Paper Topic:

Interview

An Interview with a homeless

Introduction

After watching the film , The Pursuit of Happyness ' which starred Will Smith , one of the salient scenes that the researcher personally find strikingly disheartening is the part when Will Smith and his son struggled to joined a queue of destitute for an overnight stay on a welfare home . The number of homeless is too many for the welfare shelters to accommodate . In the homeless population data from AHAR in 2008 , 41 of white Americans , 12 .3 of African Americans and 12 .5 of Hispanic Americans

respectively are homeless , which only proves how rampant homelessness in our nation (US Human Rights Network Housing Caucus , 2008 ) It is quite ironic that homelessness is one of the pressing problems that the US faces despite being the most dominant country politically and economically in the world . While the film directly attributed homelessness to poverty i .e . Smith 's inadequate earnings , this stark reality is just a tip of the iceberg considering the vast economic opportunities that the US provides precisely why it was dubbed the land of milk and honey . To learn more about the causes of homelessness , the researcher conducted an informal interview with a homeless woman who was randomly selected in a welfare shelter . This led to one 's discovery that homeless is not simply a result of poverty , but consequence of some socio psychological imbalances and problems that emanate from one 's family

Interview Results and Analysis

The interviewee was an African American with two...

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