Sentences with phrase «upper class communities»

Farmer's markets remain entrenched in middle and upper class communities.

«Working, middle and upper class communities should have the ability to enjoy this resource equally,» Rodriguez said at the meeting, according to AM New York.

Not exact matches

As a former activist, she believes that it's hard to reach lower - income communities if you have a staff that's upper middle class.

Those who choose this approach must beware lest they end up as self - centered and self - righteous communities of upper middle class people playing at being poor, preoccupied with their own problems and contributing little or nothing to helping others or to resolving the world's problems.

(Crack cocaine tends to be more prevalent in low - income minority communities while powder cocaine is primarily used in upper - class, white communities.)

A congregation of moderate size located in an upper - middle - class bedroom community in New England, Wiltshire offered the scholars a chance to demonstrate the range of insight that could be gained through the use of their specific disciplines in the service of congregational analysis.

To be sure, the Christian community to whom Paul wrote was not exactly the upper class of this metropolis; in all likelihood, its members were mostly what we would today call lower middle class.

With all its dubious aspects admitted, Deuteronomy is still a remarkable recovery of Yahwist order, when held against the practice of Judah under Manasseh; and when held against the alternative of a complete destruction of Yahwist order through the Exile and the dispersion of the upper class, it has proved to be its salvation in the form of the Jewish postexilic community).9

So to say that medieval peasants fared better in diet than the rich is wrong BUT in the modern context, if you compared eating standards of poor communities and the upper class in countries such as Guatemala or El Salvador, this assumption is more correct.

Since then it is Arsenal who have had the upper hand, notably when beating the Blues in the FA Cup Final and in this season's Community Shield, despite being classed as the underdogs.

At the beginning of the 20th century the promise of safer and less painful labor by the medical community resulted in more women of the upper classes having their babies in hospitals.

The researchers set out to look at the relationship between homework load and student well - being in the upper middle class advantaged communities (where median household income is more than $ 90,000, and 93 percent of students go to college) because it is there that homework is largely accepted as having value.

Local communities secretary Hazel Blears sounded a contrite note earlier in the evening over the controversial leaflet distributed by Labour activists in Crewe which portrayed the Conservative candidate as an upper class toff.

Growing up in an upper - middle - class community in Munich, he was, he says, a «very, very, very bad kid.»

While socioeconomic status is a major contributor to the greater burden of heart disease and stroke in African Americans, the statement notes that among the growing middle - and upper - class African American community, health outcomes are still poorer in African Americans, even when their socioeconomic status is comparable to white Americans.

The upper - class communities of cities worldwide are home to the rich.

There are countless sites dedicated towards the Jewish, Asian, Catholic or black community, but there are also those sites catering to seniors, intellectuals, or upper class entrepreneurs.

Todd Haynes's own gorgeous replica has them both beat: His sexually neglected heroine (a flawless Julianne Moore) not only earns the opprobrium of her uptight, upper - class community by becoming romantically linked to a «Negro,» but she now has a gay husband (Dennis Quaid) as well.

In the middle of the last decade, in urban communities across America, middle - class and upper - middle - class parents started sending their children to public schools again — schools that for decades had overwhelmingly served poor and (and overwhelmingly minority) populations.

And in many middle - and upper - middle class communities, according to psychologist Richard Weissbourd, today's most «potent ingredient» is «achievement pressure» — the pressure to excel across academic subjects and a wide range of extracurriculars, culminating in the stress of putting together an impeccable college admissions package.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.

Decreasing excessive achievement pressure in middle - and upper - class communities.

Teaneck, N.J. — The jailing of teachers seemed bizarre, out of place, in Teaneck, a liberal, upper - middle - class community of 40,000 where parents discuss where, not whether, their children will attend college.

Even in upper - middle - class communities, not all parents want the same things for their kids.

Those in opposition to free community college argue that beneficiaries end up coming from upper - middle class backgrounds rather than low - income households.

The activity can be used in a variety of social studies lessons — from an exploration of the local community to a class on international studies — and in both the upper elementary grades and middle school.

Opt - out fever tends to afflict white and upper class suburban communities.

In the early to mid 80's Atlanta experienced what some cities call white flight; when masses of white citizens / upper class citizens relocate from a particular community.

For middle and upper class Americans, «summer vacation» frequently entails family vacations, camps and local enrichment programs (sports / arts / music) provided privately or by community - based organizations.

In support of the academic mission, the schools work constantly to inculcate decorum and refinement, according to the unspoken rules of deportment that characterize middle - and upper - class families, schools, and communities.

Lower - and upper - class communities have separated geographically and diverged in family structure, habits, outlook, and criminality.

We also have problems educating the privileged youth of America's upper - class communities, who sometimes seem not to understand the responsibilities that come with our democracy and the role each of us must play to maintain the commons.

The lower - class whites in the community were not too excited by this move and felt betrayed by the upper - class whites.

The upper class can use its money to buy itself tax advantages, legal wizardry and gated communities that keep the rest out.

The community of Mount Prospect is described as an «upper middle class village» in the Cook County area of the Chicagoland suburbs.

What was once a buzzing summertime community for Portland's upper class as well as a depot for the Clamshell Rail Road is now a quiet small town rich with history and full of charm.

Regarding the latter, Mourão's incorporation of quotidian items is more than an aesthetic decision; these elements offer social commentary and satirize living conditions in some of Brazil's urban centers, where upper - and middle - class families reside in gated neighborhoods, fenced off from the larger community.

I am referring here to a section of London's contemporary arts community comprising largely, but not exclusively, white middle - or upper - middle - class artists; a section unburdened by histories of oppression, suffused with privilege and the necessary leisure time available for seekership.

The tapestries, which were woven on a computerized loom, are the result of a tour of England Perry made last year for a three - part television documentary on taste, for which he embedded himself in a working - class industrial town, a middle - class housing estate, and an upper - class rural community.

It has been suggested that cultural ideals for thinness that exist in White middle and upper - middle class communities are in direct conflict with the normal increases in body fat that occur during puberty.

More comprehensive childhood adversity measures exist but may not reflect inner - city youth experiences, as these measures were designed from interviews with mostly white, middle to upper middle class youth from rural and suburban communities.29 — 36

(Swartz, 2012) Historically, the development of the DV shelter movement and community - based interventions emerged from predominantly Caucasian populations with an upper - middle class socioeconomic status.

The data were collected from 506 (50 % female) middle school students from a predominately white, upper middle class community.

In fact, Snyder's research revealed a pattern: Gated communities first appear in an area at the upper end and then «explode» at a variety of price points, including middle - class developments.