HOMELESS PEOPLE

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard, easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud, easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend, I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to be proud, easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend, we all need a friend

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be proud, easy to say no
Easy to be cold, easy to say no
Come, on, easy to give in, easy to say no
Easy to be cold, easy to say no
Much too easy to say no

Homelessness and poverty are inextricably linked. Poor people are frequently unable to pay for housing, food, childcare, health care, and education. Difficult choices must be made when limited resources cover only some of these necessities. Often it is housing, which absorbs a high proportion of income that must be dropped. Being poor means being an illness, an accident, or a paycheck away from living on the streets.

In 2005, 13.3% of the U.S. population, or 38,231,521 million people, lived in poverty. Both the poverty rate and the number of poor people have increased in recent years, up from 12.5% or 1.1 million in 2003 (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2005). 36% of persons living in poverty are children; in fact, the 2004 poverty rate of 17.6% for children under 18 years old is significantly higher than the poverty rate for any other age group(reference nytimes).

FASTFOOD

A smiling red-haired clown in a full yellow suit, complete with oversize red shoes, pops into our heads; we salivate over the food that this figurehead peddles to all four corners of the earth.

A century ago, the fast-food industry was non-existent. ... However, when a North American logo such as McDonald’s becomes familiar to the foreign reaches of our world, synonymous with smiling Hamburgers and golden fries, it ends up representing more than simply food. ... However, its wholesome appearance as a the ideal family outing is only an exterior; each new restaurant opened, each move that this company makes .

According to The Washington Post, last year Americans spent $110 billion on fast food, more than was spent on personal computers, software, or new cars. The average American eats a hamburger three times a week.
In my opinion Fast food is a convenience to everyone as it is food you do not have to prepare.

ADVERTISING

Television has become one of the most popular venues for advertising BY
(OPRAH WINFREY)

Advertising is an action to promote selling by influencing or persuading people to buy a product. Advertising comes in variety of Medias for example, television, magazines, radios, and billboards. Some advertisement targets just specific group of people, while others are more general. However some advertisements are corruptive. They make us feel inferior, and let us “realize” that we need their products. Advertising, although comes in different forms, they all serves one main purpose, to persuade consumers. In advertising, there are three basic rhetorical appeals; ethos logos, and pathos. Ethos is form of persuasion that uses a credible source of information to convince their customer. Advertising has been one of the many methods that companies have used to broaden the market. Many companies have benefited from advertising and have increased their selling ratios. The purpose of advertising is to allow a company to communicate or introduce their product or services to the public. There are many methods of advertising to stimulate the public’s mind to attract them to a particular product or service.
Television has become one of the most popular venues for advertising because of the huge audience it reaches. The larger the audience a program draws, the higher the advertising rates are for each commercial. Programs such as “Friends”, “ER”, and “Will & Grace” have advertising rates priced above $300,000 for a 30-second spot.

oparh

"The Oprah Winfrey Show". Her show is known to not only all over the United States, but also known to all around the world. Today she is known as the America's most famous and powerful woman. Every woman in America envies her great fortune and her intelligence. But Oprah insists that she is not special or gifted. She had overcome many hurdles and reached to the top of America's national T.V host.

Oprah Winfrey, a talk show host, actress, producer and philanthropist, and business woman is the chairwoman of HARPO entertainment in Chicago. She joins the elite company of Lucille Ball and Mary Pickford, as the only woman in T.V and film to own their own production studios. Through HARPO productions, she produces and hosts America's number one popular show.

Michael Jordan

When someone says the name Michael Jordan, the first thing that comes to mind is basketball, The Chicago Bulls and Nike shoes. Through the years, Michael Jordan has proved time and time again that he is the greatest basketball player ever, and by performing in this rapidly expanding sporting field, he has gained tremendous popularity throughout the world. People of all ages and from all nationalities have gathered to watch him play.
in my opinion He is a hero and a role model amongst basketball spectators.

facebook

I seem to spend a lot of time after work checking out everything on Facebook. This social networking site sends me emails about the things that people have done thereby compelling me to log in and snoop at what everyone’s doing. I upload pictures and get to see and trade pictures with others. The best thing are groups you can join. Joining has helped me reconnect with friends that I’ve not seen for years.

I have noticed many people add applications created by others (not Facebook) to add interest to their page. I myself have added the “Where have you been?” application that shows where I want to go as well as where I have gone. There’s also the Free Gifts application so people don’t have to pay to send me presents!

I am pretty good at resisting the invitations to add applications that are useless such as the Vampire application. Who wants to electronically bite someone and turn them into a vampire? What use is that?

Some people either don’t know, or don’t realize that they can customize/organize their page so it is more user friendly after adding all these applications. Applications added automatically appear on the larger, right side of the page but you can move them to the smaller left hand side of the page to make it more even and shorten your long list so people don’t have to scroll down forever and a day to write a plain old comment.

Maybe I’m not addicted but I certainly so spend a fair bit of time on there… Anyone else?

GAYS

Should gay marriages be legal?36 states have passed legislation banning gay marriages, yet the state of Vermont passed a law that allows homosexual couples the right to participate in civil unions. Some other states are also debating whether or not to allow these couples to marry.

Unfortunately, the dispute has left the United States homosexual community in an
awkward position. There are some people who think that gay people have no rights and
should never be allowed to marry. Other people believe that gay people are just like
anyone else and should enjoy the same rights and privileges as heterosexuals do. I think
that the United States should not allow these couples to marry just like any other couple.

There are many opponents of gay people as it is, and they all have their reasons to
dislike the idea of letting them get married. One of the main reasons is that the primary
purpose of marriage is procreation. Because gay couples are unable to have children, they
should not be allowed to marry,in my opinion marriage is defined as “a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.