Sentences with phrase «of girl stories»

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Fortune «s Grace Donnelly brings you this sweet story about the Girl Scouts of Greater New York's Cookie Executive Committee, «a group of the top - selling Scouts who, despite not yet being old enough to vote, decide everything from logistics to product marketing.»

The New York Times, purported linchpin of the liberal media, hammered Bill Clinton and broke the Eliot Spitzer call - girl story.

As the co-founder of the IRIS - IN program for girls in partnership with the Ghetto Film School,, Olde is nurturing the next generation of diverse women to tell the silver screen's greatest stories.

Cole's rise from Hooters Girl to president of a multinational company in under two decades is the kind of story that elicits impressed eyebrow raises at cocktail parties.

Shomi will have exclusive rights to past seasons of hit shows such as Modern Family, Sons of Anarchy, Sleepy Hollow, Shameless, 2 Broke Girls, Vikings, New Girl, 24: Live Another Day, Chicago Fire, The Strain, and American Horror Story.

That a 15 - year - old girl would be targeted and shot by the Taliban, live to tell the tale and then continue to fight for the education of women in Pakistan is the kind of story that cuts through cultural and geographic boundaries.

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?!)

One of Shahid's first tasks was getting Malala's story told in a book, called I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Little, Brown and Company, 2013).

When someone participates they can begin to take on the identity of your brand reaching that fascinating place where terms like «Mac - Guy,» «Coke - lover,» and «Gucci - Girl» enter the story.

Karen X. Cheng is the head of an eponymous marketing agency, whose most recent Facebook video campaign for the book Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls has achieved 24 million views.

The younger son of the media tycoon stepped down as the chairman of the - then BSkyB in 2012, forced out by his links to a scandal at the family's now - defunct News of the World newspaper which, among many other ethical outrages, hacked a murdered schoolgirl's phone in a search for its next story on the case, temporarily misleading the police and the girl's family into thinking she was still alive.

From Royal Baby news to Gossip Girl — style soaps to tabloid magazine pieces about the Hiltons, we love stories of heirs and heiresses and great dynastic families — particularly if those families meet a nasty end.

When Freitas sat down to talk to young people about their phones, she heard some pretty crazy stories of raging tech addiction, from the girl who gave her phone a name and talked about it like a friend to the boy who claimed he'd rather leave his brain at home than his precious device.

Next, you may be familiar with the industrious story of Alex Scott, a young girl who battled pediatric cancer and raised $ 1 - million to fund cancer research.

* Special thanks to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis for the pictures of the football equipment being using at practice and for sharing some of their stories with us.

Among the women who joined us in 2016: Jewel (performing and sharing her extraordinary story with us), Apple Head of Global Consumer Marketing Bozoma Saint John, Making a Murderer filmmakers Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, Uber Regional General Manager Rachel Holt, Priceline EVP of Global Operations Maelle Gavet, Facebook Head of People Lori Goler, SoulCycle CEO Melanie Whelan, Accompany CEO Amy Chang, designer Rachel Roy, Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani, Joyus CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Hearsay Social CEO Clara Shih, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon, and Lean In lead researcher Marianne Cooper, as well as top executives from leading global companies such as Airbnb, Amazon, Coca - Cola, Google, IBM, NBCUniversal, Nike, Pandora, Target, Twitter, and Walmart.

Catarah Hampshire and Shoneji Robison, co-owners of Southern Girl Desserts, will share their story of experiencing the worst of the current small business loan landscape.

The «Make the Holidays Spectacular» marketing centers around the story of a young girl directing a Broadway - style musical production called «The Toycracker» with her trusty co-director Bullseye the Dog.

Girls Just Wan na Have Funds — VCs Share Their Success Stories 10:15 — 10:45 AM Maria Karaivanova, Principal at Madrona Venture Group Lisa Wu, Vice President, Northwest Venture Partners Anarghya Vardhana, Senior Associate, Maveron Moderator: Yadi Younse, Director of Marketing, Lemando

Your mention of public toilets reminds me of the Ja - panese ghost story about a girl who haunts a toilet.

