Sector partnership bring together multiple employers within an industry to collaborate with colleges, schools, labor, workforce agencies, community organizations and other community stakeholders to align training with the skills needed for that industry to grow and compete. Some of the examples are Jobs Corps, Years Up, and American Express. Sector partnership is important because it helps with employment to jobless, low income employees or homeless individual with a criminal record, and it helps students in the development of their skills. Sector partnerships can facilitate career advancement for all workers. States can adopt policies to support the creation and maintenance of these partnerships and empower them to target education and training dollars from a variety of sources to the changing needs of local industries.
almighty God to continue me still in this mind to live out of the state of marriage, yet it is not to be feared but He will so work in my heart’. Every possible hinderance to Elizabeth is coated in the authority of God. Marriage, shall be ruled by Him, as her reign is. This is not only the divine right of kings, but queens. The language of this prose is decorated, but also prohibits too much insight. Allison Heisch discusses that whilst adorned prose was a rhetorical fashion of the time, ‘it was also a technique of evasion’. Most impressive is that this evasion is difficult to see when one is reading the speech, let alone listening.
Elizabeth’s resistance is particularly at its height through her acknowledgement of those against her: ‘if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death, whose messenger or rather continual watchman, the prince’s indignation’. Other than the obvious gender-blurring through her terming of Mary as a ‘prince’, Elizabeth is outwardly honest about the threats she faces, acknowledging the existence of a ‘continual watchman’. Through her recognition of weakness she is rousing support and, ultimately, protection. Thus, whilst Sir John Neale agrees with my sentiment that parliamentary and political occasions were a highly effective opportunity for Elizabeth to rouse support he misses that, initially, they were of instrumental necessity. He claims that her political speeches were a ‘supreme opportunity of projecting upon the nation, through its assembled deputies, her personality and affection, her discipline, her will and unrivalled gifts of leadership’. Neale’s employment of praise for Elizabeth’s rhetorical prowess is to be admired, yet, as I earlier took issue with Herman’s use of the word ‘enhancement’, I disagree with Neale’s notion that Elizabeth was ‘established’ in her political speeches. Brave, powerful and arguably indignant indeed – but, there is that initial need to address her weaknesses.
For instance, Elizabeth’s speech at Cambridge University in 1564 (originally deliv
