Sentences with phrase «class life seems»

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Arguing that half of dropouts leave the educational system because their classes don't seem relevant to their lives, NuSkool bases its instructional materials on topics more likely to interest high school students.

That system seemed to undercut the democratic gains that were being made in law, politics, education «and family life; it tended rather toward a new feudalism, dominated by robber barons and served by a new class of.

Warehouse 242 grew out of a Sunday school class at Charlotte's Forest Hill Evangelical Presbyterian Church «that just seemed to take on a life of its own,» Hahn tells me.

The loathing of «capital» with which our laboring classes to - day are growing more and more infected seems largely composed of this sound sentiment of antipathy for lives based on mere having.

Niebuhr's «emerging view» of the minister seems to be open to and internally unprotected from the serious threat of being taken captive ideologically as a religious sanction for a certain kind of North American middle - class life and its values.

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

Balancing his coaching duties and audacious plan to bring the top recruiting class in the country to the little - known basketball school with the wave of uncertainty surrounding his personal life and job security, Dowkens takes his Badlanders to Las Vegas to play the eighth - ranked UNLV Runnin» Rebels on national TV in a game that seems certain to define his career.

THE TRANSITION from jock to TV personality isn't quite as easy as guys like Tiki Barber and Keyshawn Johnson make it seem — which explains why nine ex — NHL players took part in a six - day broadcasting class in Quinnipiac University's Life After Hockey program.

It's makes me both sad and angry that a player of Eddie's abilty has had his career so adversely affected by a low life thug... a player who having arrived on the heels of TH's departure had much to prove, who as each game went by began to show his ability, class and his incisiveness in front of goal... one of the quotes that still rings clear after his 2 goals against the bolton thugs on that memorable rain soaked night in the Carling Cup was «He just doesn't miss does he», and it was getting to the stage where everyone who watches prem football, was sitting up and taking notice of this small, shy, brilliant striker — as each game went by his confidence and stature were growing, you could see him blossoming in front of the supporters...... and he was beginning to form a real strike partnership with Bendtner who also seemed to becoming more of a pivotal player with Eddie in the side....

Mothers who try to live up to the new parenting standards of the professional middle class seem to have few options: They can overwork themselves, or they can leave the workforce.

I have no idea what self - care is specifically going to look like for you, because I don't know you and or what's going on in your life today, but I can throw out a few suggestions that I make in my classes and clinics that seem to help, even if just for a few minutes.

«Hate crimes is something that we've always looked seriously at, but the increasing of penalties for certain classes, we've started to have problems with that, because we don't want to make it seem like one person's life or the crime that happens to them should have a stiffer penalty than say you or I. So, those have been some of the challenges that we've had.

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.

The idea of living in a perpetual «now» seemed appalling, and, along with the two hundred or so other students in the class, I tried to imagine what such an existence might be like.

There's a nice variety of moves and Cathe seems to be in particularly cheery mood so it feels like a gym class in your living room.

Seeking a lady of class and distinction it seemed too much to wish for that she would appear in my life mere hours after dipping my toe (yes, I said my toe; there's some filthy minds out there...) back into the online dating pool.

Game Night seems to be setting up Max and Annie as a high - achieving upper - middle - class power couple, but it turns out that where real life is concerned, they're only in the middle of the pack.

The main story follows Noah (Jeff Branson), the swim class teacher and his bout with depression; Jordan (Jess Weixler), a girl who works part time in a casino and part time as an exotic dancer; Amy (Paget Brewster), a high school math teacher whose husband left her for another teacher; and a young man (I never did catch his name) who seems to live at the casino where Jordan works and who meets and beds Amy.

Anna Faris is a gifted comedian, and the gender - flipping seemed as viable an excuse as any to dust off the story of an amnesia - stricken billionaire who gets a karmic taste of working class life and, you know, learns some stuff along the way.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

In Secret is certainly at times murky, even vulgar with it's scenery of low - class life in 19th century Paris, but it seems to be trying so hard to be «natural» that it ends up being incredibly depressing.

With sassy appearances by the latest class of TV - show femmes — Lucy Hale (Pretty Little Liars), Shenae Grimes (the 90210 reboot), Anna Paquin (True Blood), Kristen Bell (Heroes), Aimee Teegarden (Friday Night Lights), Brittany Robertson (Life Unexpected) and, perkiest of the bunch, Heroes «Hayden Panettiere as the movie's snarkiest, most desirable vamp — the movie seems nouveau in attitude, but it's retro in its abiding by basic horror tropes.

Neither the lukewarm Celt - Cassia romance nor the movie's many early scenes depicting upper - class Roman life and slave - master relationships (which smack of Julian Fellowes, who was brought on to rewrite the script) seem to engage Anderson's visual imagination.

