Sentences with phrase «folk stories from»

He waxes lyrical about seeing the «most incredible butterflies» in the garden at home and hearing captivating folk stories from the Yoruba people, a Nigerian ethnic group to which he belongs, about the power of twins to bring fortune or calamity upon their household.

Read a folk story from India to the students such as «The Elephant and the Blind Men».

Not exact matches

This is the same reason why folks think (and I largely agree with them) that a Yellen Fed hike is a June / September story — you need the presser afterwards to keep folks from getting their panties in a bunch.

[The entire comment section is worth a read as we heard from hundreds of LGBT folks and their parents, who shared both painful and hopeful stories.]

Let's begin with a story, a folk tale from Central Asia.

And in the case of this story, if the RCC hadn't spent the last several decades inst.itutionalizing se.xual abuse and conspiring to cover it up and protect the offenders, or alienating folks with their stance on reproductive rights and birth control which is decidedly misogynistic and has contributed to the spread of HIV and other STDs, or if agents of the Church hadn't kidnapped and effectively sold thousands of Spanish, Irish, Australian and American children from the 1940s to as recently as 1987 — then folks wouldn't be leaving the Church in droves and you wouldn't be seeing stories like this one either.

Right now the primary hashtag is «#ikeptliving,» and we're seeing so many folks from all over use that — not only to spread the word about what we're doing but to share their own stories and even their own pain within that.

Two folks can look at the same book or listen to the same story and get something different from it.

In its marketing, The Witch describes itself as a New England folk tale, in that it borrows from real stories told by Puritans in the wake of the Salem Witch Trials.

Oh... forgot you Proving... I wasn't referring to what he said... on the surface, it's fine to have a point of view... whether I agree with it or not... but when you are A) in a position of influence and B) spending money to fight the opposing view... and it's to stop two people who love each other from wedding in the eyes of their Lord, then it is hate... if your ignorance allows you to think my comments are stupid... so be it... and one last point about slavery... whether it was Democrats or Republicans who supported, or fought against slavery... many justified slavery because of their perverted interpretation of the bible... most people can't tell a simple story from one person to the next... but so many foolish Christians think they know exactly what the bible is saying w / o any doubt... forget the fact that it's been translated and passed for 1000s of years... yup you must be right that God is against two people loving each other... He must have made a mistake with those folks huh?

========== @Smithsonian «The stories remain a part of folk traditions and were included in the Bible to illustrate and explain theological ideas such as: Where did humans come from?

They can be undergirded anecdotally, encompassing stories of folk who have denied the literal resurrection of Jesus (moving from point A to, say, point H).

They have created their own ways of communication, ranging from stories in oral traditions to folk art and music, from popular histories to religious and cultural sysmbolism.

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It's something we talk about here at BA a lot, and it's something she did in her latest release called Feed the Resistance, a compilation of recipes and ideas from folks around the country whose stories and traditions so often go unheard.

I lifted this recipe from the lovely folk at Green Kitchen Stories.

Oatless oatmeal is a great name... prevents folks from (true story) commenting «where are the oats in the ingredients» on my n'oatmeal recipes!

Based on a short story from Oscar Wilde, The Selfish Giant - the latest production from Chicago Children's Theatre - features music by Chicago folk legend Michael Smith and production by Blair Thomas & Company.

Reading readiness is exercised in the beautiful presentation of fairy and folk tales, and stories from around the world.

Howdy folks, your redoutable Epolitics.com editorial team (i.e., me) is back from The Burn with about 2000 photographs and even more stories — some of which I might be able to tell in public!

In what has become an annual exercise, legislation to create a single - payer health care system in New York state drew ardent support from labor leaders, policy wonks and regular folk who told often grueling stories of their experiences navigating the current for - profit system.

