Sentences with phrase «working class background getting»

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If he didn't possess that talent he may well have ended up as just another statistic, a young person from a working class background and broken home who got into trouble and never recovered.

Sadiq vowed «nothing was off the table» when it comes to Labour's drive to get more people from ethnic minorities and working class backgrounds into senior posts.

«One thing I think as someone coming from my working class background always got my gut about the Labour party is they're prepared to abandon people on large estates, happy to see them on a life of dole, happy to see them getting a substandard education.

«I do not want my wealth to change the way I, as a working class boy, lead my life or get in the way of my many friendships with people with a similar background to myself.»

The most powerful advantage for students from working - class backgrounds is the resilience and «enormous fortitude» they have already demonstrated in getting where they are, says Reay, whose Ph.D. students come mostly from working - class backgrounds.

Indeed, it goes to the heart of the American promise of equal opportunity: No matter your background or family circumstance, you have a shot at a middle - class life if you work hard and get a good education.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

When I was a student, many years ago I got a grant and tuition fees that I didn't have to repay, and I had friends, like myself, from working class backgrounds who would not have gone onto further education, but for the fact it was FREE.