Social Issues Essays

The article ‘Sun Vampires’ appeared in The Big Issue in May 1997. The Big Issue is aimed at a wide audience, including the younger generation, and is an effective way to reach the youth through a magazine, including young adults using tanning beds. The Big Issue is sold by the homeless on the street and […]

The text focuses on Mayor Paul Schell’s endeavor to revamp the program and adapt it to new goals. It highlights four actions taken by the mayor in this process. Furthermore, it emphasizes the importance of conducting evaluations before implementing a new program and provides four reasons backing up this significance. The case study centers around […]

The book Ironweed is a complex and depressing piece of literature, centered around the life of Francis Phelan. Once a famous baseball player, Francis now lives as a homeless wanderer for over two decades. Various factors contribute to his unfortunate circumstances, including his wife Helen and their three children – Gerald, Billy, and Peggy – […]

The issue of homelessness is a major concern for different policies. Various definitions have been used to classify individuals as homeless according to different poverty classifications. The increase in the number of people considered homeless is due to changes in the criteria for classification. Thus, it is important to reassess the criteria for identifying individuals […]

In ‘The Simple Gift’ and sense of belonging for Billy and Caitlin is found through their relationship (1st person narrative we learn of the significance of their belonging) Caitlin finds acceptance which she didn’t have with her family while Billy finds friendship (Old Bill) and love (Caitlin) which he hasn’t experienced before as well. Billy’s […]

The national figure for homelessness is a staggering 169000 people, 80000 of them in London alone. Tony Parsons and John Pilger are two men with different views on this crisis. Tony Parsons strictly believes that the beggars are worthless individuals who beg for no acceptable reason whereas John Pilger is far more sympathetic and believes […]

Homelessness is a very serious problem in every major city in the United States, especially Chicago. Over the course of a year, between 2.3 and 3.5 million people experience homelessness nationwide and approximately 166,000 people experience homelessness in the Chicago Metropolitan area. (CCH) These numbers are astounding, but as a resident of the city I […]

How to Organize a Canned Food Drive Canned food drives are a great way to help any charitable organization that works with the homeless or families in need. Although they are most popular during the holidays, canned food drives provide assistant that many people and organizations need all year. Planning and organizing a canned food […]

Let’s all help the homeless During the past decade there may have been an increase in homelessness due to the struggles of daily life. People have many ideas on ways that the government or communities can help improve these situations. It is not easy to help the homeless but any help can improve their lives […]

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines homelessness as lacking a permanent, regular, and humane-comfortable nighttime residence. This can include situations where a person’s primary basic nighttime residence is a supervised shelter, temporary accommodation, an institution providing temporary housing, or a place not designed for regular accommodation such as vehicles. The essay focuses […]

It’s Not Homelessness Rather It Is Houselessness The working class people look at homeless people as a mass, a pack of individuals that the working class people label such a pack as the homeless, the same as characterizing who they are, nevertheless the working class people disregard the direction of silent remark to realize that […]

HOMELESSNESS It is a melancholy hearing about the issue of homelessness worldwide. There are countless homeless people on the streets of these large cities. So we ask ourselves; why are people still without homes when new jobs are being created everyday or when unemployment still has not reached zero? This seems to be an ever […]

Karen Anderson Social analysis – Homelessness Feminist and postmodernist perspectives ACAP Being Homeless in Australia, what does that actually mean? The statistics show that homelessness in Australia is a growing and a concerning problem involving people from all walks of life and in all parts of Australia. This paper will examine the evidence of homelessness […]

As we seek pleasure, we often forget our purpose in life. We feed our egos as we like, but there is one thing that humans don’t know is that all of us have access to opportunities like those who think they have everything in life. But unfortunately not all of us are capable of seeing […]

House is a Home Waking up, looking to the left staring at the alarm clock, looking to the right out of the window so the rising sun. Stepping on to the cool crisp tile flooring of the bathroom. Pulling the plastic curtain back to warm up the flowing stream of shower water. Wiping the steam […]

The rapid growth of the global population has led to challenges in finding jobs and suitable housing, resulting in the issue of homelessness. Some people choose to live on the streets while others temporarily stay with family or friends. This raises questions about how society should address homelessness: whether it is society’s responsibility to support […]

In a New York Times article, Scott James discusses the efforts of San Francisco’s mayor to assist homeless individuals in relocating from the Transbay Terminal bus station, which has been destroyed. James highlights the city’s commitment to funding the relocation process. Additionally, the citizens of San Francisco show their support by offering assistance to ensure […]

Organizational creativeness is a growing area of study in organizational behavior research (Shalley & Zhou, 2007). It involves the continuous identification and resolution of problems through the implementation of innovative solutions (Basadur, 2004; Basadur et al., 1982 as cited in Shalley & Zhou, 2007 p.4). By applying this concept to the societal issue of homelessness, […]

Homelessness continues to be a concern across Canada and there is an emerging demand to understand a wide scope of issues associating to this job ( Pacione, 2009 ) . Canada has long had an international repute for high quality of life. However, for a turning figure of Canadians, homelessness has become a inexorable world […]

The second semester of my DMin program I chose to do my field study experience on outreach ministries/shelters, serving the homeless drug culture, since my first semester on the War on Drug. Many times most of the drug culture, population find themselves homeless. It is imperative to research how this population is served in an […]

Homeless adults undergo massive stressors on a daily basis as they steer a problem of mental, physical, and environmental risks. Depending on how they respond and adapt to these stressors can potentially affect their health outcomes and their quality of life. Additionally, places children at risk for mental health problems. Maternal depression may impact child […]

From the article problems associated with homelessness can be easier to resolve other than to manage if the affected people consider reintroducing themselves from the problem. In Million Dollar Murray, the author works to dismiss the assumptions concerning homelessness. It was assumed that homelessness trailed a normal distribution while the majority of the people were […]