Sentences with phrase «upper middle class world»

SYNOPSIS: Sandra's upper middle class world falls apart when she discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend.

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It would be very simple if the world was one neighbor hood and 75 % were middle class and 15 % were upper middle 5 % rich and 5 % poor.

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.

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

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.

Middle or upper class Americans who feel depressed can be doubly assaulted, first by their emotional condition and second by their knowledge that, compared to those in the developing world, they still have so much to be thankful for even if they can find no thanks to give.

There is this tendency within certain sectors of Christianity to assume that if our theology «works» for relatively privileged (often for straight, upper - middle - class, Western men), then it should work well enough for everyone else, and the rest of the world should conform to it.

Especially among upper middle class and affluent parents, there's a strong belief that going to a top - tier college — especially one in the Ivy League — will provide unimaginable advantages in the professional world.

It seems to me that a lot of the excitement around noncognitive skills comes from middle class and upper - middle class parents who want to know how their children can be as successful as possible in an ever more competitive world.

But only middle and upper classes across the world; still, most of the overweight and obese in the world is in the low and middle - income population.

In 2006 Pierre agreed to participate in a small world experiment with Watts and ABC News that addressed two of the criticisms of small world research: that no studies had ever been played out in real time, and that the people who had participated in the chains tended be educated, white, and middle or upper class.

Whereas Chanel had no formal education but a great deal of experience of the ways of the world, Schiaparelli was from Italian upper middle - class academic stock, which gave her the assurance to make fashion not just amusing but outrageously so.

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.

One very useful aspect of Denby's film criticism, apart from its beautifully chiseled prose style, is the way it reliably, often hilariously, reflects a middle - class or upper - class blindness to the world everyone else inhabits.

This practice works best as a response to gaps in cultural learning and representation that happen when curriculum is perceived to have too narrow a focus on a white, middle - to - upper - class, male - dominated view of the world.

«There are districts with every risk factor in the world that are seeing results much more exciting than schools taking upper middle class kids and not screwing them up,» Carr told Education Wworld that are seeing results much more exciting than schools taking upper middle class kids and not screwing them up,» Carr told Education WorldWorld.

The first subdivisions were developed just after World War II and since then, the area has become a haven for upper - middle class families.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.