I know it's easy to make judgmental statements about homeless people:
Get a job.
They brought it on themselves.
Why should I contribute a quarter to someone's drug habit?
Generalizations don't make for very good arguments in other situations; why should it be any different for the homeless population?
With news headlines flying about the raid on the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), the question has arisen of how anyone could believe in polygamy, in any form.
In English my class is currently reading Night by Elie Wiezel. It's about the Holocaust, and an extremely amazing book. While discussing, we had a lot of quesions to help us connect to the text, questions that put us in our time into the situation that was happening. At the time no one could really see something like that happening in our day and age.
Walking back from class today I was approached by a young woman who attempted to get me to sign up for Take Back the Night. Take Back the Night an annual feminist, anti-rape demonstration where people (mostly women) walk around campus blowing whistles to, well, take back the night.
There is very little I can remember before the age of thirteen, when I started keeping a daily journal with almost religious fervor. If I try hard I can remember facts pretty well - that I got up at six thirty in the morning to catch the bus at seven twenty-five, that my brother was in the same school as I during the first two grades, that I was in a fight in third grade.
There are many incorrect assumptions about girls and women who have abortions. Typically anti-abortionists assume that they are young, had sex consensually, did not use protection, and were aware of the consequences. They are accused of being irresponsible, not wanting to face the consequences of their actions, lazy, etc.
Time to clear up those misconceptions.
This is the continuation to http://www.progressiveu.org/221453-child-abuse-usa-homelessness-and-prostitution
This is the continuation to http://www.progressiveu.org/224151-child-abuse-japan-part-ii, and is part of a research paper about child abuse.
