Search Results for len

... W:question. I have a good Jewish answer. What should Israel mean? I perceive Israel through an array of lenses. One is the lens of the senses that reveals the purity of a desert landscape, the road coming up from Ben Gurion airport finally cresting above Jerusalem, the beauty of Jerusalem...

.... The Lens ofTransience: To tap into awe-based consciousness, one must cultivate it at every opportunity and con­ “It’s not afar stretch to shift tinually challenge the marrow-sapping forces, such as consumerism and dogmatism, that from the deeply moving obser­ distract and divert...

..., and the moments we need to pause to rest, cry, or celebrate, then we limit our capacity for bringing people along for the long haul. We limit the joy and the resilience that refuel us in our daily lives. From an identity lens, we have to ask: How has this identity been shaped by history, geography...

... have to be a soft, amorphous topic of study. It can be explored under the lens of science. I had my students study empirical data and theory as well as do field research. I had them, for example, collect data through a survey asking groups of different ages to define love and then analyze the results...

... Progressives should stress that truly grappling with the roots of evil requires us to de­ us to of evil requires roots the with grappling truly that stress should Progressives po­ than more far involves democracy that realize we lens, a power through Looking...

... lens through which we can analyze the world, as well as a path toward creating change. Instead of focusing purely on major structural changes, which often appear to be beyond our capacity to attain, or limiting ourselves to individual transformation that doesn’t add up to institutional change, we can...

... thoughts, philoso­ The Lens of Solitude or maybe because of it—we were phies, or lifestyles? These and so much This is one of the essential yet least carried away by nature’s beauty. ■ more are the potentialities inherent as the celebrated lenses for awe. It may also be a lenses...

... community. In these circles, disability isn’t a medical diagnosis, but a cultural movement. Approaching disability through the lens of culture allows us to appreciate disability as a dimension of human diversity. This perspective has often been overlooked in religious communities. But like the critical...

..., or waking up hung over. This set-piece is just one instance of Kurzweil’s skill in selection and tone, and her ability to evoke through each woman depicted, a generation. Kurzweil’s college notes reveal that she first attempted to write Flying Couch with a “post-feminist lens” even as she questioned...

... insists studies’ analytic lens, Giroux reveals some contemporary Israelis on separating itself from startling truths about the forces shaping have neither patience this particular church or young people’s lives. with the Orthodox Jews...

..., to move, even to breathe — may in some way violate the boundary of another. Nature is rife with violence. Perhaps the avoidance of violence is not a coherent aim. In fact, Kashtan offers an alternative lens that I find much more illuminative of my own successes and failures in leadership...

... tradition and cared very and state is elusive be­ phenomena. By applying critical cultural little for it, just as many cause when the state insists studies’ analytic lens, Giroux reveals some contemporary Israelis on separating...

... lens obscures what a race lens illuminates: that only whites can be middle class—even if who is white changes with the times and who is in power. We just saw that in Charlottesville Virginia as the white supremacists chanted “Us not Jews.” The assembled fascists focused their hatred on African...

..., / And re-create the best and the worst of us, as though in art.” If Pinsky chooses a historical instead of personal or political lens to view the theme of identity in culture, it must be acknowledged that this is a luxury he comes to by way of his own identity. Poets of color, queer poets, poets whose...

... individuals and the physical world, with the materiality of language, and with a gendered lens of ethically oriented receptivity — call for a sustained and sustaining consciousness that attends to the world that our very presence threatens. Just as Muriel Rukeyser, in The Life of Poetry , reminds us...

... a mechanistic lens that makes analysts feel terribly rational but badly distorts their perception of what is actually going on. In fact, nothing exists apart from its internal and external relationships: the world, and every problem within it, is constituted entirely of relationships. How effective is activist...

.... the tone says to notice I try hard Genetic damage. as if his days were isn’t inexhaustible, as the lens widens not to stare at Damage of history, days of just You got to slow...

... understanding and judg­ lines and skin-deep psychology (except in ment. Exactly the opposite is true—his Schrader’s film) deprive the characters of camera lens does peer beyond the gate, his...