Sentences with phrase «middle class aspirations»

(He indicated in the book that the public schools in England were intended for the children of families that «were on the dole» and that any families with any middle class aspirations sent their children to private schools, often run by charlatans, without regard to the quality of the educational program offered).

It's just business, a private contract with a cash payoff (the family straddles middle class aspirations and working class nervousness and the money is too good to pass up), but it's beginning of the white lies, hidden truths and bad decisions that spiral out of the father's absence.

Luxury was originally an elite privilege, but increasing democratization has opened up middle class aspiration as a huge new market.

Not exact matches

Cherny is now the co-founder and chief executive at Aspiration, an investment firm focused on the middle class.

And the «mentality revolution» has led to a profound change in aspirations, especially from the middle class.

He gave the example of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he would argue has less power today than five years ago because of economic turmoil caused by sanctions and a middle class of an unprecedented size and aspirations.

If so, what will happen if growth drops more sharply than Xi and Premier Li Keqiang plan and if the aspirations of the second generation of the middle class reach beyond money?

The aspirations of the middle and high income class in Russia have been increasing in light of an increase in their disposable incomes; these consumers have been increasingly looking for better quality products and are willing to spend on premium products or products meeting their aspiration desires.

As an immediate response to Labour's losing a considerable number of those middle - class voters, Tony Blair and his close aides, such as Peter Mandelson and David Miliband attacked Ed Miliband for ditching their policy of aspiration.

If Labour is the party of investment and aspiration for middle - class families, then why does it promote everything but the normal, stable, self - financing, nuclear family unit in which most of these people truly aspire to exist and participate?

No political leader, it seems, can afford to ignore the interests and aspirations of the middle - class voters of middle Britain.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

Second is what I call global flattening, which is really just my shorthand for the rise of middle classes all across the world in bigger numbers than ever before from China to Brazil to India to Russia; middle classes that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands, and aspirations of Americans; and at the same time, global crowding — global population growth.

Second is what I call global flattening: the rise of middle classes all across the world that increasingly have the kind of energy and consumption patterns, demands and aspirations of Americans.

And he's created a character every bit as iconic as his painterly alter - ego, one who eloquently embodies the anxieties, thwarted aspirations and stubborn tenacity of a rural middle class facing inexorable decline.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

To provide schooling for everyone's children that reflects liberal, middle - class values and aspirations is to ensure the maintenance of the status quo, to ensure that power, the culture of power, remains in the hands of those who already have it.

Kevin has come to some conclusions that don't sound all that remarkable at first: That college — or at least postsecondary education — is essential for poor kids to make it into the middle class; and that it's not enough to exhort his students to raise their aspirations, or even prepare them academically.

Not just sticking them into white middle - class aspirations?

Understanding Racial Differences In Aspiration Realization: Middle Income, Middle Class, And College - Going Behaviors

Additionally, some studies show that «the higher educational aspirations» of middle - class families have a positive influence on student achievement (Kahlenberg 2001).

After a casual conversation with Hadi about his middle - class American aspirations to better himself, Mark decides to buy foreclosed properties and flip them, with increasingly mixed results.

It is now possible for the evolving middle class of our country to fulfil their aspirations!

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Presented on the National Mall, America's vaunted swath of democracy and culture, Marshall's paintings (including «Our Town») evoking the Middle Passage and the themes of immigration, class mobility, and aspirations central to the American Dream, were given the ultimate context.

Made between 1974 and 1976, and loosely based on Hans Magnus Enzensberger's 1976 essay «On the Inevitability of the Middle Class,» it consists of ten large - scale canvas - mounted works on paper, reproduced here in foldout color plates, in which densely inscribed layers of figures, traceries, sigils and quotation derived from the pop culture of the era narrate an epic vision of the scars and aspirations of postwar Europe.

The banality of everyday life, the aspirations of the middle classes, national and international politics — all of this, Polke placed under a microscope and reconfigured.

As a group, these paintings evoke the Middle Passage of slave ships between West Africa and North America, and the themes of immigration, class mobility, and aspiration central to American life.

-LSB-...] «China to Hold Firm on Climate Change Policy Position David Tyfield [Part 2 of 2]: Middle - Class Aspirations and IP Protection in China -LSB-...]

Q: Have you done any thinking on the relationship between low carbon innovation and the aspirations of the middle class, because what I see and a lot of us see is that the middle class in the West aspires to cars and we're seeing the same thing happen in China.