Sentences with phrase «from schoolbooks»

Some of his friends saw his version of George Washington crossing the Delaware, based on the image familiar from schoolbooks, as a kind of insulting parody.

Born in 1912 in the town of Ehden in the mountains of Northern Lebanon, Douaihy spent much of his early childhood copying pictures from his schoolbooks.

Oyeyemi fluently incorporates Nigerian iconography and mythology into the plot and explains Jess» bizarre behavior (which includes cutting out pictures of twins from schoolbooks) as a meeting of the real and the surreal.

Little by little the word «Democracy» disappeared from our schoolbooks.

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«The greatest threat to militancy in the long run comes not from drones but from girls with schoolbooks.»

The New Yorker of Jan. 16 contains a long and detailed account of two renowned court cases that resulted from the wave of schoolbook banning that began in the 1970's.

Children's schoolbooks left open in a classroom, trees entangled in a rusting ferris wheel, hulks of ships high and dry, miles from any water — seeing photographs like these we're bound to wonder: what happened here?

He uses text, language, and imagery from a wide range of popular culture sources, from stand - up comedy routines and children's coloring and schoolbooks, to slave narratives and the literary works of James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Gertrude Stein.

However, these claims are out there in the media, they show up in new children's schoolbooks, they are used to encourage immediate action from policy makers, they have influenced Nobel committees and are being used to force many of the world's economies to accept higher cost energy sources.

A combination of cubbies, baskets, hooks, bench seating and pullout drawers create the perfect combination of storage to organize everything from scarves to schoolbooks.