Sentences with phrase «working class act»

I can not tell you how much I love being around creative, hard working class act women.

... [H] is positions on the issues is secondary to the question of whether his politics are helping the working class act for itself or subsume itself under the big business interests in charge of the Democratic Party.

This is despite our Victorian ancestors considering that rented residential accommodation should be «fit for human habitation» (s. 12 of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1885).

Not exact matches

Agricultural workers were also eligible to work legally under the temporary worker — H class visa — created by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952, although this program was primarily used for nonagricultural workers.

It is true that the official class of the Jewish people welcomed the Roman rule, which gave peace to the land and, in the very act of depriving the race of its national existence, allowed the religious man to work in peace and live faithful to the Law.

He perhaps does not offer the same tireless work rate and that burning South American style desire, but he is a class act with great technical ability, pace and finishing power.

But let's get one thing straight that does not mean ramsey is a class act etc etc far from it he is bang average and yes wenger is purely playing him becuase of his work rate nothing else, the guy is clumsy, dilly dallys on the ball too often slowing things down if it wasn't for the excellent bellerin the right hand side would be non existent.

Lemar is class act but do nt expect it arsenal is a club buys one exceptional talent each year and lose two this year they have already got two saad and laca its just rumour created to show fans how hard they r working in the window lemar is better than other lads in monaco he is going no where this year he will get monaco full price of the money if he comes in arsenal they will be champions of champion only one condition when Sanchez leaves he will be in otherwise no

I have known Dora for many years from my years working as a FSD in Texas and she has always been a class act when representing herself, the School Nutrition Association and the thousands of students we serve every day.

By the way — the folks who run BlogAds.com are a class act, very willing to help with advice, and it's been a pleasure working with them to help launch some of these campaigns.

Law students working with Yale's legal services organization plan to file a class - action lawsuit in Federal District Court today against Gov. Dannel Malloy of Connecticut and the state's acting and former health commissioners on behalf of residents affected by Connecticut's Ebola quarantine policies, including two who were Yale graduate students.

, Its true not many Americans can work overseas jobs, Who cares profits are up and the owners are happy, Its easy, I just hide my glee and act sappy, Let me just be straight with you, Don't act up there's nothing you can do, Matt Doheny and «Wall Street» own you, Middle Class people when it comes to the things I worship, You sad little victims haven't a clue, «Cut the Bush Tax Cuts», How rude of you, I'm running for Congress to keep things the same, You can't find a job, Your just so lame

With local stories pouring in each day of the very real ways the Tea Party shutdown is hurting the middle class, it's time Republicans in Congress come to grips with reality that the Affordable Care Act is the law of the land, that it was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, and that it's working.»

Nor do I know if she supports our goal of building an independent left party of the working class majority that is free to act without the compromising entanglements of the major parties with their wealthy corporate funders.

It was the Conservatives who extended the franchise to the working class (Reform Act 1867) and gave equal votes to women (Representation of the People Act 1928)- David Lloyd George's government in 1918 only gave votes to some women.

It acts primarily acts as a highly regressive form of taxation on working - and middle - class local gamblers.

Ralph Nader will rally the campaign supporters and volunteers to get out the vote for Howie Hawkins and will highlight the Green Party's agenda including: acting on climate change and clean energy, banning fracking, raising the minimum wage to $ 15, creating public sector jobs, creating and protecting affordable housing for the working and middle classes, legalizing marijuana, fighting for economic justice and criminal justice reform.

For some years now, a new class of drugs called antibody - drug conjugates (ADCs) have been used, which work in two ways: they consist of an antibody that binds selectively to the tumor cell receptor and interrupts the signal to propagate; they also act as a transport vehicle for a chemical substance that enters the cancer cells with the antibody and triggers their death.

Helping to found a Black Women's organization; allocating money through the Finance Board of the Student Government; taking classes; tutoring; TAing; working at the front desk of my dormitory; acting; and my friends all kept me happy and busy.

Kent also draws on his experience working with Baltimore City Parks and Recreations Department as a youth activities coordinator, leading drama and acting classes for K - 12 students.

He began working as a landscaper and laborer for a construction company and as a bartender at night so he could pay for acting classes in Manhattan with John Strassberg.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

The lowdown: 13 - year - old Jacob tries to deal with his grieving, mostly absent dad (Aaron Paul), and protect his younger brother, in this well - acted but very familiar tale of working - class Southern family dysfunction.

Just being able to watch her work up close is like taking a master class in acting.

I got to sit through a master class in acting, just by working with them every day.»

The opening scene, in which Tommy and Greg (played by James Franco's brother, Dave) meet in acting class, does a really good job of making us understand, in such a short amount of time, why Greg would be drawn to a dude like Tommy in the first place: He's failing to connect with his own work, and then sees this wild, off - his - rocker older guy give an indescribable, balls - to - the - wall interpretation of Brando in Streetcar that makes zero sense.

