Sentences with phrase «upper class families»

13 — 25 year old, single males from middle to upper class families who live in regions that experience winter conditions part of the year.

Response While many schools that adopt Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) models are low - performing and do serve significant numbers of children from low - income families, there are also many mid-to-high performing schools using CSR models that serve children from middle and upper class families.

The fees cause some upper class families to not use the universal program.

I'm from an upper class family and very well educated, so I'm thinking you're the one from the trailer park.

Summary Capsule: The squandered potential of an upper class family of geniuses gets one last chance at redemption when the deadbeat dad, the architect of their woes, attempts to win his back into the fold.

It doesn't help that they're a part of a slightly upper class family.

An adopted black sheep, Dorian has opted not to inherit his upper class family's embalming empire and his acting out has gotten him sent to live with his uncle, hoofing it to the water park and everywhere else he needs to go.

Very sharp portrayal of the «upstairs / downstairs» culture within upper class family homes.

As a child in an upper class family in Moscow, Kandinsky displayed a gift for the arts and music, and was given private lessons in drawing, cello, and piano.

Not exact matches

Middle class families becoming upper income families....

I'm 13, live in an upper middle - class family, have good grades in school, and wan't to start planning out my future now.

A common frustration shared by both family offices and those hoping to work with family offices is the experience of a person misrepresenting themselves as a family office or ultra-high-net-worth individual only to find that the person is either exaggerating, lying, or simply misunderstanding the distinction between a large single family office and an upper - class family.

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

Osberg grew up near Philadelphia in an upper - middle - class family of Italian immigrants.

Middle and upper class couples limit their families, oftentimes because BOTH parents have careers they don't want to be derailed from for too long.

Then there's something commonly known as the «Proclamation on the Family,» which is often framed and displayed in homes — though rarely in upper - class households, said Joanna Brooks, author of «The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith.»

At the other end of the spectrum, children in middle - to - upper - class families grow up knowing that college, work, and a strong family are all desirable and attainable.

His family belonged to the upper classes of Tarsian society, for Paul was a Roman citizen by birth (Acts 22.27 - ~ -8) as well as a citizen of Tarsus (21.39).

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

His family instilled in him a certain upper - middle - class reserve.

Older children would co-sleep with siblings, with a member of the extended family or, for the upper classes, with a servant or nurse - maid.

I had been raised in an upper middle class family in the Chicago suburbs and, for the most part, had a great childhood.

Edward John Mostyn Bowlby was born in London to an upper - middle - class family.

To borrow a baseball analogy, those born «on first base», to upper - class families with inheritances up to $ 1 million — make up 22 % of the 400.

I'll be honest I'm upper middle class but half my family and my best friend are working class.

That could cost some typical middle - class families and upper middle - class families with high property taxes a lot of money.

The flip side, according to this view, is that Clinton accentuated too many issues that appeal to a narrower band of upper - middle - class college - educated voters, women in particular — things like paid family leave and pay equity.

As Chingos said, the concessions to middle - class (and upper - class) families «raise the concern that the drift is in helping politically vocal middle - and - upper - middle - class families as opposed to doing more for lower - income families.»

And, historically at least, upper ranks in the RC church were filled by people from aristocratic families with a class distinction existing between them and others.

However, Janet Bowers, a math education researcher at San Diego State University in California, notes that 70 % of the subjects came from middle - and upper - middle class families and questions whether the result can be generalized.

In a story that is part history, part fantasy, The House of the Spirits follows three generations of an upper - class Chilean family struggling to live and love.

Black tie was a semi formal look acceptable for immediate family dinners, and upper middle - class men.

Likewise, it could be the other way round and you are the girl from an upper - middle - class family, while your man has a working class.

I come from an upper middle class family.

Perhaps surprisingly, SeekingArrangement said many of its student members do not, in fact, hail from low income families: 56 percent come from middle and upper - middle class families, while 20 percent are from high income families.

After her father's project reached completion, Nicole and her family returned to Australia.Raised in the upper - middle - class Sydney suburb of Longueville for the remainder of the 1970s and well into the eighties, Kidman grew up infused with a love of the arts, particularly dance and theatre.

Reed Between the Lines is instead a totemic analogy, bemoaning in sitcom form the lack of well - adjusted black families living in upper - middle - class splendor on network TV.

His link to the outside world is his upper - middle class bother Tony (Obba Babatunde), the only family member who's come to visit him in the half - decade he's been in jail.

Unfortunately, he decided to cram most of those narrative threads together in Wish I Was Here, a muddled comedy that feels more like a vanity project than a profound examination of upper - middle class family dynamics.

Tyne Daly ages and ages (courtesy of a sympathetic makeup staff) as the matriarch of an upper - class Connecticut family.

They come from different socioeconomic backgrounds, however, with Florence's family representing the upper middle class that looks down on people of Edward's more humble status.

The film's prologue touts the British village home to average middle class families, but it's quite clear the Miniver family are part of the modern upper class; with a substantial disposable income, a housemaid, and a cook, they also maintain British reserve to sometimes irrational, and rather precious degrees.

Hardly the hearty tale of maritime adventure that the title suggests, The Squid and the Whale is a coming - of - age drama that focuses on how the four members of an upper - middle - class New York family and how they react to the imminent divorce of the parents.

Wells treats his story like it's a set of bullet points about the perniciousness of stockholder - driven business decisions, never letting a single «the upper - middle class has it tough, too» or «our families are the real wealth» moment slip past him.

It's about a very bad Thanksgiving break for a couple upper middle class families in the 70s.

In the film, «the heroine, Liz Bennett (James), is pressured by her family to marry into a wealthy upper - class home but chafes at the stiff social mores of Victorian England.

Her intention being to steer away from the «scruffy, slumpy and bumpy» style typically adopted by upper - middle class families during the period and create something of utmost couture instead.

Vera cleans the houses of several upper - middle - class families; at home, too, she's the cook and cleaner - upper.

For her second narrative feature Los Perros, which premiered in Le Semane de Critique at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Marcela tells the story of an upper - class housewife whose complicated relationship with her horse - riding instructor forces her to confront her family's complicity in the oppressive regime that gave her a life of privilege.

The muse for the character of Danny (played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.