Sentences with phrase «write something about the world»

So later she decided she had to go back and write something about the world she knew... namely, the scrappy theater world of New York City.

Not exact matches

«In most of the Western world, salary just isn't something people feel comfortable talking about,» writes researcher David Burkus in his 2016 book «Under New Management: How Leading Organizations are Upending Business as Usual.»

When I got out of the military a decade ago, my story went something like this: Recently discharged veteran wants to meet the world's most interesting people, write about them, and find a way to make a living.

«Everyone's got something they want to fix about the world,» Ho writes on MagKey's Kickstarter page, «for me it was noisy keys.

But the world is swayed by the rantings of people who tell us what to do based on a book written by men about something we can not prove exists.

Maybe the Holy Spirit is at work around the world to bring multiple authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas about similar things all at once, and so when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us were listening to what the Spirit has been whispering to minds all over the world.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

Knowing I have something of a national platform, I've been thinking a lot about how to use it more effectively — perhaps by focusing my best op - ed writing on one or two and using the rest of my influence to amplify those church leaders, activists, and artists doing the good work of justice all around the world.

I am writing because I suspect the awkward teenager in the yearbook picture still has something to say about the world, some sort of hope to offer it, if nothing more than a few hundred pages of «me too.»

Rodney Stark wrote an amazing book called «The Victory of Reason» where he argued that something like the Enlightenment is only possible in a monotheistic culture where a belief in a Creator leads to a belief in a created order, which in turn leads to the possibility of an orderly set of observations about the world that we today call «Science.»

But then Charles Darwin wrote about something called the Theory of Evolution, which challenged the long - held Christian belief that the world was created by God in six days, and the war between the dual revelations flared back up.

it gives me something to passionately write and cartoon about, connecting me with people all over the world about something vital and interesting.

you both are choosing to listen to a man standing on an altar telling you about the «end of the world» blah blah blah from a book that isn't complete, has been written and re-written over and over again to suit the goals of whatever king or pope wanted it to say or mean; instead of something you can test yourself?

You also get to write about something you love (football and Leeds United) and thousands of people from all over the world will see your work on a daily basis and experience at SBNation can be a great resume builder.

Trying new foods can open up a new world for youngsters while also giving you parents something to write home about.

I want to be able to write some hugely profound piece to mark Baby Loss Awareness Week, that conveys everything that I want the world to know about Baby Loss... but the words have failed me so much that I've barely heard the urge to start writing something just to delete it again.

As we noted, the LHC will not destroy the world and as George Musser wrote to me after we recorded the interview, «I said something to the effect that scientists had stocked [stoked] concerns about black holes by saying the LHC would create particles not seen since the big bang, but those particles have been seen since the big bang, namely in natural processes such as cosmic ray collisions; therefore if black holes posed a threat, the universe would already be a goner.»

Benjamin Woolley can write, all right, but in Virtual Worlds he has set himself the difficult task of writing about something that doesn't exist.

Andrea graciously asked me to write something about wrapping in the professional world.

A blog about natural, whole foods and remedies written by a 20 - something young professional making her way up in this world.

Well written and acted dialogue - driven film, something rare these days, about the dog - eats - dog world of big company business.

The success of games like Far Cry 3 and Middle - earth: Shadow of Mordor suggests that emergent possibilities arising from a clash of systems are becoming a bigger deal in open - world games, something that Chris Donlan wrote about earlier this week, and I imagine anyone who's ever been asked to follow someone from a rooftop is delighted to hear it.

If these young people can produce works of photography that move you, that tell you something about their inner world and how they see the world, then that's much better than my sitting down and writing a paper about it.

«In the past,» he writes, «education was primarily about teaching people something; now, it's about making sure that students develop a reliable compass and the navigation skills to find their own way through an increasingly uncertain, volatile and ambiguous world.»

When someone from Amazon's Kindle Worlds program asked me if I would consider writing something in Kurt Vonnegut's world, I said I would think about it.

It think there's something about that for writers — if we're the kinds of writers who are used to writing the kinds of stories that are really contained, any kind of epic journey, whether it's a road trip or something else, might be a kind of rite of passage to get us out of our safe space and kind of out into a world of discomfort, places that are unfamiliar to us.»

Jojo's youth, his tenderness, his love for his little sister, combined with the way the world might see him — as a man, as a threat — was something I really needed to write about.

I was an assistant district attorney for several years, and at the time I wrote those books the crime world was something I thought about quite a lot.

What's Important: You have something of value to share with the world about writing craft or the writing life.

Above all, we're most interested in writing that blends style with substance, and reaches beyond the personal to tell us something new about the world.

Even though it was the revolution of digital publishing that has allowed authors to make a full time living off of their writing, a unique time in the history of writing, there's still something critical and important about real - world direct connections.

And when I do put something on Google + or Twitter about my own writing, it's in there with a vastly larger amount of posts / tweets with links to writing resources or to quirky weirdnesses the world needs to know.

Re-purpose an old blog post, post reviews of your favorite or recently read books, invite people in the publishing world other authors, illustrators, artists, book marketing gurus to guest blog for you, post excerpts from your book and write something around the theme, post tips and ideas for writing inspiration, news about you, a video or audio clip of you talking about your present or upcoming projects, the possibilities are endless.

