’s relationship is very important during the…

Homelessness is a very serious issue not only in our area, but all over the United States. According to statistics, there are approximately 578,424 individuals that are experiencing homelessness(National Alliance to End Homelessness). This epidemic, so to speak, is so widespread that it reaches into every state and impacts every community. In most cases, the people who are homeless cannot help that they are without a home. The circumstances of the homeless individual’s position could be that…

Prior to the documentary workshops, I initially felt that all homeless people were on the streets because they had done something unacceptable and ‘deserved’ to be there, such as alcohol abuse or drug addiction, and when passing them on the street I would not really care about their situation because I had been taught as a child to stay away from strangers, so I chose to stay clear of them. When I was told that the drama workshop was about homelessness, I was a bit disappointed because I was…

(2014) but significantly their family. Morin (2014) stated that “Work is, above all, an activity through which an individual fit into the world, creates new relations, uses his talents, learns and grows develops his identity and a sense of belonging”. Which I strongly agree that work is just not work, but it is a duty that is being performed to illustrate individualism talents, an opportunity to develops and advance unique knowledges, creates new distinctiveness and using it as a powerful tool…

sweat trickling down my back, making me squirm in discomfort. The restaurants and bars were pretty empty, and the street felt just a little desolate. The walk to Cineleisure suddenly became painfully long with the sun mercilessly shining on me. As the sun dipped beneath the skyline, everything came alive. The flock of birds spread their wings and soared high above the sky, cooing as they flew past, taunting the humans. The people all stood by the traffic light, chattering as they waited for the…