Sentences with phrase «current event stories»

It is an interesting blog filled with current event stories for today and yesterday.

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While I'll leave it to the pundits to unpack the ramifications of the current drama, there is one largely overlooked element of the story that I'd like to flag for your watercooler conversations: Comey learned of his dismissal while visiting with FBI agents in Los Angeles, the purpose of which was to prepare for a diversity recruiting event later that evening.

Publicity is a long - term strategy that takes time and the ability to develop new story angles and play off current events.

As we commit 2016 to the annals of history and usher in a brand new year, APF Canada's dedicated research team has compiled a list of key stories to watch in Canada - Asia relations, news, and current events in 2017.

In addition to mentoring and fund generation, Square One DSM hosts a variety of networking opportunities, including Startup Stories, a monthly interview event series featuring current and past Square One DSM clients discussing startup successes and failures.

When we understand that, we will be more hesitant about squeezing some relevant exhortation from the story, drawing hasty comparisons to current events, or finding analogies within our own experiences.

A good story on the big (or small) screen can challenge our perceptions about current events in a way that no political pundit yelling on cable TV ever could.

While the ears of some people do itch for funny stories, jokes, and encouraging insights based on psychology and current events, the ears of other people itch to hear the latest insight on a difficult Bible passage, or the newest scholarly explanation of a particular word in Scripture.

Get your child into the habit of thinking about things and forming her own opinions on everything from current news events to historical milestones to fictional stories.

By talking with your child about current events and stories they see in the news or hear about at school, you can help your child to feel more confident in their understanding of the world and to become a better and more informed global citizen.

Read stories about your child's current experiences — this helps your child make connections and understand significant events in her life (potty training, visiting grandparents, being sick).

The blog highlights inspiring family stories, parenting advice, and episodes from their YouTube channel, where the couple discusses parenting, current events, activism, and life in general.

From Hurricane Harvey to a viral Syracuse University - related video, here are a few stories that might find their way onto your next current events quiz.

Rami Tzabar, development editor for BBC Radio Science and World Service, called the story «a forensic analysis of everything that is wrong with current (and past) attitudes to flooding, an innate misguided belief that every major event is a freak of nature and that we can engineer our way out of the problem whilst largely ignoring the cause.»

Science News for Students publishes stories about recent research and current events across the full breadth of STEM fields.

Maybe a current event or a few of the favorite blog posts or stories I've read during the week.

Home Entertainment will team up for «DC in D.C.,» a landmark pop culture event that brings together the worlds of entertainment and public service to illuminate the story of America and current issues through the lens of comics and Super Heroes.

The Dating Game Killer: The True Story of a TV Dating Show, a Violent Sociopath, and a Series of Brutal Murders (St. Martin's True Crime Library)[Stella The ultimate news source for music, celebrity, entertainment, movies, and current events on the web.

State of Affairs is another generic Washington D.C. - set thriller drawing on current events for story points (terrorist threats, hostage - taking, global unrest) in a way that feels opportunistic and, frankly, insensitive considering the real - world tragedies that are showing up in the news.

He, to me, is the most interesting character — probably because I'm a huge Gould fan — of the ensemble drama, which relies on current events and issues for its stories.

Given the current state of global tensions, at their most intense since the period leading up to the Second World War, one might hope that the filmmaker would make an honest attempt to explore the Pandora's box of Zamperini's story, which involves, after all, some of the major events of the 20th century and some of the major powers.

The comedy featured whip - smart investigative journalist and TV anchor Brown portrayed by Bergen, whose stories at the time mirrored current events and didn't shy away from political topics.

When it begins Thursday night with a story of international rivalry and cult - of - hothead - personality (tennis drama «Borg / McEnroe» with Shia LaBeouf as John McEnroe)-- and continues over the following 10 days with movies about race, environmentalism, globalism, feminism and politics — TIFF will engage with the current moment as few cultural events do.

The truth is that current events more than provided Oliver Stone with a familiar and yet fertile backdrop for a new story about America's greed.

