Sentences with phrase «way out of the ghetto»

There are several other syndication characteristics in religious programing which indicate that though the commercial emphasis of paid - time religious programs was designed to help them buy their way out of the ghetto, it may have forced them more deeply into it.

And like the icons they adore, they dream of shooting their way out of the ghetto and leaving the life of crime behind to become famous hip - hop stars.

Yvette, who has nothing, finds a way out of the ghetto where she had to protect herself and her virtue with a knife.

Some of his pieces explore the association of basketball and young black men, commenting on the almost impossible aspirations of sports stardom as a way out of the ghetto.

Other works play on the association of basketball and young black men, such as drawings made by repeatedly bouncing a dirty basketball on huge sheets of clean white paper set on the floor; a series of larger - than - life basketball hoops, meticulously decorated with bottle caps, evoking Islamic mosaic and design; and Higher Goals (1986), where an ordinary basketball hoop, net, and backboard are set on a three - story high pole - commenting on the almost impossible aspirations of sports stardom as a way out of the ghetto.

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By strong audience cultivation and solicitation, evangelical broadcasters claim they have been able to buy their way out of the religious ghetto and resist pressures to modify their strong doctrinal content.

One ethnographer observed the appeal of the street lifestyle this way: «The ghetto street culture can be glamorous and seductive to the adolescent, promising its followers the chance of being «hip» and popular with certain «cool» peers who hang out on the streets or near the neighborhood school....