Sentences with phrase «life narratives of»

The main character was inspired by my research into the real - life narratives of true cultural interlopers and cinematic stars including: Helen (Helen Jairag Richardson Khan); Yoshiko (Shirley) Yamaguchi / Li Xianglan; Anna Leonowens; and Merle Oberon.

«Epic Paintings» carries with it a sense of history and tradition, grand style, ambitious, and larger - than - life narratives of the human condition.

She not only weaves in the goofy real - life narratives of the performers (Krye Tuff is a government accountant) but also captures the genuine pride Jung's parents feel after they watch him perform for 5,000 fans in Finland.

We are invited to live the narrative of resurrection.

Yet we still feel like we live a narrative of our own choosing, a result of what he dubs the «interpreter» module of the brain.

Masterpiece: Little Women: New adaptation of the classic brings to life the narrative of the four sisters who grow and change, while the world around them becomes divided.

With #NAIDOC2016 celebrating «Songlines, The Living Narrative of our Nation» this week, it is timely to bring you this interview below with Clinton Walker, a Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi man.

It's a timely article at the beginning of NAIDOC Week 2016 (3 - 10 July), where the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are being celebrated across Australia under this year's national theme: Songlines — The living narrative of our nation.

This year's #NAIDOC2016 theme was: Songlines — The living narrative of our nation.

As NAIDOC week celebrated the theme «Songlines, The Living Narrative of our Nation», Croakey published this timely interview with Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi man Clinton Walker who talked about fostering connections to culture and country with the aim of reducing incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Not exact matches

From a personal standpoint, poetry has a way of making me remember life's beauty, something mere prose or narrative storytelling can not do with the same grace.

By being a part of an exciting live experience, they're able to reshape the narrative around their own brand.

«But the narrative about St. Louis leaves out the fact that St. Charles County and its elected leadership have helped make several communities in this area some of the best places in America to live, and that the region has one of the best startup scenes in the country.»

Despite a real - life narrative stuffed with secrets and suspense, the film version quickly feels bloated as Stone treats us to scene after scene of Snowden struggling with his inner dilemma and, especially, with his devoted girlfriend, Lindsay, who is a major character in her own right.

Narrative is the sinew of life; it gives context and depth to the information we share.

Humans have been telling tales for thousands of years, which is why it's a great idea for the flow of your demo to follow a narrative pattern, whether it's a live walkthrough of your product or via a slide deck using visually appealing templates from solutions like Slidebean.

From its beginnings, it's been a place where narrative artists — writers, filmmakers and the like — welcome the discipline of structure in their work lives, and build a community of peers.

But for most of her professional life, Ms. Clifford has been a woman in control of her own narrative in a field where that can be uncommon.

Yet this personal narrative prevents us from reaching our true potential and transforming the quality of our lives.

From Stories to ads to live video, Instagram offers a variety of strategies that marketers can use to craft a brand narrative that produces measurable results.

A narrative by campaign organizer Mandy Goodman read: «A kind, caring hero sacrificed his life to save the lives of children.

As we have said on many occasions, sometimes a theme or narrative around an industry or trend can take on a life of its own.

In this inspiring, multimedia keynote presentation, Carmine explores the art and science of narrative to help leaders sell, inspire, motivate, build brands, and change lives.

Most of the content is about them, a mental snapshot of who they are at that point in our lives that often morphs into a painfully long narrative for anyone under 25!

U nder the influence of western painters who settled in Bali in the 1930s - Balinese artist started painting single scenes instead of narratives tales, using images from everyday life as their theme,

The origin of the universe, origin of life on earth, resurrection of Jesus, historicity of the Jewish nation, historicity of the biblical narrative.

Brigitte: to me, the narrative of the death and resurrection of Jesus means that there is hope of eternal life.

Slight update on SIGNPOSTINGS: I also found there Colin's reflections on what's good and bad about living in THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display of excesseOF TV — yet another postmodern yet conservative theme: Too much disdain for convention and ordinary storytelling and narrative, way too self - indulgent when it comes to the imaginative display of excesseof excesses.

This a staggeringly unhealthy narrative to promote to our children about the way sexuality works, and plays directly into the hands of a rape culture such as the one in which we live: If you are a woman and ever get catcalled, abused, molested, raped or any number of other sexual advances, you are probably at least partially to blame.

But something that has, I think, been neglected in the development of this narrative theology is the narrative dimension of individual Christian lives.

But despite MacIntyre's eloquent exploration of what makes a human life coherent, theologians tended to find more compelling what he says about the narrative coherence (or incoherence) of whole traditions.

The problem is not just that we have become consumers of our own lives, but that we can conceive of no alternative narrative since we lack any practices that could make such a narrative intelligible.

One of the chief themes of the narrative theology that came to prominence in the Anglo - American world in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the centrality of communal experience to the life of Christ's Church.

This essay is adapted from his book Life Genres: The Personal Dimension of Narrative Theology (forthcoming from Eerdmans).

Wells describes his massive tome as «an attempt to tell, truly and clearly, in one continuous narrative, the whole story of life and mankind so far as it is known to - day [sic].»

Some good places to start: Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Strength to Love by Martin Luther King Jr., Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou.

The life of the individual Christian, on this account, makes sense and achieves meaning through participation in this communally recounted narrative.

This is somewhat surprising in light of the fact that one of the key texts prompting the renewal of narrative theology, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue (1981), is seriously concerned with the narrative integrity of a given single life.

Reuters: Pope Benedict's third book on Jesus reaffirms doctrine of his virgin birth Pope Benedict published the last part of his trilogy on the life of Jesus on Tuesday, delivering an early childhood narrative which strongly reaffirms the doctrine of the virgin birth as an «unequivocal» truth of faith.

It is memoria, in this sense, that enables us to think of our lives in meaningfully narrative terms: the whole project of identifying and pursuing a coherent life would be impossible without memoria.

Bertrand Russell, in his book, «Why I Am Not A Christian», He discredits the inspiration of the New Testament: «I am concerned with Christ as He appears in the Gospel narrative... He certainly thought that his second coming would occur in clouds of glory before the death of all the people who were living at the time.

Also, the order of creation in the genesis narrative is directly contradicted by the available physical evidence, e.g. Gen — seed / fruit trees before fish v. fossil record — seed / fruit trees long after marine life; Gen — birds before land animals v. fossil record — birds evolved from land animals, etc..

We don't just investigate the world at a scientific level: We also seek to give meaning to our lives, and to connect our own small narratives with the larger narratives of the world around us.

The narrative an individual chooses to embrace is largely dependent on the culture and society in which he was born and in which he lives, and the beliefs of people in his life he's respected.

A short description of all religions: A fictional narrative intended to help people avoid dealing with some of the harsh realities of life and encourage them to be better citizens and members of the society in which they live.

I know many who have been made into quasi-libertarian radical federalists by this narrative — after all, if we lower the stakes, surely the fights will grow less vicious — others, including MacIntyre himself, recommend the founding of autonomous communities with a shared vision of what a good life entails.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

Christianity isn't a religion as much it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits of the core narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily lives.

In this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etc..

Christianity isn't a religion, it's a religious smorgasbord, ideal for the church - shopping crowd, people who want all the benefits of the core narrative but want to be able to pick and choose how and to what extent they have to incorporate it into their daily lives.