Research Log #2 - Solutionary Project 2020 

 
Date:  Feb. 5, 2020   
Name:  Lucas A. Stumbaugh 
Essential Question: How can the community support the homelessness crisis?

Three Points to Prove: #1:  Positive impact on lives

                                        #2:  Promote awareness to higher level policy makers
                                        #3: Provide volunteer work to lessen the severity of homelessness
 
 
 
Point that this Source Proves:   # 1
 
 
 
Excerpts (These should provide insight into the Point to Prove): 

Whitely begins to explain how shew was able to escape her reality with arts where she says, “A few hours
of singing, writing poetry or saving up enough money to disappear into another world at a play kept me
going and jolting me back to life when I felt at my lowest.”

She then goes on to introduce what her organization is which she then states, “ChopArt uses the arts as a
tool for trauma recovery by taking what we know about building community and restoring dignity and
applying that to the creative process.”

To conclude her talk Whitely reaches her voice out to all of the youth that may be experiencing
homelessness where she says, “So never stop fighting to stand in your light because even in your darkest
times, we see you.”

Analysis (How does this source support the Point to Prove?): 

This ted talk supports my idea to prove which is to have a positive impact on other people’s lives
because at the beginning of her talk she explained how she went through her homelessness troubles. How
all her life she had financial troubles but not all hope was lost for she sought security within the arts. The
arts provided her with a spark to keep on fighting for a fight that she thought she had already lost. And
with this spark within her she decided that everyone else that was struggling with this ongoing crisis
needed the same support she had.

Since opening her organization which is ChopArt she has reached out to the youth that is
struggling with homelessness to provide them with an escape from their own reality. And that’s what
these kids needed they need time to get their mind off of what’s going on around them and to focus on the
light at the end of the tunnel. This point directly backs up my claim which is point 1 because that is what
we want to do for homeless people, we want to give them a break from their reality where life maybe isn’t
so bad and also maybe give them a spark that’ll help them get out of their dark places.
 
Work Cited (correct MLA format):

Whitley, Malika. “How the Arts Help Homeless Youth Heal and Build.” TED, TED Talks, Nov.
2017,
www.ted.com/talks/malika_whitley_how_the_arts_help_homeless_youth_heal_and_bui
d#t-366226. Accessed 12 Feb. 2020.

This is a reputable and reliable article because This talk was presented at an official TED conference
and was featured by our editors on the home page.