One memorable sequence in Ponyo sees its eponymous heroine, a goldfish who longs to become human, ride to the shore on a gigantic tidal wave.
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm is the Executive Director of WITNESS. She envisions a world where the millions of people turning to video today become human rights defenders and where collaboration between media, technology and human rights creates an ecosystem for social change.
The opposite of Frankenstein, the myth I wish we saw more of, is the Pinocchio myth, which is about a puppet that wants to become human, an improbable technology that wants to make life better, if only with a sweet, gentle wish upon a star.
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Ethics have become like human resources, an autonomous element of business curriculum directed by self-proclaimed experts.
He left Unilever PLC to become chief human resources officer of LG Electronics in 2008.
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However advocates of the new technique say that the embryos created from this technique could never become viable human beings.
San Diego has become the human genome research capital in America.
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"A human embryo starts out as a single fertilised cell and rapidly divides into a widely complex series of cells that become a human being, " explained Dr McCallion.
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Our actions reveal what we have become as human beings and we can develop the more positive side of our humanity by becoming more generous and temperate towards our natural environment.
After all, we know we have the privilege and the enriching responsibility of shaping and guiding children's minds, hearts and souls to become better human beings in micro systems where opportunities and hope are sometimes limited.
Wildlife experts say human settlements known as buffer zones around national parks have become flashpoints for human-wildlife encounters.
Picard had offered himself up to save a non-human life-form, whose greatest wish, ironically, was to become an emotive human.
It will leave the rest of the population time to sit in darkened rooms wondering what has become of the human race.
Combine that with Charge, and you become a flaming human cannonball.
Issues such as trust and human relations become harder to handle as companies intrude into the lives of their employees.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota was nominated by Obama to become the health and human services secretary.
Should respect for the rights of human beings become the predominant objective, then injustice, ill-temperament, aggression and war will fade away.
You accept color differences, affirm them, celebrate them, but don't allow them to become a barrier to human community, " said Baldwin, author of a new King book, "In A Single Garment of Destiny: A Global Vision of Justice.
In the same way people in Google cars become more comfortable with AI driving than with human drivers, Kurzweil predicts that computer intelligence will become a reliable tool that people will become dependent on.
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Without sustained social interaction, the human brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury.
He questions why the idea of human nature has become a taboo subject, exploring "hot buttons" like violence, gender and aggression.
Will it become a way to copycat human engagement such that it lays to rest legitimate, authentic communication in social media?
He reasons that human drivers will become more erratic in the short term as they adjust to the technologies, sending accident rates up.
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Why did we listen to environmental activists and become the first nation in human history to burn up its food supply to power automobiles?
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Sitting there, you become aware of how blithely human beings disregard the personalities of the places they inhabit, assuming they exist only for their purposes.
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We spend so much of our time enclosed in various modes of transportation and attached to digital devices that raw, spontaneous human connection has become a rarity.
To learn more, I then asked the police, mountain rescue and a psychologist how missing persons searches had changed over the years, as human behaviour had become better understood.
Learn as much as you can, find opportunities to flaunt your skills, become an avid student of human behavior, but be pragmatic about your place in the corporate solar system.
Although American officials these days do not seem to press the Saudis very hard to become democratic or to uphold human rights, America's media and its rights lobbies are relentlessly critical.
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