Sentences with phrase «military school by»

Danielle is determined to get to California to find the father she's never met, and Clarke is desperate to escape being sent to military school by his homophobic dad.

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On Wednesday, as high school students from DC, Maryland, and Virginia protested in front of the US Capitol and the White House, Sen. Jeff Flake (R - AZ) announced he and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D - CA) were working on a bill that would raise the minimum age to buy an AR - 15 rifle to 21 for buyers who aren't in the military (an initiative opposed by the National Rifle Association).

In preparing to teach a course, I looked through a folder of accumulated notes and realized that I first taught the course to an adult class consisting of three women: Jennifer, a widow of about 60 years of age with an eighth - grade schooling, whose primary occupations were keeping a brood of chickens and a goat and watching the soaps on television; Penny, 55, an army wife who treated her retired military husband and her teenage son and daughter as items of furniture in her antiseptic house, dusting them off and placing them in positions that would show them off to her best advantage, and then getting upset when they didn't stay where she put them — she was, as you can imagine, in a perpetual state of upset; and Brenda, married, mother of two teenage sons, a timid, shy, introverted hypochondriac who read her frequently updated diagnoses and prescriptions from about a dozen doctors as horoscopes — the scriptures by which she lived.

If it weren't for seeing there was a «way out» of the banality of my military high school setting by hanging around mature folks, I would never have made it.

The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

«If honor is generated in groups,» he said, «and it is, in schools, in the military, then our failures have not been caused by people so much as by institutions which have no structure whereby you get peer approval for honor.»

Gary attended the Royal Military College of Canada and served in the Royal Canadian Navy before becoming a high school physics teacher by day and writer by night.

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The 1946 «National School Lunch Program» was actually a «national security» program implemented by President Truman to ensure a large pool of healthy young men for the U.S. military and national defense.

They have a high bar to reach considering the Senate plan was passed unanimously out of Committee and is supported by such a broad range of stakeholders — everyone ranging from retired military leaders to the public health community to anti-hunger groups to school food service directors.

In its recent report, Still Too Fat to Fight, the nonprofit Mission: Readiness, which is run by retired military leaders, found that roughly 25 percent of young adults ages 17 to 24 are too overweight to qualify for military service and it targeted junk food vending machines in schools as a contributor to this problem.

Although most athletic trainers work at secondary schools, colleges & universities and professional sports teams, athletic trainers are also employed by physician's offices and hospitals, the military, performing arts and many other settings.

The committee's report recommends actions that can be taken by a range of audiences — including research funding agencies, legislatures, state and school superintendents and athletic directors, military organizations, and equipment manufacturers, as well as youth who participate in sports and their parents — to improve what is knows about concussions and to reduce their occurrence.

Most parents are initially quick to blame their teen's melancholy mood on haywire hormones and may attempt to coax them from their gloominess by telling them to «Just snap out of it» or even enrolling them in boot camps or military schools to toughen them up.

Off topic questions included his speech tomorrow to Britain's Labour Party, Chirlane McCray's attendance at an NYPD CompStat meeting, whether ISIS and the recent U.S. military strikes will cause a ramped - up security / counter-terrorism effort by the City, Governor Cuomo's efforts at supporting a Democratic state senate, Congressional approval of military strikes ordered by President Obama, the City school system's policy on student cell phones and continuing problems at Rikers Island.

A video went viral on the social media recently showing how secondary school students are being harassed by the military.

Sir Hugh was a Conservative MP of the old school: after a distinguished military intelligence career in the Second World War, he entered Parliament in 1945, and he missed out on being Father of the House to James Callaghan in 1983 by only a few days.

The search for the abducted Chibok school girls and the rescue of other Nigerians in hostage has never relapse as could be attested to in recent times where hundreds of women and children were rescued by the military through its coordinated operations.

A statement on Friday by the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Depot NA / Nigerian Military School, Capt. Hussaini Sani warned applicants to ignore the fraudsters.

A weird British corner of it populated, as the military establishment in Britain is, by old - school Tories.

«Nigerian authorities have made a commitment to make schools safer and more resilient to attack, and UNICEF stands with them to implement the Safe Schools Declaration, by which Nigeria commits to protecting schools and universities from violence and military use during armed conflict.schools safer and more resilient to attack, and UNICEF stands with them to implement the Safe Schools Declaration, by which Nigeria commits to protecting schools and universities from violence and military use during armed conflict.Schools Declaration, by which Nigeria commits to protecting schools and universities from violence and military use during armed conflict.schools and universities from violence and military use during armed conflict.»

He recalled with pain how the state, under the military regime in 1975, «forcibly» took over 106 Catholic primary schools with seven secondary schools and one technical school without compensation, adding that the new tax was unnecessary, more so that new schools established by the Church had been paying various levies and taxes demanded by both local and state governments.

A set of recommendations was recently released by a committee made up of representatives from the Rochester City School District, the military community, and various stakeholders from churches, colleges, and community groups.

A Long Island high school football player lifting a large log with teammates as part of a Navy SEALs - style drill was hit in the head by the log and died yesterday, raising questions about adapting such military training to young athletes.

I think you should update your question to address what ever mechinism you think should be used by the UN to address Japanese military action against a foriegn military asset.Though knowing china they are civilian drones trying to help build schools for children.

