A Cold Night With New York's Homeless(The New York TImes)

According to the"A Cold Night With New York's Homeless(The New York TImes)", There are no presents under the Christmas tree in the Open Door drop-in shelter in Midtown. The tree is an artificial, tinseled totem wedged between a Pepsi machine and a trash can in a large, spare room where a couple of hundred men and women sit all night in metal folding chairs trying to simultaneously sleep and keep close track of their belongings at their feet.


My Reaction:
Christmas is a fascinating holidays for people all over the world to celebrate with their family and anticipate the coming year. Theoretically, everybody feels cheerful during the Christmas vacation. However, what I read in the article seems not conform to the situation. There is also some unhappiness in the world. Those vagrants and someone who lives alone without others’ care can not feel the warm in the special time. Instead, they may suffer from illness, disasters and starvation so that they have hardships in their living. Finding a shelter to rest is a big problem for them every day, especially for those linger in a metropolitan cities, where are crowded and the citizens are emotionless.

To reduce the problem, the government should figure out some solutions to aid the disadvantage. For instance, the legislation department makes lawmaking to protect their rights, gives some welfare and compensation for them in order to decrease the rate of robbery, theft and fraud. In that way, we hope to see the improvement in the problem and make our society more pretty. (242 words)