Sentences with phrase «personal narratives of living»

Immy Mali's work revolves around personal narratives of living in Uganda.

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From a personal standpoint, poetry has a way of making me remember life's beauty, something mere prose or narrative storytelling can not do with the same grace.

Yet this personal narrative prevents us from reaching our true potential and transforming the quality of our lives.

This essay is adapted from his book Life Genres: The Personal Dimension of Narrative Theology (forthcoming from Eerdmans).

Unlike the authors of Habits, who give the impression that individualism simply leaves people without communities of memory, MacIntyre correctly perceives that everyone lives within these communities, if only because our personal narratives always depend on a sense of history and tradition.

When a parish lacks a narrative sense of its corporate identity, it will probably assume that its nature is the aggregate of personal stories of individuals prominent in its life.

The biblical narratives and related writings are used in the activities comprising the community's common life to help shape and even transform the personal identities of the group's members.

A certain careful and modest restoration of personal narrative — call it «testimony,» if you will — can help restore some of the life - giving particularity to the dialogue among religions.

Comprised of many stay - at - home moms, this blog genre focuses on product reviews, personal narratives, DIY tips and life - hacks to make daily life easier.

Once children develop the linguistic skills to create narratives, they can «place their own personal recollections into a framework of time, place, and causality, ensuring that their memories survive the transition from childhood to later life.»

Driven by personal narratives of patients, researchers and allied health workers in the field and exploring the multidisciplinary science that is transforming wellness across the world, LIVES informs a huge swath of health stakeholders.

Taking a real - life story that is complicated and unsettling, Steven Spielberg uses all of his technical prowess to propel the narrative but also allows this very human story to touch the audience on a personal level.

But by concentrating on the lives being lived outside of the celebrations, and the personal narratives that led seven very different kids into the scene, Kiki keeps the focus on the value of a safe space, of a community that provides structure and purpose for youths battling homelessness, illness, and prejudice.

Through the personal lives and music of Sderot's diverse musicians, and the personal narrative of the filmmaker, who ends up calling the town home, the film chronicles the town's trauma and reveals its enduring spirit.

But with the nonlinear narrative structure and digressions into the personal life of the defense lawyer Michael Nyqvist, the audience is left feeling disoriented at times and quite frankly, even bored.

This is his equivalent of controlling his personal narrative, a (sort of) real - life version of what the onscreen Harding does in I, Tonya, and his personal remodeling, unlikely and incompetent as it is, proves significantly easier.

The Rider, a vérité narrative about a horse trainer who suffers a career - ending rodeo injury beautifully mixes stunning visuals of the American western with a deeply personal story of a young man's life come undone.

The activity positioned preservice and beginning teachers as storytellers of personal learning and growth and offered opportunities for them to experience «narrative reconstruction» as they reflected on their lives, their learning, their choices, their past experiences, and their goals for the future (as also in Hull, 2003, p. 232).

«Interwoven with details drawn from his life, the mesmerizing narrative offers a highly personal meditation on the meaning and the power of love.»

In a compelling personal narrative that follows his farm animals from birth to death, journalist Lovenheim brings home the story of the milk and the beef we eat, and he does it by honoring the cattle and the people whose labor and lives feed a nation and a world.

One of the biggest pieces of advice we can give to bring your narrative essay back to life is to provide details in your piece, which can be personal as well.

This fictional collage picturing the life of Doc Holliday — constructed from newspaper clippings, interviews, poetry, and personal narrative — is ultimately a meditation on the Old West.

Weaving science, social history, and personal narrative to tell us the story of one of the most important conceptual breakthroughs of modern times, Mukherjee animates the quest to understand human heredity and its surprising influence on our lives, personalities, identities, fates, and choices.

In her other picture books, she celebrates the importance of ordinary events in a child's life and provides good models for personal - narrative writing for primary students.

Students can create a graphic web that lists the qualities of a good friend as described in the stories, add traits that they feel are important in their own lives, and write their own personal narrative about a real or imagined experience.

The book launches the 100 Years in the Life series, collections of personal narratives about life in every decade across a centLife series, collections of personal narratives about life in every decade across a centlife in every decade across a century.

From a narrative perspective, these Social Links offer a deeper look into the personal lives of friends and acquaintances who will look to you for advice, guidance and a shoulder to cry on.

Often inspired by autobiographical details and by the arduous transformations of his home country, Paci's work intertwines personal narratives with metaphorical and poetical chronicles of the experience of life in exile.

