Sentences with phrase «class woman about»

The latest film from already - acclaimed Belgian brothers Jean - Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Two Days, One Night stars the not - so - working - class - but - still - beautiful Marion Cotillard as a working - class woman about to lose her job, desperate to convince her co-workers to keep her on board.

Not exact matches

At McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business, women comprise about 40 % of the class.

«If you ask women what they like about a group fitness class, they'll tell you 15 things about the instructor, the environment, the social pressure, but they won't tell you about the bike,» Foley says.

«He's also a world class misogynist and said things about me and other women on the stage, some pretty contemptuous things,» Clinton added.

Grace is a middle aged woman who writes about the challenges of saving for retirement and minimizing debt late in life, with a middle class income.

It is about time women take back control over their lives instead of bowing down to religion that are ruled by men who want women to be second class citizens of the world.

Prosecutors argued that Darlie, described as a pampered and materialistic woman, with substantial debt, plummeting credit ratings, and little money in the bank, feared that her middle class lifestyle was about to end and killed two of her children to rid herself of a financial burden.

One day my American literature professor told our class about Emily Dickinson, the quiet and reclusive woman who was satisfied to live in a circumscribed world in Amherst, Massachusetts.

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

Three cohorts of men and women (268 socially advantaged Harvard men born about 1920, 456 socially disadvantaged inner - city men born about 1930, and 90 middle - class, intellectually gifted women born about 1910) have been followed continuously for six to eight decades.

They are then further disturbed that the headteacher loyally supports the staff member who has made the children shout out «penis» or «vagina» at the front of the class, or has said that the Church will one day ordain women priests, or has talked openly about their gay partner.

But then again your whole religion is about killing the infidel and classifies women as 2nd class ciitizens it makes it hard to trust you.

My own statements about the way in which the decline of marriage contributes to the difficulties facing the working class were singled out as suggesting that unmarried women with children were somehow responsible — blaming the victim.

He establishes this point through ipse dixit («The middle - class nuclear family will not be restored to its former place, nor do most people want it to be»), the persuasive force of clichés about the sexual revolution (Had you heard that the 1960s gave us a pill that allowed women to take control of their bodies?)

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

No, the real story is that motherhood has become a stress - laden and guilt - ridden project due to the societal veneration of stay - at - home moms, the workplace requirement that women be overachievers just to stay even with their male colleagues, economic anxiety about class standing and, above all, government and corporate refusal to devise family - friendly policies.

MODERN WOMAN: Oh, Professor Oldteaser, I am profoundly disturbed about your class, Bible 101.

Does it ever occur to you to raise the question about whether or not women should remain silent in your Sunday school class or in your Wednesday night home group Bible study?

A woman in a class on prayer, when asked to remember her first spiritual experience, told the instructor that she could not remember anything about a time of prayer, but what was flooding her mind and heart was a school girl's memory.

This was, if anything, even farther from the truth about the special problem of the modern middle - class American woman than the Freudian - type psychologizing, and even less helpful in offering her an understanding of it.

So, as Catherine and Micah pointed out, the passage about women not wearing jewelry and fine clothes can serve as a reminder that we are to avoid materialism and make sure that class distinctions do not get in the way of loving others and sharing the gospel.

After speaking to a Sunday school class about immigration, a woman asked if she could talk to me.

From what I can tell, they aren't too worried about these women who have been underpaid for years and often bought supplies for their own classes.

Who said anything about them believing women are 2nd class and have to stay in the home??

I'd taken at least five art history classes in college, but then I enrolled in one where I learned about the great women artists of the world.

I'm a health volunteer, so I give women's healthy cooking classes where we cook healthy recipes and talk about basic health.

His favorite course this semester is a Thursday - only corporate finance lab, taught to a group of about 20 by a very pretty young woman who wears blue jeans in class and «just happens to be a terrific lecturer.

Also, as an Invicta fan, I was a bit worried when I saw that bit about creating an Atomweight class for women.

The settlement compels the NCAA to pay about $ 209 million to a class of approximately 40,000 persons who played or have played Division 1 football, men's basketball and women's basketball.

I am a fan of all exciting fighters, I love to watch all styles of fights, I don't care about weight classes or rankings, I am just still intrigued to this day, just as I was as a 7 year old boy, to watch 2 men, or Women, fight and see who wins and how they do it.

United States About Website The Equalizer was founded in 2009 with a goal of bringing first - class media coverage to women's soccer.

Dear Abby: I saw the letter you printed from the 79 - year - old woman who was concerned about going to her class reunion because she had been very promiscuous back in high school and had bedded about a third of the boys in her class.

In between, she is booked solid, seeing about 80 women a week for classes and private consultations at her center downtown.

Take some classes, participate in women's groups in your community or your church, and read some good books about parenting.

Yes, they provide a lot of information about births and how, why, when they happen but in reality women leave those classes in more fear and confusion that they came in with.

The vast majority of women are teaching childbirth classes because they are passionate about the information and helping birthing families.

Jolie Cash: Hot Mama Yoga cam about kind of in a funny way, because I've been teaching prenatal yoga and I thought that we need something that is going to get people interested, because when you come to a prenatal yoga class, a lot of women thought that prenatal is really boring, because they kind of just sit there and look over their shoulder and breath; and the equivalent of birth they say is like running a marathon.

Heres the post about the most powerful woman in utah midwifery spinning the same «baby was fine then suddenly the heart stopped» bs to a class of aspiring doulas.

I spent hours reading stories about other women who successfully birthed without medication, attended weekly prenatal yoga classes, and practiced breathing techniques.

Grantly Dick - Read, the father of the natural childbirth philosophy, was a eugenicist who was quite honest about his goal of convincing women of the «better classes» to have more children and give up those pesky demands for political and economic equality.

I agree with all the other suggestions about encouraging breastfeeding, rooming - in, etc. (except signing the waiver — that is condescending and paternalistic, making women who are in labor or post-partum declare they plan to be second - class mothers because they want to allow formula.)

If homebirth was so safe, hospital birth would never have come into being; anyone who's read novels set before modern obstetrics, anyone who's spent ten minutes reading nonfiction about any historical period or paid attention in history class, knows that pregnancy / birth was a * major * cause of death for young women.

This woman is upset about the food she's not allowed to send to school with her child for a class party:

The lovely woman who taught our childbirth classes at the hospital taught me that sitting on the ball during labor could help with the pain of contractions (something about distributing pressure evenly across my back).

So help yourself get in a realistic mom - to - be mindset: Enroll in childbirth or parenting classes, read as much as you can about labor and delivery, and talk to other pregnant women and new mothers about their experiences.

The books also spearheaded what we now know as birth preparation classes that present the benefits of natural birth while still educating the women about optional or necessary medical intervention.

She was quick to inform the class that majority of black women didn't care about breastfeeding and were more concerned with smoking and drinking while pregnant.

Pregnant with the Stars examines the American fascination with, and judgment of, celebrity pregnancy, and exposes how our seemingly innocent interest in «baby bumps» actually reinforces troubling standards about femininity, race, and class, while increasing the surveillance and regulation of all women in our society.

Worry simultaneously that everything I was doing was extraneous and a middle - class woman's luxury and that I should just be strapping my baby on my back and going about my normal work, and that I wasn't doing enough to stimulate him so he'd never reach his full potential.

One woman commented that there was a lack of information about non-pharmacological pain relief, and complementary therapies «were not encouraged» whereas pharmacological pain relief was «pushed at classes».