Sentences with phrase «of urban violence»

The goal of this collaboration is to translate for Brazilians the science of early child development and the specific effects of urban violence on early child development.

But several U.S. and Iraqi archaeologists say that the minister wants to reopen the museum, which contains priceless artifacts from the first cities and empires, to show that Baghdad's long period of urban violence is over.

Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

There is a certain level of urban violence that the rest of the country isn't even close to.»

Not exact matches

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.

For example, if you say something about closing our borders or urban violence, the go to response almost always involve the mention of» trailers, the south, hillbillies, or nascar.»

Whether the issue was civil rights, Vietnam or urban renewal, the Century always feared the activities of the radical element, and abhorred the use of violence to gain power in public life.

In other groups such as urban gangs, «subcultures of violence» exist where higher levels of violence are accepted as a social norm.

Members include elected representatives of urban, suburban, and rural areas who have come together in recognition of the unique role state legislators must play in preventing gun violence.

According to Hamilton's office, the list of organizations involved in the Coalition includes the Vera Institute for Justice, the Northern Manhattan Immigration Coalition, the New York Immigration Coalition, The Black Institute, Brooklyn Legal Services, Urban Justice Center's Domestic Violence Project, Caribbean Women's Health, CAMBA Legal Services, American Friends Services Committee, MFY Legal Services and Central American Legal Assistance.

Still, she defended her record on guns in Buffalo, arguing she could support the needs of hunters in her own district with tamping down gun violence in urban areas.

He said he opposed recreational marijuana, and spoke at length about his approach to curbing urban gun violence, which would include investments in mental health treatment and «deterrence» of rational criminals who would realize their marks could be armed.

«Our study shows that direct changes to vacant urban spaces may hold great promise in breaking the cycle of abandonment, violence, and fear in our cities and do so in a cost - effective way that has broad, citywide scalability,» said Branas.

«One theory that resonated with a lot of the things we found points to the importance of busy streets in promoting outdoor activity, interaction and cohesion in communities, which could potentially deter street violence,» said Branas, who has led several previous studies suggesting that urban parks and greening vacant lots encourage people to become invested in maintaining their neighborhoods and may reduce violent crime.

Maybe urban gun violence is just too predictable to hold our attention: It is extraordinarily concentrated — «hypersegregated» in Macdonald's phrase — with a handful of neighborhoods in the 10 largest cities accounting for 30 percent of all gun homicides nationwide.

Instead of cholera, Branas says, the «contagion» this time is urban gun violence.

Although droughts can lead to violence, such as in urban areas; this was found not to be the case for rural areas, where the majority of armed conflicts occurred where food crops were abundant.

In urban shantytowns, people often lack running water or sewer service, and the stress of poverty and unemployment can lead to alcoholism, domestic violence and mental illness, Corvalán said.

I recently read Roger Ebert's review of a urban crime picture «Clockers» (A film I greatly disliked) he wrote something true from the results of black on black drugs and violence.

The Loft (R for profanity, sexuality, nudity, drug use and graphic violence) Remake of the 2008 Belgian thriller of the same name revolving around five married suburbanites (Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet and Matthias Schoenaerts) who purchase a penthouse in the city for secret rendezvous with mistresses only to become suspicious of each other after a female corpse is found inside their

This hypnotic urban poem on masculinity, violence and wisdom may be Jarmusch's most likeable picture — as funny and dark as anything Tarantino has ever filmed, but with a surreal, dreamlike quality and a soul full of integrity.

Unlike many modern - day thrillers, this film is an exciting, taut, and realistic portrayal of urban police life, but it does not fill its running time with gratuitous violence, nonstop profanity, and copious amounts of sex.

Director Harold Daniels is no visual stylist and there's a slackness to many of the scenes, but he comes to life in a nighttime murder scene that he transforms into a model of noir violence, an urban street fight in the dark of the empty city picked out in shards of light (credit likely goes to cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca, RKO's crime movie vet), and the screenplay co-written by Steve Fisher has a bite of irony in its twists.

Jason's Lyric ** (UA 6) Doug McHenry attempts to fuse a dreamy poetic feeling with the violence of the urban gang landscape.

The framing device that depicts unresolved black urban violence suggests a narrative lapse, yet it's very different from the patronization of political media - makers today.

