Sentences with phrase «recounts stories of children»

Carey recounts stories of children learning to recite Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, «The Wreck of the Hesperus,» and of amateur researchers spending lonely hours learning of nonsense words, before moving on to more recent work on questions of the retrieval and storage of memories.

Another recounts a story of her child asking her if her breasts produced vanilla or chocolate milk.

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Some recounted stories of how, as children, they had had enough time to walk home, eat a homemade lunch, and then walk back to school.

And then we got to the pictures of childbirth, and I recounted their individual birth stories and how unique they were and what my first words to them were and how different they were as they grew into the children they are today, and how much I love them now.

Children love to hear the story of how they were born, and the ritual of its recounting can be so sweet.

For a decade, Fukui recounts, stories have been reported of elderly children tending their frail, sick parents, and lately there are reports of seniors dying alone in Tokyo housing projects, some by their own hand, «without notice, and found days, sometimes months, later.»

Deadline (PG - 13 for mature themes) Crime drama, set in rural Alabama, recounting the real - life story of an idealistic newspaper reporter (Steve Talley) who, in spite of death threats, investigated the unsolved murder, 20 years earlier, of an African - American child.

Though the film is fairly low - key for a potential awards contender, «Spotlight» relies on some top - notch acting and writing to recount the fascinating true story about a group of journalists who lifted the lid on a massive child molestation scandal within the Boston archdiocese that changed the way we looked at the Catholic Church forever.

It recounts a tormented and surprising story of children and adults during the stormy days of the summer of 1965.

Another test involved each mother recounting a health crisis involving one of her children — a simulation of how she would tell the story in a clinic.

A scarred veteran of the entrepreneurial trenches with many vivid stories to recount in private, Whittle has learned to eschew confrontation and employ feel - good rhetoric, even writing in an open letter to union leaders, «Though teachers are your primary constituency, I know that your organizations care deeply about children, too.»

Lopez, on the other hand, recounted the story of a long career seeking educational opportunity for the children in District 6.

Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist and 2004 Nobel Peace Laureate, was fond of recounting a children's story she'd been told on a visit to Japan.

From her years as a spirited, secretive child, through her university studies - a period of exquisite freedom that imbued her with a profound appreciation of friendship and a love of travel - to her escape to a new life in California, Mayes exuberantly recreates the intense relationships of her past, recounting the bitter and sweet stories of her complicated family: her beautiful yet fragile mother, Frankye; her unpredictable father, Garbert; Daddy Jack, whose life Garbert saved; grandmother Mother Mayes; and the family maid, Frances's confidant Willie Bell.

The Treasury recounts several classic holiday stories, and Christmas Joy explores a variety of holiday themes such as charity, children and food.

Recounting the story of how she raised her daughters to be super-achievers, Chua juxtaposes two different types of child - rearing — the strict...

A children's picture book, «Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean - Michel Basquiat,» recounts the life of Jean - Michel Basquiat, the bold and visionary painter who shot to fame in the 1980s.

Earlier that day, Laure Prouvost had given the performance titled «Bread, Tunnel, Vegetable» (2014), which involved a group of children offering tea, bum - shaped cakes, and crisps to the audience sat on the floor, while the London - based French artist dramatically recounted stories associated with her imaginary lost granddad.

This Message Brief recounts and interprets data on the ways that exposure to the core story of child development influences support for policies designed to remediate child and family poverty.