Sentences with phrase «for meaningful character»

But Lollipop Chainsaw delivers on the same level as Scooby Doo and No More Heroes: lowbrow jokes, crass pandering, and a blithe disregard for meaningful characters or gameplay.

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Participants could track Barbara for as long as they wanted, until they had «seen enough» to determine a meaningful change in her moral character.

Though the concept of a persona, a fictional character used to understand a particular audience segment, has existed for years, this study sought to uncover why organizations fail to create, update, maintain or apply persona intelligence in meaningful ways, rendering them ineffective.

For instance, such a character can not enjoy meaningful relationships, which are essential to human happiness.

With Wenger at the club next year there will be no hope IMO for a meaningful change in character and results of our squad and games.

* 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

Therefor, if crying can be regarded as a meaningful «target behaviour» for intervention with depressed mothers, research needs to address how to identify it (cry), what aspect of its character is meaningful (to the mother and clinician), who should be the target of the intervention (mother and / or infant) and whether the crying infant or the mother's processing of the signal matters (i.e., mother vs. infant).

To measure character skills researchers used five personality traits — openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism — which are widely accepted as a meaningful construct for describing differences in character skills by psychologists.

Looking for sharing meaningful intellectual conversation with assertive women who are liberally open to freedom, and expressing their true values, character, and sensuality.

Dating back to the 15th century, and still retaining some original features, The Firs Bed and Breakfast is full of character If you are looking for a meaningful Christmas gift idea for your loved ones, use these printables to create 12 months of dates to enjoy throughout the year.

Pacing is a problem for most pilots — so many characters to introduce, meaningful stakes to establish — but Quantico, from «Gossip Girl» producer Joshua Safran, does this effortlessly, with at least one deadly effective twist you won't see coming.

As always, Haynes» painstaking film history references are deeply meaningful, speaking to the characters» desire to reach for the stars.

In effect, that lack of explicitness damns The Second Mother, as character relations are hinted at and even primed for confrontation, but without payoff or meaningful conclusion.

Gerwig's character is extremely similar to the one she played in Whit Stillman's Damsels In Distress, a person whose go - getting nature makes it difficult for her to forge meaningful bonds with normal people.

The lack of any meaningful character progression for its hero, Hal Jordan?

As the gang meet up with female characters, their lives as strippers actually help them make honest relationships, rather than the last film, which argued that it was harder to form a meaningful bond with anyone, when your day job was taking your clothes off for money.

An old school comic facing the truth that «being funny isn't enough anymore» could have been fertile ground for a more layered, meaningful character.

For one, the character creation process is sorely lacking in meaningful customization options.

The film doesn't have anything meaningful to say about this pattern or the reason it exists for these characters, save for what a few of the characters themselves have to say for those things.

It is tough to generate feelings of sympathy for most of the characters in Please Give and while the film isn't oblivious to this, it doesn't compensate for it in any meaningful way.

James Rhodes / War Machine (Don Cheadle) has a smaller, but meaningful role to play in the proceedings here by comparison, while Clint Barton / Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Scott Lang / Ant - Man (Paul Rudd) are the established MCU players who get the least onscreen development - but Civil War makes up for that by giving these characters some of the best action scenes in the movie.

«About Ray,» on the other hand, is a mainstream family affair that too often relies on sitcom - ish punchlines instead of meaningful dialogue, while giving short shrift to the very character that should rightfully be the reason for its existence.

It's unlikely to spark any meaningful conversations about eco-terrorism beyond «man, effin» hippies» or «man, effin corporations,» surrounded by murmurs of assent, but it uses that topic as the framework for some terrific suspense and character work.

To be fair, anyone hoping for characters, tension, meaty exposition, meaningful subtext, or anything of the sort, will leave The Conjuring hungry.

Making the most meaningful impression of the supporting characters, however, is Hal Holbrook, who clocks in for only a portion of the screenplay but demands at least a tear or two in his role as a kindly grandfather type which earned him a rightful Oscar nomination.

His self - hatred will make it tough for viewers to connect to the character on any meaningful level, but with YWNRH, it's probably a good idea to keep a safe distance.

