Sentences with phrase «fit in with peers while»

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

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There, Bill works as a math teacher at a fancy prep school, while Wes tries to fit in with his upper - class peers.

While moody protagonist Adam Jensen is fitted with military - grade mechanical implants that let him turn invisible, punch through walls, and hack computers, most of his peers in this high - tech future just have advanced prosthetics.

Substance use increases in adolescence (Johnston, O'Malley, & Bachman, 1998) as smoking, drinking, and other drugs become a way to appear mature while fitting in with peers.