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...piece, the dancers formed a two-line “river” that stubbornly jerked Klein’s character backward as she struggled against the human current, evoking a gut-wrenching image that Graham detailed in the subtitle to the piece: “devastation—homelessness??exile.”The Boston Conservatory Dance Theater’s performance was a reminder of what the synthesis of vision, artistry, and skill in dance really looks and feels like...
...journey that would bring the 24-year-old Woo through the gates of Harvard Yard—after she survived addiction and homelessness??would be a rarity among her peers...
Being saddened instead of frightened and disgusted by the everyday view of “homelessness?? is a fine first step, but the realization is wasted if it is rooted in a superficial definition of homelessness. Seegars is right in saying there’s no easy answer to homelessness, but if students feel there are no actions they can take and are therefore going to stop at empathy, the least they can do is more carefully reexamine the assumptions they are making about the people they think they are emphasizing with...
...believe you represent constituencies that they must pay attention to,” Wallis claimed. Recent polls support his conclusion. In an August 2005 survey conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 72 percent of respondents said “issues like poverty and homelessness?? are important issues facing the United States, compared to 18 percent who said yes to “issues like abortion and gay marriage.” Similarly, a poll last month by the Center for American Progress found that 89 percent of respondents agreed to the premise that...
...than we have beds to give out.”Neither Berman nor Semonoff would tie the census results to new initiatives from the city’s Ten-Year Plan, which proposed a “public education campaign to help residents understand the human side of homelessness?? and the construction of more affordable housing units.“I think it’s premature to think that anything from the Ten-Year Plan is influencing [the number of homeless individuals],” Semonoff said. “But the plan has raised awareness...