Reserch Project 1

For my first research topic I wanted to do something that had to do with the homeless. I found an article that did not quite relate to my topic but I read it in case it did. What I found out shocked me. Many states are trying to pass laws allowing them to give tickets and fines to people that are not wearing the proper clothing. For example a man who was wearing ratty shorts in the winter would be fined. They could say it was indecent exposure if the person were to challenge the fine. This is upsetting in so many ways. In our desperate attempts to become a utopia we are doing what a five year old does when they are cleaning their room. Sweeps everything under the bed.

            We will never be perfect. We will never be even close to perfect if our solution to homelessness is giving fines that we know people can not pay and then putting them in jail. How can we even consider to fine people who have the cloths on the back and ten cents to their name?

            What I realize reading on is that southern people are not all agreeing with this. Some question why the government does this if they insist that it has nothing to do with “cleaning up” then why is it that shorts from Marc Jacobs are not something that can be fined?

            The fact is we are still a segregated country. Not in the common ways of racism like, race and religion but in the way of similarity. Similarity is something that in America we pretend not to think is important. The truth though is that we want everyone to be the same somewhat. We may not want to be exact but there are something’s we like to have in common. There are some people that think we all should be different things that are under the same category almost. We can only be a certain amount of different before we are “too different.” This is upsetting but may inspire a very different type of awareness. For my next research project I will look into the new idea.