With something on the order of a billion English as first or second language in the world if you have anything of value to write about I guarantee there is a market out there.

I think those are the interesting parts, where you can push yourself, where you can explore and find something new: about writing, about the world around you, or about yourself.

«Not only do ebooks cost too much, DRM is a disgrace, for a myriad of reasons, and the «text to speech» feature is not something the publishing world should be concerned about,» Konrath wrote to Kindle Nation last week.

You are in a better position to write elaborative on a world that you know personally other than something different that you have never even read about.

Even though in most cases instructors do not assign specific descriptive essay topics to cover, you are expected to write about something important to you, about the experience which has changed the way you look at world.

There is something about the writing / publishing world that creates an extreme arrogance in some people (note: only some people).

So, before you write off camping, give it a try — there's something really special about being fully surrounded by our world's fresh air and beautiful landscapes.

Audiences and those paid to write about the movies have come to realize something that gamers have actually known for a while now — the world of LEGO allows for endless creativity.

As Mieke Bal has written about Janssens's work: «They entrap the viewer, body and soul, in an experience so unsettling that something really shifts in one's physical being in the world.

However, the critic Hilton Kramer, who remained a consistent supporter of his work, wrote, «it is as if the artist had abandoned his figures to the world of shadows in order to harness his art to a new world of color and light -LSB-...] If this is what an absence from the New York scene can do for a mature and thoughtful artist, it might be something worth thinking about as a regular program.»

If there is something that I've written about most in the world of clean tech, it may be batteries.

oit is with indignation that we are speaking othis document is not acceptable • Bolivia owe have learned about this document through the media, not through you onow we are given 60 minutes to accept something already agreed upon by other states owe are seeing actions in a dictatorial way othis is unacceptable and anti-democratic owe say to the people of the world: they shall judge upon it othe rights of our people are not being respected owe are not going to decide about so many lives in only 60 minutes othis is s group of a small number of countries oAPPLAUS • Cuba o4 hours ago Obama announced an agreement which is non-existant owe is behaving like an emperor owe have seen version being discussed by secretive groups in the last hours and days oCuba will not accept your draft declaration oat this conference, there is no consensus on this document oI associate my voice to Tuvalu, Venezuela, Bolivia othe target of 2 degrees is unacceptable o... • Costa Rica ofor the reasons that we have heard, this document can not be considered the work of the AWG - LCA and can not be considered by the COP othis can only be an INF doc, it's just for information oadditional question: in an earlier version, a CP.15 - decision, para. 1: there was a reference to a legally binding instrument to be adopted by the COP onow: we have a new version, but the reference to legally binding instrument disappeared • USA o [wants to speak, but point of order by Nicaragua] • Nicaragua othere is already a precedent where we have not been given the right to speech onow that you have mentioned we finally want to speak • Pres. [moving on] oUS does not appear on my list any more, so next one is Sudan • Sudan othere must be something horribly wrong here oI pushed the button when I saw Nicaragua raising their sign in order to support them • Nicaragua othis is a deterioration of the democratic system oand this happens at the most important conference of the UN for many years owe have draft decisions about how to carry forward the process ostates (lists names) have written a submission: • this has not followed the basic principles of the UN • inclusion • bottom up processes • democratic participation • equality of states oduring this consequence, many states expressed their position against such approaches othe only agreement we recognize is??

There has been a recent emphasis in decadal - scale prediction, and also creating a marriage between climate and fields such as synoptic - dynamic meteorology... something relatively new (and a different sort of problem, than say, estimating the boundary condition change in a 2xCO2 world); as Susan Solomon mentioned in her writing, a lot of people have become much more focused on the nature of the «noise» inherent within the climate system, something which also relates to Kevin Trenberth's remarks about tracking Earth's energy budget carefully.

If there are multiverses that are in fact coupled — quantum bundles of universes, that sort of thing (which is the basis of my story, it being a bit boring to write about a world where the Lord of the Rings Universe really exists as a parallel Universe, only you can't get there from here or ever prove it — then perhaps we might one day be able to demonstrate this, but in the meantime the question is more science fiction or fantasy than something to believe or disbelieve in very strongly, with the usual rational default: Lack of belief pending positive evidence!

While bending over backwards to stress that, due to natural variation, a single data point that is not as ominous as it could have been in an ideal world does not mean there's nothing to worry about, the BBC is entirely reliant on ignoring that very same natural variation in order write something — anything — about the latest installment from the NSIDC.

«With very few exceptions, governments all over the world have fallen into the trap of paying renewable energy scammers on the basis that it is necessary, at least politically, to be seen to be doing something about climate change,» Sloan writes, before providing readers with an avalanche of economic data to back up her assertion.

But while still maintaining that such analysis is useful, I increasingly wonder if assigning dollar figures to currently unpriced nature, just undermines efforts to get people to see that there is more to nature, there is more to the world than the economic or financial value we place on it?I've been going back and forth about writing something about this ever since my colleague Stephen Messenger tried to explain why we must not consider nature priceless, but never quite got around to it — partly because I realize it's swimming upstream a bit and I wondered if I wasn't just overreacting or worrying to much about an abstract eco-philosophical concept.