Sentences with phrase «rather than literature»

There will be a greater emphasis on informational texts, rather than literature; texts will be more complex; and literacy will be emphasized in all classes, even physical education, said Tamara Maxwell, an English Language Arts consultant for the Department of Public Instruction.

Erin Tuttle says she noticed the change in the math homework at about the same time as Heather, and she also noticed that her child was bringing home a lot fewer novels and more «Time magazine for kids» — a reflection of the English standards» emphasis on «informational texts» rather than literature.

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And that's making the film, rather than writing a piece of literature on paper.»

An extensive literature in economics and finance has documented «home bias,» the tendency that transactions are more likely to occur between parties in the same country or state, rather than outside.

The metal is considered a rabawi item according to the available Islamic literature on the topic, which means it can be traded only on the basis of its physical properties, such as its weight, rather than on its future value or for any speculative purposes.

The economic literature has generally found that rather than increasing homeownership, the mortgage interest deduction encourages people to buy bigger homes and by taking on more debt.

He surveys Catholic literature from the end of Vatican II to the present and finds dynamic writers with «personal visions of faith fueled by idiosyncratic passion rather than orthodoxy.»

Williams studied literature under some legendarily distinguished scholars — W. P. Ker, of Epic and Romance fame, R. W. Chambers, and no less a figure than A. E. Housman for Latin, which might account for the fact that though Williams's English is often wonky, his Latin, when he breaks into it, is rather good.

Following on the British government's decision in favour of promoting English rather than Oriental or Vernacular education in India, and to seek the help of private agencies in the task, the Missions started Christian colleges for imparting education in Western culture and modern science with the teaching of English literature at the centre of secular courses and spiritually interpreted by the teaching of Christian Scripture.

You see this sort of language a lot in complementarian literature: «real men,» «real women,» «real marriage,» «hardwired,» «programmed,» «blueprint» — as if masculinity and femininity are rigid, set - in - stone ideals to which we must ascribe, rather than fluid expressions of our unique selves.

«In general,» says Dr. John Peters, «throughout the later literature the exclusive idea rather than the ethical idea is prominent.»

The fourth theme in the literature comes from philosophy and theology rather than from education.

Drawing on the conventions of the classical literature of love and using an existing pan-Indian stock of symbols and figures of speech, the bhakti poets nevertheless strive for spontaneous, direct, personal expression of feeling rather than a rarified cultivation of aesthetic effect and the «emotion recollected», preferred by the Sanskrit poets.

In contrast, much of what is said in sermons and written in Christian literature seems designed to maintain a particular structure of the family rather than strengthen people's ability to function in the families they have.

That several books or bodies of literature of crucial importance for theology appeared in close proximity to one another still impresses me as coincidental or providential rather than subject to a single sociological explanation.

We see the same sort of symbiosis in postmodern literature, which makes precursor texts a part of itself rather than rejecting them.

They should have been ready: when the Times, for instance, ran a piece headlined «critics attack Pope for his «myopic» views on condoms», their reporters had to fall back on old general statements on condoms, rather than having a vigorous defence against the latest attacks, based oncurrent scientific literature, to quote.

Scientific naturalists who take this line sometimes add that they do not necessarily object to the study of creationism in the public schools, provided it occurs in literature and social science classes rather than in science class.

Real literature, including the Bible, rather than just the latest thing, could nurture them in much more useful ways.

Here she encountered pressure to choose: the literary classicists understood their task to be «philological and to some extent aesthetic» rather than philosophical, while the ethical theories she encountered in studying philosophy were in different ways and for different reasons «hostile to literature.»

The term is apt, since this movement shares many features with the romanticism of literature and philosophy — the stress on feeling rather than rationality, on individuality (e.g., the individual nation) rather than universality, on particularity (e.g., of blood and soil) rather than abstraction.

In Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers, Barbara Christian points out that «a persistent and major theme throughout Afro - America women's literature [is] our attempt to define and express our totality rather than being defined by others.»

It is this difference in God - as - concretely - known, rather than any differences in thought about his nature, which distinguishes the New Testament and the community which produced that literature and still cherishes it as the norm of its own life.

