Sentences with phrase «as a young adult in»

In a mad dash to attain the trappings of a successful adult life, a certain segment of millennials — defined as young adults in their 20s and early 30s — is overextending itself.
As a young adult in the city, I expanded to mixed green salads, but still shied away from cooked greens.
Louise Bourgeois was born on Christmas Day in Paris, France, and immigrated to the United States as a young adult in 1938.
«We found that, while this generation has many unique characteristics when it comes to their housing choices, they share many of the same intentions as young adults in previous decades.»

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The transfer shares a good part of the blame for the financial squeeze that leaves young adults unable to afford a family of more than one or two children, as journalist Duncan Hood discusses in «The war against the family.»
In my young adult years, I had long hair, wore too much flannel, and my discourse revolved around and was greatly influenced by subjects such as Pearl Jam, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club and Beavis and Butthead.
To get ahead in the branding game, here are tips for helping you focus your business's efforts on these young and impressionable adults who are still willing to take accept you as one of their brands.
And that could be a problem for the younger generation: 69 percent of millennials believe that debit cards are as safe or safer than credit cards, according to a recent national survey of 1,000 adults conducted in August by Compare Cards / Lending Tree.
As I've been mentoring and training some young adults lately at a college, suddenly I've seen conflicts up close and personal, a reminder of the time I worked in the corporate world for about a ten year period.
But the experience inspired him to launch the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults in 1997, which is how, as the oft - told story goes, he came to be discovered by Armstrong, another young cancer survivor who had just launched what was then known as the Lance Armstrong FoundaYoung Adults in 1997, which is how, as the oft - told story goes, he came to be discovered by Armstrong, another young cancer survivor who had just launched what was then known as the Lance Armstrong Foundayoung cancer survivor who had just launched what was then known as the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Putting kids, teens and young adults in social scenarios such as job interviews or blind dates with avatars, they learn how to pick up on social cues and respond appropriately.
Yet as we grow up into serious adults, many of us stop engaging in the creative pursuits we enjoyed when we were younger.
The treatment, named Kymriah, was hailed by doctors and the life sciences community as a major advance in medicine and a boon to children and young adults with a certain form of leukemia (the group for whom the gene therapy is approved).
A new study puts the figure into stark numerical terms: while as many as 2,070 adults used e-cigs to quit in 2015, another 168,000 young people who used the devices went on to become smokers of conventional cigarettes.
He can speak with moral authority on the issue: In his state, a gunman killed 20 young children, as well as six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 201In his state, a gunman killed 20 young children, as well as six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 201in December 2012.
«With home prices and rents rising as fast as they are, it's a common assumption that young adults in many cases can not afford to live alone,» Svenja Gudell, chief economist at Zillow, said in a news release.
As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»
He had studied their work as a young adult, and after being rejected from Harvard, noticed the names of the two professors in a catalog for Columbia Business School.
As a whole, young adults in America are faced with two major financial hurdles that prevent them from having a lot of extra wealth to invest for retirement: high housing costs and student - loan debt.
There are worrying social impacts downstream as a result of these factors: a lowered marriage rate, more adult children cohabiting with their parents, a reduction in the birthrate, and young people holding off on major life events such as starting relationships or home ownership.
Lions Gate Entertainment (No. 54) has had box office success with two major franchises: The Twilight series (produced by Summit Entertainment, a Lions Gate subsidiary) and Hunger Games, which have much in common as they are both film adaptations of bestselling young adult book series, are fantastical (one is about vampires and the other about a futuristic dystopia), and are anchored by a dynamic young female character (portrayed by Kristen Stewart in Twilight, Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games).
To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.
As our population ages, young adults are increasingly being marginalized in a demographic sense.
While originally typecast as financially dependent teens, today's Millennials include young adults in their 20s and 30s.
Lorraine Marks - Field founded the Florida Inter-generational Orchestra in 2005 with the idea of bringing children and adults together as a way of motivating young musicians to keep practicing and growing.
I dabbled in individual stocks in my early 20's as a young working adult.
As a result, many young adults do not begin building up a credit file until later in their life - driving the averages down.
