Sentences with phrase «first writing effort»

I even forgot my own advice from my very first writing effort... a course in clock repair.

EXCLUSIVE: For his first writing effort since the end of Happy Endings, the series» showrunner Jonathan Groff is taking on another single - camera comedy about a group a friends.

Not exact matches

«Write to Play» heralded Playworld's first - ever social media giveaway, and the results are impressive: Not only did its Facebook fan base increase from 600 to more than 9,000 during the two months the contest ran, but as finalists rallied to gain community support for their campaigns, many local news outlets reported on their efforts, earning Playworld significant free publicity in the process.

That event will cap off a week where Obama and administration officials will look back on innovation's impact on the economy since Obama first took office and «announcing new steps... to build on those efforts,» Zients wrote.

Yet for the next several years, through my baptism, my church wedding (yes, to the Christian who gives gifts of underwear), through my continued efforts to write poetry, and even during my first bout of seminary education, I went about my life tense with the secret that I did not know how to pray as I ought.

Origen wrote On First Principles, the first sustained Christian effort of speculative theology, at the beginning of the third cenFirst Principles, the first sustained Christian effort of speculative theology, at the beginning of the third cenfirst sustained Christian effort of speculative theology, at the beginning of the third century.

In a written statement responding to the AAP's guidelines and recommendations, the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) said that it that «agree [d] with many of the recommendations,» and pointed to its efforts over the past 20 years to minimize risk for high school cheerleaders, beginning with publication of its first guidelines for sideline cheerleading in 1988, which became the basis for the NFHS Spirit Rules Book, first published in 1992.

In this piece from 2010, I wrote of right wing hostility to Michelle O's efforts: «Absent pre-existing political animus toward the Obamas (which of course is at work here), that view seems about as rational to me as attacking former First Lady Laura Bush for «meddling in my child's education» or Lady Bird Johnson for «thinking she can tell us what flowers to plant on our highways.»

Keep in mind that in writing this kind of editorial (and in making her White House statement on Monday), the First Lady is engaging in an unusually political discourse, in that she's specifically taking issue with Republican - backed efforts to gut the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.

In an effort to dispel concerns for the psychological risks to active management of labor, one proponent writes that active management:»... enhances the mother's participation in and control of her experience of her first birth» (O'Herlihy).

Nwuche said despite sponsored write ups against his effort at peace building and putting the people first, he refused to see politics as a war without end as some desperate politicians were doing.

Patent Lead In «Origin of Computing,» Martin Campbell - Kelly writes that the first digital computer was J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly's ENIAC, finished in 1945 as part of the war effort.

«A discriminating search for signals deserves a considerable effort,» wrote Cornell physicists Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison in a 1959 Nature paper titled «Searching for Interstellar Communications,» the first formally argued rationale for SETI.

«The strikingly early seeding of the viral reservoir within the first few days of infection is sobering and presents new challenges to HIV - 1 eradication efforts,» the authors write.

With any luck the women can like your profile and write to you first, that is why you should make some efforts to attract the ladies by your interesting information and representative pictures.

One of the most difficult things about online dating is writing a pithy personal advert... Often our recruitment efforts come across like asking someone to marry us the first time we meet.

It is unfortunate that so many people join dating sites but so few put a fair effort into writing a really good profile that makes them stand out from Examples of good and bad online dating profiles to attract women and get them to write you or to respond to your first message to them.

too chicken - shit tocouldnt be bothered to take the effort to write you first and so.

Revealed for the first time, here is the short Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an effort to save his favourite bridge

In conclusion, there are melodramatic spells, as well as some focal unevenness, spawned from hurrying past certain plot aspects that really aren't all that needed in the first place, being not much more than supplements to the rather repetitious bloating that makes this overambitious effort too overblown for its own good, though not to the point of completely dismissing its engagement value, as there is enough sharpness to the production designs, cinematography and score work to provide striking style, as well as enough story value, brought to life by inspired writing, direction and acting, - particularly by leading lady Halle Berry - to make «Alex Haley's Queen» a rewarding near - epic study on the struggles faced by the mulattoes who struggled to fit into a post-slavery society that was rich with racial tension and plenty of other life challenges.

For those who enjoyed Radnor's first effort, this is leaps and bounds better in writing and direction while still retaining what made his Audience Award Winning film from Sundance 2010 such a beloved festival film.

The reviled Paul W.S. Anderson (of AVP: Alien vs. Predator infamy) directed the first effort and produced / wrote both sequels, 3.)

Leitch's first credited directorial effort is on «Atomic Blonde,» whose screenplay was written by Kurt Johnstad.

