Sentences with phrase «middle class life from»

This barely visible plotline is the main action in Exhibition, another candid portrayal of contemporary upper - middle class life from British director Joanna Hogg.

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Given how the state had spent time building up a new middle class,» [a] ny deviation from the mainstream, or irony, is seen as a threat to the credibility and legitimacy of the [Chinese Communist] Party in bringing [an] idealized way of life to reality,» Arsene told CNBC in an email.

Both our families came to the US with nothing, so my wife and I went from low income (assisted living) to high middle class in 40 years of our lives.

The bursting of the housing bubble — which entailed a collapse in home values and a flood of foreclosures — and spiking unemployment led millions of Americans to realize that their «middle - class» lives were just a paycheck or two from evaporating.

Though salarymen worked extremely long hours and were expected to provide the utmost loyalty and sacrifice to their corporation, they were rewarded with thoroughly middle class lifestyles and promises of lifetime employment — a significant step - up from the very humble lives that most Japanese lived before World War Two.

Many money books (like From Middle Class to Millionaire written by David) actually help you plan your life, decide what you want, put a cost towards it and budget.

This profound alienation of the ghetto poor from mainstream American life has continued to grow worse in the years since the triumphs of the civil rights movement, even as the success of that movement has provided the basis for an impressive expansion of economic and political power for the black middle class.

«The idea (promoted by politicians of both the left and the right) that Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are falling from the middle class in great bunches, even trailing behind the living standard of their parents, is, in aggregate, complete rubbish.

My father was a minister and we lived from middle class to lower middle class.

Röpke locates wealth creation «not in «capital,» machine models, technical or organizational recipes or natural wealth, but in a spirit of order, foresight, combination, calculation, enterprise, human leadership and the freedom to shape life and things, also in citizenship, responsibility, loyalty to work, reliability, thrift and the urge to create, and in a civil middle class, providing the humus for all this» things, in short, which can neither be conjured up from the soil, nor imported.»

Those of us who are privileged (e.g, are white, male, middle - class or higher, educated, able - bodied, heterosexual, and / or physically attractive, etc.) benefit from living in a society that accommodates rather than alienates us.

Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

This brief article will be my last on the subject — at least unless or until one word of gratitude for an unprecedented share of life's blessings, along with a promise to hold themselves to a standard worthy of respect, issues from the community of America's middle - class women.

The answer, of course, has been that poor people must be raised from poverty and that the expectations of middle class people for the good things of life must be met.

Ask yourself, what middle - class parent in America today supposes that her authority over the crucial details of her child's life is nothing more than a revocable delegation from New Mexico or the feds?

As a result, in the past 30 years many clergy have been living within the professional middle class while keeping their distance from the professional label.

And so we learn, for example, from THE FEDERALIST or from Hobbes that the Athenian assembly was filled with vain and contentious men, men animated by sometimes cruel and often violent aristocratic pretensions.That «democracy» did have the characters or the institutions to support a just and stable middle - class way of life.

As a 21 - year - old Canadian coming from a good middle - class family, I have endless options as to what I can do with my life.

Du Boulay has certainly led a varied and fascinating life, but this book is ultimately about her spiritual odyssey from what she describes as a «middle - class, Anglican upbringing» — via transcendental meditation, Catholicism and shamanism — to her current stance; an eclectic «pick - and - mix» spirituality.

the equally mindless endorsement of all types of domestic radical isms from the Black Panthers to Greenpeace, the insouciant acceptance of millions of abortions as simply an expression of the right to choose, not to mention the other (less tangible) damage done to many lives by the brashs social engineering of new middle - class professionals (for instance.

The successful upper middle class now lives at a distance from everyone else.

In the light of this analysis, then, my own scenario is cautiously hopeful, depending on (1) whether a creative minority of dreamers and doers with visions of a new life - fulfilling social order really emerges in strength, (2) the alliances that can be worked out with blacks, the poor, and other minorities now excluded from major social benefits, (3) the extent to which the populist idealism of the lower middle classes and working people generally favoring the extension of rights and equality to the «little man» everywhere wins out over the reactionary fears and prejudices which establishment elites and opportunist politicians are all too willing to exploit, and (4) what takes place at the center of the political spectrum itself under the pressure of events and in response to challenges to the established system from militant seekers of change.

Niebuhr's «emerging view» of the minister seems to be open to and internally unprotected from the serious threat of being taken captive ideologically as a religious sanction for a certain kind of North American middle - class life and its values.

Lasch supports his periodization by reminding us that the period from 1890 to 1920 was a time of intense participation by middle - class women in civic life.

