UID:
almahu_9949449775802882
Format:
1 online resource :
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text file, PDF
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781315083681
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131508368X
Content:
"In his inaugural address in 1993, President Clinton said: "I challenge a new generation of young Americans to a season of service to act on your idealism by helping troubled children, keeping company with those in need, reconnecting our torn communities." In the fall of 1990, Suzanne Goldsmith had signed on for her own "season of service" with City Year, the widely praised, Boston-based community service program frequently endorsed by political figures as a model for the nation. 'A City Year' is the story of Goldsmith's experience, an honest and gritty account of the triumphs and setbacks faced by an idealistic and experimental social program in its infancy. Together with a diverse team of young men and women--including a Burmese immigrant, a white prep-school graduate, a foster child, an ex-convict, and a black middle-class college student--Goldsmith helped renovate a building for the homeless, tutored school children, reclaimed a community garden from drug dealers, and organized a community street-cleaning day. The year Included backbreaking but gratifying work, the sense of family that comes from collaborative labor, and the potential strength of diversity. 'A City Year' is both the story of an uphill battle in urban America and an uplifting recipe for social change. As the AmeriCorps national service program dangles in the political wind on Capitol Hill, this book offers a true glimpse of what a "season of service" really means. It is a fascinating account for sociologists and all those with an interest in community service and youth."--Provided by publisher
Note:
Chapter The Team -- chapter of speculation among the recruits about -- chapter of Polaroid photos glued to a posterboard, -- chapter of forty minutes of wrangling, -- chapter -- chapter CityYear : Ideaand the Program -- chapter 3 Three -- chapter of their friendship and their words, gave the two -- chapter It targeted the disadvantaged and those who -- chapter of these seminal programs presellted themselves as models -- chapter of the same basic elements -- chapter 4 Four -- chapter of five fun and challenging days at Camp Becket. -- chapter of the rest of the team-of any contract infractions and -- chapter of City Year's corporate sponsors attend the event, as do -- chapter Garden -- chapter 5 Five -- chapter of garden beds overgrown with weeds, some -- chapter of water and takes a long swallow. -- chapter of the first week, T ony calls a team meeting in the garden. -- chapter I 'm too surprised to -- chapter of the ambulance and -- chapter Not like you're a criminal. -- chapter 7 Seven -- chapter of corps members, the -- chapter 8 Eight -- chapter next-painting the play equipment -- chapter On all sides eyes are telling me I am unwelcome. I -- chapter of us are to talk quietly or write in our -- chapter 9 Nine -- chapter of the boys had begun shouting with anger -- chapter of crumpled metal jutting from the ground. -- chapter of the pictures. In one he is lifting -- chapter of all theworkhewasdoing in City Year, -- chapter 1 O n e -- chapter of other information for me, statistics -- chapter of mourners creep by. -- chapter Greenhouse -- chapter of skinheads. -- chapter of the picture, -- chapter but grew up in Burma. She came to the United -- chapter of dismissal because of his chal- -- chapter 11 Eleven -- chapter School -- chapter 12 Twelve -- chapter -- chapter 13 Thirteen -- chapter of girls. -- chapter 4 teen -- chapter of -- . -- chapter 15 Fifteen -- chapter 6 teen -- chapter but he was strong. Then he threw -- chapter He is sure he will be fired -- chapter 17 Seventeen -- chapter of his rampage -- chapter 18 Eighteen -- chapter Transition -- chapter 19 Nineteen -- chapter Tony is touched by the letter, and surprised that Charles has the but he also views it with -- chapter 20 Twenty -- chapter of the year are now beginning to -- chapter It is striking to hear -- chapter Building -- chapter 21 Twenty-One -- chapter Tony has shared few details with us -- chapter of days helping to clear debris from the basement. Both jobs -- chapter ofe ach other's working rhythm, eating -- chapter 22 Twenty-Two -- chapter arranged with rows of colored bottles, jars, and tubes. She has one hand planted jauntily on her hip. She looks like a carefully wrapped gift: her trim form packed into a Lycra mini dress, black stockings and white, high-heeled shoes. Her hair is dyed reddish-blond and secured with a bow. Rosa tells me her aunt Ti-Ti is thirty-eight years old. -- chapter Ti' s presentation is long and well rehearsed. As she describes each -- chapter 23 Twenty-Three -- chapter 24 Twenty-Four -- chapter It seems to me that there is a social ease derived from common -- chapter 25 Twenty-Five -- chapter 26 Twenty-Six -- chapter of the corps governance -- chapter oe-the apparent hegemony of a couple breeds -- chapter Cleanup -- chapter 20 S even -- chapter of the program, -- chapter 28 Twenty-Eight -- chapter 29 Twenty-Nine -- chapter 30 Thirty -- chapter 31 Thirty-One -- chapter 32 Thirty-Two -- chapter -- chapter out of breath. -- chapter 33 Thirty-Three -- chapter of his dismissal, but he -- chapter 34 Thirty-Four -- chapter If there's anybody that's going to be the last to leave, it's going to -- chapter of trash, ready for -- chapter Ending -- chapter 35 Thirty-Five -- chapter 36 Thirty-Six -- chapter The Reebok Team's contribution includes six -- chapter Epilogue -- chapter offa ndj oined City Year. At the time, she asked me to leave that fact -- chapter It took me -- chapter of jail. Thirty -- chapter I recently came across a copy ofa poem that in jail and sent -- chapter from him, he had been planning to enlist in the military. His aunt in said she had heard the same thing but had no telephone number -- ofr evolutionary movements. He went with a group Nicaragua of the Sandinista leaders, and on his return he became -- chapter of accomplishment, like I done something for the -- chapter -- chapter JUNE -- chapter A few weeks after graduation, Earl told me that Richie had been in a car and was in the hospital. I went to see him. Richie had a broken -- chapter He described how finally he was arrested in a raid on an apartment from which he and friends had been selling drugs. The drug charges didn't nor did the statutory rape charge, but he pled guilty on a drunk -- chapter perhaps a little shabby, but the neighborhood was more pleasant -- chapter of and -- chapter 15 minutes, -- chapter of diversity, the work of growing up, the work of taking -- chapter of members -- chapter Acknowledgments -- chapter ifl had the space I would thank them.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781315083681
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781351535847
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315083681
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