His work addresses themes of religion, colonialism, capitalism, and artistic authorship, but refracts these sweeping subjects through intimate personal narratives — what the artist calls «the tiny diasporas of a person's life.»

The results will embody the edict that «the journey is greater than the destination,» with each day yielding contributions to an evolving personal narrative in the form of performances manifesting as live events, recorded videos, drawings & paintings, site - specific installation, and a mashup of the above with online research trail crumbs in the form of digital collages posted to NewHive.

Eckes» poetry documents the voices and histories of urban life through narrative - driven, investigative, and experimental texts that draw from sources such as news archives, personal accounts, and corporate correspondence.

Jennifer Packer, born in Philadelphia in 1984 and living in New York, is a painter who uses portraiture to explore deeply personal experiences as well as the grand, convoluted narratives of history.

Present Time is a digital tourniquet to Truffaut's infamous film Day for Night, wherein a fictional film's plot, production, and the personal lives of its actors jostle for narrative dominance like waves crashing against the fourth wall.

I'm in Love, and thereby serve as entry points into her personal narrative, one she openly admits is a chronicling of her love life.

These paintings, with titles that refer to inspirational affirmations (It's not going to happen like that, Devotion, Determination, Perseverance and Potential) are suspended between an analytical depiction of reality and a dreamlike dimension, between autobiography and imagination, with her own personal style and narrative, in which the attention to time and space is central, evoking at the same time an affinity between life and painting, both imbued with intention and with mystery.

Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self - mythologized personal narrative served as an undying battery to produce great art works until the end of her very long life, her late stuffed cloth figural sculptures as raw, uncompromising, and young as her early objects and drawings.

Reflecting on the embedded and latent meanings around light, nature, the frontier, borders, race, gender and power in influential American landscape paintings of the 19th century, she uses materials collected from her everyday life, including holiday - themed tablecloths, discarded medical records, nature calendars, plastic bags and paint, to craft imaginary landscapes that are grounded in accumulation, personal narrative and historical critique.

Narrative plays a subliminal role in the works, as it is an element courses through every part of daily life — personal, spiritual, physical, geographical, imaginative.

During the exhibition, sixteen dancers performed excerpts from Le Roy's past solo works by interspersing samples from his major dances with their own personal «retrospectives» — this type of «retrospective» consisted of nonlinear narrative retellings of moments from the dancers» lives that intersected in various ways with the timeline and content of Le Roy's work.

Through the spinning of metonymical visual narratives, Bourgeois» work forms a web of stories about her life that are simultaneously stories about the paradoxes of the human condition and served as a crucible in which a Self - straining towards the nearly impossible yet existentially necessary act of connecting with Others - could be forged out of alienation and personal trauma.

Fallah left the sale with diaries, home movies, clothing and other objects chronicling the family's personal history; he then spent the course of the next year sifting through these fragments of the family's life, filling in the gaps where necessary, to create a narrative and build portraits of the family members through painting, sculpture and collage.

Expanding on the narrative of his previous work, Machado offers a more personal approach in this series, portraying life at sea on a modern day international containership.

Expanding on the narrative of his previous work, Machado offers a more personal approach in this series, portraying life at sea on...

His work addresses sweeping cultural and political themes, but refracts them through intimate personal narratives — what the artist calls «the tiny diasporas of a person's life.»

Foregrounding migratory and displacement narratives, the past and the present coalesce into a lived and shared experience that is personal and collective yet indicative of our contemporary realities.

On one hand, Mature and Angry presents personal narratives and mythologies, specific phenomenology of life, and some special cases.

Layering introspection and personal narratives with meditations on the lives and works of other writers, filmmakers, and artists — ranging from 18th - century feminist writer and activist Mary Wollstonecraft to Chantal Akerman, and Moyra Davey's own five sisters.

SB14 will feature exhibitions by curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons, bringing together a range of experiences and works — including major commissions, large - scale public installations, performances and films to explore how contemporary life, enabled by rapid technological change, has created a seemingly inescapable «echo chamber» of information, complex personal networks and shifting narratives that are physical, spiritual and virtual.

Goldin's captures an instant within a broader narrative, expressing her subjects» personal relationships or exploring their gender identities, while Dijkstra's subjects, including new mothers and children growing into adolescence, are at the cusp of unpredictable chapters in their lives.

Ultimately, Ruby dissects his method of liberating his work from his personal narrative — for the work to live on outside his studio, for it to get under a viewer's skin, and to take on new meaning as it gets interpreted over and over.