Sentences with phrase «american class struggle»

«It's an absorbing, well - researched snapshot from the American class struggle with excellent performances and an evocative sense of time and place.»

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Even so committed an anti-Communist (and non-Marxist) as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. took class conflict as self - evident, and in The Vital Center (1949) and elsewhere he depicted the central theme of American politics as the struggle for power between the business community and all other social groups.

Lee's plans are not silver bullets, but they can be part of an economic agenda that can appeal to persuadable Hispanics and African Americans (who — due to residency patterns — are more likely to live near people who are economically struggling) and working - class whites.

But one reason Romney lost is that too many struggling, working - class Americans thought he — to cut the taxes of really rich guys — wanted that too.

Much of what Ramsey teaches is sound, helpful advice, particularly for middle - class Americans struggling with mounting credit card bills.

Foreign - born workers are going to have American - born children and those children will face the struggles common throughout the struggling American working - class.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

Latin American theologians have never accepted to promote violence and class struggle.

It's a big deal in light of North Carolina's other and very similar academic shenanigans (Peppers struggled at everything but African and African - American studies classes, which we'd assumed was a more recent thing for UNC).

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

The artistic team — veterans of Richard Foreman's Ontological - Hysteric Theater, the infamous Velvet Hammer burlesque troupe, Mark Morris Dance Company, Fischerspooner, and recent CalArts graduates — will rigorously collaborate to create a singular vision of power struggle; to rise above stereotypes and caricatures and offer up a deeply textured, abstract and heartfelt voice of the American lower class.

He embodied the American Dream, a nobody who became a somebody, an everyday, struggling, working class American who became a hero.

«Increasing middle class taxes to subsidize corporate tax cuts is an affront to struggling Americans.

A young woman juggling an entry - level administrative job and classes at a community college; a divorced dad working 40 hours a week as a custodian to help support his two kids; a veteran trying to make a living back home after serving our country overseas: They, and millions of other hard - working Americans, struggle to make ends meet because their jobs pay low wages.

«Labor Day is a day we celebrate the great American work ethic and those hardworking men and women who struggled to provide us with workers» rights and deliver us today's landmarks of middle class security, including the 40 - hour work week, child labor laws, pensions, a minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare.

«It goes back to hypocrite Kathy Hochul, who is running a divisive class warfare campaign, complaining about her term, millionaires billionaires and she's pretending to be this middle class individual, that struggles like most Americans, and she's not,» said Collins.

Middle - class Americans, in particular, struggle with the high costs of dementia long - term care because they can't afford long - term care insurance policies and often don't qualify for government help under Medicaid, RAND researchers say.

Furthermore, while American schools are known for complementing design courses with classes that focus on marketing and merchandising, some French schools struggle to integrate business education into the design curriculum.

Still, 99 Homes stays on track as a sharp and topical critique of everything from the mortgage industry to the court system, and the struggle for middle - class folks to get a fair shake as their American dream turns into a nightmare.

It shows the influence of Cassavetes in its comic dramatization of the trials of male bonding and the struggle for emotional integrity, but where Cassavetes captures the tooth - and - nail wildness of first - generation Americans clawing their way into the middle class, Anderson's film recalls an older, more disciplined, although no less self - excoriating, tradition — the WASP modernism exemplified by Ernest Hemingway and Howard Hawks.

With the heroic trio comprised of Americans, Anthony Sadler, Oregon National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, and U.S. Air Force Airman First Class Spencer Stone, who play themselves in the film, the presentation follows the course of the friends» lives, from the struggles of childhood through finding their footing in life, to the series of unlikely events leading up to the attack.

WARREN OATES AND THE WORKING - CLASS ACTOR By Nick Pinkerton The beloved cult star Warren Oates epitomizes the waning American tradition of homegrown actors whose personas speak to the struggles of the working class

«When I was the only Native in class... I didn't have answers to the questions,» Chosa said at last week's Askwith Forum, «Educational Sovereignty at the Santa Fe Indian School,» noting that many Native Americans entering universities are met with the struggle to be a representative of an...

Since Trump's election, there's been a lot of attention to the struggles of working - and middle - class Americans in places like West Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma.

Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half - Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City by Barbara J. Miner, former managing editor of Rethinking Schools, is both a narrative portrait of the struggles for equitable education in Milwaukee, and an exploration of the larger issues of race and class.

Cisneros creates a patchwork - quilt memoir out of more than 40 essays in which she reflects on the meaning of home and her struggles as a self - described «American Mexican» and «working - class writer.»

Her reflections on houses she's lived in and the meaning of home form a unifying motif, along with accounts of her early struggle to envision a way forward as a self - described «American Mexican» and «working - class writer.»

If we do not get it, the middle class Americans will continue to struggle tremendously.

If SWUs no longer allow upgrades from Economy to Business class that will be seen as a massive devaluation in EXP status and, if Main Cabin Extra is no more than a few seats dotted around the cabin, most American Airlines flyers will struggle to ever reserve those seats if they don't book 6 + months in advance — another devaluation.

I struggled to find MileSAAver availability in business class on American Airlines» own metal from various airports to CDG but economy SAAver seats were much easier to find.

The problem is that you're going to have to find business class awards on American to Europe which can be a mighty struggle.

Born in poverty in Alabama, Dial has lived his entire life in the American South, and his art, informed by decades of struggle as a black working - class man, reveals a unique perspective on America's most difficult and pervasive challenges, such as its long history of race and class conflict, the war in Iraq, and the 9/11 tragedy.

[2] Despite several works that appear to reflect the class struggle, Davis» roots in American optimism is apparent throughout his lifetime.

It was a revelatory moment as I struggled to find my voice and vision as the only African American student in my photography class.

College - educated Americans and their children reap the benefits of comparatively stable, happy marriages, while less - educated Americans — especially the poor and the working - class — are more likely to struggle with family lives marked by discord and marital instability.»

This report provides a snapshot of the American middle class and those struggling to become a part of it.