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While part of that may reflect an uncertain economy, some appears to be driven by a desire for sanity. "Most people want a season less rushed and less pressured, where they wake up feeling a little more magic," says Betsy Taylor, president of New American Dream, a nonprofit that runs a website called SimplifytheHolidays.org A 2002 survey by Taylor's organization found that 77% of adults polled said they wanted a "more simplified" holiday season. "We went through a period where everything had to be Martha Stewart perfect," Taylor explains, "but now there's a countertrend where people want...
...uncertainty--even more than the scripture about the miracles Jesus performed or his sacrificial death. Indeed, the Christmas story that Christians know by heart is actually a collection of mysteries. Where was Jesus actually born? Who showed up to celebrate his arrival? How do the details of the stories reflect the specific outreach agendas of the men who wrote them...
...BUSH'S MINORITY SELECTIONS REFLECT THE VALUES OF THE COMMUNITIES FROM WHICH THEY COME...
...luxuries of teaching film and video in an undergraduate liberal arts setting is that our curriculum is not pre-professional. While many students go on to careers in film, our courses do not reflect the commercial filmmaking world’s ravenous need for specialty workers. While we do value and teach technique, we do not offer stand-alone courses in, for example, cinematography and editing as do most film schools. At the core of what we teach is a belief that, like writers writing or painters painting, film authorship can also be derived through the act of handling...
...always had some attachment to trash and to junk, and I started to think about garbage as an interesting way into questions about how people see material objects, and how material objects reflect progress in society,” Pasternack says over lunch...