Second World War knowledge

Second World War knowledge

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Second question

Third question

Fourth question

Authors: 

• Carlos Alejandro Cevallos
• Jersson Cruz Acebo
• Paúl Adanaqué Chiquito
• John Pelaéz Suarez
• Alex Chafla Llalao

Activity 5:

Play the rap again, and look at the lyrics while listening. If you wish, you can mouth the words silently.

• Can you identify words that rhyme?

Yes, we can. For example: cooler- ruler; bowl- control

• How is the setting of the modern, Western World created?

It was presented as a superficial world, full of stereotypical situations of the First World.

• Imagine going to back 50 years in time and playing this rap to someone living in the past. How would they react to the language and the ideas presented?

They wouldn’t completely understand the ideas presented on the rap.

Activity 6:

Play the rap again, and join in by readings aloud the lyrics. Can you keep up with zach? How about finally performing the rap without the backing video?

• In your opinion, who is he best audience for this rap? Why?

In our opinion, the best audience for this rap are teenagers, or maybe the third world people who may find this kinda situation as funny as we found it.

Activity 3:

Play the rap again, but this time close your eyes and focus on listening to the words.

• Are you able to follow the language used?

We understood almost everything.

• What is the language like? How familiar are you with the vocabulary and expressions used?

The raper used understandable language which we were familiar with.

• What is the rhythm like? are you able to tap it?

We weren’t able to tap it, it was sort of fast

Activity 4:

Read the lyrics of the rap on the right

• How familiar are you with the ideas presented in the rap? Can you think of more examples of First World Problems?

We are familiar with the language. We think every possible example was on the video.

• Can you identify with Zach? Why/ Why not?

No we don’t identify with him. We are indifferent to the situation.

• What emotions does the rap evoke in you?

It is funny for most of us.

TimeKeepers

Activity 1: summary about the last class of first world problems.

• The topic was: first world problems.
• We saw a video and we extracted the principal presented  “problems” in the first world.

• We discussed what we saw and commented on the exaggeration presented in the video.
• We  compare the problems between The first world and third world, we saw a hilarious video about it

Activity 2:

Watch The First World Problems Rap available on www.youtube.com

• What is the mood like?
• Energetic
• Sarcastic

How can you help the homeless and homeless.

How can you help the homeless and homeless.

1: Donate money

You can donate money to organizations advancing the help of these people.

2: Donate items

You can help these people by donating your material items, used or new items.
You can give them to organizations that help these people or give them to homeless people you see often.

Items that would help a lot of these people are:

·                    Coats against the cold.

·                    A first aid kit.

·                    Clothing.

·                    Other items that are very useful.

3: Give them food.

You can buy bags of bread or food that they can eat and so help them in their daily lives.

4: Be a volunteer.

Another way to help the homeless is to serve as a volunteer in any organization responsible to help them.

5: Contact your local help

If you see people in the streets, the best you can do for them is to call support services to the homeless in your area.

6: Call the emergency services.

If you notice that someone is having a serious problem, call I emergency services.

Homelessness teens

If you were a homeless kid, you might do any or all those things ... you might not have a choice.

Every day, Covenant House gives shelter to homeless kids and responds to their most pressing needs. Last year alone, more than 55,000 homeless kids got help in Covenant House programs, including:

·         Just under 28,000 kids in our crisis shelters, long-term residential programs, the Mother/Child program and our Community Service Centers located in neighborhoods across the United States, Central America, and Canada

·         More than 28,000 helped through Street Outreach Programs, where staff and volunteers search

 Facts About Homeless Teens

1.      1.-  Some homeless children and youth are with their families. In 2014, however, 45,205 were unaccompanied. Post flyers in your community to educate homeless teens on resources and services. Sign up for Flyer Away.

2.        2.-   About 80% of homeless youth (aged 12-21) use drugs or alcohol as a means to self-medicate to deal with the traumatic experiences and abuse they face.

   Source: 

•      Covenant House (2015), “The Crisis of Youth Homelessness” https://www.covenanthouse.org/homeless-teen-issues/teen-homelessness
•       Explore Campaigns (2014), “11 Facts About Homeless Teens”, https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-homeless-teens

the story of homeless people

The problems that people who are homeless face aren’t simple, and neither are the solutions.

Homelessness can happen to anyone. We see people who are educated, come from loving families, and have had successful working lives in the past. Some are suffering from addiction, mental illness, or both, and many have been victims of abuse; some are just temporarily lost

In 2011 St Mungo’s Broadway an Oral History project Street Stories gathered the stories of 41 homeless. Listen to some of their stories and watch a short video by clients who conducted the oral history interviews.

As many as 3.5 million Americans are homeless each year. Of these, more than 1 million are children and on any given night, more than 300,000 children are homeless.  

Homelessness is, in fact, caused by tragic life occurrences like the loss of loved ones, job loss, domestic violence, divorce and family disputes. Other impairments such as depression, untreated mental illness, post traumatic stress disorder, and physical disabilities are also responsible for a large portion of the homeless.  Many factors push people into living on the street. 

The great challenge for the newly homeless is to figure out how to return to their normal lives.

