Sentences with phrase «only about their historical figures»

«We have cut down on the number of assignments and have focused on assignments that will teach students not only about their historical figures but also other aspects of our curriculum.

As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope that by participating in past events, students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.

As Winters, who teaches eighth - grade history, explains: «We hope students will learn not only about their historical figures» lives and achievements but also about the times when those people lived.

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How did these students experience the historical - critical method, which talked not about the experience of the resurrection but about the chronology of Acts, and which never engaged the figure of Jesus in the Gospels but only dissected the sources of the Gospels?

the figure of the garden important precisely because it points to women's historical experience, and so allows women to speak not only about faith but about what Katie Cannon calls our «blighted» history.

Not only does it seem to me inevitable that men should want to know all that can be known about the man Jesus, as about any other historical figure, but I should say also that the effort to get back to the ipsissima verba and acta of Jesus of Nazareth is an indispensable theological task.

Not only that, I've sort of figured out that Alexis de Tocqueville, author of the best book on America, thought that the French Catholic Pascal taught the truth about who we are, and that the psychology of Pascal more than the History of Rousseau (or the ambiguously natural / Historical Locke) explains to us best of all who we are.

Interestingly, for such a popular historical figure, there is a dearth of biographical films about her life (the only notable film is the Norma Shearer / Tyrone Power classic from way back in 1938), except through incidental events depicting her as a supporting figure, such as tales of the French Revolution or other stories taking place in the late 18th Century.

If you can accept critically - acclaimed, but mostly historically inaccurate and somewhat anachronistic, films like Jesus Christ Superstar, Gladiator, and Braveheart, perhaps you might be able to cut Marie Antoinette the slack necessary, allowing the artistic license to properly engage you as a story about a young girl struggling to find herself, leaving everything she was behind her and uncertain of just what to be, only to finally emerge to the rest of the world as a historical figure larger than life.

There were only about 10 portraits of Turner, and one was quite glamorous when he was young, the others were showing a kind of heavier, stocky man who wore his coat a bit long; there wasn't a lot of historical images even though he was an historical figure.

He's also a fan of companies that can consistently create cash flow, and given his historical preferences, the Oracle of Omaha has generally bought stocks that are inherently less volatile than the broad market — attributes that only took the world of academia five decades to officially figure out, even though Buffett has been willing to drop such hints for about as long.

So, while just about the only group likely to make a case for the historical benefits of fossil fuels is the oil industry — who can not be trusted because they are the fossil fuel industry — the press and politicians are more than happy to swallow the GHF report despite the fact that much of the crucial data on which its 300,000 figure is based is provided by insurance giants Munich Re, when risk insurers have as much interest in generating fear of climate change as Exxon has in generating doubt.