Sentences with phrase «american cultural life»

As a group, they draw on folklore for its ability to illuminate American cultural life in its strange mixture of civilization and barbarism, enlightenment and madness.

The exhibition grows out of Marshall's Rythm Mastr series, an expansive sequence of narrative works that tells a tale of urban life featuring superheroes inspired by African archetypes and African American cultural life.

While the service was produced specifically to celebrate a particular occasion in American cultural life, it was consistent with many other services and programs presented on American religious television.

This is a message not likely to be well received by those secular elites that shape much of American cultural life.

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But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Apostle Howard W. Hunter was president of the Polynesian Cultural Center (Hawaii), and director of Beneficial Life Insurance Co., of Continental Western Life Insurance Co., of Deseret Federal Savings and Loan, of First Security Bank of Utah, of First Security Corp., of Heber J. Grant & Co., of PHA Life Insurance Co. (Oregon), of Watson Land Co. (Los Angeles), and of Western American Life Insurance Co..

This cultural conundrum also reveals the intellectual retreat and creative inertia of American religious life.

In 1966, he created Kwanzaa to connect African Americans with their African cultural roots and to enshrine life affirming values into black consciousness: values such as faith, purpose, self - determination, and cooperative economics, to name a few.

It will persistently disclose congregations» faithlessness to who they themselves say they are, and the scandal of the roles they actually play in North American social and cultural life.

These communities trouble me, the segregation from American life, the anti- cultural stance made in these communities is very un American.

The «communal tensions» between the groups were «of major importance in the life of the nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some social, political, and cultural recognition in America.

There is no racial or cultural reason why India can not in five or ten decades have an American standard of living.

The cultural and political reality is that millions of Americans, a majority of Americans, believe that abortion is precisely that — the taking of an innocent human life.

Pentecostalism, according to Freston, is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that has fundamental repercussions in the social and cultural life of Latin American peoples.

Many of the people in Minimalism had achieved «success» by our cultural standards, but were left feeling disillusioned, anxious and depleted so they decided to live radically different than most Americans.

[7] Many theological students, especially women, African Americans, and Hispanics, regularly and vigorously object that their «theological education» is in important respects inappropriate to the faith communities to which they belong and to the social and cultural worlds in which they expect to live and work in the future.

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

The question of how Christians «talk the talk» in American public life will not go away, because it can not go away; this is a fact of demographics, as well as a reflection of the nation's historic cultural core.

Though no longer the authoritative text for the cultural at large, the Bible is still the most important single book in American public life.

There's «a prominent paradox of American life long noted by the keenest observers of our society; that administrative centralization often accompanies cultural and economic individualism.»

The evangelicals and fundamentalists, who were not seen as a major force within the mainstream of American cultural and religious life, existed mainly on the fringes of influence within the television industry.

In so doing it helped to promote Christian faith in America, but at the same time it de-emphasized the role of the Church by concentrating on an individual experience, and it also made Christianity a stranger to large segments of American intellectual, cultural, and political life.

The restoration of theology would greatly enrich the cultural, intellectual and spiritual life of our society, and it would help overcome the gap between the academic and the ministerial, between the scholarly and the pastoral, that so bedevils American theological education.

While cultural disestablishment affects all Christian churches, its impact on the old mainline — the Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Methodists — is dramatic, for mainline Protestantism was particularly ill prepared for the loss of a central place in American life.

Back in the period I am talking about, the 1930s and 1940s, Jews living in the major population centers of American Jewish life — New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and so on — might at least in some part of their daily lives have experienced a sense of cultural dominance: in their neighborhoods, on their blocks, most people lived as they did, and spoke as they did, and viewed the world as they did.

The fear of losing one's job or reputation has made many Americans afraid to speak publicly about this issue, even though their deep convictions about life, marriage, and family have not changed in response to elite cultural pressure.

Among those who believe that fundamental changes in American society are essential for the fullest achievement of the good life, a distinction can be made between the cultural transformationists and the political reformers.

In the course of time American cultural experience, coupled with the influence of pietism, revivalism, and rationalism, resulted in the principle of religious liberty, which enabled Americans of diverse confessional backgrounds to live together in relative peace.

December 15: The Cultural Survival Bazaar features works by indigenous artists and offers cultural performances, live music from around the world, Native American storytelling, cultural presentations, and craft - making demonstrations Cultural Survival Bazaar features works by indigenous artists and offers cultural performances, live music from around the world, Native American storytelling, cultural presentations, and craft - making demonstrations cultural performances, live music from around the world, Native American storytelling, cultural presentations, and craft - making demonstrations cultural presentations, and craft - making demonstrations (Boston)

The American Academy of Family Physicians recommends that breastfeeding continue throughout the first year of life and that «As recommended by the WHO, breastfeeding should ideally continue beyond infancy, but this is not the cultural norm in the United States and requires ongoing support and encouragement.

