Sentences with phrase «of key historical events»

Most myths are set at the time of creation, or in a primordial time, or at the time of key historical events — times in which the forms of existence were established, modified or disclosed.

Not exact matches

I do not elsewhere «skewer» conservatives for their devotion to the founders» intentions because of its resemblance to the principle of sola scriptura — I note this mostly as a bemused observation — but because, apparently unlike Reilly, I do not subscribe to a «Great Man» view of historical agency and historiography in which the mens auctoris provides the definitive key to the meaning of texts or historical events.

This study of an important event that took place just before the Civil War started helps us in addressing two key historical questions: 1) At what point, if any, was Abraham Lincoln morally justified in fighting the Confederacy?

Is there — anywhere in the course of human events — a key to unlock the enigma of our social and historical experience?

Likewise, metaphysical systems can be considered as speculative extensions of interpretive categories which within religious language itself are applied to distinctive types of experience and key historical events.

Images which originated in religious experience and key historical events are extended to interpret other areas of individual and corporate experience.

One of the main functions of religious models is the interpretation of distinctive types of experience: awe and reverence, moral obligation, reorientation and reconciliation, interpersonal relationships, key historical events, and order and creativity in the world.

Winning the Turner Prize back in 2004 for his creative re-enactment of the grisly clash between striking miners and police in the 1984 Battle of Orgreave, Deller has since gained an avid following for his effective and unique portrayals of society and key historical and political events.

The film chronicles much of his life, and depicts key historical events that deeply affected the course of Jiro's life, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, the Great Depression, the tuberculosis epidemic and Japan's plunge into war.

This year, a sizable chunk of the festival's biggest hits have a few key things in common — they're coming out in the first full year of the Trump administration, they're deeply topical despite many of them being period pieces covering unfortunate historical events, and they have all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

THE WIND RISES chronicles much of Jiro's life, and depicts key historical events that affected deeply the course of his life, including The Great Kanto earthquake of 1923, The Great depression, the tuberculosis epidemic, and Japan's plunge into war.

Focusing on historical events involving several key battles in the early months of the Civil War, it follows the movement of General Thomas «Stonewall» Jackson (Stephan Lang) and his heroic brigade.

According to a separate report from the Japan Daily Press, American film director Oliver Stone, who currently is visiting Hiroshima and Nagasaki and whose films about key historical events have attracted their share of controversy, criticized the US bombing of Hiroshima.

Over the course of this journey, they become able to: - Recall the main events that occurred between 1912 and 1945, through an interactive group activity; - Remember some key information about J.B Priestley and his beliefs; - Read and understand the opening of the play; - Make links between the opening of the play and the historical context - both in term of when the play was set, and when it was written; - Analyse how Priestley links historical context to his characters, in order to get his messages across to the audience; - Peer / self - assess learning attempts.

Perfect for as either an English or a Citizenship scheme, this Holocaust scheme aim to build students» key reading and writing skills through the teaching of one of the most important and poignant worldwide historical events: The Holocaust.

The lesson follows a step - by - step learning journey, in which students learn through: - Defining and exemplifying the key features of Shakespearean context; - Reading and comprehending key extracts from Much Ado About Nothing, relating them to the features of Shakespearean context; - Completing an essay style response in which they consider how the key features of social and historical context influence the events of the play.

While writing a US history thesis, you should strive to make the reader comprehend the importance of historical events, motivations of key people, as well as implications of the decisions made or actions undertaken.

Each tour creates the feel and flavour of Tudor times through visits to the actual places where the key historical events took place and the background information provided by our experience tour leaders, assisted by specialist tour guides.

His work presents these figures in confusing and illogical acts, a critique that addresses America's habit of manipulating key moments from historical events.

Symbolising a period of one hundred years, on each day of the show a pre-sawn disk is separated from the trunk of an oak tree to reveal the delineation in ink of one of its age - defining rings and a key historical event which occurred in that year which has been stamped onto the wood in ink.

This event coincides with Streams of Warm Impermanence, a group exhibition of contemporary artworks that articulate visions of informed flesh, and historical works that point to key moments of shift in artists» engagement with the body.