“If you’re gonna help me,help me”: Barriers to housing among unsheltered homeless adults

Despite a legally-mandated right to shelter and extensive outreach efforts, an estimated 3,675 homeless individuals were living on the streets of New York City in 2018. Through interviews with 43 unsheltered homeless individuals in the borough of Manhattan (age range 21–74 years), this qualitative study examined barriers they face in accessing housing and other services as well as experiences surviving on the street. Through thematic analysis of the interview data, the most common barriers found were obtaining required identification documents, lack of accessibility of shelters amid complex healthcare needs, waiting as part of the process, and exclusion of pets from shelters and housing options. Themes capturing survival on the street included sleeping safe, avoiding shelters, and meeting daily needs. Virtually all barriers street homeless New Yorkers face stem from bureaucratic policies that, however well-intentioned, do not address their diverse needs. Thus, long delays and poor communication, combined with crowded, unsafe shelters, lead to frustration and alienation. While homelessness is ultimately the result of a severe and chronic shortage of affordable housing, creating accessible, safe, pet-friendly shelter and safe haven options and instituting a smoother, more transparent process for moving from the streets could substantially reduce street homelessness.     

Places,loss and logging among the Kamula

This paper outlines some of the relationships between Kamula understandings of embodied personhood and place. It seeks to supplement existing accounts of place in the Bosavi region of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Such understandings have largely been based on song, poetry and myth (Feld ; Schieffelin ). By way of contrast, this paper describes comparatively mundane Kamula experiences of place. The Kamula talk I consider emphasizes socially mediated forms of unification of person and place associated with notions of shared ‘appearance’, ‘equivalence’ and ‘enhancement’. Such terms are further explained by reference to Kamula understandings of the effects of losing a relationship with place. I conclude by showing how such understandings of loss are being deployed in Kamula demands for compensation from the state and logging companies. Through a discussion of these themes the paper contributes to the growing literature on the relationship between personhood, place and development in Papua New Guinea.     

适当放宽年龄限制 充分发掘人力资源——对人才招聘年轻化的再思考

知识经济的初见端倪使得终生教育成为 2 1世纪社会发展的必然趋势。许多在职人员为了适应社会发展的需要重返校园 ,继续深造。但传统的人事制度对人才年轻化的要求日益影响着这些人的重新就业 ,从而直接影响了在职人员对终生教育的热情。本文拟从教育部最近取消高考年龄及婚否限制的政策分析入手 ,通过剖析现行人事制度中年轻化要求的历史背景及其在现实中的局限性 ,阐明适当放宽大龄毕业生重新就业年龄限制的必要性及其现实意义     

试论电视现场新闻的故事化

“故事化”的电视现场新闻因其适应受众心理需求而能较好地赢得市场认同，同时，因其综合体现了新闻的现场性、故事的情节性、人物的形象性和电视手法的独特性而具有强大的生命力，但在新闻实践中也出现了有违真实性原则、迎合低俗化趣味、滥用接近性要素等不良倾向。     

关于中国古代都市文明的形成

金属器、文字、礼仪性建筑物以及从大型环状壕沟聚落发展到城郭都市的真正出现,才能作为中国古代都市文明形成的重要标志.所以说,其形成的上限年代并不是相当于夏代的二里头文化,而应是河南安阳殷墟文化的晚期.     

论人类中心主义的双重效应

人类以自己为宇宙的中心,是人类本性的自然倾向.从人类的实践后果来看,人类中心主义信念既产生了积极效应,也产生了消极效应,尽管人类中心主义的确存在着一些偏颇并在实践上导致了严重的后果,但它是人类的精神支柱和内在动力,对人类的生存和发展具有极其重要的意义,既然人类以自己为中心来看待和对待宇宙的一切,是人类的本性使然,也是人类在宇宙中存在的必然要求,那么人类中心主义作为人类的一种基本信念,是不可能放弃的,也是不应放弃的.因此,对待人类中心主义,我们应该有一种冷静、理智的态度,不可简单地加以否定.     

试论南朝赋才学化倾向的成因

才学化是六朝赋创作中的一种普遍追求,南朝赋有着较为典型的才学化倾向。"人的觉醒"与"赋兼才学"是南朝赋形成才学化倾向的根本原因。六朝时期新兴的社会思潮"人的觉醒"与传统的赋学观念"赋兼才学"叠加在一起,使六朝赋的才学化特征比汉赋突出;"人的觉醒"促使六朝士人努力表现出与众不同的个性才情,促使赋家在赋的创作中运用种种艺术手段来表现出超人(包括前人)一等的才学,故南朝赋的才学化倾向比魏晋赋典型。     

会计电算化研究趋势刍议

会计电算化已广泛应用 ,但是仍存在许多问题 ,将来应在以下几个方面重点研究 ,即会计软件可靠性模型 ,会计软件开发工具 ,利于二次开发的专用软件包的开发 ,Web软件的开发 ,智能化 (分析型 )会计软件的研制 ,软件适应性研究等方面。     

生物新课程中讲授法的变革与创新

生物新课程实验中，讲授法发生了许多变革，出现了创新，主要体现在讲授的形式上、讲授的技巧上、讲授法与自主学习活动的灵活组合上，本文从实践角度评述了这些变革与创新．     

NEW MEDIA AND DISTANCE EDUCATION: AN EU-US PERSPECTIVE

This paper presents an overview of the development of new media in the secondary and higher education systems of the European Union (EU) and USA. A combination of driving forces in pedagogical thinking, technological progress and business models have raised new expectations for the wide-spread use of educational technology, such as by providing major market opportunities as in the adult training segment. Many public sector and private commercial initiatives for connecting schools to the Internet, first adopted in the USA, and then in member states of the EU, have met with marked success. Most of the secondary schools are, or are being, wired, if but to a limited extent. The diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the EU schools is particularly rapid given their initially low penetration rate. If American organizations are indeed leading the development of online courses and programmes in the higher education sector, European universities have now realized the importance of investing in this field. However, for new media to significantly improve the educational process in the EU and in the USA, they must be embodied in the complex school or university environment, and be nurtured by new partnerships between business and the academy.