Saint Patrick's Battalion

The term Homeless according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is “having no place to live”. Last year on January 1st of 2014 about 578,424 people in accordance to the National Alliance to End Homelessness were experiencing homelessness in the United States Government. Of those 578,424 homeless that night 216,197 are people in families and 49,993 people are war veterans. These numbers are staggering for a modern country like the United States and we need to find a way to diminish these numbers as…

" There is a lot that happens around the world that we cannot control. We cannot stop earthquakes we cannot prevent droughts and we cannot prevent all conflicts, but when we know where the hungry, the homeless, and the sick exist, that we can help. " - Jan Schakowsky. She was an Illinois Politician. She pushed strongly to make a change in numbers. She recognized the problem and wants to make a change, much like me, in the homeless rate in Chicago. 100 million people around the…

LAWN AND ORDER It was a beautiful day in Louisiana, Georgia, Mr.Adams was was driving his Ford Explorer to a customer 's house. Mr.Adams had a business where he would mow lawns and he specialized in doing custom designs for gardens, it was named Lawn and Order. Almost everybody in Louisiana has heard of Lawn and Order because of its recent booming success, due to channel 19 news, which featured a lot of his famous designs such as “ The Lawnmower “ and “ The Pelican “ where he would put the…

Cultural assumptions affect the presentation of people or groups in media by the stereotypes placed on them by a culture or society. This enables author and directors to represent people with a limited amount of background and have the audiences and reader recognise characters circumstances or identities with such a small amount of information often based on the first description or vision of a character. For many the homeless people are just the unfortunate souls who sleep on park benches and…

In “Theories of Relativity”, Barbara Haworth-Attard portrays success as something that can be achieved, regardless of social standing, provided the person is of strong enough character, but also as something that takes a willful person to achieve when in a difficult situation. In the novel, people equally qualified for success differ because of their socioeconomic status. Those of higher socioeconomic status always have an advantage, but if they do not possess good character strength and…

The city that produces the stars of the world also is the homeless capital of America. Homelessness is a growing issue in America as of 2012 about 633,783 people that were homeless across the country(Holland). There were 44,359 homeless people in Los Angeles County and 25,686 in the city itself, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services. Homelessness damages the people affected mentally and physically like through their lost of skill. The inability to find the job because the fear of being…

There’s one part of the video 2 that really caught my attention. Society’s ignorance and judgement are creating the wrong perceptions towards the homeless people when the truth behind their situations are far more complex. Vast majority of homeless people are suffering from a mental illness that keeps them from getting a permanent job. Some have very little knowledge about mental health that they don’t seek for help. The reasons of being homeless are not as simple as we think it is. Most of…

Imagine 6,775 homeless people in one city. Well, in San Francisco there is. The excessive amount of homeless people in San Francisco has caused a dilemma because of the Super Bowl football game that will occur soon. San Francisco wants it to appear as if there is no poverty in the beautiful city. The city has a large population of homeless people because of the shelters, deficiency of jobs, and the weather. As a result, San Francisco is the thirteenth biggest US city populated with homeless…

Homelessness is a real world problem and it’s been around for years and years. When you hear about homelessness most people’s minds automatically go to middle aged men and women, which is only a myth. There are more homeless children and young adults now than ever. Even some believe all homeless people are drug and alcohol abusers, which is also untrue. 17% of homeless people are found to have mental illnesses being the reason for their homelessness. Homelessness affects close to every community…

A low-life who is unwilling to work for their own money steals the money you work for to buy alcohol. That's something that upsets the average person. Yet people voluntarily hand out that money for the same cause. The moral solution to homelessness is to provide fairness to those who work for their money, encourage the homeless to rely on themselves rather than others for money, and not provide the materials for the homeless to self-harm. It's unfair for those who work for their money are forced…