With her story, which concludes on the "path of peace," Mrs. Alayan was improvising a setup for the opening lesson in a new first-grade reader, the very first official reader written by and for Palestinians.
But none of the short works match the passion and depth of the "Officium Defunctorum," which includes the regular sections of the Requiem Mass (except the Dies Irae, absent from Victoria's setting) as well as an opening Lesson ("Taedet Animam Meam") and a funeral motet ("Versa Est in Luctum Cithara") with a gracefully rising soprano line.
Those ear-opening lessons marked a turning point in my life.
None of the managers had supervised inmates before, and their weeklong training program with the Department of Corrections taught them some eye-opening lessons.
For many students, their experience last summer in the United States turned into a disturbing immersion in the realities of the American workplace but also an eye-opening lesson in the possibilities of public protest.
And Harry gives an eye-opening lesson on frozen sperm for artificial insemination, with an array of what appear to be medieval torture instruments but turn out to be birthing tools for cows.
This story from a little classroom teaches you an eye-opening lesson about freedom that you'll never forget.
An online cost-of-credit calculator can be an eye-opening lesson in how things can get out of control.
Her eye-opening lesson in creating like an entrepreneur challenged how we think and work, and showed us that the most powerful resource we have is each other.
The history of this statement, and perhaps an eye-opening lesson for us as critical care practitioners, harkens back to the early days of the Roman Empire (281 BC) when the small Greek city of Tarentum was threatened with attack by Roman forces.
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