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...that her bicycle is stolen while she visits his shop, the young woman remains indefatigably chipper. And that's just the beginning of Leigh's film. As it develops she brings her good cheer to all kinds of situations - an encounter with a homeless man, a bully in her classroom, a difficult relationship with her more bourgeois sister and her dismal husband. Poppy's peppiness sustains her in other, less dramatically pointed ways as well. Like a lot of single working women, she makes a life with her girl friends - disco dancing, afternoons in the park, modest attempts at self...
...Both have done very well in their studies, but have also exhibited leadership inside and outside the classroom,” said Jenny Hildebrand, a marketing manager for the Siebel Foundation...
...beliefs on dinosaurs are unless she states them, which to date she hasn’t. Moreover, there is reason to believe the rumors are true.During the 2006 Alaska governor’s race, Palin stated that creationism and evolution should both be taught in the classroom, but that her opinion was not to prohibit debate and that creationism “doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”Therefore, she is undoubtedly in the league of people who believe that there can be a religious explanation for the creation of the universe...
...right” clothes and brands reinforces socioeconomic inequalities among students and permits implicit fashion requirements for friendship. On a more concrete level, requiring uniforms will prevent students wearing gang-related clothing and accessories—a serious problem in Hartford schools—from infecting the classroom learning environment. Freedom of expression may be an important part of our social fabric, but when graduation and proficiency rates are plummeting, fostering academic proficiency must be priority. While uniforms do not offer a holistic solution to the problems of academic achievement, they do present a simple positive step that inner city...
...their own to support. Jana Simmons, 26, a Ph.D candidate in biochemistry, started going to the food bank last summer shortly after her daughter was born. Simmons' husband is a certified teacher, but in the state's struggling economy, she says, he hasn't been able to find a classroom job in over four years, working as a roofer instead. Simmons' stipend, meanwhile, "isn't enough to live on," she says. Paying for day-care and diapers on top of a commute that was already growing more expensive as gas prices rose, she adds, "puts a big strain...