Sentences with phrase «works through literature»

Had G & T, and some of the other folks you cite, actually worked through that literature, they would have spared themselves some spectacular misunderstandings.»]-RSB-

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He also told The New Yorker he felt the ambitious undertaking would allow him to «confront a lot of our shared anxieties about the future of human expression (see: Twitter or text messages) by forcing a great work of literature through such a strange new filter.»

So Hopewell read systematically through the American and European literature on congregations and ministry of the last several decades, a survey of several hundred works that is recapitulated in this book's second chapter and its extensive notes.

His knowledge of scripture, along with the tradition of Christian faith through literature, makes his work an invaluable preaching resource.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

In Wales, Rowan Williams is a poet as well as a theologian who often engages with literature, Donald Allchin is in deep dialogue with poets in many traditions, and Oliver Davies, having ranged through German, Russian and Welsh literature as well as Meister Eckhart, is now engaged on a major work of fundamental and systematic theology with a strong literary dimension.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Designed by Chicago Children's Museum's education experts, PWN provides teachers with engaging instructional strategies to introduce, reinforce and deepen the understanding of grade - level math concepts through innovative classroom activities, math work stations, and children's literature.

After diving into the literature and research while studying for my advanced degrees and working intimately with hundreds of families through my work (plus 3 co-sleeping babes of my own), I discovered that those natural drives of early childhood are actually brilliant and essential for a little one to thrive.

Its work involves raising awareness through supporting training programmes and providing literature and an online resource for patients, the public and care providers.

To save you months or maybe years of experimenting until you find a routine that «kind of» works, we went through most of the available literature and compared different moves in terms of muscle stimulation and hypertrophy, ultimately designing this optimal list of exercises to help you get on the right track and start making solid gains.

Peter Debruge of Variety also finds it to be a «lumbering, confused, and cacophonous mess,» but, while acknowledging that it's almost impossible to divorce the film from its production woes, Indiewire's Eric Kohn writes, «It's sloppy and amateurish in parts, but always reaching for something, often resulting in a fascinating half - formed beast working through a lot of baggage: a vanity project about the nature of vanity, centered around one of literature's most famous examples, in the context of the most famous vanity projects of all time coming to fruition.

opens by tipping its hand, going through major works of literature and pop culture to see which ones lend themselves to cloying, forced gnome puns, and then, between groans, building a loose story around it.

Captain Fantastic stars Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings) as sudden widower Ben, who is devoted to raising his six kids off the grid, imparting the freedoms and values he holds most dear through their isolated woodland existence where they spend their days roaming the landscape and hunting for food, and their evenings discussing great works of literature or playing musical instruments.

Curious whether this shift in our students was just a fluke, we began working our way through the scientific literature, and the picture quickly became clear.

A recent literature review of PBL (Condliffe, Visher, Bangser, Drohojowska, & Saco, 2015)(PDF) and the work of educational researchers and practitioners point to three approaches that have potential to enhance authenticity and rigor in PBL through assessment.

Neumann and Neumann's literature review found, in addition to independent access, pre-school educators are using tablets for whole class and group work, including scaffolded instruction, through apps such as iWrite, Doodle Buddy and Drawing Pad.

And KIPP is working with Common Core, Inc., the non-profit that developed Eureka, to create a new K — 8 English curriculum for KIPP schools that is designed to build student knowledge systematically through the use of high quality works of literature, nonfiction, and informational text.

Anyone who has worked to get high school students to understand a different time and place through literature knows this struggle, the wall you hit when students tell you that they just don't get it.

From 2012 — 2015, AbD explored these questions through multiple strands of research that included a literature review, interviews and site visits with maker education thought leaders, observations of student work, and collaborations with a cohort of pre-K — 12 educators in Oakland, California.

We prepare teachers to work in a variety of school contexts, through coursework in literature, teaching methods, and supporting students with varying needs, as well as field experiences every semester.

We work to advance teachers» skills through graduate - level coursework in English literature, advanced instructional methods in English education, educational leadership, and other courses selected by the individual.

Some teachers are interested in creating guided reading groups and they are working through their understandings of this practice by reading professional literature, viewing videos, and trying out guided reading groups with their students.

Gifted readers and writers can expand their experience of literature when they respond to it through their own original work — creative writing, designing, composing and dramatizing.

Students have the opportunity to work with Teaching Artists and experience the beauty and diversity of the world through its art, music, dance, poetry, literature.

