Sentences with phrase «high character kids»

«We have high character kids.

«Eddie is a high character kid who always puts the team ahead of himself.

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My own father, a person of the highest moral character and integrity was accused of being shady by my abuser because he tried to find us alternative housing when my abuser (although court ordered to pay the mortgage) willfully and vindictively drove it into foreclosure and the kids and I homeless, while he went off and bought he and his spiritual wife a new home.

She decorates the cafeteria, she dresses up in character; she encourages the whole team to get involved and have fun, and she wants those high school kids engaged.»

And of the female characters, specifically in G - rated films, which are for very young kids, we found that there are no CEOs, no politicians in high positions, there were no female characters in medical science or in law.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

We have noticed a high degree of altruistic acts among our kids while they interact with other characters — perhaps because fiction can increase a person's level of empathy, as the article describes.

The introduction of the character of Artie - a high - school kid who's the target of bullies and Mean Girls - only adds another layer of sitcom - level bonding, as Shrek finds himself acting as a surrogate father for the kid he is hoping to force to assume the burdens of royal office.

as a kid i grew up with transformers for toys, but didn't watch the actual show (aside from beast wars) until last year, so i wouldn't consider myself a fan boy, but when a tv show based around toys from the 80's has better dialog, humor, character development, and plot than a high budget Hollywood film, you know something is wrong with the film industry.

It was too short, the lead character Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes) was a whiney little # $ ## who didn't do much in it, but the book's biggest sin was it didn't really delve into what it must of been like for the Pevensie kids — High King Peter Pevensie (William Moseley), Edmund Pevensie The Just (Skandar Keynes), Lucy Pevensie — The Valiant (Georgie Henley) and Susan Pevensie (Anna Popplewell) adjusted to the idea that they were adult Kings and Queens trapped as powerless 13 — 16 year old children.

The new version of the character is a Vegas stage magician, who gets roped (kind of) into a battle against a vampire (Colin Farrell) by a high school kid, played by Anton Yelchin.

The muse for the character of Danny (played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.

With their powerful moral undercurrents, minimalist acting and ascetic style, Bresson's films (Mouchette would make an excellent companion piece to The Kid with a Bike) weren't concerned so much with stories and characters as with the ideas they helped to illuminate — namely the continual war between man's baser and higher instincts, between the evils of mistrust and crime, and the virtues of charity, compassion and love.

It's solid advice like «don't piss in the wind» and someone should have given it to the popular kids in Thomas Ewen High School before they went ahead and messed around with Carrie, the titular character in Carrie.

All the characters have the emotional intelligence of high school kids ribbing one another in a cafeteria.

0:00 - 2:05 — Introduction; we didn't do a show on Friday because of reasons 2:05 - 11:00 — «21 Jump Street» review 11:00 - 16:50 — QOTW (movie characters whose high school years you'd like to have seen) 16:50 - 41:50 — South By Southwest Film Festival highlights: «Cabin in the Woods,» «Fat Kid Rules the World,» «Big Easy Express,» «Killer Joe,» «Safety Not Guaranteed,» «Sinister,» «Sleepwalk -LSB-...]

While it seems redundant to have yet another Spider - Man, Kevin Feige is taking a new spin on the character by reminding the audience he is actually a high school kid.

The central character is a a high school kid named «Jude» (Asa Butterfield) as in «Hey Jude.»

THE BAD: some horribly trite jokes liberally lifted from The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy and other older and oft - used sources, film - flubs galore (the girl who falls into bed under the covers, several darts hitting a car when only one flew out the window, the monster's position changing while on the table, etc.), the Inspector Kemp (Mars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and Frau Blucher (Leachman, The Last Picture Show) characters, and Madeleine Kahn's (High Anxiety, History of the World Part I) singing.

There is no cartoon evil or sex comedy foolishness driving any of the characters, and even the meanest mean girl and the bro - est sex - obsessed bro dude have a couple moments that paint them as real people, or at least as real as high school kids can be.

It's sort of «Panic Room» in reverse, with Union's character finding herself stuck outside a high - tech house while her kids are trapped inside with a group of bad guys who -LSB-...]

Middle and high school kids, working in teams of three or four, can explore the virtual town, interacting with signs, characters, and each other as they create and test hypotheses for what's causing the illness.

But while today's high - achieving schools for low - income students (Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP], for instance) are passionate about cultivating both character and traditional academic skills, schools built around the 7 Habits are focused on training confident kids who are good at planning, goal setting, and decisionmaking.

• Boost the employment prospects of disadvantaged youth via high - quality career and technical education programs • Help their students develop «performance character» — particularly drive and prudence • Offer a full suite of well - organized extracurricular activities (to help build those all - important non-cognitive skills and to keep kids off the streets) • Most importantly, give their students a sense of hope and purpose

At higher revs you can just about kid yourself of some Impreza - style character but it's a bit uncultured even for that, and the popping and crackling overrun in Sport is depressingly artificial — it'll do so even if you're pottering through a village at 2000rpm.

This might go up to high school level, considering the ages of the characters, but I don't think HS kids would buy into it too much.

It's too nineteenth century with the lower class characters speaking in sentences like «He was willin», so long's I «greed to be careful about fire, an» well... there's nothin'to keep you from comin» down to - night and seein» it» and «I s» pose we'll have a high old time between now and mornin», «cause that kid, sweet as she's lookin» jest now, ain't goin'to be quiet.»

Uneager to end things too early, on the way home we noticed a large group of high school - age kids milling about a coffee shop with blood pouring from open wounds on their heads and others decked out in costumes of various Disney characters.

Cobra Kid's stage, as another example, has spinning tops that the characters can ride for a high boost to speed and mobility.

Chances are high that most kids on this holiday are looking to play the part of their favorite video game characters.