Prior to this discovery, in most western industrialized countries SIDS rates ranged between approximately 1.5 to 4 infants per 1000 live births (compared to industrialized counties in Asia, such as Japan, which has the lowest SIDS rates in the world,.05 infants per 1000 live births21) with enormous increases amongst minorities, especially impoverished indigenous peoples such as the Maori of New Zealand, the Cree of Northern Canada, and the Aborigines of Australia.19, 22,23 Native peoples in the United States demonstrated similar exponentially increased SIDS (or SUDI rates, see below), as much as two to seven the times the rates found amongst white Americans.13, 19 Despite significant declines among almost all cultural and / or ethnic groups, SIDS rates still remain the leading cause of death for infants between one month and one year of life in the United States and elsewhere.13

«There are more than 53 thousand Greek Americans living in Queens and they have contributed greatly to the borough's economic, civic, political and cultural life.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

Teaching at Lincoln University afforded Lipscomb, who is now an assistant professor in the biology department at Howard University in Washington, D.C., a cultural opportunity he says he missed as an African American who went to «majority» schools most of his life.

Rachel Watkins (pictured above), an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., is a biocultural anthropologist, which means she studies how people's physiological conditions — their health and disease states — reflect the social, cultural, economic, and political environment in which they lived.

«Poverty and the many stresses that come with social disadvantage have long been linked to cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact on heart health for people from a broad range of economic and cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Research at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.

It is the first learned society in the USA and has played an important role in American cultural and intellectual life for over 250 years.

As Swarthmore College psychologist Barry Schwartz wrote in a 2000 article in American Psychologist, «I think it is only a slight exaggeration to say that for the first time in human history, in the contemporary United States large numbers of people can live exactly the kind of lives they want, unconstrained by material, economic, or cultural limitations.»

So whether we're looking at modernizing a traditional African pattern, or creating a print that reflects African - American life as our Brooklyn Life pillows do, every design begins from a cultural standpoint, and then the modern layers come in with color and materilife as our Brooklyn Life pillows do, every design begins from a cultural standpoint, and then the modern layers come in with color and materiLife pillows do, every design begins from a cultural standpoint, and then the modern layers come in with color and materials.

Philadelphia singles are lucky enough to live in a city steeped in American history, so take advantage and impress your date with a visit to a cultural institution.

Due to the cultural pressure to be successful in every area of their lives, American women generally spend more time thinking about what others think and less time tending to their husbands needs.

It is centered on African - American interests and cultural events, but is open to all people in Ohio living with herpes and HPV.

One of the most influential voices from the past two decades of American cinema, it's funny to think that Anderson was endorsed by Martin Scorsese way back in the day when the «Mean Streets» director co-signed onto his then little - cared - for debut «Bottle Rocket» several years before Anderson would blow up into a cultural phenomenon (that wouldn't be until around «The Royal Tenenbaums» and «The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou»).

Cast: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver Program: Special Presentations Headline: Annie Ha Noel's Take: Someday when cultural historians look back at this era of cinema and television, they'll wonder why we so obsessively documented the lives of upper - middle - class city - dwelling Americans between the ages of 22 and 28.

It's a long, old story of cultural self - denial when that circle of hype — which keeps black Americans as bound to Hollywood as they are to the Democratic party — neglects other, more genuine entertainments about black American life.

Debuting in a time where discussion on race in American cinema is at an absolute fever pitch, Morris From America explores the idea of cultural and personal identity through the lens of a 13 - year old black aspiring free - styler living with his father (Craig Robinson) in the little white - washed German village of Heidelberg.

A film unlike anything you've seen (or will see), Julie Dash's rapturous feature debut is set at a moment of wrenching cultural crisis, when the island - dwelling Gullah — former African slaves living off the coast of South Carolina — decide in August 1902 to head to the nearby American mainland and endure the pain of a second separation from their past.

Rather than attacking the obvious bigots, Peele's «I Am Not Your Negro» thriller goes after those who consider themselves liberal, launching a daring direct attack on so many cultural codes long enforced by Hollywood: the white male gaze, the mixed - race couple taboo, the hapless wide - eyed African - American stereotype and the myth that we are somehow living in a post-racial society.

Her journey, a microcosm of the American Dream as seen through the life of an immigrant, is continuously and consistently heartbreaking, full of misunderstandings both cultural and linguistic, that all you want to do is hug her and tell her everything is going to be okay, even if her journey is the most foolish of errands.

The beneficiary's of the scholarship receive a grant to fund the trip and accommodation and a cultural programme is also provided in order to give scholars a «taste of American life».