Sentences with phrase «girl story in»

Valkeapää comes up with a wild take on a boy - meets - girl story in They Have Escaped, which appropriately premieres in the offbeat Vanguard section of the Toronto International Film Festival.

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As the co-founder of the IRIS - IN program for girls in partnership with the Ghetto Film School,, Olde is nurturing the next generation of diverse women to tell the silver screen's greatest storieIN program for girls in partnership with the Ghetto Film School,, Olde is nurturing the next generation of diverse women to tell the silver screen's greatest storiein partnership with the Ghetto Film School,, Olde is nurturing the next generation of diverse women to tell the silver screen's greatest stories.

Cole's rise from Hooters Girl to president of a multinational company in under two decades is the kind of story that elicits impressed eyebrow raises at cocktail parties.

The smaller release «The Miracle Season,» starring Helen Hunt in a story about a girls» high school volleyball team, didn't make ComScore's Top 10 list.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

One of Shahid's first tasks was getting Malala's story told in a book, called I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Little, Brown and Company, 2013).

The stories he was working on in those years were eventually published as the collection Girl with Curious Hair.

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

If you start disrupting books, especially about what little girls can be when they grow up, and if you start putting different characters in those stories, you're able to disrupt power in a very important way.

In this campaign, Always is doing much more than selling sanitary products — they're asking every girl to challenge stereotypes and participate in their campaign by telling their own unique storieIn this campaign, Always is doing much more than selling sanitary products — they're asking every girl to challenge stereotypes and participate in their campaign by telling their own unique storiein their campaign by telling their own unique stories.

«In a few short weeks we hope to welcome a new member into the family, a baby boy or girl who will hear wonderful stories about his or her granddad,» she said.

Among the women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmarin 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and WalmarIn lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.

Aside from this story, Svenson's only other appearances include talking to Josie in the music room, taking Chuck to the principal's office, and creepily entering the girl's locker room when Josie and Cheryl are in there.

The president was trying to gain additional allies in the increasingly unpopular Vietnam War, which was racing towards an end due to stories and images like «Napalm Girl,» the eventual Pulitzer Prize - winning photo shot by AP photographer, Nick Ut.

That's why we have these old stories about wolves chasing little girls, step - mothers planning the death of young innocent ones, and little boys being run down by malicious witches in candy houses.

In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents tell their children a different type of fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you're special, you are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and be a good little boy or girl, you'll be successful.

The above image is taken from Three Girls - a three part BBC drama based on the true stories of victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale.

Now this might seem like an insignificant part of the story or that I am dragging out this time in a young Midwestern girl's life, but this was of most importance because this also meant I got my first real bible.

Earlier in the week, at a rally he told graphic stories of «animals» who murder «young, beautiful» girls.

Set in the turn of the century, it tells the story of a girl who is fascinated with the natural world and is trying to find her way.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo — This is another one that could have gone on the picture book list because the paintings in here are sublime but the biographies of 100 notable women are written as bedtime fairy tales.

Renting Lacy is the story about a young girl who is caught up in the child - sex slave industry of Las Vegas.

opening Friday, tells the true story of the 2011 Iowa City West High School girls volleyball team, who attempt to rebuild in the wake of the death of their star player, Caroline Found.

The Miracle Season, opening Friday, tells the true story of the 2011 Iowa City West High School girls volleyball team, who attempt to rebuild in the wake of the death of their star player, Caroline Found.

Also, everyone who donated was put in a drawing for a free copy of Priceless, a book by Tom Davis which tells the story of rescuing girls from sex slavery in Russia.

It's the story of man who find himself in a dangerous attempt to rescue helpless girls who are trapped in the Russian sex - slave industry.

Referring to a story in Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book, Half the Sky, I write about Dina, a seventeen - year - old Congolese girl who was gang - raped by five men on her way home from working in the fields.

Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley, and it stars the (personified) emotions in her head.

The stories you hear and the things you hear in this documentary will break your heart for these poor young girls who are caught into the darkest and most evil web on earth.

Maybe you even feel a little lost, like Dory Stewart in the new TBS show Search Party, a new dark comedy about a girl who finds meaning in someone else's story.

Stories have come out recently about young girls who rebel and seek approval from someone other than their parents, only to be duped into believing an older man is interested in them.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy taleIn Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy talein the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

I love having babies with this man but this wee girl in particular and her delivery was a milestone day for us and our love story.

After ignoring the warnings signs about Ketcham (which, according to ABWE's policies, could have resulted in his termination in 1974), ABWE compounded its error by questioning the girl extensively over two days to confirm her story and encouraging her to «confess,» according to the Pii report.

He has a lot of other great stories that feature girls in the lead, too.

Shalit tells us that in 1994 she rushed off to see the new movie version of Little Women, only to discover that our hidden cultural censors, fearful of anything that does not cohere with prevailing orthodoxy, had expunged one of «the best lines» in the story, when Marmee says: «To be loved by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.»

Then there's something commonly known as the «Proclamation on the Family,» which is often framed and displayed in homes — though rarely in upper - class households, said Joanna Brooks, author of «The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith.»

Everyday Dress Up by Selina Alko — We grabbed this from the library shelf when my eldest was a toddler and all my girls have loved this story of a girl who dresses up as great women in history.

The young girls in the video tell their stories of being deemed «aggressive,» «loud,» «angry,» «unladylike,» and «rude» — all descriptors informed by stereotypes of black women and black people.

AIM founder Don Brewster, who estimates his organization has rescued more than 700 girls from sex slavery in Cambodia, was heavily involved in the CNN story and quoted throughout.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction... Continue Reading»

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly:: A big thick novel about three intersecting stories of women in World War II is pretty much irresistible to me.

The story goes that a young girl was very much troubled by some passages in the Old Testament where God, for example, commanded Saul to smite the Amalekites, and «not spare them, but kill both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.»

Ever since I heard this story I thought, bless his heart, no smart teenage boy wants to start grappling with a girl like that in public - in Spandex.

Author: Lothar Von SeltmannThis is the story of Erika Remplin, a teenage girl growing up in war - torn Germany in 1944.

«This is a story that is repeated in various ways among a number of girls.»

But what I was thinking of as I washed my little girl's feet I was the story in the Gospel of John where Jesus washed his disciples» feet...»

Of the girls brought into the harem, Michael Fox writes, «What is significant — and most oppressive — is that their will, whatever it might have been, is of no interest to anyone in the story.

Her story (whose theme, by the way, is «the lot of single women in rural Palestine») may seem to have a happy ending, but don't be fooled, girls; The Book of Ruth is actually «a pernicious, exploitative tract,» reinforcing the idea that «a woman's happiness and fulfillment require men, that is, a husband and sons.»

I am angry because I believe that if they were 200 students from Ontario or Ohio, the world would have turned itself inside out until they were found but because our girls are in Nigeria, they are just another story, another «what a shame» story.