Entrepreneurship has become a means of rehabilitation; organizations like Breathing Space, Defy Ventures and NFTE liberate at-risk youth and adults devoid of opportunity by teaching them business concepts, and facilitating their paths to success.
The main thing for me is that history gets taught devoid of cultural connections, and I think that that's not a good way to teach history.
Mr. Rosenthal, 33, is a former television writer who was responsible in large measure for popular comedies like "Ellen" and "Spin City;" his experience made him filthy rich but also taught him how empty a life devoid of Truth can be.
When I read Blume's books as a kid, they taught me that a child like me – wholly devoid of magical powers – was worthy of being the star of her own story.
Although such a theological position appeared to be heretical monophysitism, Philoponus approximated the orthodox miaphysite teaching by explaining that though Christ's humanity was devoid of personhood, it was not dissolved by its fundamental union with the divinity.
"Throughout the ages," Dr. Silverman said, "we have been taught that emotions are the opposite of rationality and that cold logic is devoid of emotions".
It's also time for America to recognize that racism is taught and that crime is often committed out of need, marginalization and a system devoid of options.
Most criminal behavior is either fraught with emotion (wife-beating) or stunningly devoid of emotion (coldblooded murder) or emotionally inflammatory (hate crimes), writes Richard A. Posner, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals who teaches at the University of Chicago Law School.
But his time in a combat zone taught him much about sacrifice, honor and loyalty among soldiers, he said in a speech largely devoid of policy, politics or any mention of his Republican rival, Gov. George W. Bush.
At the heart of Śaṃkara's teaching lies the notion that the true knowledge of the ātman is knowledge that is devoid of any of the above-mentioned qualities.
