Sentences with phrase «write coming of age»

This activity helps teachers explain how to write coming of age stories.

Karen Wunderman's first book Winterkill is a beautifully written coming of age story about a young girl growing up and coming to terms with her father's past which threatens to not only destroy her father but her family as well.

I think finding a well written coming of age novel that features a female protagonist is a rare event.

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It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

It is a timely recommendation because it comes as Ottawa and those who write about it devote considerable thought to trade in the age of Trump.

As Anthony Crupi writes in Ad Age, they were «the sort of monster ratings that are almost impossible to come by in 2018.»

anyone who has read and understood the mountains of evidence for evolution and compared it to a contradictory, fanciful, error riddled story book written by bronze age desert dwelling goat herders and come up on the side of the bible, clearly hasn't understood the science.

In his otherwise scrupulous survey of sources, McGinn neglects that gifted generation of dogmaticians who came to maturity in Europe during the two decades between the world wars: Paul Althaus, Hermann Diem, Emil Brunner, Heinrich Vogel, Edmund Schlink, and the Roman Catholic Michael Schmaus - all of whom have written grippingly of Antichrist as a revealed truth that speaks to our age.

Writing in The Weekly Standard, Jon Breen makes the bold claim that Christian crime fiction has come of age in the novels of J. Mark Bertrand.

Written from a sociological angle, it presents a conventional reading of American Catholics having «come of age» in a still authoritarian church.

She writes about coming of age in the apologetics / Moral Majority world of American evangelicalism (so fascinating!)

«Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come» (I Cor.

«It may come as a surprise in our age of personal gratification that Jesus never married and never had sex — with a woman or with a man,» writes Wesley.

In his letters from prison he wrote of the world «coming of age».

Simple: Any one of the hundreds / thousands of miracles / acts of god / you name it that the bible is full of, in a time when books were written by bronze age men in caves... Why can't your invisible man in the sky come down now and turn 5 fish into thousands, or turn water into wine, or heal the sick, rise from the dead mr zombie dude!

With remarkable tenacity and consistency, Hartshorne has expended his lifetime in teaching and writing that the only satisfying answer to this age old query must come from man's direct interrogation of his most intimate experience, namely, his own intuitively discerned consciousness.

«Although public opinion on abortion has stayed relatively steady for four decades, support for legalizing the procedure under any circumstance spiked in the early 1990s, when today's fortysomethings were coming of age,» wrote Emma Green for The Atlantic in 2015.

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«Gone but Not Unforgotten» (written with Stephen Sherrill), May 26, 1999 «As a nation, we watched as that boy — the one with three names, Jonathan Something Something, who most likely played the son of Tim Allen — came of age before our very eyes.»

I thought I would write a few blog posts for this up coming holiday season, of activities that you can do with your preschool through elementary age child (ren) rather you are a parent, babysitter, or grandparent stuck with the kids for the next two to three weeks.

The Lifting the Restrictions on Nest report comes after groups including the TUC, Age UK and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) wrote to Pensions Minister Steve Webb last month, urging him to lift the barriers around Nest as soon as possible.

We may be able to juggle the most rudimentary tasks — folding laundry and watching TV — but if we are handling complex, higher - order thought or work, we simply can not multitask well,» says Maggie Jackson, who wrote Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.

«However, this notion may be a peculiar world view that comes from living in an age where the number and size of animals have been drastically reduced from their former bounty,» the team of nine scientists write.

There were climate scientists who speculated about global cooling in the seventies and there were journalists who wrote articles about the prospect of coming ice ages.

But it was such a huge part of both of our lives, and we had so many stories and issues that we wanted to explore within the context of an on going series that it came back to the age old adage «write what you know.»

Appearing as the cover story of the USA Today Weekend edition, Jayson wrote about a recent study conducted by online dating sites JDate and Christian Mingle in which 1500 singles aged 21 - 50 shared their thoughts on how mobile phone technology and texting when it comes to matters of the heart.

I love to cook write poems draw dance sing (very badly lol) I'm a outgoing also layback type of person... I'm very silly at times... Love to make Ppl laugh... My bestfriend always comes... please be of age of 18 - 31

An intelligently written and marvelously acted coming - of - age tale set in rural Australia in the 1960s.

