I then inquired if he had a place to stay for the evening and he informed me that if he didn't get to Parkersburg he would go to a friend's house. ... Baumohl declares in his book Homelessness in America "The lives of all people, disabled or not, are embedded in circumstances shaped as much by structural factors as personal and biographical ones" ( 26). ... Baumohl states in his book Homeless in America that "According to this perspective, people were homeless because something was wrong with them- (25). ... Others simply define homelessness as the condition when the person or famil...

• Word Count: 4318
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are two dominant themes that play an important role in the book. ... Population of the so-called "Spanish Harlem" is mostly Hispanic, specifically Puerto Ricans who have emigrated from Puerto Rico throughout the 1900s. ... The conditions of El Barrio are unpleasant compared to other places in New York City. ... In this crackhouse massive amount of drug dealing took place. ... Thus, an individual that knows his way around in a familiar place will have a difficult time adjusting to a different place and environment. ...

• Word Count: 3236
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We hear people call themselves African American, German American, Asian American, and any number of other country slash American. ... We strive for a bigger house, a nicer car, "the finer things in life" as they are called. ... Many colored people call themselves African American. ... I asked a friend of mine why he called himself black instead of African American. ... We have the term in America called the Great Melting Pot, it's meaning that race and ethnicity in America all runs together. ...

• Word Count: 3593
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The increased level of literacy in Victorian England contributed to a mass-market for book publishing and its mass audience was mainly made up of middle-class readers (O'Gorman 1). ... This paper concerns with one of her social explorers: the middle class heroine Margaret Hale who was brought up in the South but is forced to leave her home and move to an industrial town in the North. 2. ... Under the new law of 1834, the costs for this so-called outdoor relief of the Poor Law of 1601 were then to be reduced by establishing workhouses, where those people who were not able to responsibly s...

• Word Count: 2975
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

I will compare the World Bank recommendations on female education from their 2007 Symposium on LDCs with the social realities of urban underclass neighborhoods as described by Edin and Kefalas in their book "Promises I can Keep" (2005). ... Their book represents a conscious attempt to report the typical opinions and thought processes of the real life subjects of living conditions in the urban underclass neighborhoods. ... The World Bank The World Bank is an International Financial Institution created at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (so-called Bretton Woods co...

• Word Count: 5954
• Approx Pages: 24
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate