Sentences with phrase «people as a lens»

The value of Schilt's work is in its use of the experiences of extraordinary people as a lens to reveal how the value of human capital — an individual's education, experience and abilities — is tied to gender perceptions.

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Our bias is deeply rooted within usand serves as a filtering lens that can shade our perceptions of what people are capable of.

Just as Snapchat has what it calls «filters» that users can add to their photos and videos — making themselves look like cartoon animals, for example, or producing virtual rainbows that pour out of a person's mouth — Facebook's Camera also has filters, or «lenses.»

As the company recently blogged, it is applying technology to eyewear in a new way: a smart contact lens that could help people with diabetes monitor their glucose levels.

Gibney's voice narrates the film in the first person and he uses Jobs as a lens to look at how we interact with our gadgets, particularly our iPhones and iPads.

Hopefully the time is coming where the ride will be over for this group - there is a huge space for public broadcasting and presentation of centered debates and discussions in this country - and it can only be through a public space lens - the next election will hopefully bring people such as yourself back into such space so that we can get on with having some notion of civilization.

Instead, we view the risks of any public equity investment through the same lens as we would a private equity investment: the business, the people, the reinvestment, and the valuation.»

As such, no one has a «correct» or «right» faith; instead, people are free to choose to be taught classes without interference of the lens of faith unless they choose a religious studies or history of religion course.

Better to understand Chesterton's idea that Jews were not naturally a part of English culture without the inevitably determinative intervening lens of the Nazi holocaust, we might compare it with modern English perceptions of the problem of multiculturalism as it applies particularly to the Moslem community, still widely seen as being impossible to assimilate: thus, there is understood by many decent and tolerant people to be what might be termed a «Moslem problem» (just as many decent and tolerant gentiles in Chesterton's day thought there was a «Jewish problem»).

Through the lens of this particular interpretation of the Trinity, Volf sees the relationship of the persons of the Trinity as complementary.

Writing in Premier Youthwork magazine (November 2015) Rev Rachel Mann, a male to female transgender vicar, advised: «Perhaps the single most important thing to remember is that... trans people are, ultimately, people... Trans people of all ages are often seen through a lens that treats us as curiosities, freaks or alien people.

Phoenix went on to point out how the Church has often painted Mary Magdelene as a prostitute — in fact, Pope Gregory claimed she was a prostitute in 591 — and said he hopes the film provides a different lens for people to view women in the Church.

This is a great lens to see evangelism through because we don't just see people as «projects» but as true friends — as another broken human being we can share our struggles and triumphs with.

The various reading strategies that Seibert proposes in the book go a long way toward helping Christians view others through the lens of Jesus Christ, so that rather than view them as enemies to be killed, we see them as people for whom Jesus died.

The 47 - year - old, who has competed as a pro wrestler since 1992, has the ability to see the business through an entirely different lens than any single person who has ever run a wrestling company, let alone a global juggernaut like WWE.

Lots of people see him through the lens of Vince's project instead of as an actual character.

Deploying the format used by Nige Tassell in his recent book The Bottom Corner, as well as an approximation of the approach of Michael Calvin in his recent trilogy of volumes, Hughes devotes a chapter each to the majority of the North West» senior clubs, tackling matters through the lens of a single interviewee and interlacing that person's thoughts with his own impressions on the fortunes of a club, both current and historical.

Sometimes I describe it as forming the «lens» through which a person views the world (and, in this case, birth).

Because women tend to see life through a relationship - oriented lens, women continue to see their ex as the father of their children or the person they were married to for 25 years.

What must be understood is that even though I am highly educated and just as deserving of the right to pursue happiness as the next person, I am still looked upon through the lens of the black, female stereotype.

The center's goal is to restore vision to some portion of the 65 million people worldwide — about 1 percent of the world population — considered to be legally blind, which the National Federation of the Blind defines as a central visual acuity of 20 / 200 or less in the stronger eye, even when aided by a corrective lens.

Some of these people have vision problems caused by currently untreatable diseases, he notes, but others simply because they can not afford or do not have access to relatively simple fixes such as surgery to remove cataracts (clouding of eye lenses).

As well as the smart contact - lens project, there is the Baseline Study, which aims to collect large amounts of data about people to better quantify health and disease, with the goal of earlier and more - effective preventive carAs well as the smart contact - lens project, there is the Baseline Study, which aims to collect large amounts of data about people to better quantify health and disease, with the goal of earlier and more - effective preventive caras the smart contact - lens project, there is the Baseline Study, which aims to collect large amounts of data about people to better quantify health and disease, with the goal of earlier and more - effective preventive care.

Placed after removal of the inflexible and less - transparent lens in patients with cataracts, accommodating IOLs can change focus — much as the natural lens does in younger people.

