Francis Marion

Homelessness What is homelessness? Many people will say it is when an individual does not have a house. However, is that its true meaning? Homelessness is a condition in which people live without a permeant dwelling. Those who are homeless cannot maintain a regular, safe, secure dwelling. This happens when the individual does not have an adequate income or employment that makes them earn them well enough to support them or their family. This is one of the foremost reasons that lead to…

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. He is known as the “Renaissance man.” Today he is best known for his art, including a couple of paintings that are still a few of the world’s most famous and admired, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Art, da Vinci believed, was connected with science and nature. Self-educated, he filled dozens of secret notebooks with inventions, observations and theories. The concepts expressed in his…

this help soon turned to greed and lead to death and destruction. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, shows through the eyes of an innocent, naïve man named Marlow, the horror and devastation the Congo was facing. Nearly a century later, director Francis Ford Coppola released a movie rendition of Conrad’s iconic novel centered around the Vietnam War called Apocalypse Now. The movie and novel shared striking similarities, but also gained recognition in their own respects. The novel, Heart of…

Have you ever driven past a homeless person and thought to yourself, where in life did this person go wrong? I know everyone has a different story, but I feel as though all homeless people deserve a second chance to better their lives. To help with this, I think the public should offer special assistance and resources to homeless people. Homeless people should be offered resources to go back to school, if needed, financial support and financial management, as well as reliable transportation to…

Homeless People in Tent Cities How much do we think of the unfortunate? We live good, eat well, have clothes on our back, and have a roof over our heads but when have we ever stopped to think about the ones who do not have all of these things? Something needs to be done to help these people just like we have been blessed to be in our position. In the article “Camping for their Lives” the author, Scott Bransford talks about the homeless living in tents. This article is about homeless people…

In 1949, as low as six people were found sleeping in the streets of London, the rise of homelessness started to rise in the mid 60’s. As the three leading campaign groups Crisis, Shelter and Centre-point were formed in the 60’s and the ‘housing homeless people act’ came in 1977. By the 1980s and into the early 1990s, however, homelessness was again on the rise. As things such house-price inflation, rising unemployment, a more general increase in the number of people with drink, drug and mental…

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…