Sentences with phrase «old school violence»

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Gorsuch's commitments to interpreting the law as «the words on the paper say» and not over-criminalizing innocent conduct were on full display in a 2015 decision in which he used «plain old grade school grammar» to determine the legal penalties imposed on defendants accused of using a firearm «during and in relation to any crime of violence of drug trafficking crime.»
«I came all the way from Chicago to help change the violence that's going on with school shootings,» said 16 - year - old Kaiseona Lockhart.
By the time things simmered down, Brooklyn's inner - city schools were in considerably worse shape, white liberals had become accustomed to making excuses for black violence, and the old alliances between the civil - rights movement, on the one hand, and the American labor movement and organized American Jewry, on the other, had been put under severe strain.
We decided to HS after we moved to a bigger city (with more school violence and more negative influences than we were comfy with) We are now homeschooing our 15 year old and our 6 year old.
(Even older grade - schoolers, who may think that they can handle more media violence and explicit material, can be frightened by inappropriate images.)
In the northwest suburbs, at Buffalo Grove High School, 15 - year - old Wes Duvall, a quiet student with an air of concern, said a fascination with guns and violence prevails among his classmates, and even he is enamored of some of the hardware he sees.
Al - Qaeda was very much of the old school of jihadi thinking that emerged in the 90s; that horrific acts of violence would be shocking enough to awaken the Muslim world to the injustices against it.
Lori Haas, right, the mother of a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting, hugs Francine Wheeler, center, mother of Ben Wheeler, who was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting, as Fred Guttenberg, left, the father of 14 - year - old Jaime Guttenberg, who was killed in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, arrives to speak during a Democratic meeting to hear from survivors of gun violence and family members of victims.
The mother of a 9 - year - old boy in an East Harlem school says her son was beaten and bullied by a classmate, but school officials ignored her pleas to address the violence even after she personally appealed to Chancellor Carmen Fariña.
single, old - school history buff, love to read history, study Japanese, speak spanish, english, don't watch tv, or modern movies, which glorify violence, sex, and ignorance, which explains the ignorance in society today, not a couch potato.
Dating abuse (also known as dating violence, intimate partner violence, or relationship abuse) is a pattern of abusive behaviors There were no scars, no bruises to indicate the abuse Allyson Pereira, a 16 - year - old high school sophomore in New Jersey, had suffered.
The Karate Kid (PG for bullying, violence and mild epithets) Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan co-star in this Beijing - based remake of the 1984 screen classic about a 12 year - old newcomer to China being bullied at school whose unassuming janitor agrees to help him master the martial arts so long as he promises not to question the seemingly - unorthodox training regimen.
Tired of the Sacramento Catholic School she's been forced into thanks to her mother Marion's (Laurie Metcalf) fears of the increasing violence at public schools, she's grown tired of living in the shadow of her older brother Miguel (Jordan Rodrigues), who lives at home with his girlfriend Shelley (Shelly Yuhan).
It had a solid old school feel mixed with modern violence sensibilities so I was excited to hear the early buzz of a sequel following the film's solid opening weekend and its $ 192 total gross.
Your Highness hits high points of silliness (e.g. Thadeous» chronic masturbation tendencies, and a mechanical old - school Clash of the Titans - type bird named Simon) and then is punctuated by moments of extreme violence (an arrow fired through the jugular, anyone?).
I was expecting a well - written campaign, explosive violence, and an old school zombies mode.
21 Jump Street Rated R for crude and sexual content, pervasive language, drug material, teen drinking and some violence Available on DVD and Blu - ray If you would have told me in January that one of the best films of the year come June would be a rehash of the old Johnny Depp TV show about cops who undercover in high school, I would have called you an idiot.
While students across the nation walked out of school to protest gun violence, the 19 - year - old accused of killing 17 people and wounding more in the Florida school shooting sat in court silently, his head bowed.
What do people expect when ontrack four - year - olds are tossed into substandard schools for the rest of their academic career, and with a battery of other disadvantages, including the ever - present threat of violence?
Highlights this spring will include a discussion about school violence with Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, and PBS NewsHour correspondent John Merrow, Ed.D.» 73; «Advice for Living from the Oldest (and Wisest) Americans» with Cornell University Professor Karl Pillemer; and a celebration of the 45th anniversary of...
Protesters rally against gun violence on the steps of the old Florida Capitol in Tallahassee on Feb. 21, the one week anniversary of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Highlights this spring will include a discussion about school violence with Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, and PBS NewsHour correspondent John Merrow, Ed.D.» 73; «Advice for Living from the Oldest (and Wisest) Americans» with Cornell University Professor Karl Pillemer; and a celebration of the 45th anniversary of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed with historian Noam Chomsky, Visiting Lecturer Bruno della Chiesa, and Professor Howard Gardner.
The Wasatch County School District is responding to another social media post, this one by a 16 - year - old student, threatening school vioSchool District is responding to another social media post, this one by a 16 - year - old student, threatening school vioschool violence.
Attorneys for 19 - year - old Nikolas Cruz, the shooter at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, have cited his chronic battle with mental illness, family trauma and a fascination with guns and violence that was reflected in his social media profile and school disciplinary history.
In this masterfully performed audiobook, Turpin narrates from the point of view of 16 - year - old Starr Carter, caught between her black neighborhood and white private school when racial violence erupts.
In 2014 the country was left reeling when a 12 - year - old student died in a case of schoolyard antics gone wrong, exposing a pattern of extreme violence in schools.
Some comedic violence and the age of the characters skew this toward an older high - school audience, but Thompson and Hao have built a story that should appeal to both hard - core and casual gamers.
As games like move towards becoming more of an art form and therefore (slightly) more responsible in their depiction of violence and its consequences, with superb titles like Heavy Rain and yes Grand Theft Auto 5 (a properly grown up game for most part), it takes an old school title like this to remind you quite how much fun and cathartic virtually blowing people into chunks of a grue can be.
I was expecting a well - written campaign, explosive violence, and an old school zombies mode.
It's easy to think of the Stoneman Douglas survivors — strikingly eloquent and fiercely committed to bringing a permanent end to gun violence in US schools — as older than their years.
The 17 - year - old student lamented losing out on her planned high school experience of eagerly awaiting prom and performing in school shows, but promised she «will do everything I can to stop (gun violence) from happening to other people like me.»
The 56 - year - old actor has penned an open letter to the students of Stoneman Douglas High School, who have tried to raise awareness of gun violence since a mass shooting at their school earlier this year left 17 peopleSchool, who have tried to raise awareness of gun violence since a mass shooting at their school earlier this year left 17 peopleschool earlier this year left 17 people dead.
Therese Gachnauer, center, an 18 - year - old senior from Chiles High School, and Kwane Gatlin, right, a 19 - year - old senior from Lincoln High School, both in Tallahassee, join fellow students protesting gun violence on the steps of the old Florida Capitol on Feb. 21, 2018.
Lori Alhadeff, whose 14 - year - old daughter, Alyssa, was one of at least 17 people killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, appeared on CNN Thursday and made an emotional call for the president to take action in response to gun violence.
Consider a 6 year old boy who has repeatedly witnessed domestic violence and is acting out aggressively at school — he's been labeled a bully.
This study examined individual and school factors associated with 15 - year - olds» fear of school violence using U.S. data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA).
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