The text itself stays the same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . Who said a fire never extinguished . I have been doing a Little Research and have one possible source. One is Edward Everett hale, a wellknown unitarian minister during the civil war in boston a writer especially of short stories. He is best known for his short story the man without a country, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. It is about a man who goes on the ship, disavows his country and loses his whole sense of identity. It is designed as a story to rally support
As a way to highlight the transformation. Yesterday, one of the things i did was to compare certain texts like uncle toms cabin, as a framework exploring some of the themes of the displacement of god, the masculinization, this artifacts of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with Rebecca Harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. Today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know. So the text itself stays the , same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . W
Humiliate train weve trained over hundred and 50 staff and well continue to provide the ability to have a conversation been race and its impact on health, i have a mandate to take trauma informed training particular the patient clients we serve have had impacted trauma Workforce Development is one of the important parts of our work in terms of the diversities we have an internal workforce that is very diverse but we want to provide opportunity for our staff to succeed from a career lard we are working with the schools throughout the system including pipelines now if you think about the fact we had a train center at San Francisco general were trying to set up those pipelines through internship and training with San Francisco state and the colleagues and many of the therapy programs throughout the city we building that helping our staff going back to school is one of the important things on Human Development and schools for individuals that are city or Department Employees to, ever go ba
On the Capacity Building to help strengthen the infrastructure for our city we do have some grants for transition youth and we focus on literacy and improving the listcy for Translation Services on that note improving the access to housing weve been working over the last few years take into account and working with the cd to make sure we have appropriate services we have been and continuing to improve our website to make it more friendly and increasing the Technology Tools and the application process to make it easier and to be sure that people who are bilingual and languages other than english can access that and worked with the department to make sure that the Language Access own is phone and in personal who people happen to walk into the Office Finally id like to end with summary of the existing housing portfolio we see a core part of our mission as being good Asset Managers of the portfolio over 21 thousand units the city has funded over time we see a key part of our mission to hel
The automatic cola increase and as employer employee one of the nonprofits the income is very tight and i also train individuals in coming out to a job theyre looking to get promoted and im training individual that formally homelessness it is hard decision for them to make whether to leave disabled getting subsidized into the working light so they can afford to live here in San Francisco it is you know im just speaking in support of the cola every bit helps individuals that im representing at the conner house and training thank you. Good afternoon. Im Elizabeth Alexander an nonprofit working and here with the local 10 to one as nonprofit workers we what i was seeing in the presentation i couldnt help thinking why are not not talking about the workers delivering those services they fit into the low wage workers if your making 13 or 1250 an hour is not a different experience in an a nonprofit or anything else in the economy it is difficult to get but we have to make that commitment you c