Sentences with phrase «on meaningful character»

Screenwriters William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy don't spend nearly enough time on meaningful character development to explain the lure of the summit.

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More importantly, we need to make it meaningful to the judges out there who have to make the important decision on whether or not we have the expertise, experience, and character to help them answer the challenges they face.

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

«4 - H helps shape the mind and character of children and young adults through meaningful hands - on education.

Our mission is to create a movement of God's men who are empowered to lead others on a meaningful journey into personal character and leadership, ultimately having a positive impact on generations of women, children and families.

I can't stand his films (his recent few that I've seen), they are incredibly dry, extremely boring, and he focuses on these odd vapid character moments more than any meaningful interactions.

, these quirks are hung on the character in lieu of real development; like Steve Carell's obsession with Proust, or Paul Dano's desire to be a pilot, they don't reveal anything meaningful to us about these people, it's just lazy writing.

«About Ray,» on the other hand, is a mainstream family affair that too often relies on sitcom - ish punchlines instead of meaningful dialogue, while giving short shrift to the very character that should rightfully be the reason for its existence.

His self - hatred will make it tough for viewers to connect to the character on any meaningful level, but with YWNRH, it's probably a good idea to keep a safe distance.

Expanding on themes of humanity and identity native to Phillip K. Dick's novella «Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep», Blade Runner 2049 both expands a world wherein humanoid androids and their homosapien masters co-exist while narrowing it down to a small ensemble of meaningful characters, all who have their part to play.

It injects some quicktime action into the script by having powerful characters briefly bash on generic Kree mooks, but there's not much in the way of meaningful stakes, so it falls flat.

The movie diminishes the role of its own female lead, mishandles its characters of color, and gives women and POC no meaningful impact on the final story.

As it's always been, American Horror Story is more of a showcase of fine actors going H.A.M. on crazy characters than it is a narrative achievement, eliciting performances that are far more engrossing and meaningful than the show's often nonsensical and disappointing plot.

Still, the chemistry between Pearce and Jones is electric; scenes between the two that are light on dialogue and heavy on meaningful glances are striking, subtly conveying the tension building between the two characters from their first moments on screen together.

So many horror movies focus on young female characters, and so few of them connect to those characters in a meaningful way.

Many had reservations on this sequel even happening at all, such is the love for the first one, but T2 is still a meaningful journey and takes the lives of it's characters in a satisfying direction.

The end product leaves all the female characters and characters of color without any meaningful impact on the story.

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

Geelong Grammar School's transformational Positive Education programme focuses on cultivating positive emotions and character traits, encouraging students to find purpose and lead engaged and meaningful lives.

Student progress toward the skill and / or character development deemed most meaningful by your school can be tracked on individual, school, and district levels.

We do this through exposure to real life, culturally relevant experiences; explicit character development, with a focus on student accountability; meaningful partnerships with parents, guardians, and the community.

Students K - 12 share how character building makes a meaningful impact on -LSB-...]

Students K - 12 share how character building makes a meaningful impact on them inside and outside of the classroom.

Our mission is to create a movement of God's men who are empowered to lead others on a meaningful journey into personal character and leadership, ultimately having a positive impact on generations of women, children and families.

Our mission is to create a movement of God's men who are empowered to lead others on a meaningful journey into personal character and leadership, ultimately having a positive impact on generations of women, children and families.

The RPG mechanics lack depth or meaningful choices that have lasting repercussions, there aren't a lot of skills to choose from and chances to develop and shape your character are slim on the ground.

Every enemy killed and mission or challenge completed awards you with XP, and when enough is earned you'll be given the change to spend some of your earned points on Perks to bolster your character, but like the abilities themselves these perks are an uninspiring lot, and there effects on your virtual avatar are often barely noticeable and fail to change the combat in any meaningful way.

Even though Waluigi appears as an assist trophy in Brawl, including him as a playable character will have a much more meaningful and positive influence on the next Super Smash Bros game.

Back in the olden days, role playing games used to focus on character interactions that didn't boil down to an exchange of bullets to the face, choices that impacted in - game communities in more meaningful ways than you dropping by to unload the loot like a one - man coat drive, comprehensive character development, team building, stories with actual endings, and all the things that had something to do with playing a meaningful role (get it?)

I'm a BDO player so I miss out on actually engaging and meaningful characters for awesome combat.

