Sentences with phrase «writers are citizens»

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Cryptocurrencies have been drawing significant interest over the last several months, according to Charles Bovaird, a financial writer and consultant who has worked for State Street, Moody's and Citizens Commercial Banking.

What is interesting to see with this bitcoin hype is how uneducated writers still are when it comes to the question of what money actually is — especially the assumption that money, e.g. US Dollars, are tied to any real world values like gold is one of these modern fairytales that is repeated often — I can not understand that even after the big corporate crimes (aka as «financial crisis») that US Citizens cost millions of dollars there is still such a lack of understanding of what money actually is.

The press (including «citizen journalists» and survivor blog writers) have been pulling at the loose threads here and there, and it looks like the entire muffler may unravel as different people and organizations attempt to deny the interconnections, or minimize underlying doctrines that have given shape to their whole gridlock of power.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

«Mainstream, legitimate network and production company executives, producers, writers and directors, are, like you, conscientious citizens, family people, mothers and fathers....

Even to contemplate a drawing back from empire — something so inconceivable to our pundits and newspaper editorial writers that it is simply never considered — we must specify as clearly as possible precisely what the elected leaders and citizens of the United States would have to do.

According to the biblical writers, they were punished for this by the destruction of the northern state of Israel in 722 BCE and by the destruction of Jerusalem in 593 BCE, which was followed by the exile in Babylon of the leading citizens of Judah.

«Which is why I expect the Conservative manifesto, and the Queen's Speeches to follow, to be rooted in the concerns of those whom the writer David Goodhart has described as the citizens of Somewhere rather than Anywhere.

«Oh, wall,» noted one citizen of Pompeii, «I am surprised that you have not collapsed and fallen, seeing that you support the loathsome scribblings of so many writers.»

Now, as part of a radical approach to animal welfare and conservation, 30 or more eminent biologists, philosophers and writers (Kortlandt and Teleki among them) are to launch what amounts to a citizen's charter for chimpanzees.

The world of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind of post-scarcity society that science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.

In harrowing depictions, Haitian writer / director Raoul Peck just shows how the tragedy affected one man, Augustin Muganza (Idris Elba, of HBO's «The Wire»), and his family during the hundred days in the spring of 1994 where the Tutsis were being viciously slaughtered with guns and machetes by the extremist Hutu military, as well as Hutu citizens spurned on by the urgings of the radio to «stomp on the cockroaches», fueling the fans of decades old resentment among the Hutu majority.

How might this help them be better writers, communicators, employees, and citizens?

The pack celebrates Shakespeare as a writer who still speaks for all people and nations, addressing big questions and themes about the human experience and what it means to be a citizen in the twenty - first century.

Our students grow to be active and curious readers, writers, and citizens of the world.

«Our focus right now is on continuing our negotiations between the House and the Senate and hopefully arrive at a result that will serve well the citizens of North Carolina,» said Rep. Nelson Dollar (R - Wake), the budget's lead writer.

A new era of digital media is changing literacy expectations, and today's students must be strong writers, readers, and digital citizens.

The House budget proposal will reflect a «good balance of continuing tax reform and tax reduction with making sure that we're meeting the needs of our citizens,» said Rep. Nelson Dollar, a Cary Republican and the House's senior budget writer.

ISAAC has been offering summer programs for its students for more than 12 years and Howes said this partnership makes total sense because both the school and Writer's Block aim to make young people «courageous citizens» and «difference makers».

If Twitter UK can be embarrassed into acting quickly, recently ridding itself (this week in fact) of cyber bullies and other assorted trolls by the British news media, backed by the government, plus have them arrested and publically exposed to the nation, then why hasn't the head office of Amazon in the United States been forced to take the same action when it comes to attacks by trolls on Indie writers who are ordinary law abiding citizens like you and I?

Although the indie publishing world sometimes seems to be populated by young entrepreneurial authors, in fact a lot of writers publishing books today are at the other end of the spectrum — senior citizens.

It was also a finalist for The Guardian Best First Novel Award and won the Betty Trask prize (awarded by the British Society of Authors to a writer under the age of 35 for a first novel, who is also a Commonwealth citizen).