The firm's Big Data Lab in Beijing has announced that it has used billions of location records from its 600 million users as a lens on the Chinese economy, tracking the flux of people around offices and shops as a proxy measurement for employment and consumption activity.

It can't do both, so people who are listening, you know, always have the ancestral lens added as filter on to our conversations because this is very new.

Plus, it is always entertaining to see the person you are looking at through the glasses catch their own reflection and then use the lenses as a mirror.

The Fourth Estate, Season 1: In these times when journalism is being questioned and attacked as «fake news,» Garbus turns her lens on The New York Times in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.»

In these times when journalism is being questioned and attacked as «fake news,» Garbus turns her lens on The New York Times in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation's major news outlets «the enemy of the people.»

English actor Paddy Considine is renowned for his on screen prowess courtesy of a career in films such as 24 Hour Party People, In America and Dead Man's Shoes, as well as Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum and The Red Riding Trilogy, however Tyrannosaur marks his first full - length effort behind the lens.

Alloy is aware that the world of the past isn't as divine as the people who surround her think it is, but she rarely questions them or tries to convince them that they're seeing the world through the wrong lens.

And Franco, with long hair and colored contact lenses, captures Wiseau perfectly: As a character in The Disaster Artist, he's is played for laughs, of course, but there's something so empathetic in Franco's portrayal that you understand him as a persoAs a character in The Disaster Artist, he's is played for laughs, of course, but there's something so empathetic in Franco's portrayal that you understand him as a persoas a person.

A Romeo and Juliet take told through the lens of the indigenous people of Vanuatu, Tanna allows the culture - clash aspects of its existence play out as background so that in the foreground are these characters whose desire to be with each other proves to be destructive.

In Hotel Rwanda, the lens focuses on what may be the only bright spot in this debacle: The efforts of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle)-- who is identified as a Hutu himself — to save over 1,200 people from the murdering machetes of the Hutu militia.

Finally, because so many current events topics shed light on human and civil rights, teachers have an excellent conversational bridge as well as a lens for addressing equity and justice, a topic that so many young people are hungry to discuss.

Meanwhile, as one of the relatively few minority faces in the classroom, I was routinely called on to serve as the white person's lens on the Negro experience.

Cahill concluded her remarks by reiterating that youth development is not a program, but a lens — and this lens needs to be driven into the federal conversation by asking questions such as: «What will this mean for a young person if we do this?»

In this report, we examine need estimates through the lens of four different policy options for financing of out - of - school time programs: universal coverage (every child in a public school receives full or partial subsidy), subsidies for children and young people in households with incomes at 130 percent of the poverty line, subsidies for those designated as «at risk» for academic failure, and subsidies for those in households with incomes at or below the poverty line.

For example, Washington's Youth Development Executives of King County and the Road Map Project, as well as All Hands Raised in the Portland area, have begun to examine positive youth development through the lens of noncognitive factors as they identify ways that schools, communities, and families can collaborate more intentionally to create supportive learning environments for young people.

Acres of glass and toothpick - thin roof pillars tend to fool the camera lens, but in person, the CRX comes across as a believe - it - or - not Mini-Me, a shrunk - in - the - wash version of a real car.

The mid-range Nikon 50 mm 1.8 is super sharp and fast as long as you don't shoot wide open, and it's my go to lens when shooting portraits of people.

Many people confuse an optometrist who deals with eyeglasses and contact lenses with an ophthalmologist, who is an MD (or in this case a DVM) who deals with medical and surgical diseases of the eye such as cataracts, glaucoma, and retinal diseases.

As a photographer that usually takes photos of horses and people, we asked her to turn her lens to the pups of Santa Barbara Dog Adoption & Welfare Group.

Because as you so astutely noted, a lot of the people in positions of privilege (i.e. white westerners) see the world through a different lens than a person of colour (especially folks like me who are the children of immigrants, are often «othered» in their adopted lands, and have a very different relationships with travel).

Nochlin's decades - old observation that realism would increasingly mimic the hyperreal — the world as seen through a lens — and re-frame literal objects in subtle ways seems to hold true for Sherald's array of everyday people.

Through this lens, Gaignard — the performer and the person — challenges notions of beauty as a tool in the construction and presentation of self.

The image of «the criminal» is always elusive, both in terms of form (because the lens always remains out of focus) and content, because the authors and their character appear first as people and only then as offenders.

MY whole life and its work changed as soon as I realised that framing everything through the lens of other people and therefore their benefits was the secret.

As a 13 year old just beginning to explore the world through his simple Pentax camera lens, he believed being a participant was «really important and wanted to change what people did and thought.»

His photography is both straight and conceptual, exemplified in such works as his Turnaround series (2006) of unique portraits taken with a zoom lens of people from behind.