The book I received for my second group presentation was about the history of homelessness. There were a lot of connections in there that i’ve never made. I guess the most striking one to me is that I never considered vagabonds or hobos to be homeless in a sense, I almost always viewed them as a Gypsy type person who travels around and that is there thing, and not that they dont have a home so they have to wonder. There is also a really big distinction from how they were displayed as homeless to what we have now. Looking through the book, back in the times of vagabonds and hobos, the people were treated almost as subhuman. They were looked at incredibly cruelly, especially in the 1870s, with people wanting them beaten or killed because of what they did and how they were, and even before that they were looked at as incredibly immoral people. I’m glad most of shave empathy now towards them, you still hear some social Darwinist comments about homeless, but at least its not comments about flogging them or killing them.