Francis Ellis

In the United States, homelessness is becoming a major problem in America that affects millions of lives when it is least expected. For instance, according to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR), this report stated that on a single night in January of 2015, approximately 564,708 people were homeless in the United States (Henry et al. 8). However, homelessness does not just affect one set of individuals, in fact, homelessness affects people of all ages, races, cultural…

Pulp Fiction is a film directed by Quentin Tarantino, which stars John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, and Samuel L. Jackson, and it was released October 14, 1994. It takes a very different approach to film by using a vignette style with each vignette not necessarily in order. It follows the lives of several characters that revolve around the gang boss Marcellus Wallace, and how they intertwine. Vincent (Travolta) and Jules (Jackson) are two hitmen for Marcellus and they are charged with…

A standpoint is person view of the world based on their experiences and knowledge of the world. A person knowledge of the world is created by their surroundings and those that are in power. But how does a person’s standpoint and social location have influence over their view of the world? I can’t speak for anyone else, I can only speak for myself. To know my standpoint, you need to identity my social location. My social location consists of the following: African American, women, middle class,…

search of some truer sense of yourself. ” *(The Soloist) Lopez helped Nathaniel find his way out of hardship because of a friend that ended up caring for him. In the article ‘Housing First’ Approached Touted as Way to Remedy Homelessness, by Monte Francis Ms. Buchanan lost her job and her daughter and ended up on the streets resulting in a drug addiction. Buchanan had applied to get an but there was way too long of a waiting list. “ “I was actually wanting to commit suicide because I didn’t…

gain parity over his rivals. The Tudor era became an era of extravagance due to the fact that Henry VIII sought to impress his rivals and show that he is of a higher calibre compared to his rivals, particularly French King, Francis I, who was Henry VIII’s arch rival. Francis hiring Leonardo Da Vinci as his architect impressed Henry VIII and thus, in order to upstage the French King, Henry started building an architectural collection of his own and the construction of Nonsuch Palace was…

A movie versus a book the age-old debate but how much can they differ when telling a story about something as universal terrible like the Holocaust? This is what I intend to find out when comparing the movie Life is Beautiful (directed by Roberto Benigni) to the book Night (Elie Wiesel). The most notable way these two differ is in the way they are presented (book vs movie), their plot and most importantly the reason they both were created in the first place. The most glaring way these two work…

Although the nature of homelessness is uncommon for the American population in modern society, the reality of the homeless is depicted clearly in On Dumpster Diving. In Lars Eighner’s text, he is effectively able to describe some of her personal experiences and opinions on the types of scavengers present in his community. Towards the end of the text, Eighner also begins to describe his motivation to make the middle-class of the population aware of their materialistic attachments. Moreover, he…

There are a lot of people in the streets that are there not because they want too, but because they have no other choice. Individuals thinks that it is because they are lazy, they do not want to get a job, but in reality these homeless people cannot find jobs. No one is willing to hire a person that has been on the street. These people are not considered normal. These homeless people are perceived as mentally ill because of the way they carry themselves. How they react to certain thing. People…

orchestrates the murders of his rivals, the other head families, in order to take control as the dominant family. Through a five minute scene, the murders and the baptism of his nephew manage to intertwine a lot of prevalent themes in the Godfather (by Francis Ford Coppola), into a powerful scene where the ideas of loyalty, commitment to family, revenge, and personal transformation are shown. The scene begins with a long shot of a dark Catholic church with the echo of an organ playing in the…

An average of 3.5 million people are homeless each year (Homeaid). Many people become homeless for various reasons. Domestic violence is one cause as to why someone may become homeless. Many women and their children may leave their home to escape violence, which results in them being homeless. Another cause for homelessness is mental illnesses and/or substance abuse (Kenney). Divorce or loss of a job is another big cause for homelessness. Many people may lose their job and not have another way…