Sentences with phrase «literature were in focus»

Francophone authors and literature were in focus, and publishers large and small discussed their global strategies.

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Still, most literature has focused on each country in isolation — there have been reports on UK equity crowdfunding, articles on Canadian equity crowdfunding, and books on US equity crowdfunding — but very little on equity crowdfunding in totality, and nothing at all on what campaigns from different parts of the world can learn from each other.

My degree is in English Literature with a focus on Chicano Studies from UC Berkeley.

Guided by these two analogues, the homiletician is freer to examine the relationships between preaching and other expressive forms — literature, storytelling, drama and art, for example — and also focus on those sites for ceremony and ritual in our culture where persons are drawn together in fellowship and community.

In any case, the focus was clearly upon literature after the 1950s.

Only with the rise of the research university in Germany early in the nineteenth century and in America toward the end of that century was the focus on the classical Western languages and literatures gradually replaced by departmental specialization and the abandonment of required courses in favor of electives.

This is perhaps especially true among evangelicals: historically evangelicals have tended to emphasize God's sovereignty in all things, but more recently much of their literature focuses on emotional and psychological concerns.8

His job is to focus on the task at hand, whether exploring «Abortion in Halakhic Literature,» «The Sanctity of the Liberated Territories,» «Teaching Torah to Non-Jews,» «Animal Experimentation,» or «Mental Incompetence and Its Implications in Jewish Law» — sample titles from the three volumes of Contemporary Halakhic Problems.

The importance of this presentation is that God creates the world out of love and keeps it in being as an act of love, and that this creative act is, as it were, focussed through Christ as the very mind of God, the Logos, as described in the Gospel of John and as foreshadowed in Wisdom literature in the Old Testament.

In Scotland, David Jasper in Glasgow concentrates on literature and theology and runs the journal of that name; in Edinburgh there is a center focusing on theological engagement with the media (with a strong interest in the arts) led by Jolyon Mitchell; and St. Andrews is developing a collaborative theological project on imagination and the arts under Trevor HarIn Scotland, David Jasper in Glasgow concentrates on literature and theology and runs the journal of that name; in Edinburgh there is a center focusing on theological engagement with the media (with a strong interest in the arts) led by Jolyon Mitchell; and St. Andrews is developing a collaborative theological project on imagination and the arts under Trevor Harin Glasgow concentrates on literature and theology and runs the journal of that name; in Edinburgh there is a center focusing on theological engagement with the media (with a strong interest in the arts) led by Jolyon Mitchell; and St. Andrews is developing a collaborative theological project on imagination and the arts under Trevor Harin Edinburgh there is a center focusing on theological engagement with the media (with a strong interest in the arts) led by Jolyon Mitchell; and St. Andrews is developing a collaborative theological project on imagination and the arts under Trevor Harin the arts) led by Jolyon Mitchell; and St. Andrews is developing a collaborative theological project on imagination and the arts under Trevor Hart.

This is why they flounder around, and run off in seventeen different directions, and fight over the best way to do things, and how the money should be spent, and who should be the group they focus on, and what kind of music and literature the church should produce, etc..

A tighter focus — comparable to developments in methodology that occurred in literature, history and philosophy — is now prevalent in their counterparts in the theological curriculum.

Though promising, the literature on public rhetoric is not what I wish to consider here.4 I wish to focus instead on the possibility of mining recent works in the field of literary criticism for some insights into the structure of religious discourse.

There has been an increasing focus on grit in both the social science literature and in the popular press.

We knew almost right away that breastfeeding promotion was our common thread, and we quickly narrowed our focus to a group that isn't often mentioned in the breastfeeding literature: adolescent mothers.

Meryl, because I wanted to focus exclusively on what is available in the scientific literature to back this up, I didn't go there.

«Message bank» development was based on literature review and in - depth interviews / focus group discussion with pregnant women, new mothers and healthcare providers.

The current book focuses on IR in general and on the security system of the Gulf region specifically, and it can also be regarded as an addition to the literature on the political history of the area.

The Tory literature focuses very heavily on Maria and is also quite old - Tory in its themes.

The authors point out that the literature has a number of methodological limitations, such as measurement and selection bias, and a restricted focus, in which the effects of a limited number of alcohol policies are considered without accounting for other alcohol policies.

The researchers noted «a clear disparity» between today's most widely used pesticides and the current knowledge of their risks, «with the majority of the published literature focused on pesticides that are no longer registered for use in developed countries.»

Published revision rates for septorhinoplasty procedures in the current facial plastic surgery literature are limited to a small number of studies focused on a single institution or a single surgeon.

