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    At this very moment I’m sure that no one in this speech class would imagine being homeless within the next month or two. However, sometimes life can be unpredictable, and for many people the unexpected strikes out of nowhere. Contrary to what most people assume, those that are homeless are usually just ordinary people going through a difficult stage in life. The homeless of our society from my perspective are overlooked to an extent of rotting the core of our communities. A person is deserving of

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    one day or being homeless the next. Statics shows that there is about 3.5 Million homeless each year. one in seven people in the United States runs the risk of having to suffering from being hungry. There are some people in the world that are willing to walk past a homeless person and pretend they were not there. Put yourself in the homeless person's shoes, or what if it was your child sleeping on the ground in the winter. Many people that are homeless did not choose to be homeless people were veteran

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    The homeless population in the U.S. does not only consider the humans out on the streets, but also the ones in emergency shelters, transitional housing, in cars, and more. Over six-hundred thousand individuals are currently homeless in the United States. In our current society, people often become homeless due to circumstances beyond their control. Such as individuals that identify as LGBTQ, victims of domestic violence, and unaffordable housing throughout America. Different sets of problems and

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    The margins of society The margins of society (people on the edge of the society) refer to a philosophical rather than physical location. Essentially those who are considered in the margins of society are those people who live outside socially accepted norms. These might include the impoverished, people in the penal system, the homeless, the incurably mentally ill, or certain racial groups. For example, if we declare the homeless to be in the margins, we are essentially stating that they are on

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    to help lower the homeless population. Imagine day in and day out waking up on a bench in a suburb or on a concrete slab under a bridge, not knowing what or when your next meal is or the next time you can clean yourself. When you get hungry you stand on a corner and beg everyday citizens for any money they can lend. For the most part of the day, you can hope to be noticed and not judged for what you are and who you are. It is estimated that there are two to three million homeless citizens in the United

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    Homeless Students in Modern Society What do you think of when you hear the word homeless? Maybe you think of the people begging for work on the side of the streets. You might imagine drug addicts running from shelter to shelter. Actually, about half of the homeless people in the world are children and students, who do not abuse drugs. Sadly, the number of Homeless Students and Children in Caldwell county, and across the nation, is increasing, and the academic, social, and physical effects are devastating

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    individual idea of what society should be like and how the people within it should function. The world is not a perfect place, leaving people often desiring for something better. Utopia by Thomas More gives a glimpse at a society that has achieved this notion of a fluid and cohesive environment. Utopia describes a society in which money is obsolete and everyone makes the necessary contributions in order for the community to function and survive. A moneyless society is completely nonexistent

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    a specific area is deemed public or private, space is never innocent because of the bodies who govern those areas. Today, there are approximately 3.2 million Canadians who are either homeless or “transitionally” homeless, but regardless of their citizenship, they are not considered as “modern citizens” by the society. Mitchell puts forth the argument that the ordinances passed in the 1990s has stripped vagrants of their rights as actual Canadian citizens and has created an elite class of citizenship

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    Another perspective one can view in this movie is the functionalist perspective, they view society as a living organism where society is structured to be able to stay stable and each part has its own role to play. In a text, it states, “Due to California’s budget crisis, cuts were made to public education. Hope school lost two teachers, including Ms. Judy”. This would fit in a functionalist perspective because California is a big state with many people living in it, yet with so many people it seems

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    Breaking Social Norms

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    acceptable in society and in some ways help society to productive and orderly. Norms are a set of protocol that we have all learned and follow and laws that we are held to because we participate in society. Many times social norms keep the average citizen to themselves and within their own sphere unless an emergency arrives where or a situation when spontaneous must occur. When individuals within the society break the social norms and step outside the standards that everyone lives by, the society shuns the

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