Sentences with phrase «human stories from»

She is extremely passionate about telling untold human stories from offbeat places.

Lyfta is a rich media learning experience from Finland that invites pupils to have memorable, immersive experiences with real human stories from around the world.

Yet this is all we have left of many human stories from the Holocaust, all 6, 258, 673 Jews and 3 million others.

If you still haven't got enough of harsh human stories from zombie apocalypses, you will enjoy The Walking Dead: Michonne, because it offers a proven Telltale quality.

Left Alive is survival shooter that explores the human story from three main characters in war - torn Novo Slava in 2127, and it's coming from the creative minds behind the Armored Core series and the designers behind Metal Gear Solid characters and Ghost in the Shell mechs.

Not exact matches

«Bennett has become a master of storytelling through character, and while there are clearly no people in these films, it was clearly a very human story, which we knew a director such as Bennett would zero in on and draw out very real human - like emotions from these poor inanimate objects,» Lennon said.

The Republican Party's fast journey from debating how to combat human - caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favouring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over co-operation and conciliation.

The debut from author Santi Balmes and illustrator Lyona tells the stories of two little girls — a human named Martina and a monster named Anitram (get it?!)

And, while I've heard from those clients many incredible stories about how they turned their dreams into businesses, never have I heard anyone say that he or she couldn't wait to deal with accounting, human resources, risk management and taxes.

Facebook is working with fact - checking companies to highlight questionable stories as «disputed» and letting users mark posts as «fake news,» while Twitter has changed its default profile image from an egg to a human head silhouette, partly to reduce trolling, it said Friday in a blog post.

While it's auto and I came from entertainment, I think there's so much similarity, because I am trying to tell a story and make that human connection.

«We can't lure people from point A to point B without a compelling story,» says Snyder of Human Resource Group.

When Facebook made its most recent changes recently to the Trending Topics box at the top of users» News Feeds, its hope was to remove the bias that comes from having human editors decide if stories are important.

Director Jonathan Levine («The Wackness,» «The Night Before») and screenwriter Katie Dippold (2016's «Ghostbusters») were obviously going for an edgy «mom - com,» in which the men are idiots and a story of self - discovery is at the core (Emily helps Ecuadorian women form a human chain to take water from a well, which brings her to an aha moment).

Her own story and refusal to shrink from the public eye challenges preconceptions about sex work: namely, the assumption that those in the sex industry forfeit their right to autonomy and human dignity.

The fact that a novel's narrator must speak as a god from outside the story has always vexed novelists, particularly when the narrator is also a human character in the story.

History tells us that the power of story, even a fictitious one, can send shock waves through society — transporting an issue no one can really solve into a human reality from which no one can turn away.

In the story of the feeding of the 5,000 we see Jesus once again addressing the most essential, physical needs of his fellow human beings - hunger, thirst, companionship - and once again, breaking down every socially - constructed barrier that keeps us from eating with one another.

Is there anyone who remembers, among church - going profiteers and racketeers, insatiable sexists, alcoholics, torturers, and myriad murderers of human rights - any of the exploiting respectables who remembers the story of Cain and Abel and the piteous words: The voice of thy brothers blood crieth unto me from the ground.

Human imagination as a whole provides the particular idiomatic and narrative construction of a congregation; its members communicate by a code derived from the totality of forms and stories by which societies cohere.

While there are «pagan» stories of resurrection, they are always stories about deities rising from the dead, not human beings.

One might call this the soteriological captivity of creation, because it succeeds in emptying the world of its own meaning as a realm of divine governance and human involvement prior to and apart from the biblical story of salvation culminating in Christ.

The hope that Christians put out is that Jesus was the real deal, and from his stories the way he was seems to be the best way to be fully human and fully alive.

In every instance, however, whatever cast its story takes, a congregation derives its world view from the struggle of the entire field of human interpretation.

Officially, North Korea has denied that the camps even exist, but human rights organizations have been able to confirm their existence through satellite images and stories from survivors.

Since our earliest technological achievements, the story suggests, we have been trying to attain a spurious oneness derived from human self - sufficiency and autonomy.

The entire Christian story — from the calling of Abraham to the birth of Christ to the sending of the Apostles and into the present — is the story of how God's desire that all people be reconciled to himself (1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9) operates through the concrete particulars of human history.

