The Devastating Effects of Homelessness, Poverty, and Illiteracy Danielle Grider Ivy Tech Community College ENG111-15H-H1 February 26, 2012 Wendy Kruger The Devastating Effects of Homelessness, Poverty, and Illiteracy Jonathan Kozol is a civil rights activist, educator, and an award-winning author. He is best known for his work with children of color and children of poverty. Kozols’ book “Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America” won the Robert F. Kennedy award. In “The Homeless and Their Children”, taken from Kozols’ book “Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America” tells his readers how homelessness, poverty, and illiteracy have devastating effects on families, especially the children. He also shows his readers that the welfare system in New York City did little to help these families.
This was such a devastating situation and I can't help but wonder how many others were misdiagnosed as well. The families interviewed in this video upset me as well, especially Patty's family. One of her sisters described her as a burden. Another sister said about her mother, “Must have taken a strong person to leave their child.” I completely disagree! I think a strong person would have raised their baby to the best of their ability when they could see something wasn't quite right about the treatment they were receiving at Willowbrook.
They face foreclosures and job losses due to the deepening recession. The impact of homelessness begins well before a child is born. The overwhelming majority of homeless parents are single women, many of whom were homeless themselves as children. Homeless women face many obstacles to healthy pregnancies, such as chemical abuse, chronic and acute health problems, and lack of prenatal care. Children born into homelessness are more likely to have low birth weights and are at greater risk of death.
Just like Elisabeth Murry, she was homeless when she was in her teens, her parents did drugs and she watched her parents do drugs, she had to find a way to feed herself at an early age. But when she turned 19 she graduated college with honors and got a job at the New York Times Post. The next time you see a homeless person, do not look down on them, because as you get older you could be one
Janice Carter Essay Number 1 Young people constantly face delicate issues in life, such as death, social conformity and truth that stems from society, social expectations, the world and him /herself. The two characters that stand out in my mind who I believe had challenged those factors in order to survive in the world that they both had lived are, Hana Brady from Hana’s Suitcase and Elizabeth from The Paper Bag Princess. They both faced different conflicts, but the nature of the conflicts were different. Elizabeth dealt with character verses the world (Verity 4-1) and Hana dealt with character verses society and social expectations (Verity 4-2). They had also suffered greatly and bravely succumbed to the struggles by overcoming the obstacles and hardships they faced.
However, Harriet disagrees with them and this makes her fall into a dilemma. In this paper, I am going to discuss how difficult it is for a woman to act the proper role of a responsible mother. As seen from this quotation, the Lovatts’ family has been broken into two opposing groups. On the one hand, Molly, Dorothy and David represent the normal world while on the other hand, Harriet and Ben fall into what people consider as the abnormal world. In the words and phrases chosen by Lessing to describe Molly and Dorothy in the first paragraph such as “confronting” and “firmly taking her position”, we can see that both of them have a strong dislike towards Ben, thereby wishing to get rid of him as quickly as possible.
She only thinks about her children and their future which brought her in the path of seeking for help. However, going from person to another person makes her feel ashamed. She illustrated pathos when she was “spilling the whole shame” of her poverty from one person to another as she was seeking for help. As readers read this, they feel as ashamed as Parker is. The revelation of her poverty to the people she meets, who doesn’t exactly give her the things she needs, makes her feel mortified.
They feel abandoned and dejected. A sense of being valued and loved in females is considered a key element in the development of females. Another very devastating affect on a child is fear of being abandoned by the remaining parent. The often wonder the consequences of the possibility that the remaining parent might abandon the child as well. Of course, living in fear everyday, is not a healthy habit and certainly not for a growing child.
Isolation is an extremely harsh and demoralising experience to live through. In the case of homeless people it is an experience they must live with every day of their lives. The concept of isolation can be seen in the text when Link states “Nobody knew I was there”. The use of first person pronouns makes the audience sympathise and personalise with the struggles of isolation Link experiences. The repetition of the word nobody in the statement “Nobody cares, see?
This suggests that her limb troubles her to a huge extent. Gertrude Lodge discloses to Rhoda, that she does not know how her limb was injured. Due to her injury, readers are aware that Gertrude suffers a great amount of pain from her withered arm. Another reason that Gertrude suffers in the tale is because she couldn’t produce a child for her husband. Her arm caused martial problems between her and her husband, Farmer Lodge.