Sentences with phrase «history through the eyes»

But it is good for everyone to ally himself at one time with the defeated and to look at the «progress» of history through the eyes of those who were left behind.

Flipping through the pages, you encounter a horrific part of world history through the eyes of a 20 - year - old inside a slave labor camp.

«The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library is extremely honored to present this special WWI exhibit and robust website to the community because it provides an opportunity to examine a monumental moment in world history through the eyes of local individuals and families,» said Library Director Jakubowski.

Adapted from Noel Coward's 1931 play of the same name, Cavalcade sets out to tell «history through the eyes of a wife and mother.»

There's nothing quite so frustrating as watching history through the eyes of the least interesting person in the room.

The new Danish historical romance drama, which is now playing in select American theaters, and was directed and co-written by Arcel, intriguingly explores one of the most dramatic events in Denmark's history through the eyes of the characters.

The first few games even came up with an elaborate excuse for the setup, with a present - day company using a machine to tap into a person's «genetic memory,» allowing the person to interact with the people and places of a specific point in history through the eyes of the person's ancestor (If you're not following this, that's fine, because it really is just a narrative justification).

«When we were doing immersive theatre,» recalls Matilda, a Year 9 student, «it gave me a chance to put myself in the shoes of the people at the time and to experience history through their eyes.

Baseball Saved Us personalized the experience, letting people see the history through the eyes of a child.

The Boston Girl By Anita Diamant Scribner • $ 16 • ISBN 9781439199367 Diamant offers a tour of 20th - century American history through the eyes of her novel's narrator — a spunky Jewish woman relating the gripping events of her life story to an adoring granddaughter.

In just 100 pages, Nelson's narrator tells the story of American history through the eyes of African Americans.

Veteran novelist Hunt («Theyn Chronicles») reimagines this slice of Colonial history through the eyes of Jocelyn White, a newlywed reluctant to leave her home in England for the wild shores of the New World.

The five - night Machu Picchu package takes guests to learn the story of Peru's rich history through the eyes of local communities, artists and ancient ruins.

You venture through the dark parts of history through the eyes of a character that was kept a secret and sent to do the darkest of missions.

Set in 18th Century New Orleans, the game presents a little - known period of American history through the eyes of a woman caught between two worlds - the aristocratic French society of her father, and the African heritage of her mother.

Treasures of New York goes inside the prestigious college to discover its vibrant Brooklyn history through the eyes of the two men who «built» it; industrialist Charles Pratt, who founded the school in 1887, and Dr. Thomas F. Schutte, who has been articulating Pratt's vision since he became the school's President in 1993.

It is a way of looking at art history through the eyes of others who have looked at art history.

«BLACK HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF DOLLS EXHIBIT» opens February 4 and continues through March 7, 2015.

It helps if you see your career history through the eyes of your potential employers.

Not exact matches

History written prior to the modern era is seen through the eyes of the victor.

All Jeremy is doing is asking us to open our eyes to our historical beliefs challenging them through scripture and history.

Read through the eyes of the people who wrote it, Genesis 1 would seem very different from the way most people today would tend to read it — including both evolutionists who may dismiss it as a prescientific account of origins, and creationists who may try to defend it as the true science and literal history of origins.

What our authors are saying through all this structure of imagery is that the obscure birth of a child to a carpenter's wife was, in view of all that came out of it, a decisive moment in history, when something genuinely new began, and the traffic of two worlds was initiated, to be traced by the discerning eye all through the story that was to follow.

One can not read European history through Jewish eyes without the profoundest shame and a powerful impulse to dissociate oneself forever from the name Christian.

It's through Griffin's eyes that the audience learns of one of the darkest religious chapters of American history.

Israel reads and records history, as it does myth and legend, through the eyes of faith.

In a few thousand years of recorded history, we went from dwelling in caves and mud huts and tee - pees, not understanding the natural world around us, or the broader universe, to being able to travel through space, using reason to ferret out the hidden secrets of how the world works, from physics to chemistry to biology, we worked out the tools and rules underpinning it all, mathematics, and now we can see objects that are almost impossibly small, the very tiniest building blocks of matter, (or at least we can examine them, even if you can't «see» them because you're using something other than your eyes and photons to view them) to the very farthest objects, the planets circling other, distant stars, that are in their own way, too small to see from here, like the atoms and parts of atoms themselves, detected indirectly, but indisputably THERE.