At the Command Military School, the Deputy Director in the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure, Engr Rasheed Akindele who briefed the Governor on the current state of the road, said the project was undertaken by the Lagos Metropolitan Transport Authority (LAMATA) around 2011/2012, but the Ministry of Works took the project further to the Command Bridge and then to Ipaja axis.

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, gave the commendation in a speech read on his behalf by the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, at the graduation parade of the Special Medical Intake 4 held at the Ghana Military Academy and Training School in Accra, on Friday 27th April, 2018.

The signs of CTE (which can only be diagnosed postmortem) in the brains of blast - exposed military veterans were indistinguishable from those found in the deceased athletes, according to the researchers, led by Lee Goldstein, an associate professor at Boston University School of Medicine (B.U.S.M.) and Boston University College of Engineering, and Ann McKee, a B.U.S.M. professor and director of the Neuropathology Service for the VA New England Healthcare System.

«When used by emergency medical technicians in the civilian world or by medics in the military, we expect this technology could reduce the number of deaths from excessive bleeding,» said Ashley Brown, a research scientist in the Georgia Tech School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and first author of the paper.

Pia Glatz, M.D., of the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, and coauthors conducted a nationwide study of more than 2 million children born in Sweden from 1973 through 1993 by using a variety of national health care databases, school achievement registries, and the military conscription register.

This study was performed by the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in collaboration with the Makerere University Walter Reed Project, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Rakai Health Sciences Program, and the Center for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska Institutet.

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He's recruited by grisly military commander Colonel Graff (Harrison Ford, who's less growl - y than usual, surprisingly) to attend Battle School, a military academy meant to groom the next Rackham that rejected both his violently demented brother, Peter (Jimmy Pinchak), and his warm - hearted sister, Valentine (Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine herself), who he loves to no end.

Private Romeo (unrated) Homoerotic reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet set at a military school where a couple of star - crossed cadets (Seth Numrich and Matt Doyle) fall in love while staging a classic by the Bard of Avon.

The Wind and the Lion (1972), the sophomore feature of the film school - trained screenwriter turned director, takes on a romantic tale of rebellion and response, honorable ancient codes and modern military might, and the first stirrings of the United States of America, the modern, maverick young country in a political culture dominated by the history - seeped empires of old Europe, as a world power.

Featuring stills from Ender's Game, the much - anticipated film directed and written by Gavin Hood, this official 16 - month calendar follows the story of Andrew «Ender» Wiggin, an unusually gifted child who is sent — 70 years after a horrific alien war — to an advanced military school in space to prepare for a future invasion.

Since The Last Detail, Ponicsan has written a dozen more novels, one of which he adapted into a screenplay (Cinderella Liberty); meanwhile, his screenwriting credits branch out from military dramas into coming - of - age stories (Vision Quest), high - school dramas (School Ties, co-written by Dick Wolf), and political thrillers (Sydney Pollack's Random Heschool dramas (School Ties, co-written by Dick Wolf), and political thrillers (Sydney Pollack's Random HeSchool Ties, co-written by Dick Wolf), and political thrillers (Sydney Pollack's Random Hearts).

Next week sees the launch of Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s new Kick - Ass comic book, which revamps the series and features the introduction of a new female lead, Patience Lee, a mother and military veteran who takes on the mantle of Kick - Ass, inspired by the heroics of high schooler Dave Lizewski.

In that capacity, he was able to afford to send his sons to a private school run with an iron fist by a sadistic headmaster (Richard Griffiths), a retired military colonel.

Any writer seeking to focus on it enjoys what the military would describe as a «target rich environment» and could make a genuine contribution to the debate on school improvement by engaging in a discussion of those liabilities.

The revelations about the military equipment provided through the agency's 1033 surplus equipment program have stoked concerns by civil rights groups that law enforcement is overreaching into school matters and contributing to a punitive atmosphere.

Although officials from the 4,000 districts nationwide that receive federal impact - aid funds have been outspoken in their opposition to cuts in the program recommended by the Reagan Administration, the Fairfax school board was the first in the country to threaten military families with tuition charges to make up for the lost support.

Computer adaptive testing is used to test recruits to the U.S. military, for licensing nurses and computer technicians, for entrance tests to graduate school, and for a popular placement test used by community colleges — but not for academic testing in all but a handful of K - 12 schools.

As the number one advocate for youth, the 4,100 Boys & Girls Clubs across the country and on U.S. military installations worldwide work to ensure great futures are within reach of the nearly 4 million members by helping them stay on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and citizenship, and living a healthy lifestyle.

By using the threat of effectively denying the children of military personnel access to public education, the bill seeks to force the federal government either to increase its impact - aid payments to districts or to establish separate schools, with full federal funding, on the bases.

When the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the New Schools Venture Fund, and the Broad Foundation asked my organization, the National Center on Education and the Economy, to design a new entity to train school principals, we decided to model it on the executive - education programs designed by corporations and business schools, while also drawing on the military's national war college system of identifying and training military lSchools Venture Fund, and the Broad Foundation asked my organization, the National Center on Education and the Economy, to design a new entity to train school principals, we decided to model it on the executive - education programs designed by corporations and business schools, while also drawing on the military's national war college system of identifying and training military lschools, while also drawing on the military's national war college system of identifying and training military leaders.

For more than three decades I have been fascinated by the lessons that can be drawn from the military to strengthen the academic and, yes, social skills of youngsters who are struggling in school and in life.

Offering School Choice To Military Families Will Help Mississippi Families March 27, 2018 by Brett Kittredge