Street lawyer final blog

In the first article they helped the homeless people get money by writing newspaper and selling it on the streets. But people got mad and the cops began to fine them 50 dollars each for selling the paper with out a license.  This can be compared to the 14th Street Clinic by them both helping out the homeless and trying to get them some money to live and not begging for money every day on the streets.  Also people are enjoying to work with the homeless and want them to be clean with drugs and safe and not get into trouble by the law not a lot of people would do that.  For the newspaper it is only 35cents for one copy when the retail is $1.25 it is 16 pages long and has color photographs.  I think it is a good cause for them because there experiencing many things they couldn't when they were living on the streets and there staying away from drugs. 14th street clinic does kind of the same thing because they are there to get the homeless off the streets, and to help them out and be there for them like when ruby wants her kid back Mike will only give her her son if she gets clean and stays off drugs.

In the second article is about housing for the homeless so they can get them to shelter and hopefully stop long term homelessness.  There has been 73 percent reduction in chronic homelessness in Cuyahoga County, this house is for the homeless to get clean and to look for jobs so they can end up living on their own, and this house also is there for when get out and live on their own they will have a better understanding about living on their own for when they get a job and make their own money so they can move somewhere.  On the 14th street clinic they will try and win cases for them so they can get money and get a home so there not on the streets so they can try and find a job for them self.  About 20 percent of the homeless living in that house is known as chronically homeless.  Chronically homeless people are people that have had a year or longer of homelessness before they have moved to the house.  the building they are staying in is a 11 million dollar building with 65 furnished and subsidized studio apartments it is located on Buckeye Road near East 116th Street this is the ninth opened by Housing First, a coalition of more than 40 private and public organizations. On the street lawyer its like when there helping out with the food shelter and Mike sees the lady with her three children and he wants them to get a home and new clothes because he feels bad for them because there it a little kid with them that shouldn't be living like that.

These topics are affected by the D.C. setting because there are a lot of different races and they are all sorts of them in D.C. but a lot of them have a good amount of money and the ones that don't are homeless.  the street lawyer is a good example of power because its based in the the capital of the US and it has the most power there so Michael and his workers have he most power and there trying to get the homeless a home so Michele's firm is like the government and the homeless are the people struggling in the world and the government are trying to help them survive that is how I see it.

Drake and Sweeney harass Michael by evicting more homeless people so Michael has to do more work and so its like a message like you should of never left the firm to be a street lawyer.

Michael's first couple days are way different because he is used to a big office and a nice work environment, and its different because its not the same as working at the firm the cases are different the clients are different the workers are different. 

Michael and mister are alike because they both take charge and wanted people to help out the homeless.

 

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He and Clair have both lost by devoicing each other and all of the stuff they have to give up for one another.  They could have worked it out and tried to make it work but they decided they were done and that’s what they wanted.

Hector Palma helped Michael by helping him find evidence for some of his cases. 

Michael might be going through a midlife crisis because he quit his job where he’s getting paid the big bucks for a job he’s not making anything close to what he was making.  And he’s giving back to the community by helping out at soup kitchens.

Michaels life is changing at a downward spiral because I feel like he’s not happy and he needs a break from work because that’s all he does is work.  He got into a car accident so I think that opened his eyes a little because he almost died two times in the book.  And he is helping out at soup kitchens after work so when he gets home he is probably tired, so he works then goes to bed every day it seems like.

His actions have been justified because he is willing to do anything for his job even if its breaking the law. 

 

the street lawyer

Michael believed that Mister wasnt going to kill the lawyers because they didn't do anything wrong.  Mister was just there to prove a point and the point was, that the lawyers were making all that money from there jobs and have a nice home and they cant give any to the homeless people or help out charities. 
Michael and Claire's relationship is complicated because they both work 80 hours a week and they never get to see each other but when they do they are so tired and they just go to bed.  but i think that there relationship is making Michael to leave the firm because hes just depressed and he doesn't want to get a divorce.
The situations that they face are that the could have nobody or that they suffer from PTSD and that could make them go a little crazy in the head and they might do something crazy like that mister did to the lawyers.  my view does change on mister because he was just trying to tell them on how he lives and that he has nothing and they can buy almost anything they want

Edgar Allen Poe

Edgar Allen Poe was a great poet and we know him by his horror stories but he uses a lot of symbolizing in his story to help you out with the theme but one of this stories that we all know is The Tell Tale Heart.  The theme in Tell Tale Heart is never judge a book by its cover.  Just because the person has something wrong with them doesn’t mean you have to hate them or try and put harm on them.  If you do that with everyone then you won’t have any friends because everyone has flaws and stuff wrong with them maybe if you get to know them you won’t hate them as much or want to get rid of them.  So before you go around killing people because you don’t like what they look like they and get to know them and not burry them under the floorboards.  There is a lot of different themes in the story but I chose that one because it makes sense to me.

Metamorphosis

          One day I was laying in bed thinking,  I was thinking of what it would be like to be a different thing.  Well I went to bed that night, when I woke up the next morning something didn't feel right.  I was a paper bag with eyes and a mouth.  I couldn't move but I could take just for a couple days if I make it that long.  I'm screaming for my mom to come up here and look at me, when she gets up here she shocked and surprised and laughed a little.
          We were just thinking why would this happen to me and not anyone else.  Then we thought of a reason, we think it was because I took a paper bag to school almost everyday for lunch at school and I would throw them away.  So this might be saying some one is going to take me to school and throw me away.  Then another day and night went of me being a paper bag but I woke up from sleeping and it was still dark and it remained dark for what it felt like hours.
          When I saw the light someone came and grabbed me and put me on the counter.  I was getting stuff put in me like a sandwich and a apple also juice box they just tossed everything in there like it was nothing.  It seemed early in the morning because it was dusk outside. Then it was really dark again it seemed like they put me in a pouch thing.  then we I got taken out of the pouch thing I saw a bunch of kids and a lot of other paper bags.  At the end of lunch I knew I was going to get thrown away and I was right I was getting splattered with mashed potatoes, other bags, trays, et cetera.  Then I was gone I never got to see my family again. 
         

The War

So it all happened  three days ago.  It was a normal school day everyone is having a jolly old time at school when all of a sudden you her some arguing its between Mr. Less and his geometry class.  "I wonder whats going on" said Mr. Bowser the arguing stopped for a couple minutes.  But at the blink of an eye a all out war was happening at school it was the Teachers versus the students.  The teachers were out numbered but strong at the same time there were four teachers and eleven students.  The big thing the teachers had were the smelling gas(expo markers) but the students had the big weapon we had what could end the teachers career we had Mrs. Cook.  We held her hostage we all had Nerf guns if you got shot then you have to go to the other side until your teammates got you back.  The teachers captured seven of the students and the students captured three of the teachers.  It was all up to Mr Less to get a teammate back but he did he got Mr Bowser.  There was four students and two teachers left the students came up with a amazing plan.  They took the white broads from off the wall and used them as shields they were untouchable after that.  The students charged at the teachers and they ended up getting them all out.  The students were the victors when they won they demanded that they didn't have school for a week and they got exactly what they wanted.