Sentences with phrase «fictional stories as»

For example, students can learn techniques for writing fictional stories as well as expository essays that serve to inform or persuade.

I can only suggest that perhaps the book of Job is as much a fictional story as yours is.

In this lesson, students read a short story, then create a one - page newspaper depicting the facts of the fictional story as real - life events.

Students read a short story, then create a one - page newspaper depicting the facts of the fictional story as real - life events.

JF: It's always hard to categorize books like this, and because it uses a fictional story as its foundation, we've put in the fiction category.

Using my fictional story as a template, I worked most of my insurance career for the aggressive guy.

Not exact matches

Was it written to portray a god as a real enti ty or was it intended by the author to be a fictional story: Bible (God): yes — was written as a non fiction book Odyssey (Zeus): no - intended to be fiction by the author

The problem with Christianity is that you've taken fictional stories meant to stand as allegories and moral lessons... and attempted to force them into being literal and factual.

Ambersons tells the story of George Amberson Minafer, a spoiled young man coming of age at a time of upheaval in his fictional Midwest hometown (modeled on Tarkington's Indianapolis), and headed for a «comeuppance» as the world changes and his Gilded Age lifestyle collapses.

The «history,» whether fictional or real, whether told as a story or a confession, does not have the precision and purity of poetic «perspectival individuality.»

For my own children, in this video - gaming age, what those fictional children get away with is simply unimaginable, except as the stories themselves seed the imagination, and the lives of the characters work their way into the life of the real child, enlarging that child's world.

I am a proud member of the first camp, seeing epic and eternal themes in the books as worthy of discussion and the violence as a part of the fictional world that tells the story.

Stories such as those in the books of Ruth, Esther, Judith, which are nowadays taken as fictional rather than historical, use not only plenty of proper names, but often supply unnecessarily exact details.

You have verifiable fact type books, then moral carrying fictional stories of an oral tradition which as most oral traditions go, the base stories were built up on every time they were retold and so again every time they were rewritten and translated!!!

It is significant that even Coover's fictional exemplars, «Tiger» Miller and Paul Trench, come to their full realization of life's «joys» only as their stories end.

The stories about the divine origins of Jesus and Octavius may be fictional, but either one of them, or both, could still be in some sense divine, or of a divine origin, as could also the Buddha.

With all due respect, my studies have shown that Christianity is more than just a «belief» or a fictional story, as it is often characterized.

@Atheist Hunter Any story that uses magic as a central plot device is fictional.

The bible is a book of made up fictional stories, it's seems hard to believe that a 1000 years later it is still referred to as law by so many ignorant people.

Even the way Elizabeth Smart narrated the show was creepy — it was like she was an actress retelling it and would do this weird smile - smirk expression as if she was really into this gruesome kidnapping fictional story she was reading.

The press flocked to the story and as bettors rushed to put their money down on an entirely fictional and ultimately absurd question Reizner gained national attention for the Hole - in - the - Wall sportsbook.

After failed attempts at a fictional account, a lunch with the writer Gay Talese — who urged Villano to tell the story as nonfiction — provided the push he needed.

It comes as the DWP admitted using fabricated stories from fictional benefit claimants on a leaflet, which critics say put a positive spin on benefit sanctions.

Like all origin stories, it would ultimately prove fictional, but it showed me what I love, what I want, and, as a playwright friend of mine likes to say, «what I want to want.»

What is the genesis of Funes the Memorious, the Jorge Luis Borges story about a mnemonist that fascinates neuroscientists, and is as famed a fictional treatise on memory as anything but Proust's Remembrance of Things Past?

A fictional spin on William Wyler's 1943 doc Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, which also chronicled the last mission of the titular B - 17 Bomber, this period pic is largely remembered as a showcase of square - jawed studs, including Billy Zane, Matthew Modine, Harry Connick Jr., and Eric Stoltz.

As the fictional story of Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman, never finer), a 1950s cult leader who mentors disturbed World War II Navy vet Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix in the performance of his career), The Master doesn't flinch at taking on the business of religion.

With questionable dialogue and cheap CG effects, «The Aviator» might as well be a fictional story, but the backstory of this legendary director / aviator is far too compelling to look away from.

