Sentences with phrase «story about citizen»

I wrote the March 2014 Sky & Telescope magazine cover story about citizen science with the Zooniverse and Planet Hunters.

Not exact matches

By talking with your child about current events and stories they see in the news or hear about at school, you can help your child to feel more confident in their understanding of the world and to become a better and more informed global citizen.

The fifth spot goes to yesterday's story about the legal challenge by three politicians to the blanket surveillance of British citizens by the intelligence service.

See the above CNN story about how U.S. citizens feel threatened by the federal government.

When ordinary citizens complain about the titans of media abusing their power to shape public opinion, the complaint often revolves around the placement of a news item, not the story's content.

Even though The Amina Profile works as a cyber-thriller of sorts, I think it's much more wide - reaching than that, a story about online identity, but also about the danger of media - constructed narratives, one that manages to salute both citizen journalists, but also establishment outlets like NPR.

The biopic from director Oliver Stone tells the story of the former CIA employee Edward Snowen (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) who became a whistleblower when he leaked classified information about the NSA to the media that revealed the agency was spying on unknowing citizens of the United States.

Not much is known about the story but gamers will take the role of «Charlie», described as a low class citizen is a cyberpunk-esque society.

The film was initially inspired by an article Heineman read about an American vigilante group in Arizona that militantly patrols the border with Mexico, which its members believe is far too penetrable, but as he prepared to investigate this story, he encountered another article — this one about the massive power of the Mexican drug cartel Knights Templar, and a local citizens vigilante group calling itself Autodefensas.

And while the film is sort of about this war of ideas, propaganda, information from these citizen journalists and ISIS» slick propaganda, it's also a story of immigrants, an exodus story, of Man's understanding, coming to terms, and dealing with the cumulative effects of trauma... also, rising nationalism both in Germany and around the world.

His freshman effort was a story of tragedy and triumph — and one that brought about immense public, private, and academic discourse on the state of America, as experienced by its second - class citizens.

Autodefensa has elements of a populist uprising, and the grisly sights of such things as heads of decapitated victims lined up like ducks in a shooting gallery or a woman's story about the barbarous murder of a little child can not help but win sympathy for their argument for self - defense — especially when the Mexican government is, at best, ineffective when it comes to protecting its citizens.

Not that you'd know that from the movies, where senior citizens are routinely relegated to supporting roles in stories about young and sexy characters played by bankable movie stars.

The canniest and most overwhelming documentary to date about the ongoing Syrian civil war, Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts contrasts the story of a heroic group of citizen journalists with a grim view of the international community they desperately need to galvanize.

And if this story weren't bad enough, there is a far more pernicious plotline developing, one about which most citizens and education stakeholders are completely unaware.

There are so seldom stories written about true love striking «senior citizens», or in this case, two mature widowed individuals that are clearly battling both their own personal grief over their lost spouses as well as their own loneliness.

In fact, he liked the stories that I wrote about, regardless of my being a near leech on our finances and an almost second class citizen.

While it starts out as a great story about secret agents and special ops teams, about double crosses and not knowing who to trust, it quickly evolved into a laundry list of ways that different government agencies with obscure acronyms had the technological means and the legal ability to spy on every single citizen.

When English readers want to understand what it was about — how people lived and died inside a cult of personality that committed unspeakable crimes against its citizens — I hope they will turn to this carefully documented story.

In light of Edward Snowden's recent revelations about the NSA's snooping activities, this riveting story of government surveillance is a must - read for anyone who's concerned about privacy and what information government can and will find out about law - abiding citizens.

You may have seen stories elsewhere about the fact citizens of a number of Canadian provinces, including Ontario and most of the western provinces, can earn up to $ 50,000 a year in eligible dividend income and pay almost no tax.

A while back I heard a story about an older married couple who were asked to leave their residence because neighbours were disturbed by the behaviour of one of the spouses — a senior citizen in the later stages of dementia.

A story on her escape appeared in the Albany Times Union, and concerned citizens in the area are believed to have left food out for the dog after hearing about her — Dee Dee's Tavern, for one, which put out some prime rib.

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Not much is known about the story but gamers will take the role of «Charlie», described as a low class citizen is a cyberpunk-esque society.

Again, it could be that we're getting to look at the game with a fresh pair of eyes, but the oddly prescient and decades - old story about a world going to Hell in a handbasket from its citizens over-exploitation of its resources is something that really rang true to us.

Public health experts who work on the «shale fields» among impacted citizens have been ringing alarm bells: «I don't know if I have ever seen a problem as widespread as this with as little information collected about it, and as relaxed an attitude in terms of the sense of urgency, in the sense of responsibility on the part of the state and federal governments, and for that matter, the drilling industry,» cautioned a seasoned public health toxicologist David Brown from Southwest Environmental Health Project in my interview for Gas Rush Stories.

Citizens who attended more closely would see stories about shifts in the range of species, from birds and butterflies to insects pests and diseases.

Increasingly, this process — once an activity of concerned citizens giving up their spare time — has become professionalised, and now consists of teams of people employed to accost shoppers with direct - debit forms, and stories and pictures about the plight of animals and African babies.

One of the cute stories to emerge from the recent Earth Hour event involves a concert that Melbourne, Australia threw for about 8,000 of its citizens that night, which drew its power from a human source.

While many of us adults are concerned about the environment for the sake of future generations, here's a story that reminds us to never underestimate the intelligence and initiative of our youngest citizens.

On Tuesday we relayed a story from The Daily Beast claiming that «The Bush Six» — the Bush administration lawyers accused of greenlighting the use of torture in America's war on terror — were about to be indicted by Spanish prosecutors for their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantanamo.

On Twitter this weekend, reporters and editors like CNN's Senior Editor for Mideast Affairs Octavia Nasr (@octavianasrCNN) retweeted stories, photos, video and commentary about Iran by thought leaders, journalists and citizens around the globe.

NPR ran a heartbreaking story on Friday about the state of crisis in which Legal Services finds itself because «the number of poor people who need legal advice has gone through the roof — more senior citizens and more homeowners who lost their jobs» while at the same time there are severe funding cutbacks.

Research on the work of the court - based Citizens Advice Bureau in London proved a bit equivocal about how effective this form of help seemed to be, at least in a British context — though California and Scotland appeared to have a happier story to tell.

But if the many anecdotes the ACLU has reported (some of which the Guardian lists in its story) are true, it leads to questions about legality and a serious invasion of privacy for any traveler, many of whom are citizens.

His areas of research and publication include video documentary projects focused on end - of - life hospice stories: «Wisdom of Age Project» documents insights and reflections from older citizens about what makes life meaningful.