All of the stories from all of Man's scriptures are fully accounted for, and so revolutionarily superseded, by Pandeism, which demonstrates the logical probability of all of these nonuniversal propostions as simply reflecting the miscomprehensions of the limited human mind in attempting to grasp an ultimate underlying reality.

It's a wonderful made up story with a lot of great «human dysfunctions» demonstrated that we could learn from.

As someone who has taken more than 25,000 calls from his listeners (more than 7 million tune in on a weekly basis) the stories and quirks that make us human are also a source of endless fascination for the radio host.

Some additional readings and understanding about basic fallacies might also help you to see that your religious beliefs aren't any different from earlier supersti - tions and god stories that humans have invented in their history.

According to this story, human beings emerged from a «state of nature» in order to constitute society.

Because Ben, as it is with humans when a story is told over and over again among generations people add and take away from what originally happened.

This didacticism is redeemed from arid or smug judgmentalism by empathy, even for the destructive crusaders: «the historian as he gazes back across the centuries at their gallant story must find his admiration overcast by sorrow at the witness that it bears to the limitations of human nature.»

Her saving grace there, as in Out of the Deep I Cry, is her ability to create a story both intensely human and delightfully unpredictable, with events flowing naturally from collisions of character rather than the exigencies of plot.

Even when, like the characters in The Story of the Night, they seem to have fallen away from treating themselves, or their fellow human beings, with the appropriate respect, Jews and others in today's counterculture committed to the mystery of human responsibility before God, and charged with the task of pursuing our own unique individual and communal destiny in a conformist, uncomprehending world, need such reminders.

It embraces a fruitful abundance of descriptions of God, including all the substantive terms that can legitimately complete the sentence, «God is...,» beginning with scriptural terms such as Word, Wisdom, Water of Life, Bread from Heaven, Truth, and Comforter, as well as alternative proper names such as El Shaddai and also El Roi» Hagar's name for God, in the only biblical story where a human being gives God a name.

Relying on intelligence dossiers prepared meticulously by his UDR commanders, he prepared intensively, making several dry runs by following the bread delivery van in which Hackett would ultimately die; he blocked out the reality that the target might be a family man with a pregnant wife and child awaiting his return home from work; he avoided reading the papers or listening to TV reports over the next days, because the stories tend to make a real human being out of what had to be thought of only as «the target.»

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

De te fabula: the story is the story of each one of us, exiled by false self - seeking from the garden of human obedience and hence from human happiness into the strange land where we seek only our own way and hence lose our intended happiness.

Unfortunately, as a former Christian, well acquainted with sin and confession and the whole bloody business of sacrifice to appease Someone who thinks that shows «love,» I question the whole ancient story, all the animals killed, all the trees cut down (for temples and churches and crosses and «holy books») and all the human beings left to feel separated again and again from the universe, Nature, each other and their «gods.»

This type of story comes from not accepting Jesus as fully human as well as fully God.

See, that's what I mean by muddled... you humans took a little story, mixed it with some myths from earlier religions and decided I was this all powerful god with an all powerful father (that supposedly turns hair on the head as well as beards white if you look at him) that cared about each and everyone of you.

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 tales.

From within our human history God's vision of cosmic destiny can be grasped only through the relatively limited and time - conditioned stories of promise that serve as the foundation of our biblical tradition.

In only a few short paragraphs, Alison provides a compelling account of analogy as God's way of subverting the human story of violence from within» analogy depends on God's refusal to be rejected by his creation.

For Bergson, like many process thinkers (Peirce, James and Dewey come particularly to mind), the entire concept of «necessity» only makes sense when applied internally to abstractions the intellect has already devised.11 Of course, one can tell an evolutionary story about how the human intellect came to be a separable function of consciousness that emphasizes abstraction (indeed, that is what Bergson does in Creative Evolution), but if one were to say that the course of development described in that story had to occur (i.e., necessarily) as it did, then one would be very far from Bergson's view (CE 218, 236, 270).

I'm often asked if I think that the story of Adam and Eve LITERALLY happened, if God actually created the world in seven days and if there was actually a physical tree from which the first human beings, created form dust, physically ate.

It would surprise me if this hasn't been mentioned somewhere, but I've always heard the story discussed from the selfish human viewpoint.

It is universally recognized that the long story from our earliest remains of human life onward through the great civilizations of the ancient east witnessed remarkable advances.