charities

charity one

charity two

charity three

maine's homeless rates.!

homeless rates.

new beginnings homeless shelter.! this is a place that has truely helped alot of teens get back on track when they had bad homes and had no other place to go. most of the teens that come here are put here because of drug addiction and defiance so this is a good place for teens to go and this program is a month long or until you find a home.

HOMELESS	PORTLAND (a)	MAINE (b)	US (c)
2007	741	7083	671888

Florence House gives 65 women nothing less than a second chance at life. Destitute and on the streets of Portland, sleeping in bus stations, cardboard boxes, or the park, these ladies had found their way to Preble Street Resource Center. There they found sympathy and food. They were given mattresses on the floor, six inches apart, to sleep on along with men.


....* Homelessness has increased in the city by 100 percent since 1993, with women representing the fastest growing group. To address that growing trend, Preble Street opened Logan Place, a 30-unit apartment building, in 2005, with the help of Avesta Housing. Since then, the City of Portland has reported the percentage of chronically homeless people down 18 percent. Like Logan Place, Avesta owns Florence House and manages the property, while Preble Street provides 24-hour staffing and services for the women who live there...*
24,000 Babies under age 5 Die each day from being homeless.
the average homeless person walks 6 miles a day.!

the bangor area homeless shelter 263 Main Street  Bangor, ME 04401 Phone Number: 207-947-0092  Description: Homeless Day and Night Shelter.  “No vision haunts America’s conscience more than the sight of the street people. . . . The irrationality and anguish that grip so many of these individuals leap out during any encounter, whether in Washington or Albuquerque.” ―Pete V. Domenici, U.S. Senator 1972-2009 SUMMARY: People with untreated psychiatric illnesses constitute one-third, or between 150,000 and 200,000 people, of the estimated 744,000 homeless population. The quality of life for these individuals is abysmal. Many are victimized regularly. One study found that 28 percent of homeless people with previous psychiatric hospitalizations obtained some food from garbage cans and 8 percent used garbage cans as a primary food source. The Oxford Street Shelter opened 12 years ago with a capacity of 50 people.  Today, the capacity has grown to 154 people, and that's still not enough.  People are being turned away because there is no more room.  Some of the people that are being turned away try to find refuge, with the help of shelter workers, in another shelter (i.e., a privately run shelter), try to find someone who can put them up for a night, or even worse, sleep outside. (Portland Press Herald, 10/04/01)

collages

military collage i want to go here cause i want to go into the military.

police officer collage i want to be a police officer.

nebraska collages i like nebraska

video games in school

Students "learn how to solve problems, how to communicate, how to use data, how to begin to predict things that might be coming down the line," 


"Suddenly you begin to get what's called emergent behavior, and in emergent behavior, that system, the elements in it, begin to relate to one another in ways that can be unpredictable,"


"What systems thinking does is it gives you a tool to manage complexity," she says. "Because of the complexity of problems, if you're not able to look at them as a system, you're just going to look at a blur. You will just be overwhelmed by the complexity."


there are pros and cons of this topic and i dont lean more to either side.


but i do think that the video games should be monitored.




video games in school

cloning

why is it ok to practice cloning on animals first why do we always have to drag another species into our problems.?

cloning

military/gays

gays in the military

so basicly a sevent teen year old cant go into the military because of his sextual preference he is gay and they should have a pollacy of dont ask dont tell

now what are your opinions on people being gay while they are in the military. should it be ok and should gay people have the same rights as a streight person?

CLONING- READ ALL ABOUT IT.

so basicly is cloning a good thing or a bad thing.
people might concider cloning a bad thing if you are religious or such
but people like the thought if someone had lost a child and wanted an exact replica of that child from birth. people may concider cloning if you had lost an arm or a few body parts and you could regrow your body parts on another being and attach it to yourself.
so my question is this just desterbing or is it something that is a good thing..
my state ment is its weired and i think that its a good step for science but wont it get crazy and taken over board.?

smoking in public

so basicly some places the government is trying to make it so that you cant smoke outside in public at all and definately not in the buildings and the only way you could smoke is at home..
my question for you is do you think that people should be able to smoke in public concidering they were the ones who sold it to people and got them adicted to it in the first place.

DOGS not being aloud to speek!

so basicly owners are tired of their dog barking and barking when someone walks by or when the dog wants something so they have decided to take the dog to the vet and take their vocal cords out so that they cant have a voice. so my question is should that be legal because what if humans had to get their vocal cords taken out when they couldnt shut their trap? shouldnt animals have the right to speak just like humans have the freedom of speech lol just cause we dont understand them doesnt mean we should take away their voice and  im sure they get annoyed with us too!

global warming

the past year the weather has been crazy and with all of the snow and extremely hot summers. the past year has been different than all of the other years but do you think that the weather is like this because of all of the polution or do you belive that its just the earths way of happening?

-duh-nay nay!