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    Using theatre to help the homeless Homelessness is a huge problem in the United Kingdom, homelessness doesn 't just involve people sleeping on the streets it also encompasses families living in temporary accommodation or in substandard housing. My idea is to devise a piece of theatre using workshops with some people who have gone through or are going through homelessness, once a piece has been devised then a short tour will take the production around schools and areas with higher than normal…

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    America is poverty. No matter the measures that have been taken to eliminate it, nothing has been able to solve the problem. It is such a difficult problem to tackle, although a common stereotype in the United States is that people who are poor are stupid or uneducated. It has been proven that it is extremely hard to make a living in this country on minimum wage budget. People can spend their whole lives living in poverty, never being able to escape. But why is it so hard to rise out of poverty.…

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    With the rise in concern for both poverty and inequality, along with subsequent ploy measures implemented in recent years, there has also been greater attention given to the issue of the underclass, or similar concepts describing a specific group perceived to be at the bottom of society. While there is substantial commentary on the underclass from various perspectives, it is important to consider its significance not just as a concept in itself, but also in terms of its relation to more…

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    Who Needs Welfare? There are many Americans who would not be capable of providing for their families without some form of government assistance. The government’s role, at times, is to support its people. Folks go through their daily lives hoping they will never personally need to ask for help. Times get hard. People get fired or laid off. In the blink of an eye, their life savings are depleted and they’re destitute. With today’s economy, that is not hard to imagine. Sometimes all one needs is a…

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    They’re departing ways and ultimately wishing the worst for the opposite party. The people of society will then be willing the other to rot and not help them out of their black hole of poverty; therefore, people need second chances in order to get back on their feet. Humans are creatures of habit; therefore, they become used to living their lives a certain way. Sometimes they are thrown into a different lifestyle, and they don’t know what…

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    There are a lot of homeless people in our society today; there are all kind of races and ethics. Many of them are veterans that come home from war and lost everything that they had. Some communities try and help the homeless as much as they can but you never know who is actually homeless or not. Every exit that you get off at there will most likely be someone sitting there with a sign homeless anything helps. You want to give something to them but then you think do they really need it. The…

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    There is a serious problem in America; it is not a war, nor is it whom to vote for in a presidential election, it is the “love-hate relationship” Americans have with the homeless (Baum, A. S., & Burnes, D. W. 1993). Specifically, many citizens pity those they witness walking along the streets, or possibly hear about in the media, but for some reason, homelessness remains a major issue just as it has been for years. Additionally, many people have stereotypical views regarding chronic homelessness…

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    The rate of poverty is affecting a large fraction of the world and is continuing to spread unless there is some definitive change to the global poor. Currently there is a large separation between the wealthiest and the poorest countries. This comes into account when discussing their ability or inability to meet their essential needs to live a healthy lifespan. There has been a series of problematic situations that connect to the quality of life and the insufficient funds to do live well. With…

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    What makes people poor? What are the causes of people becoming poor? (Thomas B Edsall) Dr. E saw poverty as a technical problem, not a moral one or political pressures, to get an explanation where poverty start. “ We should consider the ramification of new research that provides insight into urban social disorder, worklessness, the rising salience of education and the shortcoming of government policy.” The scope of this research on unemployments to look at the consequences for men who group…

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    Introduction In many countries, prostitution is illegal. Even in the U.S, which is such an advanced country, prostitution is only legal in eleven counties in Nevada. However, the Final Report on the Evaluation of the First Offender Prostitution Program, prepared by Michael Shively, et al., shows that fifteen to twenty percent of men in the U.S have engaged in commercial sex at least one time (10). According to the United States Census in 2010, there are 151,781,326 males in the U.S, so…

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