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…, a sickly but lovable homeless woman with a musical background. Finally, in 1938, Phelan returns to Albany to confront his past, his family, and the ghosts that populate his memories. I think IRONWEED the movie is considerably superior to IRONWEED the book…

…to a homeless shelter. I also remember how she always gave gifts to everyone in the family and never once expected anything in return. She'd always make sure everyone around her was happy and would do almost anything to make them laugh. Most importantly, she…

…At 16, Parks found himself homeless and did everything he could do make money, from waiting tables to playing piano in a brothel to mopping floors. As Parks tells it, his first foray into photography came after he found a magazine left behind…

…depression swept family. In this search he created the Joads. Banks began to foreclose on farms and people became homeless. The losses of everything they owned caused people to have no choice. The only way was to leave. They were driven from their land…

…suffering from the effects of the devastating floods of 1995 and 1996 that destroyed crops and food stocks and left 500,000 people homeless. Twenty-five thousand hectares of rice paddies were completely destroyed and the 1996 harvest fell far short of normal…

…( Johnson 61 ). Whether they are runaways or throwaways, these young people are all homeless and without money when they arrive in the cities. Unlike adults, homeless teens have little help available to them. Because teenagers are minors…

…Immigrants in the novel faced the same problems as immigrants do today. Immigrants come to America happy and thinking that they are going to live a better life from where they came. The immigrants come to America unemployed and homeless. That is the same…

…by the sarcasm of the dreary scene that Swift presents. For example, he mentions that it is a melancholy sight to see beggars and their children on the street. The sarcastic paradox in this statement is whether it is a melancholy object for him, having to see homeless…

…, unwalled residential areas. A lot of the houses were trashed --- burned, vandalized, infested with drunks or druggies or squatted-in by homeless families with their filthy, gaunt, half-naked children” (p 8). In essence, these people did not bond together…

…. This is not right. Sometimes the child is beaten or abused and is forced to run away into the streets, where they become homeless, and sometimes abducted. Sometimes they just die in a back alley during a cold winterÕs night, and they are never missed. At sixteen…