Due to of the rise in numbers of persons experiencing homelessness, communities are working to restrict access that homeless individuals have to public spaces. Many cities across the nation have criminalized aspects of homelessness in attempts to...
Homeless persons--Services for--Kentucky--Louisville; Homelessness--Kentucky--Louisville; Inmates of institutions; Community-based social services--Kentucky--Louisville
The purpose of this study was to examine the link between various aspects of service utilization and the institutionalization of homeless individuals. The researcher wished to determine whether participation in various therapeutic, medical, and...
Though Virginia Woolf’s and Kathe Kollwitz's personal histories and specific cultural circumstances were quite different, their aesthetics share fundamental qualities. This dissertation demonstrates that both artists affirm memory, the maternal,...
“Heath began painting in 1989 at the age of forty. Rising early to go to work as a taxi driver he would see the homeless bent over trash bins looking for food. In the shallow morning light they looked like oblique shapes and forms. Out of the...
Empathy; Social psychology; Rhetoric--Social aspects; Language and culture
Empathy has been commonly evoked within rhetoric and composition as a way to understand audiences and as a classroom ethic. This dissertation goes further in defining rhetorics of empathy, analyzing the uses of rhetorics of empathy in political and...
Buildings; Welfare facilities; Public service; Almshouses; Assistance
Jefferson County Poor Farm Home for Whites, Louisville, Kentucky. A two-story brick building with a stone porch and a sidewalk. The Jefferson County Poorhouse was established in 1858 near Jeffersontown to provide a caring environment for the...
Buildings; Welfare facilities; Public service; Almshouses; Assistance; African Americans
Jefferson County Poor Farm Home for Negros, Louisville, Kentucky. A one-story brick building with a concrete porch and tall grass. The Jefferson County Poorhouse was established in 1858 near Jeffersontown to provide a caring environment for the...
