Facts about homeless people in the UK

• The number of newly homeless households has fallen sharply each year since 2003 and the 2010 figure of 61,000 households is only a third of the 2003 number (202,000).
• Just over half of the households officially recognised as newly homeless do not contain dependent children.  The distinction between with, and without children, is important because many of the latter do not qualify for accommodation (i.e. they are considered 'not to be in priority need').
• Although most prevalent in the West Midlands and in London, homelessness is to be found throughout the country.
• The most common reason for becoming homeless is loss of accommodation provided by relatives or friends (a third of those deemed 'in priority need'), with a further fifth being due to relationship breakdown.
• A quarter of those accepted as homeless and in priority need by English local authorities are from ethnic minorities.  This means that ethnic minority households are, overall, around three times as likely to become homeless as the majority White population.

Touching the void

In the opening paragraph the writer does a great job of creating tension He shows this by quoting, ‘There was no need for this torture’ and  ‘I lolled on the rope, scarcely available to hold my head up’. This created tension by making you imagine what it was like to be there.

  He also tells you that he’s felling petrified, distressed and restless, as he’s hanging off an edge of a cliff. He shows this by asking frequent question such as, ‘How long will you be Simon?’ How long before you join me?’He also shows this by quoting ‘The rope jolted down a few inches’ and ‘I wanted with all my heart for this to finish’. This created tension by making you feel what he is feeling.

 In the end paragraph he falls. The writer says ‘The rope lashed violently against my face and I fell silently ,endlessly into nothingness as dreaming of falling’, meaning the rope was cut, it hit him in the face hard, and falling felt like he thought it would. This created tension by varying the sentence lengths.

 

The VARK Questionnaire Results

My scores were: Visual: 6 Aural: 10 Read/Write: 6 Kinesthetic: 8 I have a multimodal (VARK) learning preference.