Sentences with phrase «boys at boarding school»

She considers how people try to escape from such troubles; from boys at boarding school who turn their attention to games or work, to the Buddhist practice of living in the present moment.

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Ankumah says he first studied the «underpinnings of technology» as a high school student at an all - boys boarding school in Ghana — all without access to computers.

This entails a closer look at major events already presented by Greene and now fleshed out with the accounts of other people: his life in and around the Berkhamstead School, where his father was headmaster; the more or less serious attempts at teenage suicide; the startling decision of the family to respond to this crisis by sending the boy to board with a psychoanalyst in London; later games of Russian roulette played all alone in an effort to beat boredom and make existence seem precious; and his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

After her high school coach saw her hitting at the range, he petitioned the New York State Board of Education for special permission to make her eligible for the all - boys» varsity team.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveSchool of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preveschool lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

When teen boys need more help than their parents can give them, it's time to look at therapeutic boarding schools.

When D.C. Central Kitchen was negotiating its contract to cook meals at the Washington Jesuit Academy — a private school for at - risk boys in Northeast Washington — board members there also raised concerns about the criminal backgrounds of the kitchen staff.

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She has also been seen at a Sit Down Luncheon Conversation to embrace young boys of Mount Vernon where they are, at the Dole Center and the Meet the School Board Candidates Forum at Greater Centennial.

Andrew Kolesar, a freshman at North Rockland High School and a member of Boy Scout Troop 61, announced at this week's Town of Haverstraw Board meeting that his Eagle Scout project will see the installation of flag receptacles at the Haverstraw Town Hall, Town of Haverstraw Police Department and at Bowline Point Park.

Evolutionary biologist Dawkins delves into his earliest adventures as a young boy in Africa, efforts to fit in at English boarding schools and later animal - behavior studies.

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Haunted by the recent death of her fiancé, she is approached by Robert Mallory (Dominic West) to investigate the recent death of a student at the all - boys boarding school where he teaches.

Boys at a British boarding school cook up a scandal by rejecting their health - conscious headmaster's unappetizing fare.

«I was at a boys» boarding school and our only chance to meet girls was at dances,» he explains.

Miroslav Slaboshpytskiy's drama The Tribe tells the story of Serhiy (Grigoriy Fesenko), a shy teenage boy who's enrolled at a boarding school for the deaf.

It's a staunch look at a young boy's experience in a boarding school for deaf children that operates as an institutionalized system of organized crime.

We see flashbacks of Turing's early years when at boarding school where he fell for a boy named Christopher, who introduced him to the art of cryptography, as well as glimpses of his final years, pre-conviction, as he sits in an interrogation room with a detective who suspects high treason rather than homosexuality.

Wackford Squeers (Jim Broadbent), a grotesque, half - blind schoolmaster, is willing to take Nicholas as a new teacher at his boarding school for boys.

The movie takes place in 1983 at a boys» boarding school in Yorkshire, where the grasping headmaster (Clive Merrison) is delighted to learn that eight young history scholars in the sixth form (equivalent to high school seniors) have scored exceptionally well on their A-Level exams (equivalent to the SATs) and may distinguish the school by getting into Oxford or Cambridge.

Tier two was to be a grammar school for boys selected by merit from elementary school and kept in boarding school at state expense.

Hubbard's well - framed and exquisitely paced debut novel, set at an all - boys boarding school, is read with compassion and sincerity by Boyer, who voices a range of characters, including first - person narrator Alex, who witnesses his friend's drowning during a night of underage drinking.

The girls at St. Kilda's boarding school can keep a secret, and that's a problem for Detective Moran, who believes some of the students may be involved in the death of a teenage boy.

The novel tells the story of Flip, an American girl away at boarding school in Switzerland, and her unexpected love for Paul, a French boy.

At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boy's boarding school in Maine.

Detective Stephen Moran gets his longed - for shot at the Murder squad when 16 - year - old Holly Mackey brings him a postcard she's found on the secrets board at her fancy boarding school: a photograph of a murdered boy, with the caption, «I know who killed him.»

When we first meet young James, he's just started boarding school at Eton in the 1930's, and from there, the action moves to the Highlands of Scotland, where Alfie Kelly, a local boy, has gone missing.

This powerful debut novel about a 14 - year - old black boy who leaves the rough streets of East Cleveland for a predominantly white boarding school in Maine offers an unflinchingly honest look at race relations.

It was while working as head of Indigenous education at St Joseph's Nudgee College, a Catholic boarding school for boys in Brisbane, that she finally followed her father's calling and picked up a paintbrush.

At the age of seven, he was sent to boarding school, as was common for boys of his social status.