Sentences with phrase «american family moving»

An American family moving to another country for a new job find themselves in the middle of a coup — where foreigners are being executed on sight — and having to fight to survive.

All of this is set to a slightly uncomfortable backdrop of the first African - American family moving in next door.

Nowak notes that the West Oak Lane neighborhood in Philadelphia for years had «been losing ground,» as middle income African American families moved to the suburbs and left behind abandoned houses and storefronts.

In time, several German American families moved to and settled in and around Gotha.

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Chicago History Museum — Getty ImagesPortrait of the Morris family, who moved to Chicago during the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities around the time of World War I, ca. 1915.

After a get - to - meet - you dinner at a local (of course) Chinese restaurant — featuring linguistic awkwardness and mediocre American suburbian faux - Szechuan cuisine — Mr. Lo and his family moved in.

The youth pastor, who moved to the Central American nation to serve local tribes, had been swimming with his family and the family of another church leader when he got into trouble.

When my family moved to Arizona, I joined the tail end of the white evangelizers who hoped to bring faith and education to the Native American and Mexican laborer population that surrounded us.

Eventually, Lively moved on from Oregon to Sacramento, Calif., where he was active as the state director for the American Family Association (AFA).

AmpleHarvest.org is helping to take the work of feeding needy American families out of Washington and move it into the community... where much of the food is already available... and free.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

None of this means that religious believers, and particularly religious parents, don't have understandable reasons for trying to wall their families off from the worst of what American pop culture has to offer, whether by canceling their cable subscription or packing up and moving to Ave Maria Town.

Grace (her real name is Ji Eun, but her father gave her the American nickname) lived in Honolulu for two years, then moved in with a boarder family in Phoenix because «after looking around at different states,» she says, «Arizona was the great one for golf.»

I recently read the book French Kids Eat Everything by Karen le Billon, a North American (from Canada) who decided that she wanted to move her family to France (her husband is French) as a social experiment.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

«My concern is that in January of next year, for the first time in American history, a black family will be moving out of the White House.

They also hope the move will be seen as a show of sensitivity to families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, and to the American public generally.

While there are still American service members dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, supporters of the memorial on the waterfront are moving to improve the facility and care for those who fought and their families.

«From corporate America to Indian techies to Indian - Americans with family ties to their native land — all are lobbying hard to influence changes in the proposed immigration law that has started moving through the US legislative labyrinthine.

In a study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers described a poignant example of this dynamic after they followed nearly 5,000 low - income families who moved out of public housing and into better neighborhoods.

Curiously moved from from its original 8:30 p slot to a seemingly too - late 9:30 p (where it will temporarily displace «American Dad»), «Sons of Tucson» echoes «Malcolm» in its quirkiness — and its use of a family with three children.

Through it all, Engvall remained imminently successful and racked up a massive and loyal fan base of American everymen.Born William Ray Engvall Jr. on July 27, 1957, in Galveston, TX, the future comedian / actor reportedly moved around a great deal with his family as a tyke.

American Horror Story revolves around The Harmons, a family of three who move from Boston to Los Angeles as a means to reconcile past anguish.

Wilde's novella, set in late 1800s rural England, tells of the Otises, an American family that moves...

A kindly African - American family, the Meyerses moves in nearby, and Gardner's son Nicky (Noah Jupe) befriends their boy, Andy (Tony Espinosa).

It offers clips from 191 American movies, whose only point in common is that they're set in Los Angeles, and a narration that's an essay on how movies have treated Andersen's hometown (he was born in Chicago in 1943 but his family moved to Los Angeles four years later).

The Coup is an intense thriller centered on an American family that moves to Southeast Asia and finds themselves embroiled in a violent coup where rebels mercilessly attack the city.

In the film, Wilson plays an American businessman who has moved his family to southeast Asia to become mixed up in a violent political uprising.

How does a close - knit Italian American family prevent one of its members from moving across the country in pursuit of a dream job?

The magnificent Orson Welles directed this brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane.