They have both received their honorable discharge from this life, but I know my folks would have appreciated some of the stories in Mary Roach's new book, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

GAPS Diet Stories — This is a series of stories from folks I have «met» through various social media who have been on the GAPS diet and found healing to some degree for themselves and their faStories — This is a series of stories from folks I have «met» through various social media who have been on the GAPS diet and found healing to some degree for themselves and their fastories from folks I have «met» through various social media who have been on the GAPS diet and found healing to some degree for themselves and their families.

«Forks Over Knives» had no shortage of personal stories from folks who, with a tearful glimmer in their eye, recounted how they evaded death by ditching their pill - popping, fast - food - noshing, insulin - injecting lifestyles.

As the name depicts some cultural era, Nautanki Rani is based on inspiration from a folk story or fairytale in exact words derived from folklore set predated Derawar and Multan fort.

Between her own life experiences - including a 23 year marriage, raising an amazing daughter, surviving a tough divorce, overcoming a history of childhood sexual abuse, and sitting at the brink of suicide - and then learning about even more relationship stories through interviews from folks across the country... she's heard it all.

From February 8 - 14, folks will be encouraged to share their worst or most amusing dating stories.

The Kingdom of Paramithi is an exciting new series full of adventure stories drawn from a rich tradition of folk tales and music.

Watching the story unfold as I travelled the world with a collection of folks from all walks of life was a lot of fun.

Likewise it very folk inspired as the game will change like a story changes when told from person to person.

Remarkably, this part of the plot is based on a true story, as folk singer Steve Tilston received a letter from John Lennon, 34 years after Lennon wrote it in 1971.

I won't go more into the story — most comes straight from the original films and story and other bit parts (very few) are wholly new (at least to me and the few folks — some comic fans — I chatted with afterwards).

This film will see the conclusion to the story of vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) and his new vampire bride Bella (Kristen Stewart), as they try to protect their new child Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy) from evil folk.

The film is based on the true story of Tommy and Rosemarie Uva, a boroughs - bred Bonnie and Clyde who were fixing to get rich quick by stealing from the only folks in the city who would never call the police: The Mafia.

From the perfect production design and washed out look, to the cast and lead performance by Oscar Isaac (who I will be rooting for to get the Oscar) as folk musician Llewyn Davis, to the amusing but tragic story at its core, everything about this film is near perfect.

Sheila Roberts: Sally Hawkins shines opposite Ethan Hawke in «Maudie,» Irish filmmaker Aisling Walsh's intimate indie bio-drama directed from a screenplay by Sherry White who crafted an absorbing romantic story around the life of prolific Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis.

(Note: under their current agreement, Disney owns the rights to all Pixar movies and can make sequels to them without the studio's permission or input, something it is planning to do with Toy Story 3 and expect some more sub-par sequels from those wonderful folks who gave us Peter Pan 2 and endless worthless?

Almost all my time with other folks in multiplayer was spent away from story or side missions.

In terms of how the story unfolds, from the way the folks are not fully identified in the beginning, it's not about good guys versus bad guys.

Adapting the script from three short stories by Malie Meloy, (sister of Colin Meloy, frontman for the indie folk band, The Decemberists), Reichardt's poignant triptych revolves around the lives of four hardworking, independent women in Montana, all of whom struggle to make their voices heard.

It was written to go along with a series of essays on Lau Kar - leung, which I guess didn't materialize, but it's a kind of timeline of Shaolin - related stories, mapping all the films I could think of into a generational chronology, from San Te and the 36th Chamber through the destruction of the Shaolin Temple, the spread of its various disciples and their fighting styles throughout Southern China, folk heroes like Fong Sai - yuk, Wong Fei - hung, Wing Chun up to Lau himself.

«I was surrounded by stories — from my classmates, my professors, and other folks I met along the way — and I learned to listen, which in turn made me a better songwriter.»

In his book, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories, he gives a detailed outline of each story type as well as a wealth of examples from ancient myths, folk tales, plays and novels.

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When I started writing this story, folks from the world we live in started showing up.

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