Based on a Dennis Lehane short story (and Lehane himself wrote the script), this is a totally solid crime drama which may seem a little familiar with its low - life figures and working - class setting.

Contrasting beautiful surroundings with sad stories is not exactly an uncommon trope in cinema — Martin Scorsese's The Age of Innocence provides one of the best examples, with the bright flowers that first seemed so welcoming now symbolising all the unfairness of a life bound by the limitations of class.

However, the report found that students didn't seem to follow the live transcripts available to them in class and it recommended further development of the tool before a full trial.

Whether we like it or not, an «educational» deathblow seems to be on the horizon: The university time - tested gatekeeper - of - knowledge model with its one - way - ticket promise to a solid middle - class life may be seen to fall apart irrevocably.

However, on that night, everyone seemed physically at ease and exempt from life's worries with final exams over and bar class a distant dream with a week before the first lecture, and as I looked around at the jubilant faces and loud voices, if you listened carefully enough you could almost hear the culmination of three years in the breath of the night gasp in an exultant sigh as if to say, «Law school was over at last!

The battery seems a little on the low side compared to the class leading Lenovo Miix 2, with just a 8 hour battery life from the 15.2 Wh battery.

As Passive Guy points out, «[t] he exquisite moral balancing described seems to ignore one big reality — most bookstore employees are working at minimum wage with little hope of being able earn enough from their employment to live in a pleasant residence, support a family or enjoy the even the most modest trappings of a middle - class life.

Boys from all walks of life, including boys who seem to have made it — the suburban high school football captain, the seventh - grade prep school class president, the small - town police chief's son, the inner - city student who is an outstanding cartoonist and son of a welfare mother — all were feeling so alone that f worried that they often seemed to channel their despair into rage not only toward others but toward themselves.

The situations they are in seem so far from today's life - they have human emotions, but their struggles with class and gendered expectations do not make it easy to identify with them.

It seems the focus will be on producing «AAA class games» and, from the job description for the Live Service Planner role, it seems that there's a focus on games that evolve and develop over time with a plan for developing game events and functions.

Presented together, the shifting sequences of photographs offer an interwoven account of American life that seems to span race and class as well as time and place.

Their very thriving, Marshall's paintings seem to suggest, is heroic, and he finds his heroes in barbershops and camping grounds, working - class living rooms and public parks, coffee shops and artists» studios.

I'd like to begin with your painting class in the summer of 1960, with Richards Ruben, which seemed to set an important new beginning for you and your life at the time.

Professor Wilkinson noted, «Our theme for the spring classes is Sustainability, so we are using the NWEI Choices for Sustainable Living readings in our freshman English seminar course... The students seem very excited about the ideas presented, and are eager to engage in discussion of the readings, as well as on - campus activities to promote sustainable lLiving readings in our freshman English seminar course... The students seem very excited about the ideas presented, and are eager to engage in discussion of the readings, as well as on - campus activities to promote sustainable livingliving.

I learned in my ethics class about values, and they seem to be categorized by either human centered (and usually self - centered at that), biological (all living things), or eco-centric (all living things plus the air, water, and atmosphere).

In a number of ways, it seems to me, a large number of people in the «not wealthy» classes end up with lower quality of life.

So, it seems that the best laid plans of foreign nationals seeking a better life in Canada are not worth the Skilled Worker Program or Canadian Experience Class applications they are written on.

While our traditional class may not seem as convenient as an online experience, we do want parents and students to consider the value of peer interaction as well as having a live teacher who provides demonstrations and is available to answer questions.

Last year's Ascend Mate 2 brought outstanding battery life and a competitive price point; its followup the Ascend Mate 7 blended luxury design with top - tier features; and the forthcoming Huawei Watch seems poised to class up the Android Wear catalog when it drops later this year.

Should you have to be a certain age, earn a certain income, have a life plan, make premarital counseling mandatory, wait a certain amount of time after applying for a marriage license, take a test (of what, I'm not sure, but go with me here), take parenting classes if you plan to have kids (since society doesn't seem to care too much about childfree couples who divorce), learn how to communicate about finances, or all of the above?

Nonetheless, it seems possible that some negative effects we found for fathers» occupational class and remote home location when children were young might respectively relate to greater spill - over of work into family life for small employer or self - employed fathers, and to fathers» long work - related travel times for some families living in remote parts of Scotland.

Allie's life of wealth and privilege seemed at odds with Noah's humble, working - class background.

For a child attempting to understand the negative events in his or her life, doing homework or paying attention in class sometimes seems like an impossible task.

With generations of land developers comprising his family tree and years of luxury customer service under his belt, it seems Blaine has been groomed for the Class Realty Group team all his life.

With home economics classes becoming a thing of the past, and technology becoming more and more prevalent, it seems most kids would rather be attached to their gadgets than learning important life skills