Sentences with phrase «historical experience about»

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Gilead bases its estimates on historical experience and on various other market specific and other relevant assumptions that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

The message is to encourage investors to think carefully about their risk tolerance, their true investment horizon, the extent to which they experience distress if an overvalued market advances without them, the extent to which they believe that historical evidence should inform investment decisions, and the extent to which they would be able to adhere to their investment discipline in the face of what could very well be a 50 % market loss over the completion of this cycle.

We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.

Valerie enjoys exploring and writing about historical sights, hill towns and cuisine, and puts her on - the - ground expat experience to work as International Living's Italy correspondent.

Breaking a ten - year silence about his own experience, Stoen stated last July that «what made Jim Jones a historical figure was his genius in giving the utopian dreams of idealistic people a tangible structure for expression.»

I'm referring to historical facts about Jesus of Nazareth that scholars agree on - namely, that Jesus was crusified; he was buried in a tomb by a member of the Jewish sanhedrin; the tomb was found empty by some of his women followers; Jesus's deciples had experiences of Jesus alive from the dead; and the deciples began a movement that was so un-Jewish based on the belief that Jesus rose from the dead.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

How did these students experience the historical - critical method, which talked not about the experience of the resurrection but about the chronology of Acts, and which never engaged the figure of Jesus in the Gospels but only dissected the sources of the Gospels?

Built around 9600 B.C., the site predates Stonehenge by about 6600 years and places the origins of human religious experience much farther back in the historical progress of our civilization than scholars previously believed possible.

This doctrine of empiricism would rule out, for example, all historical doctrines, such as assertions about Jesus» experience in itself, as distinct from phenomenological descriptions of Jesus» meaning for me or my community.

the figure of the garden important precisely because it points to women's historical experience, and so allows women to speak not only about faith but about what Katie Cannon calls our «blighted» history.

For example, he said that man's fall is locatable in no historical Garden of Eden, but it is a way of speaking profoundly about what has happened in every man's experience.

God's Revelation can in fact and in principle concern realities which themselves are accessible to secular experience of a scientific or historical kind, so that on the one hand what Revelation states about them is open to possible threat of an eventual at least apparently opposed discovery of secular science and on the other hand natural science must in principle always reckon on a possible veto on the part of theology (Cf. Denzinger 1947 ff., 2187).

As the name «genetic ontology» indicates, one general assumption is that the human's statements about reality express the experience of a genesis of being — and to be sure in a phylogenetic as well as in an ontogenetic sense, that is, in the form of an historical - evolutionary as well as an individual process.

Experience shows that believers are, as a matter of fact, sometimes anxious about bad news of the quest for the historical Jesus.

The author must have gotten his research from historical works on the puritans or something, because, as a regular church going Bible believing Christian, I can say from experience that I have no clue what he's talking about.

Participants stroll, experience, and learn stories and historical facts about Old Town's oldest landmarks and most colorful characters.

Historical perspectives, as well as personal experiences, provide very helpful reading for parents who worry about sleep problems.

Any discourse from either EU countries, the US or Russia about respecting sovereignty and territorial integrity today and operating through international norms rings very hollow in light of recent historical experience, not only in the former communist space but also more widely.

I would like to share my experiences on this subject as well of historical topics, general health, biographies and my personal thoughts about life.

About Blog Carol C. Taylor is a genealogical and historical researcher with more than thirty years experience in the American South, primarily in Texas.

BLU - RAY EXTRAS All of the above plus: The Pacific Enhanced Viewing: Learn more about the Marines and gain a deeper historical understanding of the battles while watching the miniseries with Enhanced Viewing, a ten - part, ten - hour, picture - in - picture experience.

Students randomly assigned to receive a school tour of an art museum experience improvements in their knowledge of and ability to think critically about art, display stronger historical empathy, develop higher tolerance, and are more likely to visit such cultural institutions as art museums in the future.

Writing about the experience of solving a difficult mathematical problem, or making connections to disparate historical events can also be writing to learn.

