Sentences with phrase «american high culture»

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That affiliation led to Donovan producing Bowling for Columbine, which examined American gun culture and the Columbine High School shooting massacre of 1999.

This is the story of higher education institutions specifically for African Americans, and their role in building black culture and racial equality.

This is especially true in Pakistan, where North American coffee culture is gaining popularity, but anti-American sentiment runs high.

«In trying to build a society that celebrates high self - esteem, self - expression, and «loving yourself,» Americans have inadvertently created more narcissists — and a culture that brings out the narcissistic behavior in all of us.»

As American culture turns increasingly and hostilely secular, they are easy targets: high - profile representatives of an institution that, allegedly, exemplifies repression and intolerance.

Americans have always held an unusually high degree of respect for religion and its role in their culture.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

«Respect for authority, tradition, station, and education eroded,» writes Hatch, and as a result, «American Protestantism has been skewed away from central ecclesiastical institutions and high culture; it has been pushed and pulled into its present shape by a democratic or populist orientation.»

Does the faith to which this church is committed deal with a reality that is universal, true and good for all men everywhere and in all time, or is its faith rather the expression of the highest spiritual insights of our particular American culture?

The National Research Council report («A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society») reminded me of Jerry because his life seemed to refute one of the book's principle claims: that the «culture of poverty» has little or nothing to do with persistently high rates of black poverty.

At other times they adopt a «Christ above culture» attitude, for instance, in adopting the prevalent American attitude that «business is business,» while adding to it higher spiritual practices.

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

The dominance of youth culture in American high schools caused by the weakness of traditional values is not favorable to the market economy of capitalism.

The battle becomes considerably subtler, though, when religion is advocated not as a way of life but as something to be studied as an integral part of American culture, and is made part of a high school curriculum.

Education — Mille Lacs Corporate Ventures will help to increase student achievement by donating to areas that make learning relevant for future careers, inspire students to pursue higher education, and to further education students about Native American culture.

American football players are noted for their high sweat rates (> 2 liters / hour) due to large body surface area, protective equipment and intensity of play (11) The estimated fluid consumption for college players has been estimated to exceed 12 liters per day, so that high fluid intake has become indoctrinated within football culture.

«It may be that the biggest barrier to intervention with troubled kids or kids engaged in high - risk behavior is their parents,» researchers concluded in a commentary accompanying the Culture of American Families survey.

They are not familiar with the American higher education system, a U.S. campus, or the American culture of faculty - student - postdoc collaborations.

The results of this study provided high - resolution, whole mitochondrial genome information for the Oneota, a Native American archaeological culture that rose to prominence ca.

However, rural teen boys who interacted more frequently with U.S. tourists and aid workers had a slightly higher orientation toward American culture.

Affinity for the teens» own culture, which has been found to be a protective factor in other populations, was nearly three times as high as American orientation among survey participants.

Higher doses of ginkgo almost completely protected cultured neurons from oxidative damage, which otherwise killed more than 60 % of the cells, the researchers reported here last week at the North American Research Conference on Complementary and Integrative Medicine.

Co-sponsored by the German - American Fulbright Commission and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) the Summer Academy aims to offer professional development in areas relevant to the teaching of German including German language, literature and culture as well as in professional and higher education.

Most Americans have an omega - 6 to omega - 3 ratio in tissue that is ten-fold too high; cultures with a better omega - 6 to omega - 3 ratio, such as Greenland Inuit and Japanese, have much lower rates of heart disease.

Because the American diet is high in animal protein, Americans require two to three times more calcium than other cultures do.

DatingAdvice.com dating expert Rachel Dack said she's not surprised that commonalities ranked highest among all other traits in the study, as Americans emphasize them as a culture.

Latin American culture is the formal or informal expression of the people of Latin America, and includes both high culture (literature, high art) and popular culture (music, folk art and dance) as well as religion and other customary practices.

Perhaps you admire the rich culture and pride of Latinos, the high standards of Asians, or the charisma of African Americans.

Hughes Andrew Rothschild The story of writer - director John Hughes, whose emotionally honest high school movies helped to define American culture in the 1980s — but who, at the very height of his success, abruptly abandoned filmmaking for reasons that have never been fully explained.

High school AP classes may be churning out theories about the green light at the end of Daisy's pier or Andy Warhol's tomato soup cans, but the most popularly deconstructed symbol in and of American culture these days is «Mad Men's» falling guy.

French director Xavier Giannoli borrows an obscure piece of American pop culture for his latest feature, Marguerite, a 1920s Parisian high society dramedy based loosely on the life and career of New England socialite Florence Foster Jenkins.

So before crossing professional paths with Gerwig at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival, Ronan's entire understanding of American high - school culture came courtesy of her favorite films and television shows.

National studies also have cited the clash of Native American and Anglo cultures as a factor affecting native students» adjustment to public high schools.

Thus, high - performing district or charter schools use chants, ceremonies, signs, and strong discipline to forge a culture defined by college - going and career success; at the same time, unlike schools of a half - century ago, they rarely seek to use those same exercises to help invest students in the American nation as a civic enterprise.

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She has written 10 books: Worlds Apart: Relationships Between Families and Schools (1978), Beyond Bias: Perspectives on Classrooms (1979), and The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture (1983), which received the 1984 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association.

In addition, FWSU hosts an annual China Camp, in which Chinese high school students spend two weeks in Vermont, practicing their English and soaking up American culture.

But in the case of black, Latino, Asian, and especially American Indian and Native Hawaiian communities, they may want to transform cultures in existing schools in order to provide both high - quality learning and environments in which their cultures are respected.

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Posted on May 2, 2014 · Last month,  the Houston school board voted unanimously to support teaching Mexican - American history and culture to more high school students.

Leadership, technology, modern politics and contemporary culture courses are not the norm in American high schools; worse still, these are actually rare topics in middle schools, and almost completely missing from elementary schools.

Early childhood education research has rarely focused on supporting young children in tribal communities, hampering our capacity to understand and advocate for the kinds of high - quality practices grounded in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI / AN) culture that can make a positive difference in children's lives.

Immerse yourself into American culture and improve your English language skills in an American high school

Though the book is endorsed by Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, the call for decreased teacher empathy appears to rail against the biggest tenets of teacher training by Teach for America and other reform minded teacher - education programs, which want teachers to see the stories behind the students and embrace their cultures, while finding ways to hold students to high standards (Teach for American, 2016).

Gifted and talented LEP students at Louis S. Brandeis High School in New York City (Cochran & Cotayo, 1983) attend operas and museums and, in this way, become a part of American culture.

We will bring the exciting culture of high - octane American fun to the streets of Europe.»

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«Readers are still very curious about American culture, both high and low,» said Shashi Martynova, a prominent translator who also runs the Dodo Bookstore, which specializes in translations.

YA / General Interest: Like Baldwin's essays, this volume is sure to become required reading for high - school students of African American history and culture.

The Institute of American Indian Arts has a straightforward and powerful mission: to empower creativity and leadership in Native arts and cultures through higher education, lifelong learning and outreach.