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How do you get learning to people when there are no teachers, when teachers won't come, when you can't afford them, and even if you do get teachers, what they teach isn't relevant to the communities that they serve?
They fail to reach the people they most need to serve.
I tell that story, because it has served and continues to serve as a metaphor to me about the level of connectedness that we all have on this Earth.
They're in bistros and cafes and restaurants and shops all over Paris, and they're all ready to serve you at an hour's notice with an excellent meal that's probably got higher quality than Louis XIV even had.
Here's one: "God deliberately shaped and formed you to serve him in a way that makes your ministry unique.
I'd already served in Germany, Norway, various other places, but I was posted to New York to serve on the U.N. Security Council for the British delegation.
I have to serve."
Re-do the school, make it serve the community needs.
And these turbans meant to represent our commitment to serve cast us as terrorists.
The clothes that we wear can serve as bridges between our seemingly disparate cultures.
All this is watched over by James Doohan who plays a Butler who is determined to try and serve his old Duke by doing his best to serve his new master, Hubert.
Though the supporting roles are well performed (Chris Cooper is his usual stalwart self), they serve such little dramatic purpose because, ultimately, it's all about Capote(!) Director Bennett and screenwriter Dan Futterman fail to emotionally engage their intended audience because they were clearly overwhelmed by the cultural baggage of Capote's "legend".
Is he running out of dough for his escapades to India that he takes on anything they serve him?
The female character played by Osa Massen is just a plot device for the male characters to serve sexist remarks during the entire length of the film.
Unfortunately they also serve to point out precisely what is not addressed on screen -what made Joan SPECIAL?
The state of Maine should feel insulted: it's much too nice a place to serve as the backdrop for such trite, mindless, boring schlock.
It is really just another film about some beautiful, rich people trying to decide who they should bed next; the peasants and naxalites and the political struggles of the era merely serve as a picturesque backdrop.
The settings are not even attractive for the eye and do not serve for the movie's purpose.
But the performances by those actors when sharing the screen with Lazenby only serve to emphasize his deficiencies as an actor.
People (in this case women) abducted to serve as slaves to a privileged elite?
Following the World War II Japanese attack on U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor, "The Eastside Kids": Leo Gorcey (as Muggs), Bobby Jordan (as Danny Connors), Huntz Hall (as Glimpy), David Gorcey (as Peewee), Ernest Morrison (as Scruno), and Bobby Stone (as Skinny) want to serve their country.
This movie only tries to serve straight audiences wanting to laugh about stereotypical gay men.
I did find Amy to be a superficially positive character, as she is a role model to young women that they can serve in traditionally male fields.
I have just caught this Movie on TCM, and can understand why George Murphy went into Politics if this was the best MGM could serve up to him.
One of low budget horror schlockmeister actor, John Carradine's more animated roles as a implied Nazi scientist, who is turning humans into zombies to serve the Reich.
Similarly, the scenes where the Musgroves lament "poor Richard" serve no purpose but to drag the story down.
The conflicts between characters and subplots seemed to serve no purpose whatsoever, and added nothing to the film except fewer moments of silence.
It has some ludicrous explanation, but does serve the plot.
Furthermore, derision for the real hero is heaped upon, the man who re-enlists and continues to serve his country.
It didn't serve or propel anybody's career or reputation, and is forgotten because it's a surprisingly bad film from such a pedigreed group.
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