We can rejoice that we are saved not through the immanent mechanisms of history and nature, but by grace; that God will not unite all of history's many strands in one great synthesis, but will judge much of history false and damnable; that He will not simply reveal the sublime logic of fallen nature, but will strike off the fetters in which creation languishes; and that, rather than showing us how the tears of a small girl suffering in the dark were necessary for the building of the Kingdom, He will instead raise her up and wipe away all tears from her eyes» and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying, nor any more pain, for the former things will have passed away, and He that sits upon the throne will say, «Behold, I make all things new.»

The criticism, stated somewhat differently, contends that the God of Christian faith and history, as seen through the eyes of process philosophy, is not truly sovereign.

The history of the Old Testament is for the most part transmitted to us through the eye and mind of prophetic Yahwism, a phenomenon to be sharply distinguished from the popular Yahwism of the Old Testament people.

He assumed that the study of the teaching of Jesus `... has an independent interest of its own and a definite interest of its own and a definite task of its own, namely, that we use every resource we possess of knowledge, of historical imagination, and of religious insight to the one end of transporting ourselves back into the centre of the greatest crisis in the world's history, to look as it were through the eyes of Jesus and to see God and man, heaven and earth, life and death, as he saw them, and to find, if we may, in that vision something which will satisfy the whole man in mind and heart and will».

See Spadina and the history of Toronto through the eyes of the Austin family, who made the Spadina House their home.

Go back in time to view the stars through history with this eye - opening two - course set.

With a history of heart issues through his lifetime, CT Fletcher has faced death before, looked it in the eyes and has overcome it before.

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To watch actor Paul Dano (a magically right choice with a beautiful voice) steer his ace session band through what would become their iconic 1966 album «Pet Sounds» is to have a piece of rock history recreated right before your eyes.

This offbeat road movie documents the history of Welsh colonists in South America through the eyes of a Welsh musician looking for a distant relative.

With a photographer's eye, a philosopher's curiosity, and a searing intellect, Stanley Kubrick's films have cut a distinctive path through cinematic history with a scope that is still hard to estimate.

Here's the full list of 142 films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A Most Violent Year A Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!

AMERICAN RUST Not moving forward after being ordered straight to series STUDIO: Universal Cable Productions / Platform One Media TEAM: Brian McGreevy (w, ep), Lee Shipman (w, ep), Philipp Meyer (w, ep), Micharl De Luca (ep), David Gordon Green (d, ep), Quan Phung (ep), Elisa Ellis (ep), Courtney Conte (ep), Elishia Holmes (co-ep) LOGLINE: Set in a small Pennsylvania rust belt town, it follows the rise and fall of a crime - riddled community as seen through the eyes of a sheriff with a history of violence.

Recently, «Stonewall» received criticism for showing the Stonewall Riots through the eyes of a fictional white boy, when those riots were instigated by mostly black and Latina protesters, people whose names are already in the history books.

And of course, «Lee Daniels» The Butler» is a compact lesson in the history of the United States from the 1950s through the Reagan era, as seen through the eyes of Forest Whitaker's White House butler.

A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, and placing us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination.

Eastwood's film is dark and brutal, leavened by some deadpan comedy, a tour de force performance from Gene Hackman, and a sly encapsulation of the history of the Western genre, as seen through the eyes of a pulp writer played by Saul Rubinek.

Natalie Portman is being recognized for her role as Jacqueline Kennedy in the film «Jackie,» a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman).

(Director: Lee Tamahori; Screenwriter: Michael Thomas)-- An extraordinary chapter in recent history providing a chilling vision of the House of Saddam comes to life through the eyes of the man who knew too much.

The Devil's Double (Director: Lee Tamahori; Screenwriter: Michael Thomas)-- An extraordinary chapter in recent history providing a chilling vision of the House of Saddam comes to life through the eyes of the man who knew too much.

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From the Studio: JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman).

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