2012年3月26日 星期一

Homelessness poses serious problem

It’s how many white keys are on a piano. It’s how many total weeks are in a year. It’s how much a basic pair of Chaco flip-flops cost — without tax. And supposedly, it’s the number of homeless people in my hometown.

What constitutes being homeless, and how do you measure it? Google told me that homeless is an adjective and it means “Without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets,” but I think that name can be misleading.

But what counts as a home? Does a bridge, chicken coop,Buy low price Aion Kinah, or car count as a place of residence? If I put a mailbox beside a storage shed, can I call it home and have my tax information or government checks delivered?

Cocke County, Tenn.,Omega Plastics are leading plastic injection moulding and injection mould tooling specialists. may only have 52 bridge dwellers, but its poverty level shows the true sad state of affairs: a poverty-infested place with little hope in Tennessee.

I still do not really understand how I am a product of my surroundings.

I had an absolutely incredible childhood.Our guides provide customers with information about porcelain tiles vs. I once resented my parents because I never got to spend a summer at home doing absolutely nothing. Now I realize and appreciate the places I got to see and the experiences I enjoyed. I visited all 50 states and almost 30 countries. I made dolls out of crawfish, and I saw the tallest peak in North America.

Meanwhile, my next-door neighbors lived in a chicken coop.

In second grade, my class was learning how to write narrative stories. The prompt was about “My trip to Myrtle Beach...” I came home from school crying because I had never (and still haven’t) visited Myrtle Beach. I was one of two students in my entire class who had never experienced the joys of Pigeon Forge with sand.

I was forced to write a page about my trip to Greece the month prior while the other student had to write about his vacation to Gatlinburg.

That second grade assignment haunts me to this day, but I realize now how selfish I have been with my experiences and opportunities. And I am sure I am not the only one here at UT.

Being homeless is a shame in many eyes. Not only is it a shame, it’s something you obviously “wanted.”

Who would choose to live in an alley or under a bridge? What kind of choice is that anyway? People blame it on the fact that homeless people refuse to work. Homeless people blame it on the lack of jobs. This cycle won’t end anytime soon, at least in America, because homelessness is viewed as a personal problem.

Americans have desensitized the word.I have just spent two weeks shopping for tile and have discovered Chinese porcelain tile.China Porcelain tile Instead of homeless being an adjective, it’s frequently used as a noun.

“The homeless are getting out of hand,” or “all the homeless are lazy,” are commonplace phrases heard today.

Back to what I said about my next-door neighbors in a chicken coop. Things are getting a little better. They have butchered a camper and put in a chimney. During the summer, they set up tents and camp out. I am not worried about offending my neighbors for being too personal in this column. Why?

They don’t have running water, let alone the Internet.

Visit another developed nation.Our team of consultants are skilled in project management and delivery of large scale rtls projects. You may see a few gypsies, a handful of street urchins here and there, possibly a homeless person or two. Drive down Broadway in Knoxville and I bet you will lock your doors when you pass under a bridge.

Fifty-two is an untouchable number, since it is never the sum of proper divisors of any number. And to us, the homeless people in Cocke County are occasionally perceived as untouchable and unworthy as well.

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