It looms within the growing prison-industrial state, against the backdrop of school-reform debates, our slow movement toward gun reform and the political maneuvers by Republicans to make it increasingly more difficult for poor people and minorities to vote.
In most cases, the rules were written against the backdrop of the school shootings around the country in recent years.
Why are novels like "Prep" and "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" — and "The Catcher in the Rye," for that matter — classified as adult fiction, even though, like "Headlong," they're narrated by teen-agers against the backdrop of high school?
Why are novels like "Prep" and "Special Topics in Calamity Physics"—and "The Catcher in the Rye," for that matter classified as adult fiction, even though, like "Headlong," they're narrated by teen-agers against the backdrop of high school?
Against the backdrop of the school's familiar Gothic castles (fabricated, appropriately enough, from schist dug up during the construction of the nearby subway) are hoards of earnest-looking, dark-haired and bespectacled young men in jackets and ties milling, laughing, talking, eating, hamming it up, waving banners.
Against the vivid backdrop of recent fatal school shootings, elected officials across the country for the first time are coordinating efforts, sometimes with unlikely partners, to reduce the incidents of gun violence.
They were rapping with the backdrop of our amazing school chapel and Kate Middleton's boarding house, and I had a moment of self-realisation that maybe this was all a little bit stupid".
Told against the backdrop of Othello, the school play for which Amrith is auditioning, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea follows Amrith as he falls for a Canadian boy who comes to town – setting off a wave of confusion about himself and his identity.
Similarly, Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter emphasized the effect of the film's music-driven comedy set against the backdrop of a high school battle of the bands competition which manages to come up with a fresh backbeat for the familiar alienated teen refrain, boosted by a talented cast and authentic soundtrack.
The positive results of the school bus study surface against the backdrop of California's dwindling school bus transportation system, which transports one in eight students, down from one in four in the late 1970s.
