Sentences with phrase «suburban middle»

Field worker observations highlight the importance of kinship ties: «Johnnie's family and history are not contained in a single geographical area but rather in a kinship centered in two neighborhoods differentiated by social class and culture... Johnnie's mother, a beautician, lives in an inner - city St. Louis neighborhood... Johnnie's uncle, who works for the FBI, lives in the suburban middle - class area that surrounds Huntington High School [where Johnnie attends].»

Martha Rosler seeks to understand the strange customs of the suburban middle class.

His red, green and orange lens pulls us into the privacy of a suburban middle class, revealing a murky and surrealist mash up where a four legged human cavorts on wall - to - wall carpet.

★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: «Garry Winogrand» (through Sept. 21) Mr. Winogrand, who died at 56 in 1984, was the photographer laureate of urban and suburban middle - class life in the United States from the late 1950s through the»70s and beyond.

Carports and single car garages are often an important feature for almost every suburban middle - class neighborhood.

Consider the portrayal of suburban middle - class living in the novel.

This was done at a high - performing suburban middle school, and at an urban «beat the odds» elementary school featuring a high number of English Language Learners.

But time — along with the fact that half of all fourth - graders on free - and reduced - cost lunch in suburban schools are functionally illiterate — has proven that integration on its own doesn't deal with the systemic problems of low - quality teaching, shoddy curricula, lackluster leadership, and cultures of low expectations (especially for poor and minority kids) that plagues American public education even when those kids are put into suburban middle - class schools.

For example, a suburban middle - school teacher said that this topical curriculum was not something she could «follow week - to - week or day - to - day.»

As a suburban middle - school teacher stated, «I don't think I would want, necessarily, everything handed to me.

Thirdly, I was inspired by a suburban middle school principal who described the school's assessment practices.

In several studies in suburban middle schools, African - American and Latino students were asked during stressful moments to write about things most important to them — their relationships with friends or family or their personal interests.

Brenna was a second - year teacher at a suburban middle school.

Even these baby steps toward a real accountability system produced a fierce political backlash, led largely by suburban middle - and upper - middle - class families.

Suburban middle - aged couple Henry and Helen Sawyer (J.K. Simmons and Cara Seymour) are summoned to the hospital one day to see their estranged son of nearly 20 years, Gabriel (Lou Taylor Pucci).

They are a suburban middle class family, seemingly trapped in bad taste.

Annihilation opens in an unnamed small town in the Baltimore suburbs — just your typical suburban middle class home.

«The Wonder Years» debuted in 1988 following ABC's broadcast of Super Bowl XXII, and, for six memorable seasons, the series affectionately captured the angst of growing up in suburban middle - class America in the late»60s, as seen through the life and times of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage).

With Man Down, following the jarring, harshly lit opening sequence, Montiel plays with three time periods, the first being the picaresque, Apple - pie glow afforded white, suburban middle class folks who follow each other through familiar life trajectories.

I'd guess that with only two parties, people in the center of the spectrum might not feel as strongly drawn to either side, especially in the suburban middle class.

Upstate and suburban middle - class homeowners make up the largest group of supporters.

In a landmark experiment in 2006, Cohen and a colleague, Julio Garcia, tested a wise intervention designed to counteract this anxiety with a group of underachieving seventh - graders at a suburban middle school in New England.

S & H, as the company was known, benefited greatly from the rise of the suburban middle class after World War II.

I think one way to mitigate the pain for exurban areas in to put in place a land value tax as well, which would also tend to hit the urban hippies harder than the suburban middle class.

Not exact matches

Amazon Description: «From Woody Allen, «Crisis in Six Scenes» is a is a comedy that takes place in the 1960's during turbulent times in the United States and a middle class suburban family is visited by a guest who turns their household completely upside down.»

But then, that same justification doesn't apply to the upper - middle - class household paying under the table to have a deck built on the back of their suburban house.

The assumptions of cutthroat libertarianism were so embedded in the worldview of these lucky newcomers that they spoke as though the victims of tech - fueled displacement and gentrification had chosen to live in poverty and squalor, just as they themselves chose to learn to code, chose a management - track job at a major corporation, and chose to set themselves up for a comfortable upper - middle - class suburban life.

In Australia, the state governments control most planning and have discouraged suburban growth» to the benefit, Kotkin notes, of developers (and presumably of the politicians whose campaigns they support) and the detriment of middle - class people, who now face some of the world's highest housing prices.

«24 And the suburban church proved for Gibson Winter to be a middle - class enclave possessing little capacity for coherent belief distinct from that of the society that holds it captive.25

We tend to stick in our suburban, middle class sanctuaries - we are inundated by a world of upper class media and entertainment.

«I'm still in the middle of it,» Driscoll told a suburban Seattle church on May 17, according to the Seattle Times.

If you don't conform to a suburban, white, middle class lifestyle, you aren't going to fit in as easily in the evangelical church.

They almost always featured the collections of classics that middle class Americans bought to bring culture into their newly purchased suburban homes.

Baptist, suburban, middle - class parish that bored me silly as soon as I was able to read and write.

«How did the main effects of poetry,» he asks, «ever boil down to these: the genial revelation, the sweetly poignant middle - aged lament, the winsome ode to the suburban soul?»

Are we using most of our energies to protect ourselves from the real world, hiding within the sanctuaries of our middle - class homes and suburban shopping centers?

If it takes place, for instance, in a middle - class suburban congregation in the United States, it must deal with the issues and concerns of that congregation, but it must not do so at the expense of its catholic context.

He lives in a neat suburban house in the middle of a development on the outskirts of Orem, Utah.

«Anyone who opposes this measure and truly believes we should go back to the old way of doing business is out of touch with reality and the struggles of working and middle class suburban families.»

I'm sick and tired of suburban politicians citing «hurting the middle class» as their mantra against good policy that actually helps the middle and working class — i.e. those who commute by another other means than driving in the Central Business District (and somehow afford to park!)

As an adult I was pretty shocked to learn that many black parents (even middle - class suburban black parents) give their teenagers very explicit «how not to get shot by police during a traffic stop» instructions.

Troy residents criticized Bow Tie Cinemas» plan for 11 movie theaters at 1 Monument Square for being a suburban big box thrown into the middle of the city's Victorian downtown.

The people who live in these co-ops are fiercely committed to preserving the middle - class, suburban lifestyle they have worked to achieve.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

The 106 - member Democratic conference includes representatives of suburban, inner city, rural, wealthy, poor and middle - class neighborhoods.

I asked Kauffmann if the governor was moving back toward the middle now that he faces Astorino, a suburban county executive who has won in a Demcoratic - heavy area.

Flanagan and Sen. Jim Tedisco, a Republican from suburban Schenectady, said Cuomo was keeping the millionaires tax — which brings in $ 3.7 billion a year, and $ 700 million in the current fiscal year — but also proposing to trim tax rates for middle - income New Yorkers reporting between $ 40,000 and $ 300,000 in annual income.

There will be tweaks and give - and - take, but those same Republicans should have no problem signing on to initiatives that serve middle - class, suburban voters who are their core base.

«I say to my Republican friends from suburban districts with a high percentage of people who use the state and local deduction: If you think the results in Virginia and New Jersey were terrible for you, wait until you've passed a bill that raises taxes on large swaths of middle - class families in your districts,» he said on the Senate floor.

«It's going to help in suburban communities where middle class families are just trying to survive and they want to feel safe,» he said.