Garland's wife, Paloma Baeza, will make her feature directorial debut with the film, which follows an American family who move into an old Victorian house in London and begin to believe it might be haunted.

Inspired by events in Levittown, Pennsylvania in 1959 — when a well - to - do African - American family were violently harassed by white supremacists shortly after moving to the all - white suburb — George Clooney's latest directorial outing could hardly feel more apt.

When it's really moving forward — or anytime Jessica Chastain is on - screen — it's a gripping family drama about an American Dream threatened, but when it lags it can feel a little too much like a thriller about a man who sells heating oil.

The film is a bittersweet homage to the dysfunctional American family, and Breslin — with her sunny smile, ecstatic screams, and racy dance moves — is its heart.

But the moves, with few exceptions, did not result in families relocating to areas with much lower concentrations of African Americans (see Figure 1).

When his stepfather got a better job, with an American oil company, the family (Ann gave birth to a daughter in 1970) moved to a nicer neighborhood and Barry was enrolled in a public school.

The granddaughter of educators, the African - American mom moved her family back to Washington from Los Angeles in part because of the robust climate of school choice.

Being a low - income family in need of a cheap house, we moved to Omaha's north side, a a predominately African American community of low - income and working class families.

Delaware (where my daughter just moved) is right, Secretary DeVos should review this guidance letter, and until the federal government gets its act together on secondary education (which it appears may never happen), families should opt out of state schools subject to federal dictates, opting in, instead, to learning institutions that embed preparation for exams at a pre-university level that can lead to placement advanced in future course sequences: these advanced level subjects should be embedded within the balanced curriculum that an international baccalaureate education represents, in contrast to the narrow extension of elementary school that DC bureaucrats remain focused on, as if time had not run out on the Obama administration and its failed efforts to improve the lives of American youth, now mired in debt that it encouraged in pursuit of a «North Star» goal that led the United States astray.

Thanks to moves in states to allow for voucher - like tax credit plans, companies can offer poor and minority families new opportunities to escape the worst American public education has to offer.

When Yinglan Yang is uninterested in American culture after the family's move from China, her brother and sister plot to change h...

For parents — especially black, Latino, and Asian families who are joining the middle class for the first time and moving into suburbia — the importance of knowing how schools actually handle students worst - served by American public education (including low expectations) is critical to doing all they can to keep their youngsters out of the economic and social abyss.

Some New York City neighborhoods are currently undergoing dramatic demographic shifts as white middle and upper - class families move back into the city, essentially a reversal of the white flight that occurred in the early 1950s in an attempt to escape the growing populations of African Americans in the cities (Burns Stillman 2012).

«American cars were designed to move entire families in comfort for long distances.

Then the family moved to Lashkargah, a small town in the middle of the desert in southwestern Afghanistan, the headquarters of a vast American - funded project to make the desert bloom.

Her older sister, Rose, is determined to marry up, and when the American Cotton family takes possession of their family castle nearby, she makes her move.

Fortunately, he has a competent, caring network of friends, family and neighbors: Lisa, his unlucky - in - love classmate, who moves in with him to help him care for little Frankie around the clock; his American cousin, Emily, always there with a pep talk; the newly retired Dr. Hat, with more time on his hands than he knows what to do with; Dr. Declan and Fiona and their baby son, Frankie's first friend; and many eager babysitters, including old friends Signora and Aidan and Frankie's doting grandparents, Josie and Charles.

Using American Express transfer services, a customer can fund a new account, send money to family or friends, or move money between accounts.

But after moving to the U.S. with his adopted family in 2002, Marco has adapted well to American comforts like drive - thrus, car rides and bacon.

Team Member: Donna Position at our hospital: Senior Veterinary Assistant Years in the veterinary field: 15 years Favorite Animal (s): English Bulldog Her fur family: Izaiah a Pittbull, Ezekiel an American Bulldog, and Adin an Old English Bulldog A little more about Donna:» I was born and raised in Hanford, Ca and later moved to Fresno when I turned 18 where I first started working for a day practice.