Homelessness
walks beside you on the streets
Example 1
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Example #1 is from Wikipedia’s source about homelessness.
The number of homeless people worldwide has grown steadily
in recent years. In some Third World nations such as Nigeria, and South Africa,
homelessness is rampant, with millions of children living and working on the
streets. Homelessness has become a problem in the countries of China, India, Thailand,
Indonesia, and the Philippines despite their growing prosperity, mainly due to
migrant workers who have trouble finding permanent homes.
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Why is this important
to you?
This piece shows that homelessness can be found in
developing countries where the social system and the welfare is not working and
collaborating. These countries are on the developing stage and do not have the
methods to keep everyone over the surface, some is between the gaps. There also
exist huge class differences in some of these countries that allow people to
fall down low. A solution for taking homelessness of the street is to end this
huge class differences, making people come together and to a similar level.
That will not only be good for the low life people but also to the welfare due
to the fact that more people will live better, probably work and get salary and
then contribute to the country’s economy.
Example #2
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Example #2 is from the United Nation’s declaration of human
rights.
Article 25:
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate
for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food,
clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right
to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old
age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care
and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy
the same social protection.
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Why is this important
to you?
This piece is important because it shows that it is a human
right to live an adequate life. It is a human right to have food and shelter over
the head and the right to medical care. Unfortunately that is not what is
practiced in reality, there are still a lot of people that do not only are homelessness
but also do not have those possibilities and those rights. Countries are not
focusing on this problem enough to so something about it, homeless people are
the dark side of society that society do not want to take care about.
Example #3
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Example #3 is from an article from New York Times, Dec 12
2010.
“For national
organizations trying to eradicate homelessness, Los Angeles — with its 48,000
people living on the streets, including 6,000 veterans, according to one count
— stands as a stubborn anomaly, an outlier at a time when there has been
progress, albeit modest and at times fitful, in so many cities.”
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Why is this piece
important to you?
This piece from the article shows that there is not only
homelessness in developing countries but also inn leading economic states. This
article shows how many people that are living on the streets of Los Angeles.
Homelessness shows a lack in the social system and as I earlier said, lack in
the welfare system. Meanwhile a country, here America, thrives and plays a
great part in the current economic status it still has a less developed side.
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