Sentences with phrase «at a history lesson»

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When Flombaum teaches computer - science courses, he uses storytelling skills acquired while studying creative writing, and incorporates history into his lessons, including highlighting the programmer who created the concept at hand.

«In the middle of the 20th century, it was the most famous, the most admired, the most widely respected company in the world,» says Quinn Mills, professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of «The IBM Lesson» and other books about the company's history and culture.

Judson Laipply launched his speaking career with stories and lessons drawn from his eclectic work history, including stints on a cruise ship, at a summer camp, and as a housepainter.

Lastly, I want to finish up on the lessons that you've learned from doing this and what the lessons are we can have today looking backwards at history.

«Let me add a lesson from history: Coke went public in 1919 at $ 40 per share.

Some of those early lessons are ones that I've stared at and replicated so many times that I think of them as laws of investing - «canonical» or «textbook» truths about favorable and hostile markets that seem to hold true within nearly every subset of history and across international markets as well.

My caution was perhaps the product of the hard lessons I have learned during the three years that I, a confirmed Protestant, have taught church history at a Roman Catholic seminary located within the confines of a Benedictine priory — a seminary for the education of men with belated vocations.

History never disappears, either, and the lessons of our evolutionary and cultural past can be ignored only at our peril.

You need a history lesson, start with the wars of Muhammad, read about the slave raids into Christendom by the Caliphates, study the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottomans, and finish today with the persecution of Christians.

After a quick history lesson on Kroger we followed that up with lunch, made using items from the Private Selection and Simple Truth brands sold exclusively at Kroger.

I know right about now you want to give me a history lesson about Jack's contributions over his entire career at Arsenal... But at the end of the day he's 23y.o.

He begins our history lesson in perfect idiomatic English: «You must realize that the Savoie has been a part of France for no time at all — only since 1860 — not even as long as our Caribbean possessions, which we got in the 17th century.

This weekend's picks include an «owl prowl» at Crowder County Park in Apex, immersion in international art at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, a bird identification 101 program in Raleigh, a performance and history lesson about the evolution of the horn at Duke Gardens in Durham, and Carolina Parent's 2018 Summer, Track - Out and Residential Camp Fair at Embassy Suites in Cary.

«At Waldorf, we are excited to see students in the high school singing the elements of the periodic table, staging plays in Spanish, drawing in Math, producing short videos for Shakespeare lessons and conveying, through abstraction, the history of language through circus arts and acrobatics.»

My history lesson truly began at the turn of the century, when I travelled with Ruth back to her birthplace, Siauliai (Shavl in Yiddish), in northern Lithuania.

A pair of passionate protests took aim at a Bronx middle school principal who's accused of barring a teacher from giving black history lessons.

While stuck at the airport in Tyler, Texas yesterday, I ran across a fascinating history lesson in the comments section of a random Sadly, No article.

We have a rollicking parliamentary lesson in «pairing», «nodding through», «wrecking amendments» and the rather ominous «usual channels» — and to avoid too much of a history lesson for an evening at the theatre, it's all set to a soundtrack of David Bowie and Sex Pistols, provided by a live band playing in front of Big Ben's sad old face.

Katrina vanden Heuvel provides a history lesson on fusion voting, noting this isn't the first time the establishment has taken aim at third parties.

Osinbajo, who delivered the president's oration at the funeral service, described Adebayo as an officer and a gentleman indeed, saying his military trajectory was in a way a lesson in Nigeria's history.

Cuomo's history lesson seemed to be aimed at Senate Democrats, who are looking ahead to 2016 with high hopes of taking the majority and removing the stain of their cursed 2009 - 10 control — or «control» — of the chamber.

Predicting pandemics might still be impossible, but with millions of lives at stake, researchers are using the latest science and lessons from history to best prepare for the next big one

The meeting's attendees were treated at the outset to a round of inspiration from David Shoemaker, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Cambridge, who walked them through the observatory's history as an object lesson in how to succeed with large - scale science.

«Hydra have the simplest «brain» in the history of the earth, so we might have a shot at understanding those first and then applying those lessons to more complicated brains,» he says.

Adapted from a novel by Bodil Steensen - Leth, the script from Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg doesn't overly concern itself with feeding you a history lesson, but rather gets the necessary information out while building mostly around that passionate struggle at the heart of the picture.

What is important about this film is not that it serves as a history lesson (although it does) but that, at a time when the threat of nuclear holocaust hangs ominously in the air, it reminds us that we are, after all, human, and thus capable of the most extraordinary and wonderful achievements, simply through the use of our imagination, our will, and our sense of right.

