Sentences with phrase «make connections to the past»

With each culture, I also included the present day country, did current events and tried to make connections to the past and their lives today.

In so doing, this exhibition celebrates the inventive ways that current members make connections to past practices, forms and traditions while also reinventing and re-imagining them.

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It does not seem that the change was made because the name Persian belonged to a fading past nor because they wanted to reaffirm their connection with the church in the Roman empire.

I didn't grow up drinking strawberry milk and thus have no nostalgic connection to it, nor did I have any particular interest in making it, until I ended up with way too many strawberries this past spring.

Alex Song's lofted ball was closely watched by the Dutchman, and he made a perfect connection with his famous left - foot to volley a low shot past Tim Howard.

Edmonds - Green stooped down low to make connection with the ball and he put his header past Crowe into the Ipswich net.

What's particularly important about Zuckerberg's announcement is that it came from him, not his wife — past studies indicate that men often don't make the connection to fatherhood until they physically can hold their baby, and that the reaction of a woman's partner is huge in how a couple moves forward.

Dr Dan Butt's recent presentation, «Reparations and the End of Empire» (see here for podcast), at the Oxford Department of Politics and International Relation's «Engagement of Theory Conference», makes a cogent case for the connection between past and present actions on a moral level — leading to the necessity of reparation payments between states in a post-colonial world.

Visitors are encouraged to make a connection between past and present by touching them — a visceral experience.

In the past week Google used HTML5 to make it possible to drag files into its online email service as you would if moving them around on your own computer, and also announced that it would soon use HTML5 to make it possible for online documents to be accessed and edited even when not connected to the internet, by storing data locally and seamlessly syncing it as soon as when a connection is available.

But she argues that once introverts get past that hurdle, they actually have some advantages over introverts — like the desire to make deep one - on - one connections.

Over the past twenty years, she has refined a method of teaching that empowers students to make profound connections between the alignment of the body and the mind, the physical and the spiritual.

By exploring what makes a place special, sharing this knowledge in innovative ways, and enacting flexible site protection strategies, we foster meaningful connections to the past.

Within minutes you could be chatting to likeminded singles in Halifax and making those meaningful connections you may have always dreamed of in the past and possibly not found with other dating sites.

While we've learned over the past few decades that men and women are not nearly as different as once thought, it's fair to say that both sexes can offer different perspectives on how to successfully make online connections.

Once you make that special connection, you will wonder why you ever listened to the impossible to please social snobs of the past.

For a director like Jason Reitman, who in the past has been so innately in touch with how human connection works (the nuanced Up In the Air and insightful Thank You For Smoking demonstrate his expertise), to make a movie so out of touch, out of date, and overbearing is, frankly, baffling.

Marvel is known to pair actors who have worked together in the past, so this connection isn't a hard one to make, it also doesn't hurt Woody has Oscar nominations behind him as well.

Quill does have some connections to Earth from the past, so that makes the idea of this expansion in the Cinematic Universe more agreeable in handling; even Thor ended up with humans on Earth in his first outing.

Harold, as opposed to the other gringos in the movie, has a more profound connection to Mexico as we see him interact with acquaintances he's made on his past business trips.

It also allows the brain to access more long - term memory areas, which is an ancient survival strategy, thereby helping students make greater connections between new and past learnings.

The main focus is I want them to show change over time in U.S. history, and be able to make connections from the past to the present in whichever topic they choose to focus on.

Applying the Wisdom of the Past to Today's World, Myra Zarnowski suggests that we build «historical literacy» by helping children make connections to today through activities that encourage them to interpret events in both historical and contemporary contexts.

Kindles are made to be almost like a «dumb terminal» of the past to make sure you're tied up to Amazon's storage on the web (for which you need Wi - Fi connection to get to.)

I was twenty when I made the trip — an unobservant Jew, with no felt connection to, or great interest in, my past.

But the haunting metaphors are never forced, and the intensity of the simple words, on the baseball field and in the war zone, will make readers want to rush to the end and then return to the beginning again to make connections between past and present, friends and enemies.

Set in a Spanish convent during the Inquisition, The Sisterhood spans centuries and chronicles a young woman's quest to make a connection with her mysterious past.

This does make it easier to get allies then in past games but I liked that you earn them through a connection method by helping them, of course to balance this you can't always rely on certain members as occasionally you will be told that a member is unavailable for a reason which forces you to rely on other members.