First, the film's lead, Noah Wyle (also one of the many producers behind this urban narrative's stark commentary on senseless violence), played a young dedicated doctor used to helping critically...

Hangman (R for violence, profanity and graphic images) Murder mystery about a decorated homicide detective (Al Pacino) who joins forces with a criminal profiler (Karl Urban) to apprehend a serial killer (Joe Anderson) playing a twisted version of the word game «Hangman.»

Hill strips the action down to its brutal core, like a minimalist urban Peckinpah, and in the excesses of recent action extravaganzas, the violence with which bullets hit flesh and drop bodies is quite startling.

An unfortunate turn toward violence pops the urban fairytale bubble, and an obnoxiously pandering third act drags «The Cobbler» down to the level of «Just Go With It» or «Jack & Jill.»

CBR TV's Comic - Con International in San Diego video interviews continue as «DREDD» stars Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby stopped by the incredible CBR Yacht at to talk about a number of topics, including their familiarity with the characters and mythology of the «Judge Dredd» universe, the violence of the film and their impressions of Judge Dredd and Judge Anderson.

Now, with Triple 9, he tackles the crime thriller genre, assembling an A-list cast (including the likes of Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clifton Collins Jr., Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Norman Reedus, Aaron Paul, Anthony Mackie and more) to tell a gritty, urban tale of crooked cops, bank heists, double - turns and gang violence.

Opening with an audio collage of 911 calls and news reports about Chicago's spike in violence, Death Wish lays out an oversimplified snapshot of urban decay as a foundation for the brutality unleashed by one man after inner - city violence spills over into an affluent suburb.

The film opens up some new themes for Bigelow — race in America, inequitable police treatment, discriminatory urban planning — in addition to the exploration of conflict and state violence.

Noe gives us an unnamed French butcher in his early 50s (craggy Philippe Nahon) rather than an American cabbie in his mid-20s (lanky Robert De Niro), a series of offscreen gunshots and plucked notes to replace a swanky Bernard Herrmann score, and an exceptionally grisly urban plot about unemployment, abject violence, and incestuous delirium to replace Paul Schrader's rhapsody about existential and excremental urban anguish.

The schools these young men would attend are typically in high - poverty urban neighborhoods, have high rates of violence and school dropout, and struggle to retain effective teachers.

Her research focuses on anti-terror law, the criminalization of and marginalization of working class youth, processes of depoliticization, sites of urban segregation and violence, and legal and extra-legal policing / security practices.

Many Riots from the late 20th century till today, stand out as particularly dramatic moments in American urban history, and it is useful to tease out some of the historical contingencies and large social conditions that produced these periods of strife in order to prevent more violence from occurring.

Their research interests include the effects of childhood exposure to violence, parenting practices across cultures, college access for urban students, and promoting resiliency in children.

The image of today's public schools as violence - ridden creates a big challenge for public - relations professionals, top communications specialists from two urban districts say.

We don't often see this kind of national uptake from the media when young folks in urban areas protest community violence, for example.

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Threats and violence as a result of firearms are a threat to many urban students inside and outside school walls.

Gun policy is not only impacting the more rare occurrences of mass shootings, but the literal hourly violence impacting urban students and their surrounding communities.

In addition to his work with Brooke Charter School, Tom currently serves on the Board of Urban Improv, a Boston - based non-profit focused on youth development and violence prevention through improvisational theatre.

In large urban districts, like the Los Angeles Unified School District or Chicago Public Schools, poverty, violence and trauma can be barriers to learning for thousands of students.

However, as urban educators, we are charged with actively participating in the preparation of our young people to critically analyze the violence they are exposed to and guide them toward becoming engaged citizens.

University of Wisconsin) is the director of the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, co-director of the Center for Prevention and Early Intervention, and the senior associate director of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute.

Dr. Noguera has published over 200 research and scholarly articles, monographs, research reports, and editorials on topics such as urban school reform, education policy, conditions that promote student achievement, the role of education in community development, youth violence, and race and ethnic relations in American society as well as the author of several books.

Perhaps the lack of attention to gun violence in urban schools will be turned around with the nation's newly mobilized young activists in communities across the country, Miranda says.

A story about urban teens confronting the entrenched abuse, violence and neglect cycles of their past through an outdoor peace education program.