Sentences with phrase «into rural poverty»

Born into rural poverty and servitude, Gaines manages, through diligent work and an ingratiating manner towards white folk, to move from a small - town inn to a high - class hotel in Washington, DC, where he comes to the notice of a White House staff recruiter.

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But since then I've been drawn back again and again by her unique point of view, as exhibited in posts like «Growing Into Authority,» «10 Reasons Rural Ministry is Great,» and «The Reality of Rural Poverty,» I've even been reading her series on Reformed Theology!

Given the title «looper,» young Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) arrives in a rural field outside of the poverty - stricken city every day and waits for his victims to appear, executing them with a quick shot from his enormous gun (referred to here as his «blunderbuss») and tossing them into an incinerator.

The story introduces two war - weary veterans — one black, the other white — who return home to rural Mississippi where prevailing racism and poverty put them into another harrowing combat zone.

In central Louisiana, as in many rural, high - poverty areas across the country, just getting qualified teachers into classrooms is a challenge.

Suzanne was born into poverty in rural France, before her mother fled the provinces, taking her to Montmartre.

Indeed, in our time of instant communication, «problems» are rapidly formulated to rationalize the bad conscience of those with power: thus the problem posed by Americans in Vietnam and Cambodia is referred to by Americans as «the East Asian Problem,» whereas East Asians may view it, more realistically, as «the American Problem»; the so - called Poverty Problem might more directly be viewed as the «Wealth Problem» by denizens of urban ghettos or rural wastelands; the same irony twists the White Problem into its opposite: a Black Problem; and the same inverse logic turns up in the formulation of our own present state of affairs as the «Woman Problem.»

Mr. Bundy and his gun - toting comrades argue that a century of federal policies has driven many ranchers into poverty and destroyed the rural economy.