Other credits include 1991's «Off and Running» starring Cyndi Lauper, 2003's and «The Recruit» starring Al Pacino and Colin Farrell, but it wasn't until 2010 when Glazer mounted his first directorial effort, «Passion Play» (which he wrote as well).

It has been an exceptional franchise in that its global grosses continue to grow with each new installment, with Clint Culpepper's Screen Gems releasing in the U.S. Anderson, who wrote all the screenplays, directed the first film, skipped the next two and returned to direct the last three 3D efforts.

Writing in the weekend's New York Times Magazine, filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar becomes one of the first to begin spitballing the efforts of an actress we're likely to be talking about this time next year: Last year she finally came into her own in America, as she had already done in the rest of the world.

Don Jon is a decent first effort in both writing and directing for young Joseph Gordon - Levitt and a promise of things to come.

It was written and co-produced by Beatty and is his first directorial effort since his Oscar - nominated Bulworth in 1998.

*** 1/2 / **** DVD - Image A Sound A Extras A BD - Image C Sound A Extras A starring Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Brad Pitt, Rade Sherbedgia written and directed by Guy Ritchie by Walter Chaw Guy Ritchie's sophomore effort Snatch opens with a hyperkinetic homage to the first violent robbery of Ringo Lam's City on Fire and continues by aping the slick mod - cool of the British gangster films of the late -»60s and early -»70s.

Written and directed by Ben Younger («Prime»), his first effort in more than a decade, and produced by Martin Scorsese, it tells the story of Vinny Pazienza, professional boxer who held world titles in the lightweight, light middleweight and super middleweight divisions.

We are writing this article hot off the back of the latest Nintendo Direct event, and it looks like the trend for top games is set to continue with amazing first party titles like Splatoon and Zelda, along with rare but exceptional efforts from 3rd party partners like Monolith.

Several decades before Disney's renaissance effort, the first feature filming of the story arrived in Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête), a 1946 French movie written and directed by Jean Cocteau.

That movie — written and directed by Ryan Coogler — will be the first of the studio's prestige - aspiring efforts to hit the screen, and the early reports are promising.

As I reflect on my first year at the Partnership Schools, I will be writing a blog series that explores some lessons from our new network - wide effort to rebuild academically excellent, operationally efficient, and financially sustainable urban Catholic schools.

Of course, Steinberg also notes that last year, an energetic Super Bowl Nation reporter wrote of the Atlanta Falcons, «To suggest that ping - pong helped get the team to where it is today, its first Super Bowl berth since [1998], may seem like an effort to oversimplify the situation.

Russo, an experienced education journalist, received a Spencer Foundation Education Journalism Fellowship at Columbia to write this book, which covers the story of Green Dot, of its efforts to take over an inner - city high school, and of its first year managing Locke, with briefer coverage of its second year.

Students will write in their journals what they learned from this activity; journal entries should include what they might do differently next time to improve on this first effort.

First, «the most important predictor of boys» achievement is the extent to which the school culture expects and rewards academic effort,» they write.

Submit a written reflection that requires you to analyze the connections and patterns among the first three components, focusing on challenges encountered as well as plans for continued professional growth and efforts to impact student learning.

These efforts have paid short shrift to the simple and frustrating fact that, while public policy can make people do things, it can not make people do those things well... First, state and federal policymakers do not run schools; they merely write laws and regulations telling school districts what principals and teachers ought to do.

On top of this, as Richard Price wrote for the Christensen Institute, «From a university's perspective, re-enrolling students who have dropped out are often seen as generating lower returns on investment than first - time enrollment and retention efforts.

«I would like to see her put more effort into her writing,» Gill wrote on Lillian's first term report card.

About the French Revolution, Jefferson wrote, «it has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action.»

As the person who wrote a review of the first Ford Edge some four years ago for this magazine, a review where I made it clear that the first - generation Edge was okay but only okay, I am happy to report that this 2011 Edge is a much more impressive effort in virtually every department: looks, comfort, tactile and perceived quality, features, performance.

First of all, the effort to develop intellectual writing skill is fully vested upon the student community as a whole.

The timing of the coordinated effort by Pressbooks and BiblioBoard is significant: the beta version of Pressbooks Public is being created during the ongoing international November «NaNoWriMo» National Novel Writing Month project, which runs through November and sees many fledgling and veteran writers produce a first draft of a book in 30 days.

The second one is my first effort to use copy writing.

«All I can really say is that, if this is your first attempt, and you're thinking about self - publishing, be willing to put your heart and soul into promotion, as you did into your writing... In self - publishing you've got to be willing to make that effort, or it's going to be a failure.»

I know nobody wants to hear it, but few of us are gifted enough to write a well - crafted book with our first effort.

McManamy's story first came to light in news reports last summer about her efforts to write greeting cards for future landmark events in her daughter's life.