It comes with an interesting story, rich content and well written characters that reminded us of the golden age of the genre.

Written and directed by ERs Lily Mariye, this gritty, sexually frank coming - of - age story has won 11 awards.

Ms. Jenkins, who makes her writing and directing debut with wit and confidence, keeps the small surprises frequent and the coming - of - age perspective sharp.

It's a coming - of - age story about 15 - year - old youth, adapted from a novel by film critic François Bégaudeau, who wrote and starred in Laurent Cantet's 2008 Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Class.

The coming - of - age dramedy marks the feature directing debut of Jonah Hill, who also wrote the script.

The latest outstanding, memorable, fall - in - love - with coming - of - age drama of Sundance 2013 is The Spectacular Now, directed by James Ponsoldt of Smashed from last year's Sundance, written by Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter of 500 Days of Summer, adapting from Tim Tharp's novel.

Outside of its TIFF write - up I knew next to nothing about Raw, French director Julia Ducournau's «coming of age cannibalism» film...

«Mud,» written and directed by Jeff Nichols («Take Shelter»), is ostensibly an adventure story about two teenage boys who stumble upon a charismatic outlaw on an island in Dewitt, Ark., but it's also a very specific type of coming - of - age story.

«Lady Bird,» written and directed by Gerwig, and starring Saoirse Ronan, is a coming - of - age story about a high school senior in Sacramento, California in 2002/03, who acts out and searches for her place even as she prepares to take wing.

Before SXSW kicked off, I spoke with writer / director Noah Baumbach, who shared writing credits with his wife Jennifer Jason Leigh for his latest film, GREENBERG; a coming of age story about a guy (Ben Stiller) who's way too old to be coming of age.

The surreal L.A. - based coming - of - age comedy is written by author and Vice.com sex columnist Karley Sciortino, and it follows Araki directing a number of episodes of the Soderbergh - produced Red Oaks series for Amazon.

Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig, director & writer) Terrific coming - of - age story written and directed by Greta Gerwig.

Kelly Fremon Craig writes and directs this coming - of - age comedy in her directorial debut.

If I'd gone to war at the age of eighteen and come home without firing a shot, I suspect I'd have written something as vapid, grandiose, and self - conscious as Anthony Swofford's memoir Jarhead, the story of a ground war that never really materialized (and wouldn't until the son of that era's president decided to bring to climax what daddy'd coaxed to erection).

The films in Next, the festival section devoted to innovation in storytelling, are writer - director Michael Tully's «Ping Pong Summer,» a coming - of - age comedy that was the recipient of a $ 70,000 SFFS / KRF postproduction grant, and writer - director Gillian Robespierre's romantic comedy «Obvious Child,» the subject of a January 2013 SFFS «Off the Page» screen - writing workshop.

Palo Alto (R for graphic sexuality, drug and alcohol abuse, and pervasive profanity) Gia Coppola makes her writing and directorial debut with this coming - of - age drama based on a James Franco short story revolving around a clique of rebellious teens with a knack for finding trouble.

The title of Leah Meyerhoff's feature - length writing and directing debut, I Believe In Unicorns, seems designed to push away anyone dubious about preciousness, especially when it comes to stylish coming - of - age indies.

Written and directed by the gifted first - timer Kelly Fremon Craig, and graced by a superb star turn from Hailee Steinfeld, «The Edge of Seventeen» is the rare coming - of - age picture that feels less like a retread than a renewal.

Lady Bird by Hope Madden Lady Bird, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, may be the most delightfully candid and refreshingly forgiving coming - of - age film I've seen.

Yeah it looks like some decent writing... but it is just another coming of age movie about an awkward white boy... and a summer job with cool adults that get him... and a single parent that's tuned out..

Mistress America's generic context as screwball comedy frames Brooke's quarter - life crisis, and Tracy's coming of age, in a manner of unexpected honesty: behind the frenzied dialogue, so keenly written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, is the destruction of ambition and the construction of a self.

This puts Levine, who started off in the indie world with movies like the long - shelved horror picture All The Boys Love Mandy Lane and the stoner coming - of - age dramedy The Wackness, in the position to differentiate the film from perhaps the best Rogen / Goldberg - written movie, along with plenty of others since then.