Sentences with phrase «individual human stories»

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.

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Regarding complaints to human resources, Mr. Wilkins said: «We're not going to comment on individual cases, but cases are often more complicated than simply listening to one side of the story
The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.
According to Keen, the ground of theology, or storytelling, is no longer outside the human community, God being «dead»; thus Keen feels we must shift our focus to the individual and the commonplace.24 In order to overcome my dis - ease, my dis - grace, Keen suggests that «I can proceed by telling my story.
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.
The congregation by its household narrative can mediate the entry of the individual into the fullness of the world, making manifest how the biography of a member is woven into the story of all human society.
It consists in the fact that what we have here is not consecutive narrative, but simply individual stories — and these are told in the manner of the people — pious people, who marvel at God's doings rather than ponder over questions of purely human detail (§ 3).
One thing that struck me about WeiWei was his ability to tell the human story and shine a light on individual characters abused by the Chinese state.
Feelings of empathy may seem subtle and personal, but this study, which used stories of human hardship to inspire feelings of empathic care and distress, found that the brain patterns associated with these feelings are consistent and predictable across individuals.
Johnson's conclusion: «We ordinary human beings are not so rational; we are no different from all earlier cultures in that we have to put ourselves in the story, and to attribute this or that individual weather event to our own behaviour or moral failures.»
To dispel this final falsehood, Rick, Michele and several other individuals who've been impacted by Alzheimer's disease decided to share their real - life experiences in a groundbreaking story entitled, Fade to Blank: Life Inside Alzheimer's, a multimedia exploration of the human side of Alzheimer's, through the eyes of those living with the disease.
Stories We Tell explores the elusive nature of truth and memory, but at its core is a deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define us as individuals and families, all interconnecting to paint a profound, funny and poignant picture of the larger human story.
In the end, the outrage one must feel about this crime against an individual who expressed human regard and decency is conveyed, and Nekrasov's dedication to tell as much of the story as he can is more than appropriate and duly recorded.
In that pursuit, drawing from various short stories of the author of The Man In The High Castle and whose work Blade Runner is based on, the Bryan Cranston, Ronald D. Moore and Isa Dick Hackett EP'd series with individual writers and directors for each stand - alone episode rolls around the notion of what it is to be a human being amidst pervasive digital technology and what is real.
If Johnny is considered an anti-hero to the narrative, than Jeremy / Sebastian is quite simply the anti-Christ, an individual so devoid of human compassion that his very existence in the story only amplifies the sympathetic characteristics of the downtrodden Johnny.
The story is deceptively complex, not only dealing with how humans would survive in this wasteland, but how individuals and groups would rise above the barest of existence to create a new society.
And this is how Creep 2 almost becomes a love story: a lonely individual desperate to share his unconventional life and an artist eager to explore the underbelly of the human condition.
almost becomes a love story: a lonely individual desperate to share his unconventional life and an artist eager to explore the underbelly of the human condition.
The real story is the power of education to transform the human experience and enable individuals to reach full potential — focus on the learner and the learning.»
Participants will explore Out of Eden Learn, an online program that brings youth from diverse backgrounds together for learning experiences focused on slow looking and listening; exchanging perspectives; and connecting individual lives and larger human stories.
The film focuses on the stories of the individuals who testified before the nation's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate violations of human rights in South Africa and beyond its borders between 1960 and 1994.
Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society.
Your story will move from the particular to something more universal — a story that reveals as much about human nature as about unique individuals.
Imagine having an announcement every morning, in your home, office... giving you the day's news, recipes, stories, and a constant barrage of propaganda that molds your thoughts until there is no individual, just a human extension of the government (Annie P).
With Anna's parents» heads seemingly in the proverbial sand, believing in the «miracle,» and her doctor suggesting the child is an evolutionary marvel, advanced beyond human needs, Lib turns to the only other clear - thinking individual, a journalist sent from The Irish Times to report on the unusual story.
The story itself is compact and focused, and the novella's larger sci - fi elements tend to fade away in the individual, human interactions between the small cast of characters.
- Engaging Audiences: Denis Dyack Deconstructs The Industry»... this «wide - ranging interview» with Silicon Knights» Dyack (Eternal Darkness, Too Human) includes a whole bunch of interesting points, and we split two of them out into individual news stories - Dyack: Game Industry Should Shun Movie Biz «Free Agency»», and Dyack: Will Wii Hold Public's Attention In Long - Term?.»
Resistance 3 focuses on humanity and individual stories and what humans are doing; how they're coping with the Chimeran occupation.»
It takes the shape of what I would like to call a «body - ography,» or the individual and collective stories conveyed by images of the human figure.
The exhibition represents the life stories and related issues of the post-war Chinese LGBTQ community as the artworks on view touch upon a profusion of subject matters such as identity, equality, exploitation by mass media, social predicaments, comments on individuals / groups, human desire, as well as life and death.
Addressing the role played by (mis) information within systems of power, and their failures, Fullerton draws his controversial characters from mass media: famous journalists and radio broadcasters, spies and human intelligence gatherers, wrongfully convicted prisoners, figures of political scandals, icons of the media and the Internet... The stories behind these individuals illustrate ideological beliefs, collective rumours, and the failures of regulative systems.
The group process concretizes individual survivor stories and the finished Doors provide a powerful public and visual representation of the commitment to eradicate human trafficking.
Mesiti is best - known for large - scale video works that, as the Australians put it in their news release, «explore deeply personal stories of the individual and the collective, grappling with the complex dimensions of human experience.»
As I continued with my story I indicated to the audience that this individual was very fearful of revealing to anybody that he was suffering from depression and so told no one other than the director of human resources at his place of employment and his wife.
I have a degree in Human Services and Family Studies and have always been interested by addiction and sexual behaviors but Patrick Carnes really pulls you into this book with anonymous stories with literature on how to explain the behaviors and the thought processes of these individuals.
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