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I stumbled upon this story while researching the student loan crisis and at first I was perplexed.

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And while I don't know the stories of all the millions upon millions of people who no longer attend a Sunday morning gathering, I do know the stories of a couple hundred of them, and by far, most of them have grown closer in their walk with Jesus than they ever had when they were sitting in a pew on Sunday morning.

I even got questioned for detracting from the thread, though my intent was to offer my personal struggle with what the thread eventually evolved into, while feeling for genuinely for Julie (based upon her willingness to divulge to a public blog her side of the story), and while questioning all along what really happened given others» pov on all this.

This solidarity with the bullied, if you will, casts some light on Joyce's work to follow --- a different reason for him to take up the story of Odysseus, who «suffered much upon the sea» while being hounded by a relentlessly abusive Poseidon.

We recognize, of course, the relatively late emergence in the Old Testament of a positively and precisely articulated belief in Yahweh's universal creation, and that it is not, indeed, until the time of Second Isaiah that such a belief is taken for granted.24 On the other hand, the J story of creation in Gen. 2 reflects an early if imprecise creation faith25 while the eighth - century prophets clearly stand upon a thoroughly practical though untheoretical belief in Yahweh's creative function.

While tooling around the Internet one day I stumbled upon the story of Sara Salo, a public health advocate in Bend, Oregon who is going to be biking across the country to bring attention to school food reform.

While the findings of the contested Toas memo, detailed later in this story, are fairly complex and specific, the lawsuit also draws upon Dr. Haldar's own emails and other, previously unpublicized SUNY documents, placing his alleged missteps in the broader context of what he calls «SUNY Poly's fiscal institutional mismanagement.»

After the first couple of chapters, I do not think there are much chances of the story progressing as she jumps upon you with unrestrained passion and tears off your clothes while you do the same to her.

From there, the story of two men, each centred in a morally different universe, unfolds as Mangold piles layer upon layer of character depth upon each, while at the same time picking away at the bleakness of Wade's fibre to slowly reveal glimmers of humanity.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

While «Finding Dory» is crammed with the kind of visual pleasures we've come to expect from Pixar, the story doesn't always reach the heights of invention upon which the animation giant has built its reputation.

While watching David Gordon Green's debut, «George Washington» (2000), upon its premiere in Toronto, he called it «a tightwire act,» considering the «slight and offhand materials» it was attempting to spin into a story.

Such rules would normally be frowned upon (and even ignored by many), but in fact, this film does such a masterful job of paying homage to the first, while enhancing the characters and story, that we are eager for every viewer to experience it with fresh eyes and clear mind... no matter how tempting it is to talk about!

The film tells the true story of a young German soldier who during the final weeks of World War Two runs away from the Wehrmacht but eventually ends up committing mass murder while impersonating a Captain with the help of a uniform he happens to stumble upon while trying to survive after deserting his army unit.

The logical missteps are a result of attempting to rework the structure of the story while still hitting upon the crucial elements and most memorable sequences.

Steven Spielberg directs Jamie Bell as the young intrepid reporter who stumbles upon a great mystery while searching for a story.

Based upon this new information, it seems as though Nintendo is attempting to keep the old audience and gather new audiences by including the components that have worked in the other games of the series while creating a story - mode-esque game that everyone can enjoy.

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«Based on a True Friendship» (3:31) comments upon the real story that inspired the movie, while oddly not letting screenwriter Susan McMartin speak on the subject.

In addition to praising Garland as being a true auteur (while explaining that Garland himself «says he's not an auteur»), VanderMeer touched upon how the film version of his first Southern Reach novel differs in terms of not only tone, but the actual ending to the story:

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While her reliance upon a bevy of catchy pop songs, not to mention Ludwig Göransson's (Central Intelligence) strong if over-utilized score, can sometimes inadvertently stifle the story's inherent dramatic rhythms, overall the director does a nice job, a mid-movie act of rebellion on Maddie's part introduced with a pleasantly relaxed gentility that's wonderful.

Though once upon a time seeing Ben Stiller star in a serious - ish film about middle - class, middle - aged malaise was a refreshing rebuke to his broader work in studio comedy, the novelty has begun to wear off in recent years following his repeated — and arguably, repetitive — collaborations with bourgeois angst maestro Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, While We're Young, The Meyerowitz Stories).

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While students may take part in very different writing tasks depending on the subject area, their ability to craft a creative story in English and to produce a detailed report in science (for example) are in part dependent upon the attitudes, behaviours, and emotions relevant to writing and writing tasks.

Once upon a time, there was a fabulous funambulist...: what children learn about the «high - level» vocabulary they encounter while listening to stories

In 2013, he briefly suggested that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was «impolitic» to place opposition to the Common Core State Standards upon «white, suburban moms» who don't want to find out that their children are not brilliant — just before he jumped in and declared that Secretary Duncan was right to be concerned that «a laudable set of guidelines» would be rejected for making kids work too hard, characterized most opposition to the standards as «welling hysteria» from the right and left wing, and chided parents concerned about the increasing lack of joy in school with declarations that portions of school ought to be «relatively mirthless» while blaming stories of students breaking down from stress upon their parents.

