Until we work to bypass our preconceived notions toward people and groups about whom we know very little, we will continue to lose out on a critical opportunity to connect with one another and find common ground.
It communicates through your own thoughts, be they judgmental notions toward yourself or worries regarding your future.
Sure, these days such utopian notions toward humanity immediately register as escapism in its purest, most naïve form but isn't that why we go to the movies to begin with?
The original expedition notion leaned toward Lewis and Clark, but Ms. Dubuc and Mr. Burnett quickly realized the terrain of the American Northwest had changed far too much since those two men's journey more than 200 years ago.
In her essay "The World According to Jet, or Notes Toward a Notion of Race-Pride," the poet and essayist Elizabeth Alexander pondered whether the monolithic black audience the publication was geared toward ever existed.
Looking back at 2011, I see a year where pragmatism replaced hype, where show beat tell, where consumers, the tech community and the marketing industry stepped away from preconceived notions and toward a new reality, where actions spoke louder than words.
The notion of working toward consensus or finding ways to creatively integrate a pluralism of ideas all give way to the democratic vote, which only takes a half-plus-one majority to effectively silence the rest.
Conclusions are leading toward the notion that rare variants contribute little toward genetic variance [ 15].
Greenberg gestures toward the notion that Native Americans harbored a proto-conservation ethic toward the birds, but that distinction breaks down as his narrative of destruction progresses, which is perhaps just as well, because our propensity for using things up is certainly species-wide.
It implies coercion toward a notion of the good.