What follows is essentially a biopic of a sort, as Greg is taken by Tommy's lack of tact and utter fearlessness in an acting class, following him to LA and working with him to create The Room when it becomes clear the Hollywood system won't have him.

It tells of a man who «plateaus» in life, after his acting career fails to materialize, his girlfriend (Judy Greer) dumps him, and a student (Michael Cera) in the acting class that he teaches gets better work.

Scenes in San Francisco, where Cate Blanchett's Jasmine is forced to relocate after she loses her riches, are somewhat more novel within the Allen oeuvre, but most of the working - class characters also seem stock, enlivened only by the acting skills of Bobby Cannavale and a surprisingly adroit Andrew Dice Clay.

Ten years after moving from Israel to the United States and starting her career with modeling work and acting classes, her latest role as Jenna in Greta Gerwig's celebrated new film Lady Bird has put her on the map, and, with a number of upcoming movies, the young actress is one to watch.

But in the class, looking on after failing to work up the nerve to put together any acting chops, is Greg Sestero (Dave Franco).

Multi-award winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern says he struggles to find actors to play working class roles because «only the posh ones who can afford to go into acting.»

Marion is a double - shift - working psych ward nurse, who lives with her husband Larry (Tracy Letts, acting older than he is), sullen adopted son Miguel (Jordan Rodrigues), and Lady Bird in a lower - middle class neighborhood.

The movie tries earnestly to blend wry humor with a no - nonsense charm deemed appropriate for its working - class characters, but the acting and scripting are too uneven for either the drama or the comedy to gather much steam.

I know if I don't work for five or six years, maybe it will be harder for me to get a film, but if I'm not booking films, I will bust my ass at acting class because if I'm still passionate about acting, why wouldn't I want to improve my craft.»

Chris Smith (an annoying Emile Hirsch), a working - class stiff and part - time drug dealer, and none too bright, decides to hire a contract killer (whose day job is being a police detective) to dispose of his mother, Adele, who, he thinks, has stolen from him (an act which has put him in trouble with some local gangsters).

Although this material is familiar enough in outline, and succumbs to some slightly schematic emotional complications, there's much that's impressive: Michelle Rodriguez's fiercely self - possessed, emotionally nuanced lead performance, an unostentatious, completely authoritative sense of the boxing and working - class milieu, excellent cinematography and production design, and fully imagined and well - acted secondary characters such as Jaime Tirelli's trainer and Santiago Douglas's boyfriend.

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«My mom used [our undocumented status] as a way to get me to excel in school because she knew the only way I could go to college was to get into an elite school that would give me a full scholarship,» says Diaz, co-director of Act on a Dream, who was at the top of her high school class until her senior year, when her dad lost his job and she began working at Burger King 35 hours a week to support her family.

«The common assumption is that teens who dress in a certain way or act tough are in gangs or aspire to lives outside mainstream society,» said Warikoo, a second generation Indian American who grew up in a working class town in Pennsylvania.

Indeed, variants on acting white have been spotted by ethnographers among the Buraku outcasts of Japan, Italian immigrants in Boston's West End, the Maori of New Zealand, and the British working class, among others.

Outside of class, they often work long hours to help support their families, or they act as essential caregivers to younger siblings.

There are also peer networks that can work really well for beginning teachers but again these meetings that we put together for these young people, or inexperienced teachers I guess, we need to have more experienced teachers that are acting as mentors but also that can steer those conversations more towards problem solving and critical discussions, rather than a venting of «what happened in my class last week», «what disaster occurred».

I used these with my P6 class and had them working in groups to act re-enact the scenarios...

«I liked working with the grade 10s because I have never acted out a play and worked with a different class or grade.»

The argument also goes that since students watch most teacher lectures at home and are receiving instruction as homework, they can spend class time working through any gaps or misunderstandings around the content with the teacher acting as «guide on the side.»

If students are stuck on their work, they can view a video for each activity or ask a friend for help — the computer recommends classmates to act as peer tutors, based on the strengths of other students in the class.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 21 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 77 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (7 sheets) * Homework project (7 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills * End - of - unit reading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 4 - 7, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Contexts match - up * Exploring working class vs. middle class stereotypes * Shared reading and discussion of the whole play * Creating theatre publicity posters * In - depth analysis of key scnes (Act 1 Scene 1; Act 2 Scene 1; Act 2 Scene 5) * Writing to describe - script to prose * Features of writing to inform and explain * AfL - improving a sample application letter * Role play - creating and performing an extra scene for the play * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * Huge 60 - question revision quiz * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

Attending all classes every day; Functioning in a college environment Acting appropriately in a professional / public environment; Following the student code of conduct handbook; Completing all state and federal mandates (complete and update an Educational Development Plan, take the state assessment, etc.); Maintain successful academic work in both high school and college courses

Have students work in small groups to act out one part of the story for the class.