Sentences with phrase «class aspiration in»

What fascinates me in terms of the role of class, class conflict and class aspiration in American society is the idea that if you get a little bit rich, you're venal and corrupt, but if you get really rich, you're a special kind of human being.»

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Explaining the industry and what's going on takes the form of several audiences; one being the overly - optimistic entrepreneur who still has aspirations of raising capital to get their company to a liquidity event, another being the up and coming venture capitalist in training (think decades long training cycles) who recently finds themselves a free agent as the asset class shrinks and wants to start their own fund, and the final being ambitious MBA's switching careers and see venture capital as the preferred destination.

And the «mentality revolution» has led to a profound change in aspirations, especially from the middle class.

For example, the general support of the working classes for the Reform Bill of 1832 gains in significance when placed against their bitterly disappointed aspirations for voting rights and their increased awareness of class discrimination.

As we sit at our desks or walk to class, the immediate faces and objects around us seem far more real than do the aspirations we have for ourselves in the future or even the fleeting images that may come to mind from last summer's vacation.

The aspirations of the middle and high income class in Russia have been increasing in light of an increase in their disposable incomes; these consumers have been increasingly looking for better quality products and are willing to spend on premium products or products meeting their aspiration desires.

Vidal can play anywhere in the midfield, he is world class, that's a player a team with trophy aspirations needs

I like thinking about how they work to mark ethnicity / identity and as gifts passed down in families, as well as markers of parents» class aspirations.

If Labour is the party of investment and aspiration for middle - class families, then why does it promote everything but the normal, stable, self - financing, nuclear family unit in which most of these people truly aspire to exist and participate?

Immigration is a class issue.The aspiration of meritocracy has led all parties to forget that class issues stil exist in this country.

As he so often does, his only use of the word «class» was in the context of his ever - repeated notion of One Nation where he expressed the aspiration to lead on behalf of people «from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all classes.»

With sharper accountability, a more ambitious curriculum and world class qualifications, I believe we can create an education system which can compete with the best in the world — a system which gives every young person, regardless of background, the high quality education, high aspirations and high achievement they need and deserve.

«Whilst noting in the statement the Government's aspiration for a world - class teaching profession, it's a pity that ministers once again fail to acknowledge the reality, demonstrated by a wealth of evidence, that that is what they already have.»

It's biggest gains usually come after major crisis, like the Second World War, which provide anomalous circumstances (in that case, an organised, armed working class with dizzying aspirations).

In retrospect, all the themes of this summer - long contest were apparent that evening: the rivalry between the Miliband brothers, the pugnacity of Ed Balls, the boldness of Diane Abbott and the positioning of the underrated Andy Burnham as the voice of working - class aspiration.

Ed Balls has temporarily lost out to Peter Mandelson in the internal Labour debate as to whether Brown should emphasise a class - based appeal to core Labour voters or a Blairite appeal to aspiration.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

Now the Singapore - born, U.S. - trained materials scientist will be addressing the fault lines in global higher education by becoming the founding president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a new graduate university in Saudi Arabia with a $ 10 billion endowment and aspirations to become a world - class research institution.

Second is what I call global flattening, which is really just my shorthand for the rise of middle classes all across the world in bigger numbers than ever before from China to Brazil to India to Russia; middle classes that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands, and aspirations of Americans; and at the same time, global crowding — global population growth.

Moreover small classes are like a community where all live together in the yogalaya; share your thoughts, opinions and aspirations which helps you to connect more closely with your peers.

I'm a young male looking for a high class woman to support me in my aspirations and endeavors.

Though it's evident that Marina comes from a different class than most of the film's other characters, A Fantastic Woman is withholding about her background and family — and this would be less of a problem if Lelio and co-screenwriter Gonzalo Maza offered her much in the way of motivation or aspirations.

His early aspiration was to be a writer, but as he told Matt Zoller Seitz in his book of interviews with and essays on the director, The Wes Anderson Collection, he was drawn to film when he started reading books by and about filmmakers as a student at the University of Texas, where he met his frequent collaborator Owen Wilson in a playwriting class.

Countries have to be encouraged to stick to their high aspirations, but to recognise that progress towards world - class standards often depends on using easier tests capable of identifying precisely where students are in their learning so that interventions can be better focused on current learning needs.

Such an aspiration is a challenge at the school, where up to 90 percent of students in the inaugural class entered with reading and math skills below grade level.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

It found that playful experimentation, shows that learning from failure and school engagement with professional engineers helps to raise the achievement and aspirations not just in science and maths, but in pupils» communication skills, artistic ability and confidence to engage in class discussions.

In a classroom between the two, a guitar - playing sub talks about math and music while another, a professional motivational speaker, winds up the class by talking about dreams and aspirations.

To provide schooling for everyone's children that reflects liberal, middle - class values and aspirations is to ensure the maintenance of the status quo, to ensure that power, the culture of power, remains in the hands of those who already have it.

Although the teacher who summed up his classroom as 52 different learners represents one class in one Finnish School, the comment and model represents a model for aspiration for special education.

You could also track down a teacher to help you with those math problems you couldn't figure out in class or find an adult ear to hear you out on everything from girl problems to career aspirations.

Understanding Racial Differences In Aspiration Realization: Middle Income, Middle Class, And College - Going Behaviors

«Because disadvantaged young people are often held back by a lack of aspiration from their parents who have failed to engage with their educational progress, schools have used the pupil premium in some imaginative ways — such as literacy classes for parents — to increase parental engagement.»

