Surviving the streets

Rochell Battle

Professor Warren

ENC1102

19March2013

Surviving the Streets

                Life is not easy. We are in a surviving mode every day. There are many people living on the street looking for a way out. People are looking for clothes, food and other surviving products to make it through the day. There are many homeless shelters available for people living on the streets. These programs help with food, clothes and other personal items. People are donating items to help support the homeless organizations. When a person is homeless and in the streets, there are many obstacles they come in contact with such as drugs, violence, sexual abuse and other serious act of violence.

 There were a census report done on the children on the street in all nine districts of Delhi in 2010,  they found out that there are around 51,000 street children in Delhi (20% are girls; dalit represent 36% and adivasi 17%); 70% fend for themselves on the street despite having a home in Delhi; 50.5% are illiterate; 87% earn a living (20% as ragpickers, 15.8% as street vendors, 15% by begging); Over 50% have suffered verbal, physical or sexual abuse; Fewer than 20% have ID cards or birth certificates, so they miss out on government schemes (Bhaskaran & Mehta, 2010) .   

There were over 96 million people wasting food in 2010 according to a movie called Dive. Many people is going around and looking for food. There are homeless people everywhere.  People do not realize that other foreign counties have starving children and they are dying for the lack of food. We take a lot of stuff for granted because we have new shoes, clothes and a roof over our heads.   I hate seeing people like this. When I was young I used to talk about them and laugh because they used to look dirty. As I got older, I realized why they like that. I never want to be like this in my life. I question myself a lot. How can they let themselves get in this situation? Growing up with my parents, I use to want to through away food and my parents taught me how to save food. We had many leftovers after meals and we would put them up for the next day. My daddy always said he didn’t like to eat leftovers. 

            While watching the movie, it really made me sadden and almost in tears. By looking at homeless people, I wanted to help them out more. When I’m riding around town, I see people sleep everywhere also I see people digging in the trash cans for food. By watching people on the streets, It makes me want to start saving and trying to open up a community shelter. That’s mean that anytime they need food or need a place to stay they can come and just sign in to get the necessary help needed.     

            Meeting people at their needs are very important because everybody have needs. In order to help support the homeless and others out in the streets, it takes a community, families, churches and other faith- based organization to help with providing shelter, support not only in giving food but having programs set up to help the hopeless get out of this rut they are in. The whole society need to come together as one body (Grabham, 2013). I know that we can’t when them all but we can’t give up trying to help save someone life. The homeless is hungry for that love and affection. We have to show them a better way to survive.

            When I look at the phase “Surviving on the Streets”, it gives me an outlook on life and where I could have been if it was not for the Lord on my side. Overall, people did not asked to be that way but it is God way of life. One day we are up and the other day we could be down. It is not good to pick on a person lively hood because one day it just might be you. We will not give up until we reach every person living on the streets. One day at a time, and one person at a time, we will make it through this trail and tribulation this world is up against.  I really pray that I won’t ever get like this because it is serious in these days in life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference

   Bhaskaran, R & Mehta, B, 2011. Surviving the streets: save the children.

   Grabham, M.2013. http://www.survivethestreets.org/

  Stiegel,2013 Movie Dive.

 

Journal 5( Dive)

Journal 5

After watching the movie “Dive”, it really made me feel sad because I thought food always all the time. I can honestly say that I didn’t know that different stores exactly throw them food away and people sitting around hungry. It really made me open my eyes up about wasting food and just wants to just give the homeless people everything that I don’t eat. I have been at Wal-Mart and have seen the associate through lot of food in the dumpster. Late nights some people that get hungry go through their dumpster and get food to eat. And in society today people don’t care about other people. But when I see a homeless person I try to give them something it really hurts me when I see other people going in the trash looking for food to eat and I can afford food for my family. It really opens my eyes because I didn’t know all these people waste food like this. Now I have learned how to save food and only cook enough because of the fact the left overs is going to waste after 2-3 days. After seeing this video I have made myself to look out for the people with no food and helping them out giving up money or just telling them to wait and I will be back with some food for them. I also have been told that it’s a good idea that I’m doing and I have other people follow me because they are feeling the same way.   

American Dream Final

Rochell Battle

Professor Warren

ENC1102

5March 13

American Dream

 After listening to Mauricio Garcia presentation, his words highlighted some important areas in my life that I need to work on.  I can remember when I was younger; I did not know what I wanted out of life but after listening to other people and their experiences, my mind went to education. Education is the key to success therefore I had to buckle down in high school and stay on the right road. My vision after high school was to go to college and become an elementary school teacher (www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-vision-statement.htm). While listening to Garcia talk about his life history, I thought about the direction my life is going. He discussed different essential strategies that helped him travel around the world. According to Garcia (2013), when he was younger, he didn’t like to speak in front of a large crowd because of his communication skills. My favorite quote that he gave was “A life without purpose is life without meaning”. When he used that quote, I started to say wow, that really makes sense. I asked myself a question, what is my purpose in life? I had to think and pray to God because I want to know his purpose for my life to be revealed to me. 

 Garcia (2013) was very knowledgeable of current and past history. He discussed history relating to World War 1. He also experienced going to another country and learning about different cultures.  Garcia was very knowledgeable about campus activities and ways to enhance community involvement. He was probing to see what it takes to get people involved on the school campus. I like when he said not to be afraid of making mistakes because everyone make mistakes and they really don’t realize it until they ask people and get the correct understanding. If I really had more time allotted to listen to him, I would have told him to express some more wonderful stories to me because the information that he gave was extremely helpful.

            As life goes on, I have been looking for a purpose and waiting on God to guide me in the right directions. I decided to get myself together and start to look for something I wanted to do in life therefore I put some effort towards my goals seeking. I started to further my career in Child Development and I decided to read up on the different career paths. My heart always went back to children. I always had a passion for child education. One thing that I really enjoyed doing is helping other children with their goals and getting them in a habit staying focus and thinking about their life history.

             By having dreams and purpose, it makes a person focus on their life better. Motivation is an important factor that help keep your dreams alive (Farmer, 1985). People   have different goals in life therefore they need to go for their dreams and make something happen. I have worked on goals for a long time and some of them I followed and some I am still holding on to them to that right moment. Your mind has to be set in order to accomplish your goals in life. I have a lot of dreams that I want to do by the time I get in my old age. Having a list of things to do, it would help me to stay on the right track and keep going. People learn from their mistakes in life.

            Having a speaker to talk about life experiences was exciting to me because you really don’t find somebody like Garcia often. His speech had meaning to it and also can lead people into good things for their future. I believe that if I didn’t hear anything about something like this I would still be in a lost land and still wouldn’t how my life would be. The quotes that were given by him were successful thought and it could at least impact people in the long run. I think that someone should start out and talk to younger children so they can learn at an earlier age.

Overall, our guest speaker pointed out different obstacles that he had in his life. It gave me a flashback and a wake- up call to keep preserving until I reach all of my goals in life. I’m really glad that I took this class. It’s an eye opener.