Homeless On Campus Analysis

In “Homeless on Campus” author, Kingsborough Community College English Department Instructor, Eleanor Bader explains the increasing amount of homeless students and ways the public can help get them into various necessary living situations. There are a number of students that are homeless. Bader mention a few different students’ situations and how they over came being homeless with the help of Legendre grants. The article discusses the need for a median wage to comfortably live. She explains the hardships some students experience when they are unable to gain housing. Bader comes up with a solution for some of these students through the LeGendre grant that is a scholarship that helps fund students living situations. The Kirkwood Community
The entire report is filled with well constructed sentences. An example of this is shown through this sentence, “Although Aesha believes that she will be able to stay in this facility until she completes her associate’s degree, the ordeal of being homeless has taken a toll oh her studies” (710). This shows a complexity writing style by integrating multiple facts along with commas where needed. Another example of this is shown through Bade’s assessment that “Despite these programmatic shortfalls, Gesing encounters two to three homeless students — often single parents — each semester. Some became homeless when they left an abuser. Others lost their housing because they could no longer pay for it due to a lost job, the termination of unemployment benefits, illness, the cessation of child support, or drug or alcohol abuse” (713). These two sentences use dashes and listing efficiently to prove a scholarly yet understandable style of writing. Throughout the article there were a variety of sophisticated words used promoting a scholarly tone. An example is when the author used the word “respite” when talking about Aesha’s living situation, which has a stronger and deeper meaning then choosing a word like “break” that it could have been compared to (710). Another example of the author’s word choice is shown when speaking about homeless demographics by using stronger words such as “disenfranchised,
Barbra Duffield is the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth executive director. Duffield makes a statement, “once the state and federal responsibility to homeless kids stop- at the end of high school - it’s as if they ease to exist. The fall off the map” (712). The author convinces the audience that this should be justified by having a legal policy change to overcome this obstacle. Another convincing aspect Bader used is referencing Aesha as an example for a person who advocated for a school needing to provide more for their student. Aesha states, “They have a childcare center on my campus, but they only accept children two and up…It would have helped if I could have brought my son to daycare at school” (712). This proves that housing facilities even if they are temporary or only for part of the day can truly help a student achieve academic