3 This suggests that he saw the middle class as the source of life in a society, apart from which society would be «bound» to its traditions.

Rarely can Christians from white middle - class North America claim the same sort of relationship with the spiritual life of the corporate body.

And it looks as if their scores will be truly impressive — almost indistinguishable from those of middle - class kids living in better neighborhoods.

And yes, it's also true that many of us (at least those of us who are white and middle - class) are a bit self - absorbed or extremely focused on our careers (we're the «third waver» feminists, and many of us from Day One saw our lives as defined by our work.

The Zion teenager comes from a comfortable middle - class home; she says her parents, an engineer and a teacher, are caring and supportive; and her life has been absent any of the trauma or serious misfortune that sometimes shapes a reformer.

What he fails to draw out is that the British aristocracy was porous, and despite the challenges of the War of the Roses, life under the Tudors and the French revolutionary era they had allies and accomplices, drawn from the gentry and the middle classes, and a sizeable portion of the working class.

«This historic tax relief will allow middle class families to achieve a better quality of life because they will keep more from their paychecks,» said Sen. Cathy Young, the chairwoman of the Finance Committee in the chamber.

«From cutting property taxes to alleviating student loan debt, we're continually striving to improve lives and increase economic opportunity for middle class New Yorkers,» Cuomo wrote.

I agree University is far more than a luxury, but I intended to say that the reality of living away from home has always been much more widely taken up by the middle classes for economic reasons.

At 9:30 a.m., Rep. Joe Crowley and community leaders from Queens and the Bronx hold a press conference to outline plans to improve the lives of working families and middle - class New Yorkers, 8601 23rd Ave, East Elmhurst, Queens.

Until the party and its leadership can admit to the mistakes made in government, or to the lack of courage shown in not tackling the clear problems that prevent ordinary people from enjoying the sort of life that the middle classes take for granted, then I fear a whole swathe of Labour supporters will simply choose not to vote Labour, whatever promises are made at the next election (this is essentially ditching the last vestiges of New Labour I suppose).

It's a step up from the lower middle class that I started life in, so don't give me your sad sob story about being born into a family of modest means.

The congressman comes from a middle class family that actually lives in the 19th Congressional District and has for his entire life.

Basically, discouraging middle and lower class from saving money increase later government welfare and lowers quality of life for those who lack savings.

«Taking decent paying, middle class jobs with benefits away from experienced, dedicated, and caring state employees and replacing them with private, not - for - profit companies who fail to pay their direct care workers a decent wage hurts local economies and the quality of life for all New Yorkers, not just those receiving care,» CSEA's testimony stated.

«They want to hear how they are going to help the middle class, protect us from terrorists, enhance our quality of life and get the country back on the right track.»

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.

Most research on children's understanding of the natural world has come from middle - class, European American children living in urban or suburban communities, typically located close to universities.

students lived in fraternities, and most came from a middle - or upper - middle - class background.

The pairing of act and music isn't so much farce as inane fodder for ensuring The House's removal from anything resembling genuine social commentary, but it also indulges the laziest form of cultural fantasy, where the awkward, middle - aged white couple is allowed to engage in cultural appropriation for a spell before returning to their dull middle - class lives, and all without consequence.

Varma's criminals are just ordinary people trying to make a living: in Satya they are the underclass, in Company they're middle - class merchants, and in Sarkar they're from the upper classes.

This excellent series provided consistent laughs as it explored life from the perspective of Cory Matthews (Ben Savage), a middle child in a middle - class American family.

Dramatic films which have portrayed the «homefront» during times of war, and the subsequent problems of peacetime adjustment include William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver (1942) about a separated middle - class family couple (Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon) during the Blitz, Clarence Brown's The Human Comedy (1943) with telegram delivery boy Mickey Rooney bringing news from the front to small - town GI families back home, John Cromwell's Since You Went Away (1944) with head of family Claudette Colbert during her husband's absence, and another William Wyler poignant classic The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with couples awkwardly brought back together forever changed after the war: Dana Andrews and Virginia Mayo, Fredric March and Myrna Loy, and Harold Russell and Cathy O'Donnell.

Creating wall - sized portraits of locals as they travel from town to town, the two inquisitive, kindred - spirit directors peer into the day - to - day life of rural and working - class France, the camera listening and learning as old and middle - aged villagers remember how coal miners used to bathe and eat back in the day or goat - cheese makers give their differing opinions on the subject of dehorning.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

After reading the poem «My Mother Pieced Quilts,» a middle school girl might lead the class in celebrating the life of a family of migrant workers and the mother who makes their story a work of art by piecing together remnants from their past into quilts.