Sentences with phrase «rebellion against the school»

It was one that turned her taking care of herself into an act of rebellion against the school.

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But, he said, «the latter history of this culture is not so much a debate between these two schools of thought as a rebellion of romanticism, materialism and psychoanalytic psychology against the errors of rationalism, whether idealistic or naturalistic, in its interpretation of human nature.

Going to university was not a natural progression from school for me; it was an act of rebellion against going to work.

And he also happens to be dating a white girl named Sofia (Brittany Curran), for whom this romantic dalliance is an exotic form of rebellion against her wealthy and powerful father, the school's president (Peter Syvertsen).

Donnie will soon stage his own personal rebellion against the forces of Reagan - era conformity, represented less by his parents (Holmes Osborne and Mary McDonnell, both superb) than by his high school's viciously censorious gym teacher (a priceless Beth Grant) and her motivational - speaker crony (Patrick Swayze).

He was baptized James Ngugi, and later became a devout Christian while at missionary school; but around 1967 he rejected his baptismal name, and changed his name to Ngugi wa Thiong «o. His family was caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion (an insurgency by Kenyan freedom fighters against the British colonial administration (1952 - 1960) during which...

Several of the New York School painters who first made American art a cultural force in the world were in rebellion against an earlier generation committed to social activism in art and communism in politics.