Their first single, «The Way She Feels,» tells the story of a girl struggling with self - harm and cutting.

That's why we have these old stories about wolves chasing little girls, step - mothers planning the death of young innocent ones, and little boys being run down by malicious witches in candy houses.

In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents tell their children a different type of fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you're special, you are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and be a good little boy or girl, you'll be successful.

The above image is taken from Three Girls - a three part BBC drama based on the true stories of victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale.

Now this might seem like an insignificant part of the story or that I am dragging out this time in a young Midwestern girl's life, but this was of most importance because this also meant I got my first real bible.

The Newberry award - winning story of young Robin who has to learn to reuse his legs is a classic for boys and girls alike.

Earlier in the week, at a rally he told graphic stories of «animals» who murder «young, beautiful» girls.

Set in the turn of the century, it tells the story of a girl who is fascinated with the natural world and is trying to find her way.

It tells the story of a girl who is left behind alone on an island to survive.

[GET THIS CARTOON] The story of the church giving a standing ovation because their pastor who sexually assaulted an underage girl asked forgiveness is just appalling.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo — This is another one that could have gone on the picture book list because the paintings in here are sublime but the biographies of 100 notable women are written as bedtime fairy tales.

When I was a little girl, the story of Jesus feeding the great multitude was my very favorite of them all.

Renting Lacy is the story about a young girl who is caught up in the child - sex slave industry of Las Vegas.

opening Friday, tells the true story of the 2011 Iowa City West High School girls volleyball team, who attempt to rebuild in the wake of the death of their star player, Caroline Found.

The Miracle Season, opening Friday, tells the true story of the 2011 Iowa City West High School girls volleyball team, who attempt to rebuild in the wake of the death of their star player, Caroline Found.

Also, everyone who donated was put in a drawing for a free copy of Priceless, a book by Tom Davis which tells the story of rescuing girls from sex slavery in Russia.

It's the story of man who find himself in a dangerous attempt to rescue helpless girls who are trapped in the Russian sex - slave industry.

Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley, and it stars the (personified) emotions in her head.

But, of course, by the end of the final week of the games, I became the calloused Olympic viewer, watching with a bowl of ice cream on my lap as a Chinese diver jumped three stories into the water, rotating three and a half times on his way down, only to be critiqued by me — ice cream lap girl — for making too big of a splash.

Well, some organizations are, but as Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times found out, simply rescuing a girl is not the end of the story.

After all, a story of a girl's anthropomorphized emotions journeying around her brain to help her navigate her family's move sounds pretty heady for a kids movie.

I saw on the AP wire a story about a former Mormon bishop who pled guilty to multiple counts of se - xually abusing minors, specifically foster / adoptive girls from other lands.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

The film — which tells the story of a girl who claims to have visited heaven after nearly dying — brings back up a question most of us don't often consider unless we're reading the Old Testament: Should we expect miracles to happen more often?

The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi — This book tells the story of a Korean immigrant girl who is trying to figure out how to change her name to a more Americanized one when her friends intervene.

Though readers who are familiar with fundamentalist culture of the 1970s and «80s will appreciate her descriptions of the impact that evangelist Joni Eareckson and traveling missionaries had on her as a small girl, and of her growing passion for the Bible and of her puzzlement over the relationship between creation and evolution, her story rarely penetrates the surface of that culture.

He has a lot of other great stories that feature girls in the lead, too.

It tells the story of the residential school system through the eyes of a strong young girl who is determined to learn to read.

Shalit tells us that in 1994 she rushed off to see the new movie version of Little Women, only to discover that our hidden cultural censors, fearful of anything that does not cohere with prevailing orthodoxy, had expunged one of «the best lines» in the story, when Marmee says: «To be loved by a good man is the best and sweetest thing which can happen to a woman; and I sincerely hope my girls may know this beautiful experience.»

Then there's something commonly known as the «Proclamation on the Family,» which is often framed and displayed in homes — though rarely in upper - class households, said Joanna Brooks, author of «The Book of Mormon Girl: Stories from an American Faith.»