Sentences with phrase «class upbringing»

Mercer was shaped by her upper - middle - class upbringing in the New York suburb of Yorktown Heights, where her father then worked at IBM, pulling down a comfortable salary but not enough to cover college tuition for three daughters, friends said.
A former Charlotte resident, Williams is heavily influenced by speculative science fiction (specifically, social science fiction and cosmic horror), hip - hop, and his rural working class upbringing in Red Springs, North Carolina.
The common - sense consensus seems to be that aesthetic feeling is too complex to ever quantify, as it is generated by dozens of factors, from class upbringing and education, to social influences and pressures, to remembered and learned preferences.
Despite an early facility with drawing, his stolidly middle - class upbringing did not much augur a future set - to with global visual culture.
He had a working - class upbringing and an unstable, possibly psychotic mother.
'» In the long, autobiographical prose poem composed of 100 clipped sentences, Silliman details his working - class upbringing in Albany, Calif..
Margaret is a fullfledged shopaholic despite her working - class upbringing; Ben is a careful budgeter despite an affluent background.
Despite her upper class upbringing and wealth, she insists on working in the pension office to help wounded soldiers collect their much - needed payments.
He gets the nice apartment, the sexy girlfriend (Daryl Hannah) and all of the other accoutrements of wealth so he gets a taste of the high life he never experienced during his middle class upbringing.
Janney praised the film for «telling a story about class in America... about the disenfranchised,» since Harding was often seen as an outcast in the skating world because of her working - class upbringing.
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She talked about her working - class upbringing (her brother is a bus driver) and she had a polite for rebuke for those middle - class idealists who think that the Labour party was founded by people inspired by a philanthropic concern for others.
Schumer, who 16 years ago spoke at Spota's inauguration, extolled Sini's middle - class upbringing in West Islip and his service in both the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan and the Suffolk police department.
Afropolitanism is a contemporary response to «Afro - pessimism» — a response led primarily by young people with a Western education, upper - middle class upbringing, accent - free English, and easy access to high - speed Internet.
To investment bankers from Goldman Sachs and BlackRock, Clinton admits that she's «kind of far removed» from the middle - class upbringing that she frequently touts on the campaign trail.
I had loving parents, a stable home and a middle - class upbringing.
Born in the» Peg, Waugh had a working - class upbringing; his father, a firefighter, supported their extended family by taking extra jobs as a house painter and stonemason, while his mother raised the family.
Both ads highlight the candidates» working - class upbringings, which they say is their motivation for public service.

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He told calmly of his upbringing in the Protestant heartland on the mean streets of working - class Belfast, and of joining the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) at 16.
Du Boulay has certainly led a varied and fascinating life, but this book is ultimately about her spiritual odyssey from what she describes as a «middle - class, Anglican upbringing» — via transcendental meditation, Catholicism and shamanism — to her current stance; an eclectic «pick - and - mix» spirituality.
Sociologists might argue that the differences are not so much a result of religious upbringing as of social - class differences.
We surveyed 51 members of the Denver Broncos on the subjects of class, race, religion, upbringing, politics and more
Roberto Firmino has developed into a world - class striker at Liverpool, and his upbringing in the Bundesliga was pivotal to his...
This is one of many references in our conversation to Lammy's upbringing in a poor working class area of London.
It was this upbringing, and it's embrace of the shared and common struggles of Queens middle - class families, that inspired Grace to lead a life of public service as a public interest lawyer and now as a member of the New York State Assembly.
As a teacher, Santos believes he has a unique perspective on the educational needs of the district, and also cites his «humble upbringing» as the child of the working class, specifically contrasting his background to that of the incumbent, who had a privileged youth as the daughter of a successful doctor.
From a relatively anonymous Australian upbringing to high school and college in America to the top of the rookie class in the world's foremost basketball league, ONE & DONE chronicles a pivotal period in a young man's life, capturing Simmons and his inner circle as they realize a lifelong dream in the limelight of an exclusive fraternity of top NBA draft picks.
Gerwig tackles this ordinary middle - class experience — influenced, though not directly inspired by, her own Sacramento upbringing — through a fluid, intoxicating blur of montage, pulling Lady Bird forward through time.
At its best, this entertaining biopic looks past the headlines to deeper questions of class and upward mobility, as Harding faces off against not just the other skaters, but also judges and promoters who resent someone of her low - income upbringing dominating the sport.
He is soon in a position of class to be able to court Estella, who comes back into his life, but the upbringing of both is still an obstacle to a blissful romantic reunion, and she remains, as ever, out of reach.
Obama recounted her upbringing as a black, working class woman as giving her an insight into the struggles facing girls in Tower Hamlets.
Those who grow up in poverty experience a very different upbringing from middle or upper class kids.
Being set in the 1920s, it is astounding that Maisie was able to move beyond her class and upbringing to go to Cambridge.
Like her husband, Archy, Gwen is African American, but of a decidedly different social class, upbringing, and education.
It is a good example of women who were facing different circumstances in economic wealth, class, and upbringing but still banded together to help one another and succeed at becoming independent and successful.
Puppy classes provide the opportunity for this important facet of your puppy's upbringing.
Going against the expectations of her middle - class Berlin upbringing at the beginning of the 20th century, Anni Albers, born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, instead enrolled at the influential Bauhaus art school in 1922.
With photographs, sculpture, film, installation, and performance, his works recontextualize and rework these quotations, often infusing them with Monk's personal history and working - class family upbringing.
The album is an exploration of her own Catholic upbringing and her experiences navigating the power structures that support inequalities of class, race, sexuality, and gender.
Haviland highlights feminine and upper class objects, researching class structure, family upbringing, and the formation of societal roles in conjunction with these stereotypical «high class» objects and their associated etiquette rituals.
Lartigue took his first photograph in 1900 at the age of six, and thanks to a privileged upbringing — his father was a banker, and the family were part of the French bourgeoisie — the photographer had access to the lives of the pre-war upper classes.
Addressing her northern England upbringings, memories of home and the common experiences of working class families since the industrial revolution, Kenny uses subtle material gestures to weave together threads of history and reminiscence.
When a consciousness is fully integrated — when we make ourselves a Body without Organs — the layers or strata that make up a personality such as upbringing, cultural background, race, class, and education can no longer be picked apart and individually analyzed.
Addressing her northern England upbringings, memories of home and the common experiences of working class families since the industrial revolution during the 1900's, Kenny devises a multi layered installation juxtaposing materials of poorer and higher values and adopting methods often associated with the domestic.
In the parenting class, you may learn how to work together in making the most important decisions regarding your child's upbringing.
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