Class Experience

This class was an awesome class. This class made me think about my future, and future problems that we might have to face in the future. I like taking a survey online which helped us with our choice of the carreer.

We did service learning project that helped homeless people. I picked peas and extract honey. I didn't know anything about extarction of the honey so I learned a lot of things about bees. That project was great experience.

Another project that we did was that we did research on homelessness and hunger and wrote a paper on it. That project taught me a lot things to. It taught me that this problem is not small, it is very big, and soon it will effect all of us.

The last thing that I liked was working on the Personal Develoment book. It helped me organize my prioirites. It also made me think about my strengths and weknesses towarrd my goal.

I know this was the hardest UNV 1010 class, but it actually taught me a lot of things about my myself so I liked it. we did do a lot of work, but i think it's worth it. This class will help me in the future.

Thoughts on Ulifeline and Alcohol Screening

Ulifeline is great source to help a friend or even help myself if needed. It contains all the information about the mental illness or how to prevent suicides? I think it is the best source for the college students because teens are the one who go through most of the tension during their first or second year of college.

Ulifeline can help students who are going through domestic problems. I think its just like therapy sessions, but for free. The positive thing is that we learn all these things about people for free. It even tells us about symtoms that we should pat attention to.

On the other hand, Alcohol screening is great source, too. It tells us about the alcohol problems and we can even take a test which will help us determine how much alcohol can we consume?

Everyone's alcohol level is different. Alcohol level depends on people weight, sex, and many more things. I think that website is awesome source.

Research Experience

I didn't have any problem with researching because I did research so many times before. Researching on this topic help me learn more things about homelessness and hunger. when I was doing this research I payed attention to couple of things.

The first thing I payed attention to was that if the source was reliable or not. The second thing I payed attention to if the source contains the information that I need. The last thing I payed attention to was that the source fits in to my research. I think these were the three important things to pay attention to.

Homelessness and Hunger

Who are homeless people? This question has a lot of different answers. The answer depends on each individual. Some people think the homeless people are those who live on the streets or roads. some people think the homeless people are those who live with their relatives or family members. There is no correct answer; it totally depends on the individual. It doesn't matter what people think is the correct answer because the fact is that the need for the food and shelter is increasing each year, and we need to do something about it.

The need for the food in 2004 was seventeen percent, and the need for the shelter was thirteen percent (Muhammad, par. 3). In 2009, the need of the food jump to twenty six percent, and one fourth of the US state reported increase in the need of shelter (Pierog, par. 3). Over the last four years, the increase in the demand of the food is more than double.

One of the biggest causes of increase in the foos is recession. There are a lot of people who are out of job right now. Other causes include low-paying jobs, high cost of housing, medical care cost, childcare costs, child abuse, and transportation expenses (Chapman, par. 3 and 4). No matter what causes people to become homeless, what matter is that it is increasing every year, and people don't do anything to stop it?

This problem of homeless is expected to increase next year. People don't see it coming, but really soon it will hit all of us. People don't bother to help because they think this not their problem, but it is. It they don't start taking care of this problem really soon then they have to suffer in the future.

There are many ways that people can help. some people think donating money is the only way and that's not true. I don't blame them for thinking like this because I used to thhink that, too. they are just not famililar with other ways. Other ways include donating old clothes,participating in the activities like packing food for homeless people or serve food to homeless people so what are you guys waiting for? TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW!

outline

Introduction

• attention getter- who are homeless?
• thesis - the need for food and shelters is incresing so we need to take some action

Paragraph 1

• compare the % of assistance needed in 2003 to 2009

Paragraph 2

• what are some causes of homelessness and hunger?

Paragraph 3

• What to expect in the future?

Conclusion

• it time to do something about this problem.