While that description hardly seems applicable to the women of today, both Collins and writer and journalist Anna Quindlen — in a new afterword — remark upon the still - persuasive power of Friedan's words, as well as the timelessness and relatability of the stories shared by the women she interviewed while researching and writing the While that description hardly seems applicable to the women of today, both Collins and writer and journalist Anna Quindlen — in a new afterword — remark upon the still - persuasive power of Friedan's words, as well as the timelessness and relatability of the stories shared by the women she interviewed while researching and writing the while researching and writing the book.

I came upon this anthology of eight SF stories while volunteering to sort used books for my local library's annual book sale.

Teachers can build upon the strengths and interests of students by creating stories and scenarios that reflect their cultural experiences while they share their learning about money.

Occupying the top floor of two - story buildings nestled into the Sunset Bluff, the ocean vistas create the illusion of floating upon the sea, while the amenities of our Club Sandals concierge services add a touch of privilege to the experience.

While Van Helsing may not be at the top of most people's lists for characters to base a game upon, there's no denying that he does have some great potential for an action - RPG, as the many adapations of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel have often portrayed him as more of a professional vampire hunter than the doctor that he actually was in the original story.

Easy sections might have relatively generous checkpoints, while harder areas with lengthy text discussions between Moody and the humans won't see checkpoints for 15 - 30 minutes, forcing you to trudge through dull combat scenarios or sit through duller story upon restarting.

Can Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth — Hacker's Memory expand upon the quality of its prequel Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth while delivering one of the very best Digimon role - playing games?

Overall, Destiny 2 builds upon and refines gameplay mechanics to deliver an even better experience than the first Destiny, while making good on the promise of an expanded story.

Tapping the touch pad displays your current objective in the story campaign or the scoreboard in split - screen or online multiplayer games, while the DualShock 4 vibrates for every bullet wound inflicted upon your character, heavy impact landings, explosions and the recoil of your weapon as it is fired.

One's a lighthearted story of a hunter while the other is one telling the grim tale of a fallen warrior, one that will eventually meet their own demise based upon the player's choices while the other is truly about grinding out the end - game loot before moving onto a «New Game +» playthrough.

We have built upon past success by dramatically improving the feel of combat and creating a richer, less linear world and story, while improving upon the loot and skill systems that made TQ great.

There has been numerous games released under the indie survival horror game genre these last couple of years, most of these has created a mediocre to low critical praise while others such as Outlast, Slender and Amnesia: The Dark Descent has managed to create a rather positive buzz, so when I discovered Kholat I knew I had to read up on the Dyatlo Pass incident in which this game is based upon and I was pleasantly surprised the further I dug into both the game and the story.

The LEGO Star Wars series began in March 2005 with the release of LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game on PS2 based upon the story of the prequel trilogy, while a sequel was released on PS2 and PSP in September 2006 which told the story of the original trilogy followed by LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga on PS3 in May 2007 that bundled the first two LEGO Star Wars games together, although LEGO Star Wars would return in March 2011 with a tie - in to the animated film and television series The Clone Wars on PS3 and PSP, but does LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens set a new level of quality for the LEGO Star Wars series and Star Wars focused gaming?

There is no local or online multiplayer components which is not necessarily a bad thing in a story driven survival horror game; however it would have been amazing to play a split - screen or online multiplayer competitive variant based upon the core gameplay of the story in which one player would control Sebastian, while the other player would be able to strategically co-ordinate enemy patrols in search of preventing Sebastian from achieving his mission.

There are extensive online leaderboards focused on overall scores, friends scores and personal score for every chapter of the story with each leaderboard containing each player's rank; name (PSN ID); score; time; and deaths, while Cold Darkness and Lara's Nightmare contain the same categories, alongside Endurance mode and Endurance Co-op mode which features days in place of time and artifacts instead of deaths with players positioned within each of those leaderboards based upon their respective scores.

Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity features a standalone story that draws upon the renowned franchise's 20 years of lore to characterize its two playable protagonists, while providing an excellent jumping - in point for series newcomers looking for a fresh adventure.

While my own Verizon horror story did work out in the end (replacement phone received, $ 500 penalty avoided, woohoo), not many people have a globe - spanning soapbox like Gizmodo upon which to kvetch.

While you only need a mere fraction of the game's 800 + Power Moons to finish the main story, there are a ton of bonus missions and Power Moons available once you do reach this point, ensuring dozens upon dozens of extra hours in an already lengthy title.

While it is just a demo, it would have made sense to build hype for the game's release by explaining more of what the story is about to bring more people into the universe that Platinum has expanded upon.

While the story takes a backseat to the gameplay, the combat builds upon what was established in Xenoblade Chronicles and to be quite frank, the story is fascinating.

While there are plenty of people complaining about «lack of content» in Destiny, there are easily four times the stories talking about the latest secret they just stumbled upon.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Taken almost as a dogma, the AGW has been forcefully imposed by means of a barrage of scare stories and indoctrination that begins in the elementary school textbooks and is volleyed relentlessly upon us by the media and many scientific institutions (including some pseudo-scientific ones), while gullible or opportunistic politicians devise all possible means of inserting climate - motivated items into their power - seeking schemes....