Sentences with phrase «social inequities»

Greg Lindquist constructs an image cycle of social inequity in the face of environmental desecration, playing a requiem above a baseline of spoilt nature caused by corporate self - interest.

Greg Lindquist, a painter and regular Brooklyn Rail contributor, constructs an image cycle of social inequity in the face of environmental desecration, playing a requiem above a baseline of spoilt nature caused by corporate self - interest.

Differences in academic achievement between demographic groups are frequently caused by social inequities while differences within the same group indicate different abilities.

Invest in places that are actively addressing social inequities based on race, class, gender, immigrant status, and other forms of oppression.

For «Hope Hippo,» an installation by the artist pair Allora and Calzadilla, a performer will sit atop a sculpture of a hippopotamus, reading from a newspaper and blowing a whistle each time he or she finds a story about social inequity.

When public schools make a free, delicious, organic school lunch for every student, we not only address the critical social inequities of hunger and obesity, we truly nourish every child.

In economically depressed communities, by contrast, frequent informal parental exchange tends to disadvantage students by reinforcing social inequities and standing in the way of upward social mobility.

It's the creative package that lulls us into accepting this genre piece as allegory, breaching our defenses against pretense and metaphor with proximate frights and finding its own legacy in its assault of persistent social inequities.

Far beyond the pure social inequity — and that would be bad enough, we admit — is a very real dollar - and - cents cost, a doozy of a recurring charge that ripples through the financial markets.

This movement has meant a turning toward political stasis and a certain ruthless acceptance of social inequities as eternally ordained by the Deity.

For a few children the experience can generate resentment at social inequities.

Service toward the poor becomes a means of rectifying social inequities rather than a theological claim as to how the world is ordered.

As cities spread into surrounding territories, roadways clog, pollution increases, social inequities expand, and the costs of municipal services like sewers and the police rise.

Black - white differences in life expectancy are a longstanding source of public health concern in the United States, and are considered indicative of deeper social inequities in society.

Things bog down when he tries to address social inequity seriously during the second half, and the movie never quite recovers.

Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for starring in The Blind Side, a 2009 film ostensibly about a black football player overcoming social inequity and bigotry.

As Loveless explains, «critics argue that tracking creates or reinforces social inequities because black, Hispanic, and socioeconomically disadvantaged students are historically underrepresented in accelerated tracks.»

How do social inequities persist in a world with powerful visions of human freedom, massive changes to laws, and extensive media coverage?

By acknowledging social privilege and inequity, Social Context Reformers are calling for education reform within a larger plan to reform social inequity — such as access to health care, food security, higher employment along with better wages and job security.

«Educational attainment is the currency of mobility,» she observed, noting that, while the rest of the world is experiencing rapid change in secondary education, the U.S. remains stagnant and complacent, resulting in greater social inequity.

But schools and teachers take the blame for huge social inequities in housing, health care, and income.

to critique injustice; as a teacher educator, Ladson - Billings had noticed prospective teachers» unwillingness to bring social inequities into the classroom and sought to reverse that trend.

His narratives feature a world of increasing speed and complexity in which environmental disaster and social inequities continue to generate anxiety of a looming apocalypse.

This exhibition of some thirty artists — Renée Greene, Senga Nengudi, Adrian Piper, and Nari Ward among them — explores the ways Conceptualism has been recast to reflect and subvert deep - set social inequities.

«Egalitarian communitarians,» by the same logic, readily embrace the most dire climate - change forecasts because they perceive exactly the same thing but take delight at the prospect of radical limits on commerce, industry, and markets, which in their eyes are the source of myriad social inequities.

Aside from social inequity, one obvious effect of heavy car use that nobody can deny is the city's sluggish traffic.

Traditionally activists and social change agents have dealt with environmental and social issues separately, but the environmental justice (EJ) movement is working to connect social inequity and environmental degradation while mobilizing to address needs in both areas.

All across America, we are facing the increased threat of storms supercharged by climate change, which exacerbate existing social inequities in historically impacted communities.

Its findings, based on two years of research and data, were grim: It saw growing social inequities and the curtailing of the rule of law and political freedoms in about 40 nations, including some countries with rather advanced democracies.

Bubup Wilam supports families by assisting them to address the complex issues they face as a result of social inequities manifested by the oppressed position Aboriginal people hold in this country.

They've always been about social inequity and racial inequity and stereotypes of black men.

When public schools make a free, delicious, organic school lunch for every student, we not only address the critical social inequities of hunger and obesity, we truly nourish every child.

In addition, a significant number of these dissenters argued that the world will not flatten enough to wipe away persistent social inequities.

Climate change affects faith - based efforts to improve human health, mitigate poverty and address social inequity.

Collins, a distinguished professor at the University of Maryland, examined the dilemmas of changing freedoms and social inequities in her keynote address.

It doesn't imply that any particular CEO isn't worth the money, and it doesn't imply that any particular board is obligated to do the impossible, namely to «fix» the big problem of social inequity by paying its own CEO less.

In a world that is increasingly being crowded together, we ascertain curious evidence that the widening effects of overpopulation and social inequity are creating frightening shapes of self - consciousness.

In the face of social inequities he rests his reform program primarily on his own example (5:10 - 19).

The new Rainforest Alliance has a bold and ambitious goal: to accelerate and scale up our work to tackle today's most urgent challenges: climate change, social inequity, rural poverty, and biodiversity loss.

The Rainforest Alliance and UTZ have merged in response to the critical challenges facing humanity: deforestation, climate change, systemic poverty, and social inequity.

In his speeches, one frequent refrain is that «there's only one color» capable of rectifying the city's social inequities.

The model is an important tool in breaking the social inequity in oral health of children.

As with many of the previous films made by the prolific Belgian duo, their tenth narrative feature reveals the devastating effects of social inequities, which brutally entangle those who too often remain fundamentally invisible and entirely unknown.

I won't pretend to be knowledgeable enough on the subject to debate the blanket assertions, but he's overlooking some larger issues regarding systemic poverty and social inequities, while the tricky matter of private funding is elided altogether.»