Sentences with phrase «class neighborhoods from»

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Today, the vivid block of color brightens the working class neighborhood and has made it a tourist destination for visitors from across the globe.

Parsons is a straight talker, whether it's about his handicap (now 9.1 with PXG clubs from a «12 to 14») or flunking fifth grade in his working - class Baltimore neighborhood.

Nearly every morning, one runs some three miles from her neighborhood to attend the class (subway options between her apartment and the studio are poor).

It is not uncommon for middle - and upper - class Americans to seek out diverse neighborhoods and to worry aloud that their children are not encountering enough people from other races.

Also, I'd like to know if there was any talk at all about how they'd keep more extremist branches of muslims from holding classes, etc in their community center, will it be available for Christians and Jews and everyone else in the neighborhood to use without harrassment?

The plot of the film is deceptively simple: Elizabeth and Tony Jordan (played by Priscilla Shirer and T.C. Stallings), appear to have it all — living in an upper class neighborhood with their daughter Danielle (Alena Pitts), money is rolling in from Tony's job as a successful pharmaceutical salesman.

What form does pastoral care take in a parish bleeding from internal conflicts about life and ministry in a neighborhood undergoing rapid changes in matters of race, age, economic class and sexual orientation?

After my wife came home from work we walked through our neighborhood before leaving for our evening class.

But the problem fans mostly come from the same mostly working class white and Italian - American South Philadelphia neighborhoods as the cops themselves.

From what he could see, the parents taking their seats in the auditorium were the ones he had hoped to attract: typical Harlem residents, mostly African American, some Hispanic, almost all poor or working class, all struggling to one degree or another with the challenges of raising and educating children in one of New York City's most impoverished neighborhoods.

And it looks as if their scores will be truly impressive — almost indistinguishable from those of middle - class kids living in better neighborhoods.

You'll find yourself storing everything from extra baby bottles, changes of clothing, diapers and random flyers about Music Together classes in your neighborhood into the stroller's storage bag.

Planners envision a linear urban park that runs from North Ashland Avenue west to three blocks past Central Park Avenue, connecting the trendy Bucktown and Wicker Park neighborhoods with the more working - class residential areas of Logan Square and Humboldt Park.

Daley was Chicago's third consecutive mayor from the working - class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, where he lived his entire life.

The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.

Weiner, who once represented Brooklyn neighborhoods from Park Slope to Brownsville, pitches himself in the video as a native New Yorker who will fight for a declining middle class.

«We believe the Williamsburg neighborhood offers Amazon the ultimate value proposition; it's where brands from around the globe come to innovate and it's where New York's creative class lives and plays,» he wrote in a statement.

Classes will begin in September, and run every Wednesday for 12 weeks, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Students will learn the fundamentals of writing, reporting, and photojournalism through classroom instruction, and through hands - on reporting in their own neighborhoods.

«The neighborhood I'm from, which is a middle class neighborhood, I don't know anybody who can go three months without a paycheck,» Biden said.

Community activists say the city's plan to rezone a swath of the neighborhood between East 104th and 132nd streets from Park to Second avenues, and between East 126th and 132nd streets between Madison and Fifth avenues to allow high - density development will hasten gentrification and displace working - class families in the neighborhood.

The state senator, whose turf covers not Maspeth but neighborhoods like Bayside and Whitestone, read a scripted speech that sounded like a laundry list of middle - class outer borough complaints against the present administration: from de Blasio's «narrow - minded anti-motorist» Vision Zero program, to his opposition to bringing the city into line with the rest of the state's two percent property tax cap, to his allegedly insufficient support for co-ops and small senior centers, to the influence of high - power political consultants at City Hall, to the lack of public transit options in the deepest reaches of the city (which the state controls), to his purported failure to shield small businesses from rent hikes, to — yes — his scrapped plans to convert the Holiday Inn into a homeless shelter.

The school was nearly a 4 - hour roundtrip commute by bus and subway from his home in the working - class neighborhood of Howard Beach.

Like so many other kids in their working - class neighborhood not far from Long Beach's massive port, Jose had severe asthma, and it took doctors years to hit on a regimen that controlled his symptoms.

As evidence of peer influence, she also notes that siblings grow up to be very different adults; that adopted children are more like their biological parents than their adopted parents in terms of such traits as criminality; and that adolescents from poor neighborhoods are more likely to be delinquents than adolescents from middle - class neighborhoods, whereas being from a broken home has no effect on delinquency.