Many had reservations on this sequel even happening at all, such is the love for the first one, but T2 is still a meaningful journey and takes the lives of it's characters in a satisfying direction.

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

National Schools of Character exemplify CEP's Eleven Principles, among them defining ««character» comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and behavior»; implementing «a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed»; providing «students with opportunities for moral action»; and using «a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character developmenCharacter exemplify CEP's Eleven Principles, among them defining ««character» comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and behavior»; implementing «a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed»; providing «students with opportunities for moral action»; and using «a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character developmencharacter» comprehensively to include thinking, feeling, and behavior»; implementing «a meaningful and challenging academic curriculum that respects all learners, develops their character, and helps them to succeed»; providing «students with opportunities for moral action»; and using «a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character developmencharacter, and helps them to succeed»; providing «students with opportunities for moral action»; and using «a comprehensive, intentional, proactive, and effective approach to character developmencharacter development.»

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

Children are guided through writing exercises, role - playing, and meaningful discussion, as the teacher poses questions about how the characters handled conflict, how they might be feeling, and what alternatives exist for making new decisions.

And our athletic programs and extracurricular activities offer fun and meaningful ways for students to build character and strong school communities.

Inaugurated in 2016, the annual Walter Dean Myers Awards for Outstanding Children's Literature recognize diverse authors (or co-authors) whose works feature diverse main characters and address diversity in a meaningful way.

The Critical Importance of Crafting a Strong Opening and 8 Tips for Picking Meaningful Character Names by Jody Hedlund

For some authors, having fans write new plots with their established characters is a flattering look at the ways their readers engage with the characters, and symbolizes that the authors» works were so meaningful to the fans that they weren't ready to let go of the fun.

I started writing erotica for two reasons: I had characters milling around in my head begging to be heard AND I wanted to read stories that were not only hot but also meaningful.

Character advancement is molasses slow, with meaningful rewards for leveling up few and far between.

Remember all those times when Niko or CJ or Marston had to sacrifice meaningful character development for the sake of some mission where you gunned down thirty dudes because, really, what else are you going to do in an open - world game?

And who knows, perhaps when Double Fine releases the second act of Broken Age next year, Tim Schafer and his colleagues will have figured out how to integrate the challenges required for a player to complete a game with the meaningful choices that every truly convincing character must make to finish their story.

The revamped narrative experience offers total freedom for players to choose and complete quests at their own pace, with each adventure telling an intense and emotional story full of colorful characters and meaningful objectives.

Advent Children is not a good film, I know this, but for all the meaningful stuff it worked to undo from the game and for all the awful characters it introduced, I was just excited to see Tifa be a complete babe while being thrown by the leg around a ruined church.

I'm a BDO player so I miss out on actually engaging and meaningful characters for awesome combat.

I really enjoyed the bits I got to see (a lot of which were scenes that occurred whenever I rested at an inn), but it wasn't uncommon to not see a meaningful exchange between characters for an hour or two.

Infamous games haven't been known for their killer storylines but Sucker Punch did a great job through their dialogue and cut - scenes in making meaningful characters in Second Son, even if the conclusion is easy to predict.

Many meaningful collectibles that expand the story and background information for the many lovable characters.

As such, the game's story has to retain a somewhat neutral personality for the characters, and perhaps that's the reason why there's little in terms of meaningful storytelling.

As I look across my dearest friends these days I realize that I got my favourite FF Characters in my real life party too and they will all help me stop meteor or Sepiroth or just the next personal crisis that hits me or my wife... Love you all and please discover FF VII before the Remake to get the nostalgic feeling of a game that is around for a long time and has deep meaningful impact on many lives!

Meaningful alterations to characters» playstyles makes the games deeper and allows for the rosters to do more work.

Though Rousseau will be playable, it's unlikely the game will focus on her for very long, as Condrey also added that in order to keep the story meaningful and keep players attached to the main characters the game would primarily have players «stay with the squad -LSB-...] with Daniels.»

«TWU's Community Covenant creates real and meaningful barriers to the legal profession for LGBTQ persons, who can not attend TWU without experiencing discrimination through the Covenant's mandatory character, the fact that signatories to the Covenant are required to report infractions, and the harsh discipline that may be imposed (including suspension and expulsion).»