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"formative experience" refers to an event or situation that helps shape who we are as individuals. It could be something that happens to us, something we learn, or a series of experiences that have a lasting impact on our personality, beliefs, or values. These experiences often occur during our childhood or adolescence and contribute to the development of our identity and character.
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Some of the most
formative experiences of a person's young life can occur during those few years on a university campus.
Playing that game was an extremely
formative experience for me as a game designer, and has caused me to rethink everything.
Increasing a student's odds of admission inevitably leads to a hard look at «backward mapping» curriculum and
formative experiences from the earliest moment.
Rather than focus specifically
on formative experiences of childhood, this title is all about the latent ramifications of past events still being processed.
Surely great literature well taught, that is made really to come alive for the student, can be one of the
great formative experiences of his college years.
One
formative experience occurred at a housing development a mile from my home, when I came across a pool of water in the massive tire tracks of a dump truck.
Going through the divorce process is already one of the most devastating, stressful, and
formative experiences in a person's life.
In Tear Sheets, Silano creates composite images that appropriate gay iconography from 1970s and 80s porn magazines such as Blueboy, Torso and Honcho in order to negotiate his own identity and
formative experiences as impacted by the AIDS crisis.
They allow your puppy the opportunity to have positive
formative experiences with other dogs, and they allow you the opportunity to ask all the questions you're bound to have about rearing a puppy.
This film was a
very formative experience for me, so I'm thrilled to watch it in the brand spanking newly restored version on the best screen in London.
, to speak with FILM COMMENT
about formative experiences, career - defining partnerships, and how the simplest shots can be the trickiest to achieve.
Interdisciplinary in its focus, the Rauschenberg Residency is based on Rauschenberg's
formative experience at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and his belief that art can affect positive social change.
I'm sure some of that sense of awe comes from within me, from my own understanding of what the P1 is and how valuable it is, but there's no denying that it delivers a
truly formative experience over and above the LT's merely memorable one.
The games creator, Matt White claims to be heavily influenced by Dark Souls and states «Playing that game was an
extremely formative experience for me as a game designer, and has caused me to rethink everything».
In the early 1990s, Nelson used his woodworking skills to help the artist Richard Wilson build a house in the London neighborhood of Bermondsey, which was a
deeply formative experience.
Alex: Beside the stimulation I find in the work of contemporary artists with whom I collaborate, I had the most
formative experiences while confronting the work of the American artist Gordon Matta - Clark and the Brazilian Helio Oiticica.
A raucous laugh track further situates the installation within the cultural paradigm of the 1980s, referencing the artist's
formative experiences reconciling conflicting personal identifications through cultural markers.
As a dealer, one of his early and
highly formative experiences was the disposal of about 100 paintings by Kandinsky on behalf of Kandinsky's wife, who taught him everything he needed to know about the difficulties of the up - market trade in fine art.
Jeffrey Holmstead's
formative experience manipulating clean air laws began in 1989 as associate counsel to President George H. W. Bush, where he was involved in «the key steps taken to implement» the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, or as Clean Air Watch's Frank O'Donnell puts it, he «tried to «interpret» the rules in ways more favorable to industry.»
The exhibition encompasses Noguchi's
formative experiences with sculptors Gutzon Borglum and Onorio Ruotolo, his Guggenheim Fellowship in Paris in the late 1920s, an important early commission in Mexico City, design work in theatre and with industrial designers George Nelson and Florence Knoll in the 1940s and -50 s, and concludes with Noguchi's five - year collaborative project (unrealized) with architect Louis Kahn to build a playground in New York City.
For anybody that's read this page, you may recall that Comics Camp was a major
formative experience for me in 2017; if you wish, you can read about 10,000 words on it here.
His source material often stems from
formative experiences in the local Afro - Caribbean community as well as in Trinidad, where he became intimately familiar with the Caribbean topography and its motifs.
Rauschenberg Residency Interdisciplinary in its focus, the Rauschenberg Residency is based on Rauschenberg's
formative experience at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and his belief that art can affect positive social change.
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truly formative experience was her dad's 2008 campaign for president, a family - centered endeavor not unlike the one Sanders would join eight years later.
Its intention is to affirm and explain the faith, life, and worship of the Catholic Church, and the fact is that - historically and theologically - the disputes with Lutherans, Calvinists, Zwinglians, and others in the sixteenth century is far from being the
most formative experience in the Church's understanding of her faith, life, and worship.
One of the most
formative experiences of Miller's professional life took place in 2006 when he moved to Mapuo, Mozambique and developed a love for Mapuo designs and the religious objects and crafts of sub-Saharan Africa.
One of
my formative experiences came when walking to a friend's birthday party in a New York City winter.
This was
a formative experience for me because it helped me clarify what kind of organizations I'm willing to join and what kind of leader I want to be at Upstart.»