With an estimated 6 million young adults in that situation in the U.S., and as many as 300 million around the world, this is one of the biggest issues of our time.
Declines in homeownership among lower - income, nonwhite and young adults were especially dramatic following the housing crisis, as subprime lending, which many homeowners had previously relied on, all but dried up.
Finally, it bears mentioning that while all adults (our parents included) truly do make it up as they go along, for better or worse, traversing our world as young adults can present to us positive opportunities — opportunities that allow us to shepherd and encourage others in our churches and communities, even the wee ones or our own children who desperately want to grow up.
For me, as a college student, young single woman, and then young married adult, I found that there were no Sunday gatherings for myself - no fellowship classes that matched my stage in life at most churches I visited.
Even at a young age, even in church as a child and then young adult and later as a mature adult, I remember feeling uncomfortable with the «level» to which everything, from SS literature to popular books, were always written.
They are honestly, in my observations having been around them, being around them, as family and aquaintances, very much like I knew many of them to be as tween - agers, then teen - agers, then young adults, following a shallow pop culture of their peer group, and pop Christian happens to be where they are right now.
I realized one day as a young adult that the fact I was searching for answers so intensely was a clear sign I had faith in His existence.
To put it bluntly, the notion of consent is arguably meaningless by itself as the arbiter of legitimate sexual and marital relationships because of the potential for manipulation, coercion, and abuse in a situation where there are deep - rooted and unequal social power relations (e.g., the President of the United States [not] having sexual relations with a besotted young intern or, as here, a parent and an adult child contracting a marriage).
Culturally, young adults have increasingly come to see marriage as a «capstone» rather than a «cornerstone» — that is, something they do after they have all their other ducks in a row, rather than a foundation for launching into adulthood and parenthood.
He connects to the child in all of us, the child that has passed on, only to be reborn as a teen, then young adults, then adult, then middle age... proof of reincarnation even before death.
What I didn't know as a teenager and young adult was that the difference between a healthy act and an abusive one is almost entirely in whether or not it is consensual.
All of them shared a remarkable experience in their youth: As they were being formed into mature Christian adults by Wojtyla, they helped form an intellectually, athletically, and mystically gifted young clergyman into one of the most dynamic priests of his generation, a pioneer in the pastoral strategy he called «accompaniment.»
As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.
Here my own ignorance was the more culpable, since I had been raised in the Church before leaving as a young adult.
Three - quarters of young adults without Christian affiliations described Christianity as «too involved in politics.»
Pew reports that «in their social and political views, young adults are clearly more accepting than older Americans of homosexuality, more inclined to see evolution as the best explanation of human life and less prone to see Hollywood as threatening their moral values.
Indeed, Millennials are significantly more unaffiliated than members of Generation X were at a comparable point in their life cycle (20 % in the late 1990s) and twice as unaffiliated as Baby Boomers were as young adults (13 % in the late 1970s).
I generally write with an evangelical audience in mind, but as others have rightly noted, it's not just evangelical churches losing young adults, but also Catholic churches, Orthodox churches, and Mainline Protestant churches... sometimes at even higher rates.
As you probably know, The Hunger Games is a young adult novel in which children are pitted against each other in a violent death match, serving as a social satire.As you probably know, The Hunger Games is a young adult novel in which children are pitted against each other in a violent death match, serving as a social satire.as a social satire...
Enough trust must be developed between the generations to permit older adults, who have the essential skills and handles of power, to work with youth and young adults in finding workable answers to the crucial questions many youth and young adults are asking, questions such as «What will enable humanity to survive on a livable planet?»
In addition to sparking some fond memories from youth group, the article caught my attention because, as a young adult, I too have been disillusioned with church in recent yearIn addition to sparking some fond memories from youth group, the article caught my attention because, as a young adult, I too have been disillusioned with church in recent yearin recent years.
«Much of the volunteer work of Jewish young adults is comprised of local efforts to ameliorate disparities in economic resources and educational opportunity and often entails activities such as collecting, sorting, and distributing goods,» the polling analysis said.
As he sang many adults held up signs on pink paper which read «for our angels» in respect for the 22 young people that were killed in the Manchester bombing.
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