Sentences with phrase «human stories of»

Instead, it focuses on each of these sites to tell the human stories of the people involved.

11 bit studio's 2014 title This War of Mine sought to present the civilian experience of surviving in a besieged city, while Ubisoft's 2014 title Valiant Hearts, although set during World War I, focused on the human stories of both soldiers and noncombatants during that conflict.

He looks not just at the barrier that partitioned a city, and the human stories of those effected by the Wall, but also at the global politics behind its construction in 1961, 16 years after the war had ended and 13 years after Stalin's failed attempt to seal off the city had been foiled by the Berlin airlift.

One hundred and eight of children's literature's finest authors and illustrators tell both the historical and human stories of a beloved national landmark.

The site will cover all aspects of education in the United States — from the policy debate that will play out in the presidential election to the day - to - day human stories of school superintendents, teachers, parents and kids on the front lines in our nation's schools.

Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve is quickly becoming a crucial voice in cinema, crafting human stories of immense power and durability.

In the Neighborhood is human stories of love, death and life - changing moments and includes Oscar Hudson's LORD AND LIDL, where God unexpectedly shows up at the supermarket.

They show us individual human stories of love, honor, betrayal and survival, told on a grand scale that only the big Hollywood studios could rival.

These are not mere lessons about science and parenting, they are real, human stories of people working hard to do science and have lives in the real, contemporary world.

Unfortunately, the history books of formal education almost always overlook the more human stories of America's bloodiest conflict to focus on battles, dates and generals, which is what Uncivil sets out to correct.

In Church: The Human Story of God, Schillebeeckx says, «Therefore the historical future is not known even to God; otherwise we and our history would be merely a puppet show in which God holds the strings.

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.

(Edward Schillebeeckx, Church: The Human Story of God, trans.

o From Father Edward Schillebeeckx, the famous contemporary theologian from his book, Church: The Human Story of God,

The constant danger under which every kind of piety in the world stands — that of becoming an end in itself and thereby a kind of heathenism — is classically depicted in this brief, imaginative, but perfectly human story of what took place one day in the Court of the Temple.

Biomedical engineer Madhavan delivers an accessible and very human story of innovators, from Alfred Hitchcock's thought process crafting The Birds to a father motivated by grief to improve emergency response times.

Seemingly aware that the mere act of killing zombies is hardly enough to capture anyone's attention nowadays, lead writer / directors Sean Vanaman and Jake Rodkin have smartly focused the game on the human story of the zombie apocalypse.

* Bringing in a local veteran to speak of his or her experiences helps students in Remembering Pearl Harbor: The USS Arizona and in more fully appreciating the human story of that and other military engagements commemorated in local and national monuments.

It is also a moving, human story of three different women, brought together over the business of having a baby.

The Terrorist is a deeply human story of a man in the last years of his life, who, unexpectedly, has again found love but who is sucked back into a cynical, dangerous milieu he abhors.

A human story of people teaming up with a pair of vampires to survive a zombie outbreak.

His figures tell a human story of grace under pressure.

Before jumping into the dogfight, the book tells us the human story of how Mann got started in science.

Stories can deepen empathy and build understanding of the human story of relationships, sex, family, and the paths we choose.

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«I read this memoir when I was in my 20s, and to this day it remains one of the most powerful human survival stories I have read,» she raves.»

«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.

Summit often focuses on the human side of the story, inviting speakers who can break free of their publicized personas and reveal more honest versions of themselves.

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 show, which takes place in a world in which animals are interchangeable with humans, tells the story of a talking horse, BoJack, who used to have a sitcom and now lives a pathetic life in Los Angeles.

A Human - Voiced Resumebrands you as a person with a path and a story, not a disembodied bundle of skills.

If you're familiar with the works of Steven Pinker, you'll recognize the incredible importance that language has played in human history in the preservation of information (stories being used to because they were... * SURPRISE!

Because most of us are stuck in responsibility and are touched by these human interest stories.

In addition, facts and stats typically stimulate only two areas of the human brain, but stories can activate up to seven, and trigger emotional responses within listeners.

Using Facebook's carousel content format to tell the story of new recruits can showcase talent, create human emotion and highlight your company culture.

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?!)

For thousands of years, humans have told stories to impart information, explain the inexplicable, entertain an audience and forge social connections.

«It's in the director's handling of the story's human factor that his sensitivity falters, and the weakness for racial stereotyping that has sometimes marred his work comes to the fore,» Chang writes.

Part of it is the expectations that human beings have about how stories end, fed by a media that thrives on tidy resolutions.

A 4chan message board about the shooting hit the top of Google's Top Stories, which is not vetted by humans.

But in the Nike story, providence gets a lot of human help.

Why are tense stories of human struggle and triumph the most appealing to people of diverse backgrounds?

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

A human can go for more than three weeks without food — Mahatma Gandhi survived 21 days of complete starvation — but water is a different story.

«It's the human condition to want to help people with stories of our struggles and also to hear stories about people who've overcome the odds,» she says.

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.

«Stories are how we humans make sense of the world.

«Not blind optimism, not one that ignores the scale and scope of our challenges, but that hard - earned optimism, that's rooted in the stories of very real progress that have occurred throughout human history.»

His latest project, The Human Face of Big Data, uses photographs, infographics, and even an app to attempt to both tell the story of how we use this astonishing glut of data and, for one day — October 2nd — take the temperature of humanity.

These cold, hard numbers are pretty convincing, but if you're looking for more human reasons to go along with the startup visa plan, there's no shortage of stories of promising entrepreneurs desperate to create American jobs but held up by their immigration woes.

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).