Going to school and getting a lot of information for free is the best thing ever (it's up there with having a lot of money). This is my last year in school, yes, I'm finally a senior, and I'm going to be free at last. I will be free from waking up extra early to get on BART to be on time for school. But the hard part about being a senior is that you have a senior project to do - 20 written pages, three interviews, and a 15 to 20 minute presentation. While it may sound easy, it's not, because you have to plan your project early on. I started planning my project when I was in the 11th grade. My senior project is on homelessness and why homelessness occurs in the United States.

My biggest question is why, if the United States is one of the richest countries in the world, are so many American people homeless. What is the government, federal, local, and state doing to prevent this? What is going on in American that the Government is not doing much?  I picked this topic to show the problem and show possible solutions. There are many things that need to be done in America to solve homelessness because there are many people who don't have a home and haven't for a long while. Many people think that homelessness is homeless people's problem. But it's all our problem and we can do something to help out because homelessness isn't caused by one thing. Nobody wants to be homeless and what if that was one of your family members? We should all help out and every little bit helps. Me, I'm going to Glide Memorial Church every Wedesday and Sunday to help out as much as I can.

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