Touted as an origin story to the most famous fictional character ever, «Dracula Untold» meets expectations, while setting up a franchise.

Based on the 2002 novel by Alice Sebold, it's the fictional story of a 14 - year - old girl who is raped and murdered in 1973, and watches from heaven as her parents and family deal with their grief and search for justice.

10:00 pm — TCM — A Night to Remember Rather than graft a fictional narrative on the sinking of the Titanic (as did both the 1953 and 1997 films entitled Titanic), this film attempts to stay as true as possible to the truth of what actually happened, using only people and stories that were actually on the boat.

Next is «It's Bugsy» (4 mins., HD), another one of those infuriating docs wherein the cast and crew fawn over some animal / fictional character (in this case, the bug - eyed gerbil that accounts for a good 40 % of Bedtime Stories» attempts at humour) as a big star who was great to work with.

Inventing characters is a lot of fun but I don't think I'm capable of creating a fictional character that could possibly be as dimensional, idiosyncratic or fully realized as the actual people I read about in the newspaper every day — which is another way of saying that when you're telling a true story, life itself has done most of the work for you.

While I do think, from a story standpoint, it's a shame that Garrigan wasn't limited to being a mere witness to the events of the Amin era, as he was portrayed more in the book, instead of a constant catalyst for Amin's rage, considering he is a fictional character, we'll just chalk up his constant missteps as dramatic license taken by the screenwriters in drawing out Amin to commit some of the most heinous acts of torture shown in film this side of a Mel Gibson directorial effort.

Written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare At Goats), Frank is a fictional story based on the memoir by Jon Ronson and loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom (the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey), as well as outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston, Captain Beefheart and Harry Partch.

With Michael Gornick replacing Romero as director, the film presents three new stories written by King and drawn from the pages of the fictional Creepshow mag.

It's kinda funny — for a film based on actual events, plot twists and turns unfold as if part of a complex fictional story of political intrigue.

They are very much related and feed into each other as the film addresses the differences between past and present and the fine line between reality and fantasy with one fictional story even serving as a metaphor for another.

Of course, there has to be a fictional Hollywood take on the true story as well, and Oliver Stone has taken it upon himself to dramatize Snowden's tale, enlisting Joseph Gordon Levitt to play the whistle blower.

Other than that, «Bulletproof» is your standard vulgar, mindless, action - buddy flick, albeit with a love story at its center — something that might have marked the movie as a landmark among the kind of fictional relationships that date back to «Huckleberry Finn,» if it weren't trying so hard to deny its identity.

In 1994, Quentin Taratino wrote a fictional story about Mickey & Mallory Knox, a honeymoon couple who, as a perverse aphrodisiac, randomly shot and killed over 50 people.

The nostalgic, shamelessly - patriotic, entertaining film also supported the war effort as it paid tribute in its mostly fictional story to a popular Irish / American entertainer and the grand American gentleman of the theatre in the early 20th century.

As Susan reads the fictional story over the course of a lonely weekend, she reminisces about her relationship with Tony and the unforgiveable betrayal that led to their divorce, haunted by the novel's thematic undercurrents of resentment and rage that play out like retribution for her own sins.

He also makes hugely imaginative use of flashbacks, explaining the origins of certain characters, and even showing scenes of «fictional» stories that never took place (such as Tim Roth's men's room story).

It is a fictional story loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom, the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey, as well as other outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston and Captain Beefheart.

By role is to point out that these movies do contain embellishments, but to also review the film as a whole as a story, just like completely fictional ones.

That the filmmakers chose to keep things as grounded as they do is something that should be commended, as it's undeniably easier to build a similar story in an alternate world with 100 percent fictional elements.

It's not just a coming - of - age story for these fictional sisters, but for the country as a whole, shining a spotlight on the horrors of arranged marriage and the general lack of freedom for women in the less progressive parts of Turkey.

Its hero, Jefferson Pierce, played by Cress Williams, has the power to control electricity and shoot lightning bolts from his hands, but when the story begins he is in retirement as a school principal in the fictional city of Freeland.

Described by Byrne as being like «60 Minutes on acid,» True Stories presents itself as a documentary portrait of the (fictional) town of Virgil, Texas, with Byrne himself as the nameless investigative journalist dispatched there — quite possibly from Mars.