It manages to work unused concept art, classic Double Fine characters and Eddie Riggs all into the same strip, giving us a history lesson and putting a smile on our faces all at the same time.

Peary builds his film as a sort of history lesson on the rise and development of film criticism from the early days prior to the release of The Birth of a Nation, the Sarris / Kael war, to Bowsley Crowther's 27 - year reign as top critic at The New York Times and even touching a little on the New World of the internet where everyone has the potential to be a critic.

All of the boxes for wholesome family entertainment are checked with this animated drama that at least provides an engaging history lesson to small children.

The film works hard at this, not only by offering something of a history lesson, but also by strongly establishing how different the comedy of San Francisco stand - ups was when compared to comedy being done around the country.

Wandering at midnight, Pender stumbles back through time to the 1920s, and learns an important lesson from history's great artists and a beautiful ingenue (Marion Cotillard).

Until it gets too obvious about itself (somewhere around the halfway mark (like an addict nursing a jones, as it happens)-RRB-, that sense of futile outrage at the fruitlessness of trying to affect change in a world that has never been more informed yet remains incapable of avoiding (recent) history's harshest lessons lends a nice feeling of indignity to what is already a pretty fair genre inversion.

Older teens and adults may appreciate the history lesson included in this war movie that depicts the WWII battle at Dunkirk.

Big screen entertainment and adapted history lesson all at once; this year's Israeli Film Festival is your ticket to another world.

I wasn't expecting a history lesson on the Winchester House, but at least something with a bit of a story to it.

All the pieces are there, especially in the film's subject — the steely Elizabeth Sloane (Jessica Chastain), a pill - popping master manipulator who is always at the ready with a perfect quip, biblical verse or history lesson for the moment.

The payoff the film needs to resonate as more than a well - produced history lesson never materializes, and it leaves shrugging its shoulders at the elusive nature of peace.

The finished product was well received, earning important awards — best actress for Duvall at the Cannes Film Festival and best supporting actress for Spacek from the New York Film Critics Circle — and garnering enough enthusiastic reviews to revive Altman's career after the critical and commercial failure of Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), his previous picture.

At nearly two hours in length, the experience is drawn out to proportions that will make most viewers restless, especially when McConaughey goes into quite verbose history lessons to explain the origin and clues regarding the treasure and its whereabouts.

At first glance, it sounds like another history lesson about the last four months in the life of -LSB-...]

This is the type of cinematic history lesson that's both socially relevant and highly entertaining, and although «Hidden Figures» hits a number of familiar beats, there's nothing ordinary about the incredible true story at the heart of it all.

My Journey through French Cinema — Bertrand Tavernier's amiable history lesson loses focus in its final third, but is nonetheless a fun and insightful idiosyncratic look at mid-Century French film.

Bereznak: The brief Wakanda history lesson at the beginning of the movie added essential meaning and depth to the film for obvious reasons.

For NEW 2016 GCSE History Edexcel American West unit This lesson covers the following: Migration and early settlement The factors encouraging migration, including economic conditions, the Oregon Trail from 1836, the concept of Manifest Destiny US government policy: support for US westward expansion Looking at the reasons why the early Pioneers go West.

Make them the same length as a decent lesson — at least 50 minutes — so that they can be planned properly, and they can be used to wrestle with substantial content, such as a wellbeing issue like bullying, a big political debate like who should be the next President of the United States, or an area to explore in science, maths, or history.

LO: Explain why Oliver Cromwell is a significant figure in history LO: Explain why there are different interpretations of Cromwell overtime LO: Justify Cromwell's changing reputation This lesson will take 2 lessons The first half looks at Using significance criteria and information cards students select facts to answer the significance criteria - using the 5 R's and GREAT criteria.

This bundle incorporates History lessons for the new spec AQA Paper 1D 20 Lessons in total covering from 1919 economic boom to the 1930s US depression valued at over # 55 if bought individually.

The lesson is more catered for KS3 students that are learning about the Holocaust and Nazi Propaganda and at the same time developing skills associated with History.

Comparing Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata 7/18/01 [World History, Regions, Cultures Grades 6 - 8 Juanita Gomez] Juanita Gomez, who teaches at North Grammar School in Rio Grande City, Texas, submitted this week's lesson.

Communication Comparisons 06/20/2001 [World History, Language Arts Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8 Submitted by VaReane Heese] VaReane Heese, a teacher at Springfield (Nebraska) Elementary School submitted this week's lesson in which students use online and print resources to research different methods of communication, use graphic organizers to compare the methods, and share their findings with classmates.