Sentences with phrase «account of how»

I had expected that the account of how he recaptured his voice under the fatwa would itself demonstrate his imaginative freedom, that the form of the memoir would redeem its content, that Rushdie would use literary style to counteract extremist politics and to transform his straightened circumstances into a kaleidoscope of words.

For an additional activity, have students read Fleming's account of how Roosevelt responded after singer Marian Anderson was denied the right to perform at Washington D.C's Constitution Hall.

Finally, BookPage covers a lot of books for people interested in true crime, such as Deborah Blum's The Poisoner's Handbook, «a lushly detailed account of how the discipline and profession of forensic science emerged from the «poison playground» of 1920s New York to become an indispensable argumentative tool in the modern - day crime - fighter's arsenal.»

What follows is an extraordinarily detailed account of how Pi survives the sea and his wild companion, an account that is suddenly circumvented when — spoiler alert!

This book is an important account of how fear can spread hatred, and beyond that — what it takes to step outside of that hatred.

The book's powerful final chapter, «On Intervention,» offers a fascinating account of how Pardlo's younger brother, Robbie, became the subject of the A&E reality show «Intervention» in 2010.

The Long March is a gripping retelling of an amazing historical adventure, an eye - opening account of how Mao manipulated the event for his own purposes, and a beautiful document of a country balanced between legend and the truth.

Alan gives a very thorough account of how he did it in this blog post, which you might want to check out if you have a similar e-book project you'd like to undertake.

Here's one author's account of how it can be done.

It's an account of how things might have been.»

But it evolves into a broader account of how residents of New Orleans struggled to find safety and stability after the storm disrupted, and in some cases destroyed, their lives.

That man is Nicholas Van Tassel, and All He Ever Wanted is his account of how two lives changed from that tumultuous night forward.

It's also a clear and engaging account of how plant science works (something I didn't think I was interested in), a vivid account of living with bipolar disorder, and a call to action for the planet.

Here's his account of how he sold 10,000 books in the last 12 months:

We don't expect an account of how many times similar EPUBs will ever be sent but we'll add whatever estimate you can provide to those we get from other parties.

As Nadia and her friends, Luke and Aubrey, navigate their adult lives, Bennett's unforgettable characters and lively storytelling provide a realistic account of how powerfully the past can shape adulthood.

• Check out this eloquent account of how a woman with anosmia (lacking a sense of smell) found olfactory enlightenment through reading books.

Here's a firsthand account of how to use this new tool.

An anecdotal account of how one award - winning author made the transition from traditional publishing to electronic texts and her own publishing company.

This can give you an account of how many times the vehicle has changed hands and a collision repair history.

Goldstein, now with the New York Times, offers an engaging, thoughtful, and well - researched account of how teachers» work has evolved over the past two centuries.

Debbie Daniels Wallace Project Director Kentucky Department of Education 500 Mero Street, 17th Floor CPT Frankfort, KY 40601 [phone] x4735 [email protected] To read a journalistic account of how Louisville and other districts are testing this new way to help principals spend more time each day on instruction, see Improving Leadership for Learning: Stories from the Field.

To read a journalistic account of how Atlanta is «growing its own» school leaders through SABLE, see Improving Leadership for Learning: Stories from the Field.

Read this teacher's account of how Book Creator helped a student to learn English within 6 months of arriving in her classroom with no English ability.

In December, L.A. Weekly published the cover story «California's Parent Trigger,» which gives an exclusive, behind - the - scenes account of how parents and organizers worked together to use the Parent Trigger in Compton.

And our search for better frameworks must include an account of how teacher learning improves student learning.

But it was his wrenching account of how Christopher Gibson Elementary School treated black children that opened readers» eyes to the appalling educational policies and practices that were all too common in Boston in 1965.

«We take account of how students have performed in each exam series when we set grade boundaries, in order to ensure that standards are maintained.

Goldstein, now with the New York Times, offers an engaging, thoughtful, and well - researched account of how teachers» work has evolved over -LSB-...]

The authors draw on the latest research on assessment and education policy to provide a clear account of how the test works and to investigate PISA's influence on educational goals and practice in schools around the world.

KIPP has also just released, after requests from me and San Francisco blogger / journalist Caroline Grannan, a detailed account of how many KIPP middle - school graduates have gone on to college, the primary goal of KIPP instruction.

Meanwhile, Massachusetts, Missouri, and Tennessee did the best job of giving parents an honest account of how students are doing.

But these schools do not play the central role in this book: they make intermittent appearances, illustrating a very detailed account of how legal efforts have failed in the 56 years since the historic Brown decision to overcome the effects of the segregation of black and poor students.

In The Myth of the Common School (1988), a historical account of how the ideology of state schooling emerged, I traced the myth's development in 19th century France, the Netherlands, and the United States.

The text gives an account of how the Internet developed in the late 20th century and how it rose to prominence during the early 21st century After carefully reading the text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, gap filling exercises and engage in an in class discussion.

The text describes the possible reasons behind the construction of the pyramids and gives an account of how these ancient wonders were constructed.

Cribiore gives a detailed account of how children learned to write and read.

Music teacher Mark Wilbert continues Sammamish High School's blog series about the seven key elements for integrating PBL with an account of how an authentic assessment project increased student buy - in.

The story is based in part on a novel, in turn based on the true account of how Glass endured herculean challenges that included an angry bear, furious blizzards and greedy men to avenge wrongs perpetrated on him and his family.

Would his adaptation of The Disaster Artist — an almost criminally amusing account of how The Room came to be, co-written by one of the film's actual stars — treat the genesis of history's best bad movie as nothing but another vanity project?

A compelling, if niche, account of how tenacious»50s journo Jane Jacobs battled planning supremo Robert Moses to keep Greenwich Village, Soho and Little Italy from being wrecking - balled.

Unbelievably, Murphy has never read Kate Winslet's account of how she thought she would drown while filming Titanic.

When the show finally arrives at its official account of how the lead - up to Brian Wells» involvement played out, it's a deeply unsettling part of the finale.

A fictionalised version of a notorious real story, this is an unflinching account of how the rich and powerful live seemingly above the law.

Matthew Heineman «s «Cartel Land» is indeed a gruesome and riveting account of how the narco violence has kept entire towns in the state of Michoacán hostage, and how a group of civilians, the «Autodefensas,» took matters into their own hands and became a reactive form of rogue institution that had, initially, no ties to the federal government, but it's also a profoundly humanistic and intellectually complex work.

Spotlight, the feature film account of how The Boston Globe broke a major series of stories about the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandal that encompassed «not just Boston, it's the whole country, the whole world» as one character puts it, figured prominently at Deadline's The Contenders event Saturday.

André Singer's film provides a remarkable account of how a British Army Film Unit working under Sidney Bernstein set out to compile a visual record of the Nazi death camps.

His account of how Dark Odyssey was made and its exhibition history is as harrowing as the fate of the film's tragic hero.

However, the cameos pale in comparison to André's own revealing account of how he overcame his modest roots with the help of his mentor, doyenne Diana Vreeland, as well as Andy Warhol, Karl Lagerfeld and Vogue editor - in - chief Anna Wintour.

Not only does it begin with an account of how bits of movie dialogue (from «Rio Bravo,» «His Girl Friday») have entered her life, and the lives of her friends and colleagues, but it then segues into a great quotation from Steve Roman on SCTV (playing Juan Cortez, the first Puerto Rican Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court in the dramatic television series, «There's Justice for Everybody»): «It's got good actors, and that spells good acting.»