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…were murdered in the Holocaust. After the fall of the Third Reich, Europe was war-torn shambles. Hundreds of thousands of people were homeless and seeking a new life. These were known at the time as "displaced persons." Among them were several hundred…

…of Australia. "Junk" is the story of a few different young people and their lives filled with problems of drugs, homelessness and insecurity, and is set in Bristol in the mid 1980's. "Trainspotting" is a movie about a group of young male friends and the way…

…and unemployed. When people could not pay their rent, land owners threw them out. This left multitudes of homeless and starved beggars crowding cities, and later, soup kitchens and work houses that were set up. The way the economy worked, the breakdown…

…and extract energy from them to keep their machines functioning. Intelligent civilizatins, like shivering homeless people huddled next to a fading fire, would be reduced to pathetic outposts of misery clinging to a black hole (P 306).” Finally, tens…

…the story from the viewpoint of a particular family, rather then the migrant workers as a whole. As the novel progresses, Steinbeck describes the struggle for money, food and shelter. The Joads are malnourished, homeless and unemployed through out the majority…

…starving and homeless that thousands of people, including war veterans, started to gather in Washington D.C. to protest. By May 1932, nearly twenty thousand of them had set up Homerville’s, there. The World War One veterans waved signs that said, "Heroes in 1917…

…, other people throughout the world have been looking at different ways to provide health care. They have been realising that health services were only providing adequate care for those people who had power and money. Millions of poor, homeless or powerless…

…, sleeping in bars, flophouses, and shelters for the homeless, including, ironically, those financed by Jewish philanthropists. It was during this period that he developed his prejudices about Jews, his interest in politics, and debating skills. According to John…

…that poor church attendance was a sin. Sarah Good was a homeless woman who begged door to door. If people failed to give her alms, she would utter unknown words and leave. Residents would often attribute her to the death of that persons livestock. They believed…

…and their inhabitants were swept away in the torrents of flood water and deep mud.  12,000 died, 16,000 were missing, 150,000 homeless and 3 million were effected in some way (loss of crops, serious damage to infrastructure – roads, bridges, electricity) …