The 1860s

Mark Twain ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 33-72
Author(s):  
Gary Scott Smith
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Fellow Traveler ◽  
Virginia City

During the 1860s, Twain worked as a journalist in Virginia City, Nevada, and San Francisco and traveled to Europe and the Middle East (most notably Palestine) on an excursion with a group of Americans, which enabled him to write his best-selling Innocents Abroad. Twain met Olivia (Livy) Langdon through her brother, a fellow traveler. His courtship of the religiously devout Livy prompted Twain to reassess his relationship with God and his understanding of Christianity, prayer, and Providence and to declare himself to be a Christian. During this decade, Twain developed friendships with several ministers, battled depression, and struggled to determine his vocation. He also strove to adopt Eastern mores and conventional ethical practices and reinvent himself as a Christian husband who could provide financial security and spiritual guidance for his family. Scholars debate whether his conversion was genuine, self-deluded, or fabricated to please his future wife and her parents.

scholarly journals “My 9 to 5 Job Is Birth Work”: A Case Study of Two Compensation Approaches for Community Doula Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (20) ◽  
pp. 10817
Author(s):  
Anu Manchikanti Gomez ◽  
Stephanie Arteaga ◽  
Jennet Arcara ◽  
Alli Cuentos ◽  
Marna Armstead ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Labor Conditions ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
Structural Solutions

With the increased policy emphasis on promoting doula care to advance birth equity in the United States, there is a vital need to identify sustainable and equitable approaches for compensation of community doulas, who serve clients experiencing the greatest barriers to optimal pregnancy-related outcomes. This case study explores two different approaches for compensating doulas (contractor versus hourly employment with benefits) utilized by SisterWeb San Francisco Community Doula Network in San Francisco, California. We conducted qualitative interviews with SisterWeb doulas in 2020 and 2021 and organizational leaders in 2020. Overall, leaders and doulas reported that the contractor approach, in which doulas were paid a flat fee per client, did not adequately compensate doulas, who regularly attend trainings and provide additional support for their clients (e.g., referrals to promote housing and food security). Additionally, this approach did not provide doulas with healthcare benefits, which was especially concerning during the COVID-19 pandemic. As hourly, benefited employees, doulas experienced a greater sense of financial security and wellbeing from receiving consistent pay, compensation for all time worked, and benefits such as health insurance and sick leave, allowing some to dedicate themselves to birth work. Our study suggests that efforts to promote community doula care must integrate structural solutions to provide appropriate compensation and benefits to doulas, simultaneously advancing birth equity and equitable labor conditions for community doulas.

Plague Beyond India

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Middle East ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Legislation

This chapter investigates whether plague protest in India can be generalized for the rest of the world. Outside India such riots were far fewer and on a smaller scale. Plague riots in China added an ingredient rarely seen in India—violence against foreigners accused of plague spreading. Yet the Chinese protests resembled the Indian in railing against severe plague regulations (isolation and military searches) and forming class alliances. Plague riots in the Middle East, more prevalent than in Europe, were remarkably secular and economically motivated, even when occurring at pilgrimage sites and comprising religious leaders and religious students. San Franciscan attitudes to plague radically departed from those previously seen in that city towards smallpox and tuberculosis. While those diseases divided San Francisco by class and race, plague demonstrations united the Chinese and white citizens against US public health legislation that enforced prejudicial quarantines and compulsory inoculation on the Chinese alone.

scholarly journals Law against the people/The empire strikes back

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
George E. Bisharat
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Boomerang Effect ◽  
Legal Forms ◽  
Trial Lawyer ◽  
Middle East Studies

George E. Bisharat Emeritus Professor of Law, University of California Hastings College of the Law. George E. Bisharat was a trial lawyer for the Office of the Public Defender in San Francisco before joining the UC Hastings faculty in 1991. Professor Bisharat studied law, anthropology, and Middle East studies at Harvard, and wrote a book about Palestinian lawyers working under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. He writes frequently on the Middle East, both for academic audiences and for major media sources in the U.S. and abroad. After taking emeritus status in 2015, Bisharat, as �Big Harp George,� has recorded two blues albums that earned award nominations and critical acclaim. SUMMARY The objective of this article is to describe and analyze how supporters of Israeli state policies have, since 2000, used legal forms often associated with efforts by the powerless to challenge entrenched power to instead turn those forms into tools of the powerful. This movement to use �law against the people� has come about largely as a reaction against attempts by activists to use courts and other legal fora to advance Palestinian rights. This unexpected boomerang effect provides reason for reflection on the role of law in the struggle for justice in Israel/Palestine, suggesting that law offers little promise of relief, at least when it is not integrated with and supported by a broader political strategy.

