#weareequal

Academic perspectives 

I chose two peer reviewed articles for this week’s deliverable blog. Article 1 is called “Homelessness” by Caitlin E. Synovec and the 2nd article is called “Understanding Homelessness” by Peter Somerville. Article one explained about homelessness issues, in this article they express how “individuals experiencing homelessness undergo limited opportunity” (Synovec, 2012). Many of us when we are walking in our city we sometimes feel grosed out or believe that every homeless person we see is a theft, but we don’t take a moment and realize that they aren’t out there because they chose to but because they don’t have the same opportunities as everyone. Either because it's for health or living situations that make them be homeless, especially with the expensive house we currently have. In this article they also express how there are programs to help homeless people and how everyday they are creating new programs so homeless people don’t feel unwanted. According to the article “ Individuals who are homeless may also have long and familial histories of living in poverty and housing instability” (Synovec, 2012). Reading this article I was able to see that the main topic  was how and why homeless are the way they are to have people understand that homelessness isn’t something that people choose. For article 2 it was more of a research. It is broken down into sections which it was very easy to understand the author to what they were wanting the reader to understand. For example, It gave us a little bit of the history of homelessness and how it has evolved. It also explained to us how homeless people are increasing everyday and many cities aren’t doing anything to change that. They also talk about the “pathway into homelessness”. In this section they explained in more detail the reasons why people become homeless.  aAccording to article 2 “A home;essness pathway has been defined more specifically as “te route of an individual or household into homelessness, their experience of homelessness and their route out of homelessness insecure housing” (Anderson and Tulloch, 2011). In both articles I chose I believe the biggest difference was the way it was written, one was more of a historical article and the other one was more of a current experience. However, these two articles had a lot in common because they both talked about the definition of homelessness, they also touched based on history within homelessness and they also spoke about different programs that people are creating in cities to help homelessness although there are other cities that still don’t have anything to help the homeless people. Both articles had great point of views and I believe that reading both of them really opened my eyes and motivated me to keep on helping homeless people. As a person I believe that we are all equal and almost every weekend I go out to Portland and handout food and sometimes drinks to help people who don’t have the money to even buy a drink. I enjoy doing this and I will continue to do so. 

Citation:

-Synovec, C. E. (2020). Homelessness. Work (Reading, Mass.), 65(2), 233–234. https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-203099 

-Somerville, P. (2013). Understanding Homelessness. Housing, Theory, and Society, 30(4), 384–415. https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2012.756096 

Other Media Sources 

The video I chose is called “Why The U.S can’t Solve Homelessness” In this video I was able to learn how many cities are becoming expensive one being California and two being Seattle. Both these two cities and other ones have a high homeless population. Another eason that the U.S isn’t able to help homeless is because they believe that it’s a waste of money when they can be using the money for other necessary things. In this video they also interviewed a homeless person and asked him why he was living outside, and he responded because he had no choice, he had no money, no family and no job which led him to become homeless. He also said that he wished that their was more shelters around the area so he wouldnt have to walk 30 minutes to the closest one. He mentioned that besides the cold he enjoys the people around him and he has found people that can relate to him which has made him feel safer. This video had great information about homeless people which is why I chose this as my deliveral Blog because ot gives good information to what the U.S is doing wrong which is causing a higher population on homeless people. 

Video:

Podcast: 

The podcast I chose was called “Homeless Podcast” by Matthew in the “podcast” app in an iPhone. In this podcast the interview was an hour long, they interviewed a homeless male called Charles who had a dad that was in the army and a mom who worked in the house. He lived a very happy life when his dad would come home but the unfortunate thing was that he would only drink and wouldn’t pay much attention to Charles. As Charles grew older his parents and himself started to have huge problems which led him to get kicked out of his parents house. He didn’t work since all he did was go to school (college). He then had to quit school because he didn’t have the money to pay for it anymore, he then try applying for jobs to have some money but jobs didn’t hire him because he had no good recommendations letters. He eventually felt like he was never going to find a job and apartments were to expensive to afford which made him start living inthe streets. He felt like no one supported him and he met people out there that would comprehend him because of their own life stories. This podcast caught my attention because we are able to just see what people experience in their life which causes them to be homeless. Some people don’t chose to be homeless but because theu have to. Which is why we should create more shelters lower the costs of house or even provide jobs to those in need because many homeless people do want to work but because certai requirements it stops them from getting the job. 

Song: 

A song I chose that talks about social change is called “Where is the Love?” by The Black Eyed Peas. This song was released in June 2003 in response to the 9/11 this song includes lyrics of terrorism, racism, gang crime, pollution, war, intolarance, and violence agaisnt LGBTQ people. The Black Eyed Peas primarily exemplifies the theme regarding human right between individuals and society. In a part of their song they describe “nations dropping bombs,” “Children hurt” and “people killing, people dying.” they also say “if you only have love for your own race then you only leabe space to discriminate and to discriminate only generate hate.” Every single one of these words are true and I’m sure it can relate to social change because we are living in a world where we don’t feel safe because everytime we turn the TV on look at the news is either a terrorist attack just happened to a person of color was just killed. Which is why the titlte of the song is called “where is the Love” because we just can’t be at peace and be able to feel safe. No matter how much we try to safe our own community/ world hate will continue. However this doesn’t mean that we should stop helping our community because every second of your help can make a change and it can help. This is why I like this song because it speaks the truth of our everyday world and because social change has been cause by us humans and we now have to do our best to reunite it the right way.