This matters because what happened in Miami is the one historical event that has most shaped how economists view immigration.
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Digitally host a series of evenings, call it Seven Songs, where each "guest" gets an evening to share and play aloud the seven songs that have most shaped them.
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Even with all the SF literature I read growing up, Twilight Zone and Star Trek most shaped my interests in SF and the kinds of stories I want to tell.
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Through every twist and across every robot junkpile of the decade, music was most shaped by the force of the individual artist more than any one single, album, platform, technology, or cultural product.
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It would be a shame, however, to brush past the subject of Outrages: the 19th century British writer John Addington Symonds, who, Wolf claims, is the writer who most shaped the modern discourse about homosexuality.
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Before he became special counsel, Mueller freely and repeatedly told me that his habits of mind and character were most shaped by his time in Vietnam, a period that is also the least explored chapter of his biography.
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"I wish I had asked my mentors for a more textured view of their life journeys, to learn about what didn't work out, what caused them to pivot, the risks they took, and what most shaped their learning," she said.
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The first scene depicts a young Erik Lehnsherr losing his parents at Auschwitz, showing the pain and firsthand experience with the very worst of humanity that led him to become Magneto, the supervillain who has most shaped the X-Men universe.
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Carter would be credited by his eldest son with being the person who most shaped his "work habits and ambitions".
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Borman credits a mission trip to Nicaragua for being the thing that has most shaped her life. She currently lives in DeSoto, Missouri.
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Baptist pastor Robert Jeffress said that What's So Amazing About Grace? "did a valuable service rescuing the doctrine of grace from the legalists who say that we must earn our salvation". In 2006, What's So Amazing About Grace? placed 17th on Christianity Todays list of fifty books that had most shaped Evangelicals.
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White clay pieces by Nicolas Vita Hernandez of Chililco, Huejutla Ceramics production is local and primarily for local, domestic use, rather than for collectors of Mexican folk art. This include mostly unglazed wares such as those for the storage and cooking of food, for pulque, water jugs, comals, flower pots and gourd-shaped bowls called apiloles, along with construction materials such as floor and roof tiles. Ceramic techniques are basic and non-industrial, with most shaped by hand and fired outdoors over an open fire, or occasionally in a family kiln. The municipality of Huejutla is home to the state’s best known pottery traditions.
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But the films that most shaped her career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with Play It Again, Sam (1972). Her next two films with Allen, Sleeper (1973) and Love and Death (1975), established her as a comic actor. Her fourth, the romantic comedy Annie Hall (1977), won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. To avoid being typecast as her Annie Hall persona, Keaton became an accomplished dramatic performer, starring in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and Interiors (1978), and received three more Academy Award nominations for playing feminist activist Louise Bryant in Reds (1981), a woman with leukemia in Marvin's Room (1996), and a dramatist in Something's Gotta Give (2003).
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C. S. Lewis credited The Everlasting Man with "baptising" his intellect, much as George MacDonald's writings had baptised his imagination, so as to make him more than half-converted well before he could bring himself to embrace Christianity. In a 1950 letter to Sheldon Vanauken,Found in A Severe Mercy Lewis calls the book "the best popular apologetic I know," and in 1947 he wrote to Rhonda Bodle:Found in C. S. Lewis: The Collected Letters, Vol. 2 "the [very] best popular defence of the full Christian position I know is G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man." The book was also cited by The Christian Century in a list of 10 books that "most shaped [Lewis'] vocational attitude and philosophy of life".
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In 1933, he learned Sanskrit and met the Indologist Arthur W. Ryder at Berkeley. He read the Bhagavad Gita in the original Sanskrit, and later he cited it as one of the books that most shaped his philosophy of life. His close confidant and colleague, Nobel Prize winner Isidor Rabi, later gave his own interpretation: In spite of this, observers such as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez have suggested that if he had lived long enough to see his predictions substantiated by experiment, Oppenheimer might have won a Nobel Prize for his work on gravitational collapse, concerning neutron stars and black holes. In retrospect, some physicists and historians consider this to be his most important contribution, though it was not taken up by other scientists in his own lifetime.
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The novel topped the list of books that have most shaped world literature over the last 25 years, according to a survey of international writers commissioned by the global literary journal Wasafiri as a part of its 25th-anniversary celebration. The superlatives from reviewers and readers alike display the resounding praise which the novel has received. Chilean poet and Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda called it "the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since Don Quixote of Cervantes", while John Leonard in The New York Times wrote that "with a single bound, Gabriel García Márquez leaps onto the stage with Günter Grass and Vladimir Nabokov." According to Antonio Sacoto, professor at the City College of the City University of New York, One Hundred Years of Solitude is considered as one of the five key novels in Hispanic American literature (together with El Señor Presidente, Pedro Páramo, La Muerte de Artemio Cruz, and La ciudad y los perros).
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