Others, like Tom Burke, founding director of U.K. - based environmental group E3G, dismissed the Nature piece as «an ivory - tower view of life» that focuses on what is being said in academic literature rather than what is happening on the ground as countries slowly but surely buckle to international pressure to take on climate responsibly.

So, there have been hints in the literature that suggest this may have been possible, but no focused reports that looked just at signaling among octopuses.»

I think it's really easy to get lost in literature reviews and statistical analysis as a PhD student and lose focus on what you are actually studying and why it is important.

The findings are based on data collected through various methods including behavioural experiments with children in two countries (The Netherlands and Spain); focus groups with children and with parents in eight countries (UK, Spain, Italy, France, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and Sweden); a survey with parents in the same eight countries; an in - depth analysis of the most popular games in the main online platforms; a literature review, and a regulatory review covering the 28 EU Member States, Norway and Iceland.

«It's felt like a classic, old - school literature hunt, and that's been a lot of fun,» wrote Duffy, whose research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, particularly in lake Daphnia populations.

For the vast majority of papers in the scientific literature as a whole (if not in Science) the audience is quite small and tightly focussed: Indeed, many are read from start to finish by no more than 10 people — that's including the authors» colleagues and the referees.

Herein, we focus on small molecules claimed to be CXCR4 antagonists described in the literature between 2008 and 2012.

Ms. Murakami is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where she received a dual B.A. in comparative literature and international relations focusing on the East Asian region.

There are three main methodologies that have been used in the literature to constrain sensitivity: The first is to focus on a time in the past when the climate was different and in quasi-equilibrium, and estimate the relationship between the relevant forcings and temperature response (paleo constraints).

At the Renfrew Center, she can easily spot patients who have been so focused on their looks that they've never bothered to invest in hobbies, like drawing or literature or pottery or anything they might have found meaningful.

The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the IER literature to date, with a specific focus on its effects on cardiometabolic health indices in rodent and human populations.

To conclude, based on the scientific literature, if your goal is to boost your mitochondrial density and the corresponding degree of fatty acid oxidation (fat loss), focus your exercise program around resistance training and HIIT, and formulate a diet that is rich in protein, and low - glycemic carbohydrates.

The autoimmune connection is a more recent finding, because up until now the vast majority of scientific literature has focused on baking soda as an ergogenic aid in physical performance.

The eating plan is a hybrid of the heart - healthy Mediterranean - and the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diets, and then tailored to focus on the foods shown to enhance brain health in the scientific literature.

«We're pleased to join with our friends at Participant, River Road and Focus Features in financing and distributing this cherished and compelling property that has already earned a tremendous following in the world of children's literature,» said Wachsberger.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

Much of the contemporary literature on the topic focuses on the domestic factors that enable these competitive authoritarian regimes to stay in power, however I focus on the global ontology, or the character of the world as it actually is, and how it has proved to be very conducive to this type of political system over the past decade.

Hopkins says a lot of the research in the past has focused particularly on low achieving children, and these children are referred to in the literature as having a learning disability if they are persistently low achieving.

New GCSE and «literature», we are doing education with Y7 so I have created this reading skills focussed ppt using extracts from les excuses de petit Nicolas Use of white boards and an element of competition stops it from being too teacher led and the great thing about Nicolas is if they like him he can come up again - we are doing les vacances with Y8 so we might add in a petit Nicolas on holiday extract

Teachers in these schools may also design occasional projects that focus on literature or applied math, as long as they are still following the guidelines of their literacy model.

Extracts taken from the following texts: - Jane Eyre - Mill on the floss - Nicholas Nickleby - Wuthering Heights Differentiation: purple = lower ability blue - middle ability yellow = higher ability Resources provide opportunities to: - explore Victorian context including schools and social classes - analyse structure - analyse language - explore Victorian school experiences - write imaginatively - explore connotations of language With a large focus on 19th century texts in the new 9 - 1 specifications for both language and literature - exploration in KS3 is vital and these resources enable students to access appropriate extracts taken from complex literature on themes that they will be able to relate to.

As I have written about previously in this series, there is a sizeable literature focusing on these relationships.

Elisabeth Duursma: Well, in the book reading literature and research, the focus has always been on mothers - we know a lot about mothers reading to their children.

But it's a mistake to focus primarily on literature, said David Coleman in his speech to the New York principals.

These film - focused lessons are designed for used in studying English Literature English, using BFI film resources of Shakespeare adaptations.

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Accelerated English 9 is an accelerated literature - based writing course that focuses on significant works of world literature and explores the ways in which time periods, societies and culture values frame our understanding of a literary work.

To understand the literature on reform programs, it is important to examine literature focusing on organizational change as well as staff development literature focusing on individual teacher change (see Richardson & Placier, in press, for a thorough review of both literatures).