But Lollipop Chainsaw delivers on the same level as Scooby Doo and No More Heroes: lowbrow jokes, crass pandering, and a blithe disregard for meaningful characters or gameplay.

«A lot of choices early on won't be that meaningful because they won't know the characters and thus won't understand the stakes.

Although the main character has a distinct look and voice actor (depending on the class chosen), they never really sticks out in a meaningful way.

Stephen Totilo ran three seperate segments on the MTV Multiplayer blog - one about our innovative integration of explosive barrels (no kidding), one about the PC game market and a third one about the challenges we've been facing building real meaningful investment in characters who are mechanically and procedurally developed in the narrative design.

This role playing adventure game, created in partnership with author George R. R. Martin, features meaningful dialogue choices and special side missions centering on a strong story with surprises and solid character development.

As I look across my dearest friends these days I realize that I got my favourite FF Characters in my real life party too and they will all help me stop meteor or Sepiroth or just the next personal crisis that hits me or my wife... Love you all and please discover FF VII before the Remake to get the nostalgic feeling of a game that is around for a long time and has deep meaningful impact on many lives!

What they showed was meaningful and highlighted the emotional connection between the main character and his bird - dog - thing, which actually softened my stance on the game.

As avid players of all RPG games, our focus is on creating engaging stories, a beautiful world and meaningful characters.

This has one of the series» best combat systems, a quick - paced affair that relies on reconfiguring your characters» strategy on the fly in meaningful, customisable ways, but I could not reasonably ask you to wait 20 hours until that becomes totally clear.

Horizon: Zero Dawn's upcoming expansion is doubling down on «meaningful character interactions»

Though Rousseau will be playable, it's unlikely the game will focus on her for very long, as Condrey also added that in order to keep the story meaningful and keep players attached to the main characters the game would primarily have players «stay with the squad -LSB-...] with Daniels.»

«The figures in my paintings are characters invented in my imagination or ubiquitous in daily life, media, or advertising,» says Kolsrud, who finds fodder in signage, clip art, and cosmetic packaging, among other sources, to create meaningful works that comment on the challenges females face by physically obstructing their bodies.

I am writing this statement not quite knowing what the immediate outcome will be, but am aware of the potential collective impact that this distinctive community of creators will have with Brian Belott's innovations in collage, Ákos Birkás's philosophy about painting a certain situation, Regina Bogat's devotion to art making with clever variations on certain abstract themes, Matt Bollinger's extra-large and bracing graphite drawings, Paul DeMuro's painterly electricity, Marc Desgrandchamp's time - fragmented paintings, Michael Dotson's paintings of the «Disney - esque,» Michel Huelin's relationship with nature and software, Irena Jurek's very meaningful cat character, Alix Le Méléder's proposals of four colors determined by the passage of the brush, David Lefebvre's painted images cut out of magazines or downloaded from a mobile phone, Pushpamala N.'s ethnographic documentations which have been compared to Cindy Sherman, Wang Keping's unique wooden sculptures that juxtapose vivid emotion with a marked sense of introversion, Katharina Ziemke's pictorial treatment of current events, and me, the co-host with a small drawing.

Our mission is to create a movement of God's men who are empowered to lead others on a meaningful journey into personal character and leadership, ultimately having a positive impact on generations of women, children and families.

Our mission is to create a movement of God's men who are empowered to lead others on a meaningful journey into personal character and leadership, ultimately having a positive impact on generations of women, children and families.

Even though your educational and technical backgrounds are necessary to include on your CV, job seekers should also be able to learn more about who you are and your character from other meaningful experiences.

In his book How to Avoid Falling in Love with a Jerk, Dr. Van Epp explains that asking the right questions to inspire meaningful, revealing conversations with your partner and judging character based on compatibility, relationship skills, friends, and patterns from familial and previous relationships should tell you what you need to know about a potential life partner.

Our mission is to create a movement of God's men who are empowered to lead others on a meaningful journey into personal character and leadership, ultimately having a positive impact on generations of women, children and families.

My point regarding contacting Carolyne «if» you were ever in need of assistance in her geographical area of operations is this: If you are going to judge someone's character by way of how that person expresses one's self on paper, what is on paper is all that you are judging; you have not interacted with that person on any meaningful level and thus form your opinion from a pre-determined negative bias without actually knowing the person.

First of all, the 140 character message limitation puts a severe constraint on any kind of meaningful communication in a business context.