Sentences with phrase «on underclass»

That's meant literally, since the film is adapted from a megahit ballad of roughly the same name: Legāio Urbana's nine - minute barn - burner of calamity, bloodshed, love, and redemption spoke to something in the Brazilian psyche in 1987, charting João de Santo Christo's fatal misadventures with the corrupt forces that kept a boot on the underclass.

Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy knows a thing or two about putting a cute spin on underclass travails: his script for the Full Monty happily obliged turning disenfranchisement into a cornball nude revue.

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

Not exact matches

Consider not just the appalling record of the twentieth century; consider as well the sullenness of so many high school students today, the emptiness of their elders in college, the despair of the underclass, the desperate fun - seeking of the jet set, the divorce rate, the incidence of child abuse, and on and on.

The moral case is focused on the plight of the disadvantaged, especially the urban underclass, mainly black and Latino, in our larger cities.

On the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced traininOn the other hand, more than 90 percent of the students in parochial schools, drawn from the same underclass population, go on to college or other advanced traininon to college or other advanced training.

Those who come to work hard and are eager to be part of the American mainstream should be welcomed; the best of intentions and behavior does not justify flouting the law; any self - respecting nation must be able to control its borders; an underclass of millions with no legal existence poses a serious security problem; the economy depends on those who do the work Americans will not do; and on and on.

For instance, says Kaus, Loury wants blacks to accept responsibility for their lives as individuals and not as members of a racial tribe, while he at the same time calls on middle - class blacks to act as though they are responsible for the tribe, especially those members of the tribe who are in the urban underclass.

The new black conservatives have had their most salutary effect on public discourse by highlighting the breakdown of the moral fabric in the country and especially in black working poor and underclass communities.

Most worries about eventual turmoil in this country have centered on the emergence of a permanent underclass, not the temporary underclass of newly arrived immigrants but a permanent «internal proletariat.»

He goes on to describe recent debates about the homeless and the underclass, meaning the most disordered of the urban poor.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

As the only team in the state with four players selected to the annual Cal - Hi Sports All - State Underclass teams (30 on first team, 30 on second team), it became easy to anoint Buchanan as the preseason No. 1 team for California this season.

Ybarra's own teammates this year include two others who were on the All - State Underclass team — junior catcher Terra McGowan and senior pitcher / first baseman Kyra Snyder.

BAWS Underclass will take place at beautiful Baggett Stadium on the campus of Cal Poly in scenic San Luis Obispo, July 19 - 21.

Work and pensions secretary's conference speech highlights «growing underclass» dependent on welfare

«At their worst, they will exclude students who make teaching too much of a challenge and who are traditionally excluded, thus perpetuating established inequalities and resigning us to a permanent underclass that is regarded as a worthless burden on the state.»

A period piece spin on Glee, as filtered through the gauzy lens of underclass - artistic - exuberance that's plagued a subset of comedic - leaning British imports ever since Billy Elliot.

An underclass of the Factionless runs around, too, short on amenities - and tempers.

They are not sitting on some specific dark secret against the underclass that makes their punishment poetically just.

Van Sant understands how Walt's presumptuous come - ons — offering Johnny $ 15 for a night's fuck — are wound up in the destructiveness of the gay underclass, and so his story moves with the cyclical motions of a bad night (mala noche) or, more appropriately, a bad dream.

However bawdy the character, she plays Helene chiefly with an unapologetic self - involvement — the unblinking, under - educated victim of her own shattered childhood, who now knows no choices other than poor, self - indulgent or some combination thereof — and in doing so shines a light on the cyclical distress of America's underclass, heartbreakingly chalking an evidentiary mark for the latter grouping in the age - old nature - nurture debate.»

uuu Spike Lee plunges into the world of underclass crime, focusing on a small - time cocaine dealer who agonizes over his brother's arrest for murder.

Just like that, director David Mackenzie establishes, first, the idea that the men in that blue Camaro are up to no good; second, the current of economic desperation driving screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's story; and third, the religious posturing that offers an alternative to existential despair, with roadside churches, TV evangelists, and Christian radio offering a relentless white - noise stream of piety on demand to an American underclass with nowhere left to turn.

Filmmaker Sean Baker's portrait of the Central Florida underclass focuses on a little girl named Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) who is living with her prostitute mother in a seedy, Orlando - area motel.

After Del's ancient truck breaks down, cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck («A War») keeps us close to the sagebrush and flatlands of Eastern Oregon as the boy and his horse (to whom he confides his innermost thoughts) travel together on foot, coming into contact with both the hard working underclass of American society and the dregs who prey on the innocent and trusting.

Murray thus draws a picture of Fishtown, working - class America, supplemented by ethnographic reports on the real Fishtown, that is not far short of the «underclass» that was so widely discussed 30 years ago, when it was thought that white working - class America was in good shape.

But in stark contrast to the image of a perpetual «urban underclass» depicted in television by shows like The Wire, sociologists Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson present a more nuanced portrait of Baltimore's inner - city residents that employs important new research on the significance of early life opportunities available to low - income populations.

In other words, Adamowski created an underclass of future broompushers based exclusively on race and ethnicity.

Could this well - armed madman actually have his finger on the pulse of the underclass?

From 1973 to 1985, Chris Killip lived among and photographed working - class and underclass communities in the north of England whose livelihoods depended on traditional heavy...

Host institution Brown University has historical connections to the Trans - Atlantic slave trade and represents the intellectual and material wealth of a nation that was built on the forced labor of a Black underclass.

On the other hand, they're basically banking on there always being a poor underclasOn the other hand, they're basically banking on there always being a poor underclason there always being a poor underclass.