Sentences with phrase «american class structure»

She celebrates 20 years of reform movement success, but never tempers such self - congratulatory narcissism with unpleasant questions about why those who have no interest in disrupting the American class structure — such as Bill Gates and the heirs to Sam Walton's fortunes, by far the most generous education reform philanthropists — are so keen to support the TFA insurgency.

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There are no official definitions of what it means to be rich, and many factors come into play for measuring where one falls in the often amorphous class structure of American society.
Such awareness will include a prophetic criticism of American feminism when it is too narrow in scope, when it demands that the power of determining and directing social goals and structures be shared with middle - and upper - class American women while other women and groups are still excluded from that realization.
One could argue the tonal disconnect between an act of terrorism and comedy, and yet the injection of some quips and the odd running joke about a producer obsessed with balls turns out to be one of the film's greatest weapons, moreso than the overly familiar stench of disdain and dissidence as a poorly planned hostage stunt yields a much more complex discussion about class structure and the corruption of the American financial system.
She points out that, in contrast to Dominican and Colombian Americans, Chinese Americans have been immigrating to the United States for several decades and have a more differentiated class structure.
In Missouri v. Jenkins, when the court and its self - appointed experts tried to improve the quality of education for African American children in Kansas City they structured their reforms around what they thought middle - class white children would want.
While maintaining its four - class structure, two - driver lineups will now be mandatory for both the Pro and Pro-Am classes, as part of a rules change to align the North American series with its counterparts in Europe and Asia.
American said it took this action to «achieve a cost and debt structure that is competitive in the airline industry so that it can continue delivering a world - class travel experience for customers».
As expected, the card's entire rewards structure is based around the American Airlines partnership - you earn AAdvantage miles, and your sole redemption options are flights and class upgrades.
Often resembling aerial views, they subtly map the patterns of class, race, gender, and sexuality that structure American life, especially life in South Central Los Angeles, where Bradford works.
More invested in the idea of class and wealth accumulation in the domestic showroom of the American post civil war aesthetic, these works still upholds the idea of the frontier but through a far more structured hierarchy than previously seen.
Adams, whose work is rooted in deconstructivist philosophies such as the fragmentation and manipulation of structure and surface, reflects on the plight of working class black people before and during the Civil Rights movement, as well as their determination to pursue the same American Dream afforded to others.
Noting her «complex, highly poetic pictorial compositions based on the structures and settings and shifting light» around «windows and doorways,» our late colleague Hilton Kramer rightly championed Dodd as among the «class of highly accomplished American painters whose work has been consistently rejected by the New York museum establishment.»
Losing your constitutional rights for two years and be forced to learn what it's like to live in an authoritarian world with rigid class structure you can not escape is a great way to learn what great good fortune is to be born an American.
Under the proposed framework, the WSIB is looking at adopting the newer North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), which has 22 class structures.
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