These are neatly joined by a side story that can feel a bit like tedious, Carmen Sandiego detective work at times, but the connections to the past games and the knowledge revealed within are enough to make most fans power through the slower parts.

this year I'm knocking most of these off my plate (it's actually what I've been thinking about this past week) and step back a wee bit to clarify who I am as an artist, but I will still stay in the large art shows that will get me face to face with collectors and where I've made connections with art buyers.

His art makes connections between history and present ongoing sociocultural debates, often calling attention to forgotten events from the past.

With formal properties that bear occasional surface resemblance to Constructivism and modernist mark - making, these artists peel back the layers of art history and derail our associative connections to the past.

It may be the ultimate irony that in a story about Jasper Johns's Regrets series making their debut straight from the studio to MoMA, the octogenarian artist is unwilling to open up about any of his past connections.

Meanwhile, with «Drawing Connections,» the Morgan Library allows four artists, including Dorothea Rockburne and Georg Basilitz, to make still more connections between contemporary art and thousands of sheets froConnections,» the Morgan Library allows four artists, including Dorothea Rockburne and Georg Basilitz, to make still more connections between contemporary art and thousands of sheets froconnections between contemporary art and thousands of sheets from the past.

The selected works, all of which will have distinct connections to our collection, will make for an engaging installation exploring and illuminating the tensions and dualities between past and present.

Standing Water is part of a devolving programme that aims to make connections between contemporary art, the past and the history of art.

To help with the design of the galleries, an astonishing, tiny replica of SFMOMA has been constructed: over the past four years, a model - maker has made maquettes — detailed, accurate and some as small as half an inch long — of at least 2,000 artworks, which have been moved around by the curators to see how effective different hangings are, and what connections between pieces are suggested from different viewpointTo help with the design of the galleries, an astonishing, tiny replica of SFMOMA has been constructed: over the past four years, a model - maker has made maquettes — detailed, accurate and some as small as half an inch long — of at least 2,000 artworks, which have been moved around by the curators to see how effective different hangings are, and what connections between pieces are suggested from different viewpointto see how effective different hangings are, and what connections between pieces are suggested from different viewpoints.

This allows her to re-see, and therefore rework older material to make it new again ---- to make the past relevant in a new way to the present and to develop new connections between people and places.

By using materials from 99 cent stores, with often obscure and questionable manufacturing chains, 99 Cents or Less hopes to make the connection between past, present, and future centers of production and points to a way that artists can address the manners in which mass production has changed and will continue to change and evolve.

And we are invited to make connections that can link this past to the future.

Many past attendees have great stories about the connections they've made at the Creative Exchange — we'll be highlighting those in the months to come.

And in order to grab their slice, the publishers have seen over the past five years that they too have to work on the mainland in order to have any chance of making the right political and business connections that are essential to being a successful operation in China.

Today's ruling looks to me like some judges realized the standard they had set in the past (for good reasons, actually) was an insurmountable hurdle for Apple, so they centered today's opinion around the suggestion that «some connection» between an infringement and irreparable harm was sufficient and the made - up claim that Judge Koh had required Apple to «prove that the infringement was the sole cause of the lost downstream sales.»

Make sure you make clear connections between what you want to do next and your accomplishments instead of emphasizing irrelevant past histMake sure you make clear connections between what you want to do next and your accomplishments instead of emphasizing irrelevant past histmake clear connections between what you want to do next and your accomplishments instead of emphasizing irrelevant past history.

They can present these stories in succinct ways within the resume, to make you memorable to the employer and help the employer make a connection between your past accomplishments and their current needs.

If you're planning a career change, try to make the connection for the reader of your cover letter between your past work experience and the field you want to break into, as the below cover letter does (working in a high - pressured emergency room — working in a hectic restaurant).

Using keywords will help propel you past any scanning software, and relating your experience to the job will help make that connection for the reader.

Also, make sure to build up your network of connections, as well as give and request recommendations from past employers, co-workers and those who work under you.

You should make connections with past employers and co-workers to expand the visibility of your profile.

By Lester Rosen, President of ESR (Originally posted on HR.Toolbox.com) From the mailbag: I have heard the argument made that using business connections sites is more accurate than resumes and can even replace a past employment check, since a candidate is not as likely to lie on an online service where many friends and colleagues...