Sentences with phrase «upper middle class suburb»

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Large Apartments — These buildings are the larger, nicer complexes you see all around the country, often times in upper - middle class neighborhoods in the suburbs.

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisitedby philip eadehenry holt, 432 pages, $ 32 Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

According to Rah, «fifty years ago, if you were asked to describe a typical Christian in the world, you could confidently assert that person to be an upper middle - class, white male, living in an affluent and comfortable Midwest suburb.

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was born in 1903 to upper - middle - class Anglicans who lived in a suburb of London.

99 Ranch Market looks for middle - and upper - class suburbs that have a sizeable Asian population, he says.

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

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.) said the Senate plan, like the House bill, would harm middle and upper middle - class taxpayers on Long Island and in suburbs across the country — and warned House Republicans voting for their bills they could face defeat next year.

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.

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

In Saving Schools, I bring together insights from the work of a number of talented black scholars, who have tried to figure out why the black - white education gap was not closed by the well - integrated schools of Shaker Heights, Ohio, an upper - middle - class suburb close to Cleveland.

West Hartford, a district of 10,000 student and 16 schools in a mostly upper - middle - class suburb, has long attracted young parents with its reputation for stellar schools.

Therefore, the marketing of these schools in the private housing industry became a very important component of attracting white upper - middle - class families to the suburbs, exacerbating and continuing the issue of segregation in the public school system.

In these suburbs, black families are most likely in upper income brackets of the middle class, and thus more likely homeowners, which distinguishes them from lower - middle class blacks families who live in working class environments (Lacy, 2007).

Children from black families in white suburbs are also set up for further success because they learn cultural characteristics of the white upper and middle classes, which are typically favored in American society.

A man at the end of an ordinary workday, extracts himself from his upper - middle - class life and turns to foraging in the same affluent suburb where he once lived with his family.

In her most ambitious novel to date, critically acclaimed author Lily King sets her sharply insightful family drama in an upper - middle - class East Coast suburb where she traces a complex and volatile father - daughter relationship from the 1970s to the present day.

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

Mercer was shaped by her upper - middle - class upbringing in the New York suburb of Yorktown Heights, where her father then worked at IBM, pulling down a comfortable salary but not enough to cover college tuition for three daughters, friends said.