Celso’s Vendetta

Oh Capitano! ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Rudolph J. Vecoli ◽  
Francesco Durante
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Royal Academy ◽  
Naval Academy ◽  
Military Academy ◽  
King David ◽  
Military Schools ◽  
The U.S

This chapter examines how Celso Cesare Moreno plotted his revenge after the debacle in Hawaii and describes his role in the education of three Hawaiian students: Robert William Wilcox, Robert Napu'uako Boyd, and James Kaneholo Booth. Moreno left Honolulu for San Francisco onboard the steamer Zealandia. He wanted James M. Comly, whom he believed was primarily responsible for his downfall, removed as the U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Hawaii. He enrolled Wilcox, Boyd, and Booth in three different military schools—Royal Academy of Civil and Military Engineers in Turin, Royal Naval Academy in Livorno, and Nunziatella Military Academy in Naples, respectively. The chapter also discusses Moreno's travel across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe with King David Kalākaua and his dignitaries, which included William Nevins Armstrong, now Royal Commissioner of Immigration. Finally, it reflects on the death of Booth due to cholera.

North Africa and the Middle East

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Manfred Halpern ◽  
Clement Moore
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Plenary Session ◽  
Brooklyn College ◽  
African Studies ◽  
North African

The sixth annual meeting of the African Studies Association was held at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco. The opening plenary session included three papers concerned with North African affairs. Benjamin Rivlin of Brooklyn College, considering “The Maghreb and Pan-Arabism,” began with a series of questions. Were the aspirations of the Maghreb states for Arab unity incompatible with their African vocation? Ought the Maghreb to be considered as a part of Africa, or was this precluded by the region's commitment to the Arab East? What was the extent of this commitment, and what identity did the Maghreb seek?

scholarly journals Bimbingan Pastoral Kepada Kaum Muda Sebagai Upaya Peneguhan Iman Berdasarkan Ibrani 10:35

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Yenny Anita Pattinama
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Spiritual Guidance ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
People Today

Pemuda-pemudi adalah generasi ke depan dalam keluarga, gereja, dan bangsa. Pemuda-pemudi merupakan pondasi dan generasi penerus gereja yang harus dibina dengan baik. Masa depan gereja terletak pada generasi muda yang akan menggantikan para orang tua, untuk melanjutkan pelayanan dalam gereja sehingga gereja terus berkembang dengan baik. Namun, pemuda-pemudi zaman sekarang kurang memiliki ketaatan dan kesetiaan kepada Tuhan, sehingga dalam mempertahankan imannya kepada Tuhan Yesus sangat susah. Oleh karena kurangnya bimbingan rohani sebagai pondasi dalam kehidupan mereka untuk membentengi setiap godaan maupun tawaran dunia yang membuat iman mereka hilang. Orang tua dan gereja sangat berperan penting dalam pertumbuhan iman mereka. Jika pemuda-pemudi memiliki kerohanian yang baik, memiliki hubungan yang dekat denganTuhan, makaia juga pasti memiliki iman yang teguh dan dapat mempertahankan imannya di dalam Tuhan Yesus. Young people are the next generation in the family, church and nation. Young people are the foundation and the next generation of churches that must be nurtured well. The future of the church lies in the younger generation who will replace the parents, to continue the ministry in the church so that the church continues to thrive. However, young people today have less obedience and loyalty to God, so that in defending their faith in the Lord Jesus is very difficult. Because of the lack of spiritual guidance as a foundation in their lives to fortify every temptation or offer of the world that makes their faith lost. Parents and the church are very important in the growth of their faith. If young people have a good spirituality, have a close relationship with God, then he also must have firm faith and can maintain his faith in the Lord Jesus.

scholarly journals Banking the Unbanked: A Mechanism for Improving the Financial Security of Low-Income Individuals

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Robbins
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Financial Security ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Economic Considerations ◽  
Partnership Program

Expanding access to financial literacy and to low‑cost banking services are important policy issues that may help prevent some of the financial pitfalls that disproportionately affect low‑income individuals. This paper explains the causes and effects of being “unbanked” (i.e. not using the traditional banking system), and explains why it is important to bring everyone into the financial mainstream. In addition, this paper highlights the structure and implementation of a successful public-private partnership program called Bank On San Francisco that provided financial literacy courses and low-cost checking accounts to at-risk residents in San Francisco. Lastly, this paper discusses several important economic considerations for policymakers to analyze before replicating the Bank On San Francisco program in other jurisdictions, and also reviews federal action on financial literacy and banking the unbanked.

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