Sentences with phrase «performance by immigrants»
Poor performance by immigrants on IQ tests had nothing to do with ethnicity and everything to do with poverty.
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Beginning as the ruffian son of Italian immigrants, Louis finds himself inspired by his older brother's advice, «If you can take it, you can make it,» carrying that mantra with him through years of performance feat as a track and field runner.
Would James Gray's «The Immigrant» — with powerful performances by Marion Cotillard, right, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner, left, — be more in the conversation if it were released in the second half of the year and not the first?
Alexander Payne's Downsizing opened the Venice Film Festival and while the film itself is a polarizing, uneven story, it boasts a powerful, touching and funny performance by Hong Chau who plays an immigrant and activist who protests the Vietnamese government's acts against her small village and ends up shrunken and placed in a TV set at a Target store in...
Would James Gray's «The Immigrant» — with powerful performances by Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner, set in New York City in 1920s — be more in the conversation (or have done better business) if it were released in the second half of the year and not the first?
WHY: It's a little surprising that James Gray's «The Immigrant» didn't get more attention during last year's awards season (especially from critics groups), because it's a solid period drama that, although it treads familiar ground, is elevated by the performances from its three leads.
A report published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has claimed that there is no direct link between the proportion of immigrant pupils and the performance of a school system.
The worst performance was by students learning to speak English, many of them immigrants.
Bruguera has worked with Tate Modern multiple times before ---- her performance piece, Tatlin's Whisper # 5 (2008), was acquired by the museum in 2009, then staged in 2016, and she displayed the ongoing project, Immigrant Movement International, at the museum in 2012.
Other projects planned for the 2018 Spring Season include an exhibition by immigrant and first generation young artists organized by writer and recent citizen to the U.S. Ingrid Rojas Contreras, a print performance by artists Sergio de la Torre and Chris Tregiarri, and an evening of performances organized by poet and musician Sandra Garcia Rivera.
These supposedly aspirational objects, in reality purchased from street markets frequented by immigrants in East London, present another narrative of progress as mere performance.