In our work in Book Club Plus, we find that framing questions about what is revealed through the literature helps students see and explore the stories of their own lives, their families, and different cultures.

Gifted readers and writers can expand their experience of literature when they respond to it through their own original work — writing, designing, composing and dramatizing.

There are two forces that are currently our greatest challenges — the degree of monopolization that big businesses go through, and in the process, skim hard - won revenue, and the proliferation of self - published rubbish that dilutes the landscape of available, good literature, ultimately obfuscating quality work (whether it is self published or traditionally published).

Now, we need to somehow explain that while most of our reference collection lives on the first floor of the library, some of it is online and accessible through the catalog if you know the specific title of the work (since it's not like you could do a search for Roald Dahl in the catalog and have the Children's Literature Review pop up).

I look upon my time as a bestselling independent writer, whose work is published exclusively as eBooks, as serving my apprenticeship in literature while at the same time being paid as a professional through the act of receiving regular monthly royalty payments.

Parenthood in my 30s led me to take up my spiritual journey, and after several decades of being active in Unitarian Universalism, in my 60s I have also come to think of myself as a progressive Christian as well as a UU — a return to the faith I grew up in, but on a different level, taking scripture seriously but not literally (and for me, serious literature can be scripture too, especially poetry, and scriptures of other faiths...) I am content to say God is a mystery, a word we use to point to all that is good and beautiful and healing, a creative energy at work that we can experience through our loving relationships, through art and music, through the pursuit of science, and in the «church» of nature.

An avid reader of fantasy literature since age six, when she first made her way through The Lord of the Rings, Naomi Novik is also a history buff with a particular interest in the Napoleonic era and a fondness for the work of Patrick O'Brian and Jane Austen.

There are many authors working now on transcending the genre, through zombie stories, young adult literature, and science fiction.

A break - through new work of art in the field of modern literature.

To put our collection of e-readers through their paces, we downloaded one of the great works of Western literature that we've somehow never found time to read: Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel War and Peace.

It is really wonderful to stand in a room full of people who are putting everything on the line toward that effort every day and who are excited to hear about the work that we're doing to bring more diversity to literature through translation.»

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By doing so, your business is supporting the highest quality children's literature possible, a better future for children through libraries, and the work that librarians do across the country.

In addition to developing the concept with Audible, Cesar has also curated a selection of audiobooks ideal for calming dogs down called Cesar's Picks, and he'll be sharing his choices with you in the coming weeks through his social media channels as a dog - friendly book of the month suggestion, with authors ranging from Jane Austen to Trevor Noah, and works of literature and non-fiction on subjects both human and canine.

Ten cases will be presented, illustrating a variety of clinical presentations, and demonstrating the candidate's ability to work logically through a case, to select and justify the decisions made, and to evaluate the outcome in the context of the published literature.

«Many of the leading supplement companies... have been working very hard to educate stores and their customers through literature, webinars, in - store training, etc.,» says Stephany.

Working my way through my third year of an English Literature undergraduate degree at Newcastle University.

Known for work that is darkly playful and melancholic, Detroit - based artist Hernan Bas often employs references to literature, from Moby Dick to the Hardy Boys to French Romantic writing, reimagining the texts through the figure of the young homosexual dandy.

Rachel Feinstein's idiosyncratic oeuvre is diverse in mediums and influences; while she works primarily in sculpture, the artist's paintings, drawings, and installations are equally important vehicles through which themes of femininity, beauty, and literature are explored.

For his first solo show with the New York gallery, from February 17 through April 10 he is presenting new works with such inspirations as Surrealist literature, Latin American poetry, and Jean - Paul Sartre.

Informed by historical painting and literature, Bas's atmospheric works suggest a fluid, unpredictable time before dawn or at dusk, in which fantasies are played out through posturing or transformation.

The title of the exhibition, Gates of Horn and Ivory, references Greek literature and alludes to the divergence between the artist's personal memories and how they are revealed through his work.

The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia, is an ambitious show, but originally I pondered the reason for viewing the work of African artists through a lens of an archetype of Western literature, The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.

Evolving through a range of mediums such as performance, video, installation, sound, and literature, her works consider the fluid border between public and private space, and in so doing, challenge established conventions relating to the body, sexuality, power relations, and institutional spaces.

An accompanying audio guide will provide historical context for many of the works through readings of literature, poetry, and music from the period.