Sentences with phrase «telling stories of children»

In the quietly luminous adventure «Wonderstruck,» director Todd Haynes precisely details not one moment in time but two, telling stories of children separated by 50 years but united by curiosity and circumstance.

Growing up, I never would have told you that I was abused but, as I recalled some childhood stories humorously to some friends as an adult, I've realized mid-story that I was telling a story of child abuse.

The breakout indie hit tells the story of children living in motels on the outskirts of Orlando, while their parents battle poverty and attempt to find hope to instill in their children.

The plan is to tell the stories of the children rescued from trafficking, from poverty and from a life of neglect and the stories of their caregivers, the day - to - day warriors who live in the trenches with Jesus and with these precious children.

Somewhere between theater and installation art, «Flight» tells a story of child migrants entirely through miniature models.

Cafarnaúm / Capernaum Nadine Labaki — Lebanon IN A NUTSHELL This politically - charged fable, which features mostly non-professional actors, tells the story of a child who launches a lawsuit against his parents.

Montessori teachers tell stories of children who use certain materials or certain lesson for days.

Haunting illustrations and moving text tell the story of children leading the way on freedom marches, through voter registration drives, and even to jail during the quest for civil rights.

Iweala's debut novel, Beast of No Nation, tells the story of a child soldier in West Africa, and came out of his undergraduate thesis work at Harvard.

This novel spans about a quarter of a century, starting in 1895, and tells the story of children's author, Olive Wellwood, her extended family, friends and acquaintances.

A debut of extraordinary distinction: through the trials of one unforgettable family, Ayana Mathis tells the story of the children of the Great Migration, a story of love and bitterness and the promise of a new America.

But I wanted to tell the story of a child whose world is shattered so badly that no one can make it right: not his parents, or the cops, not the church or the community.

It told the story of a child who lost her family, her identity, and her childhood.

This series will tell the stories of the children from the Chronicles who have now grown up and have their own adventures to share.

Tezuka's work, Brave Dan, tells the story of a child named Kotan who befriends a man - eating tiger named Dan.

Inside the Visitor Center is the «Children of Courage» exhibit, telling the story of the children of the Civil Rights Movement and how today's children can keep the dream alive.

Dejair dos Santos, 66, is planting trees in the Morra da Formiga slum and tells the story of children who set fire to a local trail.

It tells the story of a child murderer in Germany and the police hunt to track him down, resulting in a «staged» trial used to force a confession from the accused and obtain a conviction, making the point of the importance of legal representation in criminal trials to ensure justice, even for the most abhorrent crimes.

Pauline Harris, Fran Noak and Margaret Sankey tell the story of children and young people consulting on a redevelopment project in the town of Gawler.

With a construction paper heart taped to her chest, the teacher tells the story of a child who experiences put - downs throughout her day.

Lisa tells a story of a child that had many generalized fears that learned regulatory techniques such as holding her heart and stomach while she did that during his expressions of the fearful scenarios.

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(Free to download) Grimm's Snow White: The classic children's story of Snow White told through an interactive app experience.

Gather around, children, and let me tell you a story of Facebook advertising in the long - forgotten year of 2012.

Where does it tell our children the dangers of believing stories by disguised pedophiles on the internet?

You can continue to hear peaceful messages in your head, but one day they can tell you to kill you son or daughter just like the stories in the bible and the stories of mothers that kill their child and then say God told them to do it.

The story told in the Book of Genesis, for example, is just a childrens tale written for a people who weren't ready for the truth.

The Economist also told stories of soldiers who've been unable to hug their own children at home after pulling the trigger, and there have been soldiers who've committed suicide after being forced to kill child soldiers.

Wilde's children's story The Selfish Giant tells of a garden where children used to play, but because of the selfishness of the giant who lives there, it is always winter and never spring.

In the attempt to keep their children «innocent» and «free,» parents tell their children a different type of fairy tale, a modern American story: everyone loves you because you're special, you are good at everything you try, and if you work hard enough and be a good little boy or girl, you'll be successful.

Set in a timeless desert unfettered by any particular time period, Habibi tells the story of Dodola and Zam, two orphaned slave children who find love and security in each other.

One of my favourite stories to tell is how my family came to faith in Jesus through a cheesy 70s children's record called Bullfrogs and Butterflies.

But this series tells a child's story through the wiser eyes of an adult.

At Fordham University in New York, a Catholic school, a proud mother of a grown gay son drew a standing ovation when she told a story about discovering the effect of church teachings on her child.

How would me telling a gruesome, nightmarish story of a god who intentionally hurts children to five and six year olds serve a «good purpose»?

All children tell untruths at times, often to protect themselves from punishment; some children have spells of telling wild stories which are simply fantasies; many children sometimes take something they shouldn't.

The need of children to be world makers is the truth these stories tell.

We can not condemn parents for not supporting their LGBT children without first asking them why they feel like they can't, without first hearing the story of the father who told me, «I felt like Abraham.

Statistics tell part of the story: In 1979 church attendance had reached 160 at two services, A hundred children were coming to Sunday school.

Each tells the story of an encounter with an angel who offers encouragement by foretelling the mission of the child who will be born.

For example, if I tell you a story about a green man with a thin stomach and no beard, who never laughs a jolly «ho ho ho» but instead constantly scowls, and instead of giving children presents he tortures them and calls them names — especially the good ones, and then said the name of this green man was «Santa Claus,» you could say that I am wrong, that whatever I am talking about it is most - certainly not Santa Claus.

the belief on the existence of the devil was concieved by theologians of the past thousands of years, there was no other way of explaining the bad experiences of people in the past because we were not educated yet to the kind of what we have now, Why this happened because that was part of the learning process that God wants us to know, in pathrotheism, we are part of God, and He himself is evolving because He is the universe, We are now the conscious part of Him, our destiny in accordance to his will also be His destiny because it is His will.Although He prepared first all the material reality of the universe ahead of us, The experiences for us humans including the supernatural is just part of nirmal process for learning because its natural process, today we reach a point of not believing the practices of the past, but it does not mean its wrong, Just like a child, adults loved to tell mythical stories to them, because we knew children enjoys it as part of their learning process.

One is the reality system of face - to - face encounter with other people, working at the office or store or home, taking care of the children or visiting with neighbors, playing with the kids and tending the yard, reading books and telling stories and remembering the past and planning for the future.

He tells this true story: Four groups met to prepare children with disabilities for the sacrament of confirmation.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Among the stories, many no doubt apocryphal, told about George Bernard Shaw is one in which the dancer Isadora Duncan suggests to Shaw that they should have a baby, saying, «Think of a child with my body and your mind.»

Here's a fuller synopsis of the play: The Jeweler's Shop is a meditation on marriage by the future pontiff, told with warmth and wit through the stories of three couples: a young couple torn by war, an older couple tempted by infidelity, and lastly the children of these two marriages who themselves are called to love.

Then she tells us the story of «Jesus and the Children» while we watch noonlight stream through the stained - glass panels of the big window above and to our right.

Remarkable stories are told of his childhood which remind one of some of the stories told of the child Jesus in the apocryphal gospels.

Narrative ministry, so to speak, finds no more receptive audience than a group of young people, particularly a group of high - powered, pressured children and adolescents who have not frequently experienced the joy and luxury of having stories told to them.

Based on a true story first told in an ESPN magazine feature, Queen of Katwe tells the story of a Christian missionary (played by David Oyelowo), who teaches Uganda children living in slums to play chess.