Students learn to: - Define key terms related to the historical context of The Holocaust; - Remember and understand key information about Anne Frank's experiences, that they learn from an engaging PowerPoint presentation; - Read extracts from Anne Frank's diary; - Answer a range of questions to demonstrate their understanding of Anne's diary; - Analyse the language features used by Anne Frank to create dramatic images in the mind of the reader; - Peer - assess each others» learning attempts.

Many rise to the challenge, however, and really get into the learning experience, finding out as much as they can about their chosen historical figures.

One is a fictionalized account of one boy's experiences; the other presents eight stories that include historical details about Nazism and World War II.

He spoke primarily from his experience as an elementary principal on Long Island, N.Y., about the «historical estrangement between professors and principals.»

Social justice to me is about dismantling the status quo and creating new structures and systems which account for the lived experiences and historical legacy for groups of people.

Find creative writing activities about the immigrant experience, historical time lines of the civil rights movement, slideshows of famous women suffragists, art activities for celebrating community helpers, lesson plans for learning more about wars and the soldiers who fight them, and much more.

Teachers can activate students» prior knowledge by having them write about their previous experiences with literacy and schooling and by inviting their perspectives on historical events covered in social studies classes.

This strategy informed our design of experiences to support teachers» understanding of ways to promote historical thinking about visual information.

Drawing on his own experience as a child refugee from Cuba, Flores - Galbis offers a gripping historical novel about children who were evacuated from Cuba to the U.S. during Operation Pedro Pan in 1961.

The reader, however, brings his or her own historical perspective to bear on the events unfolding, and the result is a disturbing and compulsive reading experience about a country ravaged from the inside out.

While some readers might grow a bit restless with the slow and steady pace of Chevalier's patient narrative, her impeccable research and the abundance of fascinating historical anecdotes about everything from grafting apple trees to the circumference of the mighty redwoods adds up to a pleasureable literary experience.

This balanced collection of contemporary and historical writings includes interviews, stories, memoirs, and a blog about the experiences of enlisting, serving, and surviving in war.

To avoid such derailing situations and not to fall into such depressive pit the best way for a student to handle their homework burden to the experienced writers who have broad knowledge about the historical incidents which took place in the particular period of American history.

In this show I talk to Lucienne Boyce, a successful Historical Fiction and Non-Fiction author, about her experiences using an assisted publishing company, Silverwood Books.

Their Cultural Programs are a fun way to learn about Banff's history, from campfire stories to Heritage Experiences where you'll learn about the history of the Big 3 resorts and the historical hotel itself.

My experience was a slow paced tour, which was easily walkable and packed with historical sites with plenty of information about the growth of Florence and it's rise to power from its founding by the Romans to present day.

During this experience, you'll get some historical facts about our...

Alicante is not only about sun and clubbing, there is plenty of historical charm as well and year round events to experience the tranditions of the region.

Nevertheless, historical and cultural highlights from earlier eras are abundant, and whilst westerners may have learned about landmarks such as the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and the Terracotta Warriors from guide books or the internet, nothing can compare with the extraordinary experience of seeing them at first hand.

Our tour guides are experienced bush experts who enhance your nature experience with their profound botanical, ecological, cultural and natural - historical knowledge about the places we visit.

About Blog Carol C. Taylor is a genealogical and historical researcher with more than thirty years experience in the American South, primarily in Texas.

Without experiencing historical cultures you miss something vital about humanity.

Fo Wilson uses constructed space and furniture forms to create experiences that reposition historical objects and / or aesthetics in a contemporary context and offers audiences new ways of thinking about and interacting with history.

Presented as an interrelated set of experiences, the exhibition (until 25 September 2016) weaves together concerns about land, architecture, progress, utopian dreams, inequality, trauma and resistance that refer as much to imagined futures as to the historical past.

Ever since, the artists have been deep in dialogue about the social and cultural impact of the Internet's historical shift from a tool for military communication to an «information superhighway» promising open and equal exchange, and, finally, the increasingly asymmetric «content delivery system» we experience today.

In tracing these paths to and from Wave Hill, Jensen combines information about significant historical landscapes — whether stately homes or an august tree — with his own narrative and experience along these particular routes.