Sentences with phrase «account of one's life»

It was posted anonymously and provides an extremely detailed account of the life of a corporate attorney.
The book is less an evidence - driven case for a particular approach to education reform than a personal account of life in schools, leadership, and politics.
But personal accounts of my life and my feelings seemed so elusive and beyond my grasp.
So, join me for lots of honest accounts of life with kids and my mission to become the happiest mum I can possibly be.
May I not be found wanting when my time comes to give account of my life to Him who gave it to me in the first place.
My blog was one of very few resources I could find on the internet that gave a first person account of living with this condition.
Were in the Biblical account of his life can you find that he would have need of health care reform?
There are no reliable first hand accounts of his life (or lack thereof).
It was actually a slightly unsettling account of life under permanent observation.
I am recommending it to my friends and feel it is a pretty accurate account of their lives.
As the title suggests, it's one man's account of living through the dismal 1930s.
I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.
Plus, when you take money from the cash value account of a life insurance policy, you don't have to sell the asset, as you do with stocks.
If the policyholder expires during the premium paying years, then the child will get a lump sum payment on account of the life cover.
Since babies are naturally flexible (on account of life in the womb), it's possible for the ball to be loose in the socket.
This is one person's account of their life as a child victim of parental alienation, and the more positive outcome that arose as an adult.
Wolf Totem is a fictional account of life in the 1970s that draws on Lu's personal experience of the grasslands of China's border region.
The New York Times ArtsBeat Blog wrote that this novel will be «a fictionalized account of the life of Jesus that will differ from the version presented in the New Testament.»
This Programme is underpinned by the holistic understanding of children's lives set out in the National Children's Strategy 2000 - 2010, and takes account of the lives of all children as well as those with additional needs.
David gives a fascinating account of his life in the industry, from his early days of learning punch card computer programming to the formation of Codemasters, which led to early hits such as BMX Simulator before their talent for racing games emerged with the likes of fan - favourites Micro Machines, Colin McRae Rally and TOCA Touring Cars lapping up the charts.
The purpose of the Gospels is not to provide a historical reliable account of the life of Jesus.
It is difficult to know how accurate are some of the verbatim discussions recorded, but he gives an intimate account of life inside No 10 and his role as the PM's spinmeister.
None, not even Mark, sets out to write a full account of the life of Jesus.
Frankly, I think that we can make great arguments as to why we should generally trust the gospel accounts of the life of Jesus, but ultimately at the end of the day, we are simply going to have to take a step of faith.
Judy Barron's chronicle of Sean's life, his autism, and its impact on the entire family is based on journals she kept for years and describes as «a written account of a life we lived but never understood.»
Q. There's a nonfiction book out right now called Cold Zero by Christopher Whitcomb which is a first person account of life inside the FBI and the HRT.
POWER & RESPONSIBILITY is the third volume of Alastair Campbell's unique daily account of life at the centre of the Blair government.
The Danish Girl is based on David Ebershoff's fictionalised account of the life story of Lili Elbe, born Einar Wegener, who was one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery in 1930.
Attendees at RAV's 64th Annual General Meeting in October heard a comprehensive account of life for refugees from guest speaker, Dr Melika Yassin Sheikh - Eldin, Manager of Settlement Delivery Services at AMES.
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.
A personal account of life experiences and research in relation to the concepts of respect, identity, relatedness and education offered by an Indigenous Australian woman reared by a non-Indigenous family in a non-Indigenous community.
More recently, his reputation has been crowned with a four - volume catalogue raisonné, edited by Sarah Whitfield, who also published in 2013 a comprehensive account of his life and work.
In taking the real life minister Neal and his wife Lizzie and creating a fictionalized account of their lives on St. Kilda in the 1830's Altenberg has given the reader a novel that is historically interesting and emotionally rich.
By the second century AD, various religious sects were writing their own accounts of the life of Christ that bore little connection to the first - hand testimony of the Gospels.
Their priorities do not take account of the living conditions, needs, aspirations and capabilities of some 5 billion human beings, but are exclusively concerned with the interests of the social groups which, throughout the world, own the property and above all control decision - making regarding the allocation of the planet's material and immaterial resources.
Sir Richard Attenborough's long - in - the - making account of the life of Sir Charles Chaplin is a film you desperately want to like, but it emerges as a big, shiny, old - fashioned biopic that ultimately fails either to illuminate the genius of its subject or to excite as a story.
But Luke wrote to provide a reliable, chronological account of the life of Christ.
But Professor Behe and William A. Dembski argue that «intelligent design theory» gives us a better scientific account of living nature than does Darwinian biology.
A View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin MP - an interesting, witty and contemporary account of life as an MP and the inner workings of government.
On June 19, however, the New York Times published a critical account of his life titled «Italian Praised for Saving Jews is Now Seen as Nazi Collaborator.»
We have no eyewitness accounts of his life, which seems to be an amalgam of all of the various savior myths common in the Middle East at the time.
Helen Jones may not have enjoyed being a Labour whip, but she provides a lively account of life in the office.
I enjoyed reading War Trash, in that it was an excellent account of life as a Chinese prisoner of war during the Korean War.
So you can now read about the complex mathematics that comprise the work of Stephen Hawking (right) and a brief account of his life so far, as well as biographies of the dead.
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