Lloyd's story
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• Lloyd`s  explains how he first became homeless when he was young, and the impact it's had on his life. As a result of his experiences, Lloyd is committed to speaking out for young people so that they don't go through the same thing.
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• • Andy's storyAndy has overcome many challenges over the years, and has struggled to access the support he needed. After seven years of sleeping rough, he is now staying at one of our London hostels and feels that his situation and his health have dramatically improved: “Things have improved. 100% – more than that,110%.”

References:

• St Mungo’s Broadway (2015)  Real life stories of homeless people http://www.mungosbroadway.org.uk/about/real_life_stories
• Home Aid (2014) Top causes of homelessness in America. http://www.homeaid.org/homeaid-stories/69/top-causes-of-homelessness

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Homelessness and houselessness

Homelessness and houselessness

Many think that if you have a roof over your head – housed that is (shelter, rooming house, somebody’s couch) then you are homeless.   They think you are homeless only if you live outside, on the streets.  They are wrong.

The old saying, “home is where the heart is” is quite valid and true.  Just because a homeless person is in shelter or sleeping on a friend’s couch, or living in a cheap motel, doesn’t mean he or she is not still homeless.

There are homeless veterans and houseless veterans, two different levels of homeless, but don’t say that someone housed cannot be homeless.  The houseless veteran is one that sleeps in a doorway or back alley or along some creek bank somewhere.   The homeless veteran covers that and also the housed that cannot make a home out of their accomidations.

From Wikipedia:  The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) defines the term “homeless” or “homeless individual or homeless person” as — (1) an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and (2) an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is: A) supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill); B) an institution that provides a temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized; or C) a public or private place not designed for, or ordinarily used as, a regular sleeping accommodations for human beings.

Definition 1) covers the unhoused homeless and 2) covers the housed homeless.  There are others, including those living in cars, campers, paid motel rooms/flop houses, rooming houses, bus terminals, transit cars, and couch surfing that kind of blur whether they are covered at all or included in C).

Most homeless census counts do not count the homeless that are able to score time in a motel or hotel as homeless, although usually they get that brief stay for only a few days or a week.  Most homeless census counts also do not count homeless in transit (those at bus or train stations or actually in transit), even though some live in the metro transit systems for years.   The result is an undercount.

References.-

• Olltimerspeaksout (2007) Houseless and Homeless Same?  Not exactly. 
  https://oldtimer.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/houseless-and-homeless-not-same-thing/

Homeless and Drugs, Synonyms?

 

In all society exist a group on the streets, denominated, The Homeless.
The Homeless is a person who doesn't have a place where stay, and in some situatons they ask for money, but a just a little percent, use this money to eat or do something else in benefit of them. The majority of the people around the world think that they lie to get money and then use to buy drugs. This is a stereotype that create a different perspective about them, and generate big disscussions to the goverment.

But, ¿Is this true?

According to the NIDA (National Institute On Drug Abuse), in recents survies of 432 homeless youths in "Los Angeles", the 71% had an alcohol or drug abuse disorder or both in some situations. Also, another National survey of 600 youths living on the streets, the 50% of those tried to kill themselves for drug or alcohol abuse.
In the other hand, a big percentage of the runways become homeless, because the majority of them didn't get job or leave the streets.

Another study of the APHA (American Public Health Association), estimated that the homeless people in United States is between 250000 to three million, and they present a a serious health problems, icluiding the heavy use of alcohol and other drugs which heighten the morbidity rate among the ppopulation.

Also, According to APHA "Today's homeless population is more diverse than in the past. It includes women, children, families, adolescents, people of color, the mentally ill, and users of other drugs, as well as the male skid row alcoholic. Their lives tend to be marked by multiple risk factors, including poverty, malnutrition, unemployment, physical disabilities, and mental illness, in addition to the complex problems arising from homelessness itself and use of alcohol and other drugs."

In my opinion, is imposible to asure of at least one homeless on the strees didn´t prove one substance during their lifes. So, for me, the homeless people derseve this stereotype, and the goverment should take action like shelters, jobs; to eliminate the homeless on the streets.



References:

• https://www.google.es/search?q=the+homeless&sa=X&biw=1600&bih=789&tbm=isch&tbo=u source=univ&ei=JExqVafMK8H7sASF5YG4Dg&ved=0CC8QsAQ#imgrc=1N97LlLJ6D4UBM%253A%3BFaoX7g7RH14SyM%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fnursing322sp10.files.wordpress.com%252F2010%252F03%252Fhomeless 003.jpg%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fnursing322sp10.wordpress.com%252Fspotlight-on-the-homeless-population%252F%3B660%3B495 

• National Institute On Drug Abuse. (1997). Drug Abuse Among Runway and Homeless Youths Calls for Focused Outreach Solutions. Retrived May30th, 2015. From http://archives.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol12N3/Runaway.html
• APHA. (1989). Alcohol and Other Drug Problems among the Homeless Population. Retrived May 30th, 2015. From https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2014/07/30/14/37/alcohol-and-other-drug-problems-among-the-homeless-population