Sentences with phrase «centered women characters»

begin with self - centered women characters who have torpedoed their own lives in some grand fashion (one begins a life of crime, the ot

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* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

It's an engaging and entertaining adventure story, refreshingly centered around a group of distinct female characters and even directed by a woman to boot.

Even though Bigelow had to face some harsh criticism from women who saw Strange Days as an anti-women film because of the shocking violence on display, it could be argued Strange Days is a pure feminist picture, as Angela Bassett's Mace is a physically imposing, capable, intelligent yet distinctly feminine character who might be the supporting pillar of Ralph Fiennes» lost soul, but in some ways remains the emotional center of the whole film.

It is movingly fitting that one of the only superhuman - based films centered on women (in this case, generations of women with Gugu Mbatha - Raw and her growing star power, underrated television character actor Lorraine Toussaint, and youngster Saniyya Sidney bonding and making amends while also going even further back reading ancestral passages from a handed diary) focuses -LSB-...]

So a message to today's DC and Marvel universes: With Margot Robbie making a «Suicide Squad» sequel centered around her character Harley Quinn, plus «Wonder Woman 2,» that will make three female comic book action hero movies in the current cycle.

Watching Monster - in - Law, I admire the gutsiness of Jane Fonda playing an unsympathetic character who's her own age and looks it (three stars)-- a hysterical, self - centered former TV celebrity who's horrified that her son's marrying a temp and tries to make the woman so miserable she'll flee before the wedding.

Exarchopoulos delivers a bold, thoroughly credible breakthrough performance at the movie's center, portraying her character as a woman trapped by the mixed messages around her.

Though there are two major male characters — besides Tom, Scott Hipwell (Luke Evans) is Megan's wife understandably upset when Megan is found dead in the woods — «The Girl on the Train» puts women front and center, with input from Detective Sgt. Riley (Allison Janney) who is investigating the crime and who suspects that Rachel killed Megan.

«Black Panther confidently performs the tricky balancing act of writing fully realized women characters into a traditionally male - centered narrative by wholeheartedly believing that they are integral to the storytelling.»

Even putting aside the fact that Terrence Howard, who has a history of alleged domestic abuse and sexual harassment, seems to have his history swept under the rug with each subsequent season of Empire, it's equally odd that a soap opera — which largely appeals to women and gay men, if we're keeping it real — keeps putting a character front and center who's misogynistic, homophobic, and the embodiment of toxic masculinity.

Redmayne is certainly committed to his role on his own way, but it is in his performance that The Danish Girl feels the most compromised; the conflict at the center of his character, this gnawing, yearning sense of being an alien in his own skin, only seems to hit home intermittently, with the script too preoccupied with Einar's transition through the use of outward mimicry of the way women act.

feels the most compromised; the conflict at the center of his character, this gnawing, yearning sense of being an alien in his own skin, only seems to hit home intermittently, with the script too preoccupied with Einar's transition through the use of outward mimicry of the way women act.

But Moonlight «s success aside, the Oscar's don't just skew disproportionally white, the type of stories that the Academy tends to recognize often center a straight white male, with women and people of color acting as side characters.

She says that the thing she loved most about writing Eye Contact was creating a central character who was as much of a mystery as the perpetrator of the crime; she also comments that 20 % of Americans currently identify themselves as disabled, «an enormous group of people that has been underrepresented in books, movies and TV»; so her next book will be a mystery centered around a woman with cerebral palsy who is the unlikely center of a love triangle and the victim of a crime committed in its wake.

Bennett has created a gripping and character - driven story, which centers on a young woman who makes a decision that will haunt her, the boy she loves and the girl who becomes a best friend to them both.

At the center of this matrix is Osama al - Kharrat (his last name means exaggerator), grandson of a hakawati and son of a wealthy car dealer and a glamorous, sharp - tongued mother, one of many resplendently witty and wily women characters.

Though the novel centers on three female characters, much of it is written from Dan's point of view, and the women...

The exhibit's 6 - ft masterpiece, «Golden Fortune Tree,» features characters Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman at the center battling it out in an expansive Chinese landscape.

Gordon's novel about artist Monica Szabo is a humorous story, centered on a character who is a realistic ideal of a woman artist making her way and one «who indulges in wish fulfillment.»