This is due to two unrelated events: Former Pixar chief and current Disney chief John Lasseter brought The Process with him from Pixar, where instead of putting one or two people in charge of the story, a group of writers will work on the story until they have ironed out any potential kinks.

So how can we create an honest counter story to the negativity out there without abandoning our responsibility to teach current events altogether?

If you're looking for additional «every day» ideas, don't miss Education World's other two LESSON PLANNING stories this week: «Every Day» Activities: Today in History (including activities and resources to develop students» knowledge of current events, history, and culture) and «Every Day» Activities: Potpourri.

At HEAF, we've had students expand their critical thinking skills by rewriting the endings to well - known stories; publishing their writing on a student blog; conducting research as they learned to collect, analyze and report on data; engaging in civics and current events by running their own political campaigns during election time; and planning and producing their own films on class topics.

We also put into each week's «Chemistry Now» content «bundle» any current events news stories related to chemistry — like the story in early January on new federal guidelines for amounts of fluoride in drinking water — plus relevant news stories from the multi-decade treasury of the NBC News archives.

Students get to write a current or future newspaper story based on events around the EU situation.

The second half of the Moveable Game Jams featured experts related to each content theme: employees of Current by GE for the future communities jam, NOAA and NASA staff for the climate change jam, and two New York City historical museum educators for the local stories and immigrant voices event.

These are past stories from news programs and should not be used for current events, but they work very well for adults seeking to improve their skills.

If you're looking for additional ideas, be sure to check out the Education World Lesson Planning story, Twenty - five ideas for using current events across the curriculum.

Whether you're looking for an interview, news recap or feature story, NPR is full of resources for current events.

In the classroom: Have students write about an event from childhood and insert their current self into the narrative as either an ally to their younger self or simply an «explainer» who helps move the story along.

Whether you use this app to stay up to date on local and global news, share stories with your students, or find inspiration for a lesson, Watchup should definitely be added to your short list of apps for current events.

Summer writing activities give students the opportunity to practice different types of writing including skills - based writing, creative writing, and reflective writing (where students respond to a current event, linked news story, or piece of literature).

Hot news stories, current events, lifestyle trends and holidays should all be taken into consideration when you're crafting your pitch and fine tuning your book marketing strategies in general.

Live: Fiction is a stream of short stories and novellas (published as ebooks) that are inspired by current events.

Which you should be doing of course, and if you have some brilliant strategies for turning your book into a STORY by connecting it with some current events or burning media issue, and if you have some events planned around the launch, then you should probably have both the ebook and print version ready (getting the files right takes a LOT longer than you think, always give yourself a few months of extra space before you launch).

Ishmael Beah's story is therefore an important one, and one I'd recommend to anyone with even the remotest interest in current events.

The potential for a renewed interest in short stories — stand - alone fiction that will no longer have to wait to be anthologized or published as a collection — as well as timely pieces of non-fiction on current world events means that readers without the time or inclination to tackle longer pieces of literature can now fill their reading needs with shorter and less pricey ebooks.

Clippet, a digital mobile app that offers users bite - sized portions of news with the option to select the story in order to hear the entire piece, is going after the busy, on - the - go crowd who still want to be connected to current events but don't have time to come home after work and read yesterday's print news.

Among current writers of narrative nonfiction, none can top Larson's skill for weaving parallel story lines into a gripping account of a historical event.

Many siblings remember events in their family's lives differently, in this story our two sets of «almost sisters» have to come together to help solve the dramas in their current lives.

Follow the spies and you find the real story of current events, not the shadow play that makes it into the newspapers.

Set against the backdrop of current events and cultural calamity, it is at once a multifaceted ensemble drama and a deftly observant story of our twenty - first - century society.

-- Finding a way to relate your story to current events or specialized organizations — Researching bloggers, writers or journalists who would be interested in your book and cultivating relationships with them.

But you know which current events are most likely to resonate with you, and which news stories you feel the most passionate about.

As a book publicist, it's part of my job to keep an eye on news stories and current events, and to suggest ways to tie your messages into the news.