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    Homelessness In The US

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    About 300k children are homeless in America. In the U.S. Many people are homeless. More and more try to help then get back on track. Today about 30 million people are getting help from the Salvation Army. Homelessness is when someone who loses a home. After that usually they think it's over. But, no it's not over because there are more places that can help, especially Salvation Army. There probably the top in the U.S Many people in the U.S. Are homeless. About 3.5 million…

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    The author states how she has learned about the inadequacies of the so-called safety net. As well as how the resources available to assist families in homeless situations if far from reality and is more of a theory. The pressure of hunger strikes and activism made President Reagan direct Congress to designate a modicum of money and administrative attention to address homelessness back in 1987. (Nilan, 2013) The McKinney-Vento Act is the federal plan to address homelessness. It mandates that all…

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    Legendary Beard Fact: Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the few artists never to leave behind a self portrait, but in every image executed by other, his magnificent flowing beard takes center stage. Leonardo Da Vinci was the bastard son of wealthy and well-respected lawyer Messer Piero Fruosinio de Antonio da Vinci and a peasant woman named Caterina. The birth took place on April 14, 1542 inn the hill town of Vinci in the Republic of Florence. He received virtually no formal education, until he was…

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    Folding Bed Case Study

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    The inspiration and the idea of the folding bed is to the homeless people, because they don’t have a place to sleep on and they don’t have any money to buy a bed, but Ardi’s brand they have the donation payment system so you can donate the bed to people who needs it. The people who needs the product and wants the product is the homeless people or poor people or to the refuges people who maybe doesn’t get a bed, because the bed were limited in the place their staying. The price of the folding bed…

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    In continuation, Social Exchange theory according to Robbins, Chatterjee, & Canda (2012), agree that “those who cannot engage in equal exchange, a form of debt is incurred in which they are relegated to lower status” (pg. 361). When applying this theory to homelessness based on the notions of rewards/punishments, it becomes difficult to predict what each person sees fit due to individual opinions/life experiences. In support, according to Johnson & Rhodes (2015), “The Social Exchange theory is…

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    are numerous examples of referencing works of art, including painting, poetry, music or literature, in works that precede the art. The idea of comparison and reference of a previous work can be clearly seen in the movie Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Coppola in the year 1979. This movie has ties to the book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad in the year 1899. Both works reference the idea of corruption and the true American society. The movie provides the reader with a different…

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    Piero della Francesca Outline Piero della Francesca exemplifies the Renaissance Era by being one of the first artist in the renaissance to capture realistic facial expressions that have emotion in one's artwork. Also he mastered the art of perspective combining it with a blend of colors creating beautiful art. Source 1: “Piero della Francesca.” Britannica School. Encyclopedia Britannica, inc., 2015. Web. 8 Oct. 2015 Piero della Francesca was born around 1416/17, Sansepolcro, Republic of…

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    Ever thought that if the old houses in San Francisco are cheap like the ones in Riverside? Turns out that they much more expensive than you think they are. They are even more expensive than the big, nice, houses in Riverside! That is probably one reason why the homelessness percentage is so high! During Super Bowl weekend, homeless people are being asked to move away from the city. An article published by Alison Vekshin,Bloomberg News,adapted by Newsela staff 01.28.15, “ San Francisco nudges…

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    Vitruvian Man Lab Report

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    Introductions Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was very brilliant and a leading artist. Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man was inspired by Vitruvius; a Roman engineer and architect during the first century B.C., shows how the proportions of the human body fit perfectly into a circle or a square. The drawing shows a man standing in a square, which is inside a circle and the man has two pair of outstretched arms and to pair of outstretched legs. Vitruvius’ theory was that a…

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    Oh say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave. O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. - Francis Scott Key, 1814. This is our country, land of the free and home of the brave. We are America. The strong. The brave. The courageous. We stand united, arms locked, indivisible by any other opposing force. We are free, and it is our right to be equal with one another. We are the sturdy thread that holds our country together. Each of us represented and accounted for under the…

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