Sentences with phrase «for high school life»

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For example, my company, UChic, found that our high school and college - aged women consumers want life - changing experiences, but often lack the funding needed to pursue them.

Finn also teaches a local Junior Achievement class on «Life after High School: How to Prepare for Work,» which has actually already netted three temps for her to place.

For our company, it is clear that our target market of high school and college - aged women value extraordinary life experiences, yet lacked the means to fund them.

His mom graduates high school as a salutatorian destined for college but falls pregnant as a teenager and begins a life of single - motherhood and squandered opportunities.

Former life: For 13 years Weisbach coached basketball at a private high school in Chicago.

We live in a time where high school students are leading our nation's efforts for gun reform.

The 35 - year - old has many interests in life — in high school he played every sport he could try out for, and at home, he'd watch every movie and read every comic book he came across — but his chief interest is simply listening to his mind wander.

Each year, about 65,000 undocumented students who have lived in the U.S. for five or more years graduate from American high schools.

Organizers said they expected more than 700,000 people to attend the March for Our Lives rally at the foot of Capitol Hill, a gathering led by survivors of the Feb. 14 attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 people dead.

Former life: In the summer of 1978, after he graduated from high school, Kannappan worked for an electronics - repair shop in Northbrook, Ill. «It was $ 3.50 an hour.

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

Brandon Flowers of the band The Killers lived in Nephi for a few years and attended junior high school there.

They saw screaming high school students run for their lives and SWAT teams storm into classrooms.

Revolution Live nightclub in Fort Lauderdale hosted a benefit concert for families of the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland.

That tweet, in turn, drew commentary from many of the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who led the March for Our Lives rallies four days ago:

With hundreds of March for Our Lives demonstrations planned for Saturday, high school students say this is a moment of political awakening for their generation.

PEMBROKE PINES — First there was the national March for Our Lives response to the deadly shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

In this op - ed, high school seniors Kanyinsola Oye and Julia Allwein, who live in Columbus, Ohio, explain the inspiration behind their community protest and ongoing advocacy for gun safety.

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The measure comes more than a month after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17, and on the eve of the gun violence — focused March for Our Lives.

That's what makes movements like the March for Our Lives — and much of the activism that's followed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, which killed 17 — so important.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program changed the lives of young people who came to the United States illegally as children in incredible ways — boosting high school graduation rates and college enrollment, while slashing teen births by a staggering 45 percent.

Gunman Nikolas Cruz prowled the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for six horrible minutes — a flash of terror where life and death became a matter of chance.

Emma González, a student and shooting survivor from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, addressing the conclusion of the «March for Our Lives» event in Washington, D.C.

The Florida high school student, a survivor of the February 14 shooting in Parkland who recently helped organize the March For Our Lives, said four different campuses in the University of California school system have turned him down: UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine.

«The NRA,» Pamela Flores, a 17 - year - old student from Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, outside DC, said, when asked whom she blames for why a March for Our Lives has to exist.

Survivors of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy School organized the March for Our Lives in Washington, DC, on March 24, with the support of Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun law reform advocacy group.

Thousands of people are expected to attend the March for Our Lives protest in Washington, DC, on Saturday to advocate for gun control reform in the wake of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

About 60 survivors — and student activists — born out of Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, traveled to the infamous Columbine High School in Colorado as part of the Vote for Our Lives rally.

Millions of voices have joined the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who began the March for Our Lives movement, and now, in a peripheral sense, Pope Francis has joined them.

The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

I live in a blue state and we had kids that came in to high school before classes started every day to meet up as a group for bible study.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle, and discussion of contemporary moral issues from a Judeo - Christian perspective.

Family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and acquaintances from high school we stalk on Facebook all press us with the idea that we've got little margin for error in our twenties — that life should play out like a clear - cut script.

When we have dear friends with whom we've experienced notable life transitions — high school, driving, dating, college, marriage, kids — it's only natural to assume that they will be along for the ride when our faith changes.

As head of Students for Life of America, overseeing student - led organizations on around 1,200 high school and college campuses nationwide, I know from experience that social conservatives can not cede the territory of culture and expect to survive.

Failure in love and life is a requisite for success in teaching, and the problems of TV teachers are solved by leaving their profession — not by towns raising taxes, building schools, or giving higher salaries.

For all sorts of reasons, though, in late high school and early college, I needed a little distance from church life.

and another thing, i live in MD and when i was in high school we got off for at least 3 jewish holidays as well

This is due to my friend and high school classmate (though he dropped out his Jr. year and did not graduate with our class) Donald Ray Pollock, who lived up the road from me in Knockemstiff, and has used it for the setting in his critically acclaimed fiction.

Last Saturday, the March for Our Lives, a protest led by Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students geared toward ending gun violence, drew an estimated 800,000 participants in Washington,...

I was raised Catholic, went to parochial school for elementary school and high school, but lost that devotion as I grew older and busier in my daily life.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moral lLife and the Classical Tradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moral lifelife.

But ours teaches how to get there very fast as an individual and very high; and then all the schools and churches here have the unfathomable audacity to actually be discontent with the results that their own beliefs and ways of life are responsible for.

The band that dominated your high school life sold 186,000 «equivalent albums» — adjusted to take streaming songs and full albums into account — of their brand new full length California Of that number, 172,000 were traditional album sales, which is the third largest week for a rock album this year.

So much in Christianity had me seeing these kinds of things only in the light of demons and evil and satan, that when I started reading and understanding more (when I was in junior high school) and comprehending the concept of the birth - life - death - rebirth cycles, and how there needs to be death and decay for their to be birth and growth... it really made a huge impression on how I saw the world.

High school is short but life is long and having belief in your principles and capacity for rational thought are going to mean a lot more in the long run than being popular with the vapid sheep you are currently surrounded by.

I don't think I would put them to the average layperson in a small group setting, but to a pastor or deacon, a question or two at a time... for the record, I am a high school grad, have had three jobs in my entire life (church custodian, newspaper pasteup [pre-computer pagination], and grocery deli clerk), am on SSDI for complications of Marfan's Syndrome, and a Medicare beneficiary, no secondary insurance because I am about $ 20 over the income limit for Medicaid.

High school seniors in one church met for breakfast each week throughout the spring to talk with their minister about their place in life and their feelings about the future.

One trend is the increasing number of students in institutions of higher learning who return to school or enroll for the first time later in life — a far cry from the typical stereotype of undergraduates.