Homelessness in the U.S.
Speech Outline: Homelessness in America
Specific Purpose: To raise awareness of the homelessness in America and what brings a person to become homeless.
Thesis: A society is judged by how it treats it weakest and most defenseless and needy citizens, including the homeless. People whom with social disabilities or financial problems usually will be abandoned by the society and become homelessness along the streets. "During the past year, over two million men, women, and children, or nearly one percent of the US population, were homeless."(The National Law Center) The growing homeless population is a factor that shows people are suffering unexpected financial problems and struggling in maintaining their life basis. Typically, people have the impressions that homeless people are sloppy, lazy, and irresponsible; however, the truth may be shocked because in some cicumstances there are many people who have jobs and non-habitual to drug or alcoholics still remain homeless. It is a tragic aspect of our culture that homeless people, in addition to suffering from the hardship of their condition, are subjected to alienation and discrimination by mainstream society.
Introduction
I. When you see a homeless person on the streets, what are your first impressions? Do you think of a drug addict or alcoholic?
II. Homelessness is one of the most significant issues of our time majority due to economic, social and medical factors and is continuing to increase throughout the United States.
A.)People become homeless for many reasons. Homelessness is primarily an economic problem "According to the United States Conference of Mayors, in 2008 the three most commonly cited causes of homelessness for persons in families were lack of affordable housing, cited by 72 percent of cities, poverty (52%), and unemployment (44%), and top ideas to stop homelessness were more housing for persons with disabilities (72%), more or better paying employment opportunities (68%), and more
Specific Purpose: To raise awareness of the homelessness in America and what brings a person to become homeless.
Thesis: A society is judged by how it treats it weakest and most defenseless and needy citizens, including the homeless. People whom with social disabilities or financial problems usually will be abandoned by the society and become homelessness along the streets. "During the past year, over two million men, women, and children, or nearly one percent of the US population, were homeless."(The National Law Center) The growing homeless population is a factor that shows people are suffering unexpected financial problems and struggling in maintaining their life basis. Typically, people have the impressions that homeless people are sloppy, lazy, and irresponsible; however, the truth may be shocked because in some cicumstances there are many people who have jobs and non-habitual to drug or alcoholics still remain homeless. It is a tragic aspect of our culture that homeless people, in addition to suffering from the hardship of their condition, are subjected to alienation and discrimination by mainstream society.
Introduction
I. When you see a homeless person on the streets, what are your first impressions? Do you think of a drug addict or alcoholic?
II. Homelessness is one of the most significant issues of our time majority due to economic, social and medical factors and is continuing to increase throughout the United States.
A.)People become homeless for many reasons. Homelessness is primarily an economic problem "According to the United States Conference of Mayors, in 2008 the three most commonly cited causes of homelessness for persons in families were lack of affordable housing, cited by 72 percent of cities, poverty (52%), and unemployment (44%), and top ideas to stop homelessness were more housing for persons with disabilities (72%), more or better paying employment opportunities (68%), and more