A free school to open in Barnsley aims to raise the aspirations of white working class children - identified as the lowest - achieving group.

The iKnow My Class Survey was developed in partnership with Aspirations Unlimited International and the Student Engagement Trust of the United Kingdom.

(He indicated in the book that the public schools in England were intended for the children of families that «were on the dole» and that any families with any middle class aspirations sent their children to private schools, often run by charlatans, without regard to the quality of the educational program offered).

While the 2016 Equus from Hyundai aims high in the areas of luxury and value, its performance aspirations don't quite live up to the standards set by the BMW 7 Series, Audi A8 or Mercedes - Benz S - Class.

But Tracey was unashamedly her mother's aspiration and avatar, her only joy, in those thrilling yellow bows, a frou - frou skirt of many ruffles and a crop top revealing inches of childish nut - brown belly, and as we pressed up against the pair of them in this bottleneck of mothers and daughters entering the church I watched with interest as Tracey's mother pushed the girl in front of herself - and in front of us - using her own body as a means of obstruction, the flesh on her arms swinging as she beat us back, until she arrived in Miss Isabel's dance class, a look of great pride and anxiety on her face, ready to place her precious cargo into the temporary care of others.

You can take a world - class course for free to see if it sparks your interest and career aspirations before you get mired in college applications, etc. for a several - year investment that will take you much longer to repay.

Occupying in excess of 1,000 hectares of prime Indian Ocean coastline in the north east of Zanzibar, Zanzibar Amber Resort is an integrated project which is currently under development blending contemporary lifestyle aspirations with premium hospitality and world - class facilities.

MBA Bali tours offers tour programs such as Bali Cooking Class (learn Balinese cuisine), Bali Land Rover Tour Safari (safari tour in a legendary Land Rover from one Traditional Village to another), Bali Paint Ball Game War (combination of the childhood games tag and hide and seek but is much more challenging and sophisticated), Bali Golf Course (Bali Golf serves your propensity of golf playing in the heaven of Bali), Balinese Culture Creation and Kids Course (amazing culture with its unique architectures, richly hued costumes and handwoven cloth, rice terraces and traditional irrigation system and cooking class), Devdan Bali Theatre (the show was created in Bali with the aspiration to introduce and entertain guests with the artistic and natural attractions that are alive in Bali and Indonesia), and Anika Cooking Class (creative process that is simple and a lot ofClass (learn Balinese cuisine), Bali Land Rover Tour Safari (safari tour in a legendary Land Rover from one Traditional Village to another), Bali Paint Ball Game War (combination of the childhood games tag and hide and seek but is much more challenging and sophisticated), Bali Golf Course (Bali Golf serves your propensity of golf playing in the heaven of Bali), Balinese Culture Creation and Kids Course (amazing culture with its unique architectures, richly hued costumes and handwoven cloth, rice terraces and traditional irrigation system and cooking class), Devdan Bali Theatre (the show was created in Bali with the aspiration to introduce and entertain guests with the artistic and natural attractions that are alive in Bali and Indonesia), and Anika Cooking Class (creative process that is simple and a lot ofclass), Devdan Bali Theatre (the show was created in Bali with the aspiration to introduce and entertain guests with the artistic and natural attractions that are alive in Bali and Indonesia), and Anika Cooking Class (creative process that is simple and a lot ofClass (creative process that is simple and a lot of fun)

In our game design classes, students learn the techniques and processes involved in conceptualising and crafting a game and reflect on the socio - cultural roles and aspirations of game desigIn our game design classes, students learn the techniques and processes involved in conceptualising and crafting a game and reflect on the socio - cultural roles and aspirations of game desigin conceptualising and crafting a game and reflect on the socio - cultural roles and aspirations of game design.

In this Official Single Player Gameplay Trailer, we get a further glimpse into Jack Cooper, a militia rifleman with aspirations of becoming a Pilot, and BT - 7274, a Vanguard class Titan.

Made between 1974 and 1976, and loosely based on Hans Magnus Enzensberger's 1976 essay «On the Inevitability of the Middle Class,» it consists of ten large - scale canvas - mounted works on paper, reproduced here in foldout color plates, in which densely inscribed layers of figures, traceries, sigils and quotation derived from the pop culture of the era narrate an epic vision of the scars and aspirations of postwar Europe.

It's really a story of class aspirations, but one that is bizarrely twisted: giving wind a makeover to make her seem fetching and comely when in fact she's really a frog.

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Q: Have you done any thinking on the relationship between low carbon innovation and the aspirations of the middle class, because what I see and a lot of us see is that the middle class in the West aspires to cars and we're seeing the same thing happen in China.

Launched to give British drivers more information on greener car technology, buying greener cars, and greener driving practices, Clean Green Cars publishes news, like a note on Mazda's «sustainable zoom - zoom» strategy, features, like a best - in - class rundown of the most eco-friendly cars in each category, and a manufacturer watch, with the spotlight currently trained on Saab's bio-ethanol and Land Rover's hybrid aspirations.

Her career aspiration ended in the midst of her first criminal justice class as a freshman at St. John's.

The current estimate is only 1.4 % more than the average graduate salary, which sits at # 28,362 — meaning the class of 2016's hopes and aspirations are almost completely in line with reality.