Sentences with phrase «few social background»

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If you go to an Ivy League school, «there are prestigious companies that will take a chance on you even if you majored in classics or medieval history,» he writes, but «the problem is that while we need lots and lots of people with humanities and social science backgrounds, in today's increasingly anti-intellectual climate, majoring in philosophy is becoming a risk that fewer and fewer people can afford to take.»

Moreover, in a follow - up comment a few sentences later, the field - metaphor also figures: «the world of actual entities is to be conceived as forming a background in layers of social order, the defining characteristics becoming wider and more general as we widen the background» (90).

This might mean doing a little searching, checking a few social networks, or even running a background check.

Between her comedy background, the talents she's displayed on the big screen, and the passion for social justice displayed over the past few years, she's truly using her A-list status for good.

Taking into account the fact that the average faith school admits fewer pupils from poor backgrounds than the average non faith school, the EPI concluded that increasing the numbers of faith schools «would come at the price of increased social segregation».

However, teacher candidates have few opportunities to challenge their assumptions about writing teaching through their engagement with student writing from a variety of cultural, social, and linguistic backgrounds in distinct classroom contexts.

Most educators, like most people, grow up and live in communities that reflect their background, and have few opportunities to interact with people from other racial, ethnic, language, and social - class groups (Banks et al., 2001).

The one character who started out as the voice of reason in the background of a few chapters, Dominique, is actually a fraud herself; while she sneers at the lifestyle of these social climbers, she's all too happy to spend all of her vacations lapping up their beach house and the immaculately tended grounds.

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