The subjects were selected from the 1,600 or so currently published romance writers in the U.S. if they were still living at the time the essay was written and if the author was a U.S. citizen or long - term resident, had published at least five novels with the latest published no later than 2002, and was nominated for or had received a genre prize or been on a national best - seller list.

To enter this contest, writers must be United States citizens.

Our Self - Publishing Issue features a comprehensive collection of articles on the rise of the independent author, including an overview of options, expert advice, and important warnings for self - published writers; profiles of Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert, poet August Kleinzahler, and fiction writer Andre Dubus III; an essay on the short stories of Denis Johnson; tips on how to be a good literary citizen; and much more.

A collection of established and emerging writers share insights and experiences on how to be a good literary citizen — the most effective form of networking.

Their authors were writing for sane, sensible, decent citizens, not other writers.

Highly Qualified Writers: Even though he wrote the book and was a British citizen, Joseph Conrad could not write a Best Essay Education Lord Jim review, because he was not a native English speaker.

The prize «is awarded to a promising emerging writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application» and includes a $ 30,000 cash prize.

English essay writer is not a citizen of Russia, Pakistan, Egypt or any other country that has nothing to do with quality English essay writing.

What SEEMs like a war, an attack, even to very smart, well - meaning people in such industries, then, is actually something quite different — it's a giving - away of the industry's key capabilities, which may never have looked like weapons to anyone until they suddenly were in the «wrong» hands — the writers» or musicians» or citizen journalists» hands.

Let us expose this hot nonsense for what it is: a lie meant to exploit writers and to puff up that old persistent myth about the value of exposure or the joy of the starving artist or the mounting power of unpaid citizen journalism.

But if the writer's projections are correct, German citizens might end up paying more than what their own education would be worth — but they would also be paying for future generations» education, thus alleviating troublesome debt burdens that can have real impacts on the future of many young people.

Also, I know the Examiner is a citizen journalism platform and not terribly reliable, but I found that this writer is consistently pretty solid and accurate.

Lisa is a passionate writer, educator, social media ninja, speaker and global citizen who has traveled to over one hundred countries and six continents.

It's evident in its design, and the design of its citizens, that CD Projekt RED's artists and writers thought about the city as a real place, rather than just a cardboard set for the player to run around in.

With a wildly diverse background as an artist, an art writer for Artnews, Art & Auction, Parkett and others, and as a teacher to senior citizens in The Bronx, Elisabeth Kley has been awarded a Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant and has been nominated for The Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship and the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, among others.

She initiates occasions where roles are returned to the citizens — professionals and amateurs, scholars and illiterates — who become writers, actors, dancers, singers, and the ultimate decision makers.

With essays by three prominent, outspoken writers - Eileen Myles, Martha Nussbaum and Frank Rich - the book and the exhibition it accompanied (at SF MoMA) will help generate awareness and encourage dialogue about the discrimination many citizens encounter on a daily basis because, as Hughes wrote, «equality is in the air we breathe.»

Candice Hopkins: Independent Curator and writer Candice Hopkins, a citizen of Carcross / Tagish First Nation in Yukon, Canada, is an independent curator and writer now based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

I'm not a scientist, I'm a writer and a concerned citizen.

The contribution of concerned citizens, activists, and writers from the North with regards to public policies in the South can be very beneficial and appreciated, but they must take into consideration the context, politics, and realities of the South, as well as the voice of the people living there.

But, as he claimed in only a few instances, he discovered the letter - writers were not really concerned private citizens but instead were people working in the PR departments of the fossil fuel industry lobby.

Judy Hindley is a writer and long - term activist, co-founder of Marlborough Climate Pledge and Citizens» Climate Lobby UK.

Has become a story of citizen journalism gone awry, for the blogosphere is littered with amateur writers who have been duped into fighting against global warming by slick websites with official - sounding names like the Science and Public Policy Institute and the Friends of Science.

The writer and I are aware of the irony in writing pseudonymously about a government spying on its citizens.

That sort of thing is exactly what I, as a reader, a writer, and a citizen of a more - or-less democratic society, am deathly afraid of.

We are Federal Resume Writers who assist recent college graduates, federal employees who wish to change positions or advance in their careers, and private citizens seeking a secure future in government employment.

Bill Doherty, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized marriage and family therapist, researcher, writer, professor, citizen engagement activist and Co-Founder of