Not the least of the things comedy can do is widen our perspective on the world and introduce us to new ideas.
Shot in East Africa, with much of the dialogue improvised by Somali-speaking Kenyans, "Fishing Without Nets" — like last year's admirably thorough documentary "Stolen Seas" and, to a lesser degree, "Captain Phillips" — aims to widen our perspective on piracy and on a people devastated by war and famine.
Our ego prevents us from widening our perspective.
Widening our perspective to include these other conditionals tends to confirm Supp's view.
By widening our perspective, we can recognize that environments are combined constructions of physical, ecological, and social elements (Swyngedouw 1999).
It is also a call to each of us to widen our perspective and to add our much-needed voice to the essential challenges of our time.
This is because in a world that is changing rapidly, we need to carve out time to constantly widen our perspective to the changes that are happening that will impact us and the people we lead.
Having identified the functions of cycle phases, the sources of meanings, and the knowledge being accumulated, we can now widen our perspective to the learning activity they are part of.
Facing our ethnic interactions, if we could emancipate our minds on the relevant issues, widen our perspective and knowledge sources, and seek truth from facts, would allow China to establish an effective reflexive system related to the "nation/nationality/minzu/ethnicity" issues.
That approach, applied in varying measures throughout, proves its [End Page 813] potential here as a useful tool for the development of historical violence studies and widens our perspective on what violence "is" and where it is "located" in social and cultural contexts.
They are people who inspire, empower, give courage or help us to widen our perspective.
