Summary Of The Hardship Of Homeless On Campus By Eleanor Bader

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In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. With hope for a brighter future, nearly 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States between 1870 and 1900. Immigrants entered the United States through several ports. Those from Europe generally came through East Coast facilities and West Coast centers. Immigrants living in America have to endure the close scrutiny, remarks and questions raised by the native-born Americans. Many Native Americans have confronted the immigrants and asked them on their status. This is because many Native Americans usually feel that most of them usually deny them employment by taking up some positions at very low wage pay. Many immigrants …show more content…

Which means different classes have different expectations, support and technique toward their kids with can affect their way reaching to success base on what they learned from their parents. According to Homeless on Campus, an essay was written by Eleanor J. Bader. Bader was a freelance writer, an instructor in the English Department at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York and also a coauthor of Targets of Hatred: Anti- Abortion Terrorism(2001). In the essay, Bader argues about the hardship for a low- income and homeless students to attend college. She introduces three students Aesha, Johnny, and Asad whom are homeless college students and explains their stories. All the stories have the same point is that they left school because of hardships living place to place, worrying about their physical health and doing their school work. She states "Without housing, access to a workspace, or access to a shower, students' lives suffer, their grades suffer, and they are more likely to drop classes, if not withdraw entirely from school"( Bader 714). She points out that low-income and homeless students have to face many problems that cause it difficult for them to get through college. In another hand, because of the busy scheduled working of the parents to trying to earn money paying for housing, water bills, phone bills,…etc. However, wealthier parents more likely to involved in their kid live to teach them the way to talk to others, help them have the change to learn and participate in different activities and show them how they can involve in their environment. For this reason, students with low-income or middle classes usually didn't have the time to interact, communicate and connect with their parents. As a result, if the students have any stressful toward their grade and schools and they