Sentences with phrase «passages read like»

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The study's authors had 161 participants (who were almost exactly split between men and women) first read a passage in their normal voices to get baseline measures of their voices for things like loudness and pitch.

Anybody with a working brain will realize he's just reading ancient mythology when he encounters frequent passages like this:

I would like to hear from both Perry and Bachmann about how they read this passage, and how it can simultaneously justify opposition to abortion rights and support for the death penalty.

Some of our best biblical scholars have enabled us to read passages like Luke 21 without having to take them seriously.

So the passage should read more like this «Do not let anyone judge you in eating or drinking.....

bootyfunk your and idiot because that passage in mathew 10 its a parrable he is trying to get people to realize that God needs to be the most important thing your life because with him you would not be period so to say that Jesus Christ the son of God is promoting volience is ridiculous, it tares me up that people like you take bit's and peices of the bible and make sound like you want it to if your going to read the Christian hand book then read it all do nt take stuff out of contence just to suit your life style your truly and always be a devoute Christian

The fact is, most of the defenses of American slavery were written by clergy who quoted Scripture generously and appealed to a «clear, plain, and common - sense reading» of biblical passages like Genesis 17:2, Deuteronomy 20:10 - 11, 1 Corinthians 7:21, Ephesians 6:1 - 5, Colossians 3:18 - 25; 4:1, and I Timothy 6:1 - 2.

When the Rev. David Squyres read this passage from «Salem's Lot,» one of Jesus» most popular sayings flashed before him: ``... Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.»

They ALL say they follow the bible, but like the Mishnah says «If there aren't 3 interpretations of a passage, you didn't really read it» I've been on a Mishnah kick lately.

That this is God's armor is seen from passages like Isaiah 11:5 where we read that God has on a belt of righteousness and faithfulness.

When we read a passage like, «Don't worry what happens when you're called before a judge, the Holy Spirit will tell you what to say,» that doesn't really mean much.

So this warning passage in Hebrews 10, like the others in this letter, should be read as an invitation and encouragement for the Hebrew Christians to stick with Jesus Christ through thick and thin, come what may.

This is to davidnfran hay David you might have brought this up in a previous post I haven't read, but i did read quit a bit about your previous comments and replies at the beginning of this blog, so I was just wondering in light of what hebrews 6 and 10 say how would you enterprite passages like romans 8 verses 28 thrue 39 what point could paul have been trying to make in saying thoughs amazing things in romans chapter 8 verses 28 thrue 39 in light of hebrews 6 and 10, Pauls says that god foreknew and also predestined thoughs whom he called to be conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers and then he goes on saying that neither death nor life nor angels nor rulers nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor hight nor death can ever separate us from the love of god in christ jesus so how would i inturprate that in light of that warning in hebrews 6 and 10,

As soon as I read the passage it's as if the devil went into my mind like hahaha I'm here.

T they would read a passage from Scripture, just like Jesus did, but then, instead of explain it, they would just start quoting other teachers.

Find passages from copies of books like A Wrinkle in Time, The Chronicles of Narnia and Kindred that moved you and read them to each other.

So like I said, try actually reading the entire passage in context before you quote something that you clearly have ZERO knowledge of.

Also many priests and preachers don't like to read certain passages in the Bible because they present a message of hate not love.

However he also showed that he understood something very important: that marriage is good news, a great thing to be really glad about, and if I hadn't known better, I might have thought he had been reading the passage from the Catechism of the Catholic Church with which I would like to close:

After reading this passage, my son promptly grilled me about chia seed and then politely requested (or something like that) that we procure some on the double.

She reads a passage from Ralph Ellison's essay What These Children Are Like.

It feels like a right of passage for parents to fill up the cart with... [Read more...] about The Ultimate Guide To Baby - Led Weaning

You can also get books for devices like Kendal or iPad that allows them to listen to the passages being read as they read along.

A new version of the SAT has longer and harder reading passages and more words in math problems, which some educators and college admissions officers to fear will penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading, or who speak a different language at home — like immigrants and the poor.

To most of the 2010 intake, it would have sounded like some insane foreign language, as if someone read a group of hoodies a passage from Chaucer.

Like the image - recognition software already deployed in commercial photo apps, these systems lend the impression that machines have become increasingly capable of replicating human cognition: identifying images or sounds, and now speed reading text passages and spewing back answers with human - level accuracy.

I love this because whenever I feel down or disheartened or like I can't do anything — I read this passage.

Some wanted to make sure it was PG friendly (aka no mention of what was going on beneath his kilt), some wanted to get his full name (James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser) and others were picking the passage based on their favourite scenes, like me, I love the scene where Marsala marries Fergus on the beach with the crazy priest and the sheep, so I had to find a passage that fit inside the cookie cutter that you could still read.