Yes, rather than look for «baptism» look for ceremonial washings and in other Jewish literature, the mikveh.

The basic reorientation consisted in the discovery that the Gospels are the devotional literature of the primitive Church, rather than the products of scholarship.

Their power and foundational role in experience account for Merleau - Ponty's descriptions of fleshly ideas such as those of music and literature possessing us, rather than the other way around.

This important work was supplemented by the volume Rabbinic Literature and Gospel Teachings (1930) The additional notes contained in this latter volume deal — naturally with Matthew and Luke rather than with Mark — since Mark gives such a very brief account of Jesus» teaching.

This means that literature is best chosen for an individual's reading level rather than for a group.

Their mission is to get the evidence from national guidelines and medical literature into the hands of parents, professionals, and providers — to make VBAC accessible to more people based on actual facts, quality information, and current research, rather than conventional wisdom based on myths and misperceptions.

3 — 6,10 Complete ascertainment of outcomes of all home births in a large population and the ability to attribute outcomes to place of birth rather than type of caregiver should extend this literature.

Providing the right kind of literature / material is important, it helps your teen to get to know the facts rather than picking up falsified information from the media or worse still from his uninformed peers.

Living literature as the source for learning about the world around us, rather than text books.

As such, this book argues that much of the scholarly literature in the electoral domain has the wrong object in view in focusing on the outcomes of this work, rather than the processes that create information environments.

When reading the book, what struck me was the extent to which the material appears to be responding to policy gaps rather than to gaps in the academic literature.

From reading the Yes to AV literature, you would be forgiven for thinking that it was the Electoral Reform Society rather than the TaxPayers» Alliance who campaigned against excessive MP's expenses.

The term typically is defined — even in the medical literature — by its cluster of symptoms rather than as a coherent syndrome.

Even scientists who would rather do a 10 - year postdoc than sit through a comparative literature lecture suffer when the humanities disappear.

Others, like Tom Burke, founding director of U.K. - based environmental group E3G, dismissed the Nature piece as «an ivory - tower view of life» that focuses on what is being said in academic literature rather than what is happening on the ground as countries slowly but surely buckle to international pressure to take on climate responsibly.

We're also dedicated to adding to the literature of science rather than repeating it, and we try faithfully to publish only information that is truly new to your eyes — information you're unlikely to find anywhere else.

Suddenly, I became a consumer of the medical literature rather than a contributor.

The main purpose of retractions is to correct the literature and ensure its integrity rather than to punish authors who misbehave.»

These ingredients are designed to work synergistically rather than individually, and are suggested in published scientific literature to effectively address the inflammatory process responsible for most dry eye syndrome, as well as enhancing and restoring function to the glands involved in all three layers of the tear film.

In recent articles, we have put these mistaken notions to rest by showing the extensive scientific literature on the benefits of cod liver oil and vitamin A, as well as on the synergistic - rather than antagonistic - relationship of vitamins A and D. To bolster our premise that vitamin A is not toxic and that vitamin D can be obtained from food sources, we have published many articles on traditional diets, showing the high levels of vitamins A and D in traditional foods.

Researchers from the Department of Health at the University of Bath have reinterpreted scientific literature over the past 4 decades and have found that exercise, rather than «dampening immunity,» may actually enhance it.1

However, there are contradictions in the literature, particularly when gluteus medius muscle activity is measured rather than hip abduction strength.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

Yet, after filming Little Miss Sunshine, the then 22 - year - old decided to enrol in university, studying literature at the New School in Manhattan, rather than throw himself on to the blockbuster treadmill.

This has been described in the research literature as teaching by design rather than teaching to the script (Crick, Goldspink, & Foster, 2012).

«When I was 14, in our first class of Literature in English, I remember our teacher saying, rather solemnly, that our subject is called Literature in English, rather than English Literature,» writes Bonnie Chiu.

When I plan English units relating to Mass Media, Film, and Language in addition to Literature, at a classroom - level I frequently find myself making references to popular culture rather than literary allusions.