An Indiana University study found that white flight from one suburban neighborhood to another occurs when white residents move away from «ethnoburbs,» suburban neighborhoods that attract a growing number of middle - class minority residents.

Whether that's a walk around the neighborhood, a bike ride, a yoga or spin class, or simply setting a timer on your phone to remind you to get up from your chair every hour, commit to it.

Since I have some free time on my hands these days and there was desire for a soccer class in the neighborhood, I have spent the last few weeks obtaining a permit from the Prospect Park office, and my class is now ready to go!

«Prey at Night» continues the first film's tradition of casting secluded rural enclaves as key locations, moving the action from the first film's oddly empty middle class neighborhood to a cleared - out trailer park that caters to families on holiday at the local lake.

Milk watches the neighborhood as it transforms from a working - class block to the country's most famous gay enclave, and his political fortune changes along with it.

MONDELLO: Director Eliza Hittman has set «Beach Rats» in a cruisy, rundown, working - class neighborhood that feels worlds away from the hipster Brooklyn that audiences know from TV.

Tika Sumpter does a fine job as Michelle, capturing the character's wary calm as she navigates multiple worlds at once, from the working - class Chicago neighborhood where she still lives with her parents to the high - powered law office where she feels she has to work extra hard to be seen as «Michelle» and not «the black woman.»

Four - year - old Amanda McCready is plucked from her bed in Boston's working - class Dorchester neighborhood one night while her mother, Helene (Amy Ryan), is apparently at a neighbor's house watching television.

``... a young woman from a working class neighborhood in Mexico City who finds herself in the battle between humans and machines.»

This clip from Sundance smash Dope features Forrest Whitaker as the film's narrator, and sets up a few basics of the life of Malcolm (Shameik Moore), a high school student trying to make it to class without running afoul of the many pitfalls of his Inglewood neighborhood.

Reyes will play «Dani, a young woman from a working class neighborhood in Mexico City who finds herself in the battle between humans and machines.»

It is every miserablist working - class, undereducated, easily - roused neighborhood - as - allegory you've ever seen on film, from Dead End to Out of the Furnace.

This past school year, students from four Oakland middle schools had an opportunity to learn more about the their neighborhood as part of our community action class — a class that was designed to engage our students with the community in a meaningful way.

At a time when squatter neighborhoods were regarded as the biggest obstacle before urban development by the urban elite in Turkey, and residents of squatter houses and thus the urban working class were regarded as «backward» villagers, workers from both Hasköy and Güzeltepe earned respectability due to their working class identities.

Classes range from remedial math and reading workshops to college courses offered at nearby Laney Community College, and electives like Art and Ecology, offered by another neighborhood resource, the Oakland Museum of California.

Schools that most disadvantaged black children attend today are located in segregated neighborhoods far distant from middle - class suburbs.

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

There were SMART Boards in some classes, pennants with colleges like Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, and Princeton — things that I quickly learned were common in some schools but absent from most in my neighborhood.

The school hours webpage shows Walker Upper Elementary beginning morning classes at 8:30 a.m. District officials report that the new schedule is also practical because all elementary students live in neighborhoods adjoining their elementary schools, while the older students live farther away from the schools they attend.

The treatment and control classes were matched on CAT Total Reading and Total Language scores, and the research team also attempted to match the groups on ethnic background and socioeconomic status by selecting classes from schools in the same or similar neighborhoods.

When problem teachers do move jobs, it isn't a «dance,» which conjures up the image of ineffective teachers bouncing from school to school in neighborhoods across a city, rich and poor and middle class — Pasadena to Venice to downtown, Studio City to Brentwood.

I have a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The John's Hopkins School of Medicine, am Nationally Board Certified in mathematics, and teach math to mainly 7th grade students in a middle class neighborhood.

Spread out among the retro - chic sofas and love seats of the Bar Hygge brewpub in Philadelphia's gentrified Fairmount neighborhood, a class of ninth - graders from Vaux Big Picture High School listens to restaurant co-owner Stew Keener talk about the collaboration and problem - solving that occurs on a daily basis in the food business.

Middle - class black families benefited most from the Brown ruling because it gave them the opportunity to move to white neighborhoods and put their children in better schools, said Baum, a professor in the urban studies and planning program at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The movie features five children and their parents — including a middle - class family from Redwood City — who have applied to independently run public charter schools in search of an education they don't think their neighborhood school will afford them.