At a climactic concert at a party, rows of listeners can be seen gliding off in separate directions as if on separate mind journeys, and in a much earlier surreal sequence featuring newsreel war footage in a cafe, the narrator, reading a letter, can be seen rising with his chair like a film director seated on a crane, all the way to the top of the room, where he encounters his own childhood self running a projector — an image that might be traced, like much else, to one of Proust's extended descriptive passages.

It sometimes makes But Enough About Me read like an open letter — one with decidedly Nixonian overtones in a passage listing every person who stood by Reynolds when it was rumoured he had AIDS.

I'm not exactly keen on movies where words bubble up on the screen, overlying the obvious (I'd like Man on Fire more if those passages were stricken from the image), and I admit to a mild case of the Michael Cera problem, which is that four out of five moviegoers surveyed (to read the blogs) find Michael Cera soft, twee, and tedious after a few flops.

In fact, First Reformed plays so much like old - school Schrader, you might confuse it for the work of a dutiful grad student: Once again, we get a tortured Travis Bickle voiceover (Hawke's Ernst Toller keeps a journal from which, in between hitting the sauce, he reads passages like «I know there is no hope»); here, too, is a troubled woman who needs saving (Amanda Seyfried, playing a character named Mary), and Toller's own memories of his soldier son, killed in Iraq.

Each Read & Apply includes: - Reading passage (informational text)- Application activity (for interactive notebook)- Writing prompt that goes along with the passage - Photo examples / answer key for each activity Each reading passage is simple & not overwhelmingly long like textbooReading passage (informational text)- Application activity (for interactive notebook)- Writing prompt that goes along with the passage - Photo examples / answer key for each activity Each reading passage is simple & not overwhelmingly long like textbooreading passage is simple & not overwhelmingly long like textbooks are.

Each reading passage is simple & not overwhelmingly long like textbooks are.

For each of these subtopics, there are 6 activities: a reading task, translation (short paragraph) from French into English, sentences to translate from English into French, a writing task (short passage similar to the foundation writing exam), a photo (like in the foundation writing exam) and a role - play.

For each of these subtopics, there are 6 activities: a reading task, translation (short paragraph) from German into English, sentences to translate from English into German, a writing task (short passage similar to the foundation writing exam), a photo (like in the foundation writing exam) and a role - play.

While CAP had focused exclusively on multiple - choice tests, CLAS asked students to read a poem or passage and respond to questions like: «Pick a part that is especially interesting and explain your reasons,» or «What are your feelings about this poem?»

This product contains: - 1 short reading passage - 1 application activity - 1 writing prompt that goes along with the passage - Photo example / answer key Each reading passage is simple & not overwhelmingly long like textbooks are.

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Sequence - based reading assessments would make the subject matter of the passages predictable (more like assessments in other subjects), reassuring teachers that if they teach the specified domains, their students will be optimally prepared to comprehend the passages they are to be tested on.

If you are like many educators, you can read this passage fluently, yet still struggle to comprehend what it means.

Just like a detective following the clues that will lead to the perpetrator of the crime, you, my friend, must use the clues hidden in the text of a reading passage in order to determine the meaning of difficult vocabulary words.

Since you'll have to answer 40 questions in just 30 minutes and read the four passages (either one long passage or two shorter, related passages), you will not have enough time to just go at it like you usually would in class.

I still refuse because night after night, my 5th grader's English Language Arts homework is still to read and answer multiple - choice questions about poorly - written, often out - of - context non-fiction passages from free test prep sites like ReadWorks.org.

Instead, they're constructed like standardized tests, giving students a passage to read and asking them questions about it.

Since the passage of No Child Left Behind, reading and math often have crowded out other crucial subjects, like science, civics, and history.

As the old man stares out over the English Channel that divides Saleem from his family, we read that «From here is was easy to see the currents, linear streams of water a shade different from the rest of the ocean, like secret passages within the depths.»

A copyeditor like myself uses the industry - standard, in - document Track Changes function in programs like Microsoft Word and Pages, along with reading troublesome passages aloud, to tidy up the author's use of the following:

Tools like Whispersync, which saves and synchronizes your last page read so you can always pick up where you left off, and X-Ray which allows readers to see all of the passages across a book that mention relevant ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places, or topics of interest, also come with the Kindle.

This data, ranging from the obvious things like titles purchased to the more obscure data on how long consumers read certain passages, how much time was spent interacting with different sections of books, and how much of a book was finished, can be used for very real world information gathering.