Francis Cugat

I. Attention getter: Does anyone of you know Mona Lisa? Most of the people know it because it is the most recognizable and parodied painting of all time but have anyone of you ever wonder what the painting is all about? And the most important question is; do you know who created all these well-known painting and what other masterpiece he did? “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” - Leonardo da Vinci (BrainyQuote.com n.d) Leonardo da Vinci is a writer, mathematician, inventor and…

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.…

As Lorde sings in her song Royals, money is being spent on jet planes, islands, [and] tigers on a gold leash.” There are millions of people starving in this world. There are millions of homeless people in this world. There are children who would do anything for an actual toy, for an education, and even just a new pair of shoes. In our community there are also people who are starving, homeless, and poor. They need the same resources to survive as the people around the world do. What can I do to…

The root cause of my project is that the homeless don’t have the essential basic needs to sustain their health. My project will help around 100-200 homeless individuals, supplying them with a custom pillow, which will allow them to carry essential items which I will collect and donate, such as a book, a handwritten letter, various toiletries and food, that will be given to new or existing client of Hope’s door. I plan to interview several individuals at Hope’s Door and learn about their stories…

Theories of relativity, Barbara Haworth-Attard, homelessness. Homeless people are people who have lack of place to live. They have no secure place to live. Homeless people are people who have been kicked out of their houses by their parents or they leave their homes themselves for some reasons. They may leave their homes maybe because of lack of attention by their parents, or maybe they have to deal with sexual abuse and physical abuse at their home or some other sort of problems.In Theories of…

Engineering Drawings Throughout the history of civilization, there have always been a select few individuals whose unique gifts have allowed them to engineer and invent some of history 's most important machines. One of the most popular examples of these individuals, Leonardo Da Vinci, existed during the Italian Renaissance. He was a self-taught engineer, artist, and architect who was always fascinated by art and machinery, famous for being able to intertwine them into his inventions. His…

The general idea of the homeless usually conveys a man, woman, or child, wearing ripped and disheveled clothing, who is going through trash cans or begging for money, near alleys or under bridges. Many individuals have encountered a homeless person at some point in their lives. As reported by journalist Stephen Burger, about 600,000 people are living either on the streets or in shelters trying to stay alive, everyday. Recently, the rate of homelessness has increased. This issue has raised a main…

Homelessness in Austin is on the rise. In fact, the homeless population in Austin has increased by 20% in the last year. That means more and more people you have to deal with asking you for money. Too often these people suffering from systemic poverty ask us for help and I say, enough. I’m tired of their excuses that they have families, mental health issues, or any other common and understandable reason for being homeless. They need to just stop using drugs, wear nicer clothes, or any of the…

Homelessness is one of the major problems faced by many countries, others are homeless due to unfortunate situations hence it takes a lot of courage and strength to be a homeless person given that it is not a choice most of the time. Firstly the number of homeless people worldwide is estimated to be between 100 million to 1 billion, depending on how we count them and definition used (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/57a08d04e5274a27b2001595/R7905.pdf). The word ‘homelessness’ means…

Conclusion: The causes of homelessness and its effects are complex and intertwined, and inevitably there are no simple solutions. It’s not just about buildings and beds; it’s about the things that go wrong in people’s lives: health, income, families etc. And these things can go wrong for anyone, especially these days Homelessness poses as one of the social crisis on the rise in the 21st century to an extent that homelessness can no longer be just confined to those people living in the streets.…