Sentences with phrase «american work culture»

The American work culture was «faster, brasher, and more ambitious,» he says.

Why must we remain stuck between unreasonable expectations at home and an American work culture that barely recognizes that babies have to be raised by those same adults you are asking to be online at all hours?

American work culture needs to evolve past its current mindset that «all» means simultaneous success in all aspects of a working mother's life.

Not exact matches

The Silicon Valley investor compared American and Chinese tech cultures, criticizing western employees» push for things like paternity leave and work - life balance.

When I interviewed Karoli Hindriks, founder of Jobbatical, a site that helps professionals find gigs working for startups abroad, about why American marketers and techies were so interested in these gigs, she had this to say: «I love Airbnb not only because it is often cheaper than hotels, but because you're experiencing a culture.

Born and raised in California to a Japanese mother and a Polish - American father, Kumai grew up in a mixed culture home — celebrating Japanese traditions and cuisine from a young age, and honing a cosmopolitan perspective that continues to inspire her work today.

It noted that more than 40 million North Americans work in cubicles, and that most aren't satisfied by that arrangement — «a malaise perhaps best represented in our popular culture by Dilbert and his colleagues.»

Formerly considered a recreational activity to be done outside of working hours, many North American companies are now recognizing the benefits of promoting a cycling culture in the workplace.

Worse still, people are oftentimes not looking for perfection (Clotaire Rapaille says that the American culture code for quality is «it works»).

Thousands of Peppers work in Japanese stores and homes, and now engineers are adjusting the robot's EQ — emotional quotient — for American culture.

More than 13.5 million Americans participate in ESOPs and share in our special style of productive, collaborative work culture, while enjoying better job and retirement security.

The historic properties managed by the Public Buildings Service represent the work of historic and prominent architects that are valued for significance in art, architecture, archeology, culture, engineering, and American history.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

One might look, for example, at From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate, by neoliberal Protestants Don Browning, Bonnie Miller - McLemore, Pamela Couture, Bernie Lyon and Robert Franklin; Gender and Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World, by evangelical Protestant Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen; and Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics, by Catholic Lisa Sowle Cahill.

He spent the next four pivotal years of his life working alongside Americans in combat situations, learning U.S. military culture and ethics.

And it is growing in the developing world, far from the celebrity - obsessed American culture, through the faithful work of both men and women who are committed to yielding to this Spirit of grace.

The bishops seem to see American society and its institutions as a market rather than a community united by a common culture — a place where strangers work and pursue their economic interests, not a society where people share common bonds and shared responsibilities.

(ENTIRE BOOK) An examination of the two primary traditions — denominational biblical tradition and enlightenment utilitarianism — that worked together to contribute to the American Revolution and to create the civil religion which marks American culture to this day.

David Hall, a longtime acquaintance of Carson who said he watched the two work together, claims that Andrews supplied rough sketches from her experiences in Beverly Hills, and Carson wove them into a fictional narrative describing her exotic adventures with various shamans based on his own knowledge of Native American culture.

And while slavery is the poisonous weed in the gardens of her ancestors, Cannon became a student of slave narratives, «seeking the interior garden of Afro - American culture» and consciously working to inherit the strength and dignity of her slave foremothers.

The crisis of black liberalism and the emergence of the new black conservatives can best be understood in light of three fundamental events in American society and culture since 1973: the eclipse of U.S. economic and military predominance in the world; the structural transformation of the American economy; and the moral breakdown of communities throughout the country, especially among the black working poor and underclass.

Margaret Mead notes that «within traditional American culture... there runs a persistent belief that all leisure [play] must be earned by work and good works... [and] second, while it is enjoyed it must be seen in a context of future work and good works.

In the absence of any concerted effort toward arriving at a univocal Biblically based definition of «justice,» evangelicals have too often adopted certain working definitions from the American culture.

But more decisive is the fact that in American culture, shaped so much by the Puritan tradition, work is more honored than leisure.

Republicans should be happy to learn this Truth that has brought America to the state of Light for Obama to pick on it.One thing good about American Democracy is it is «truly participating» and lasting with lessons for others to follow in modernity to tap blue horizons of life.Those blue horizons just do not end in economics that has many minds to tap the financial barometer of the country self educative in working of its affluent class and ordinary class both domestically and internationally relating to perfection with budgeting of money in economic plans that have been existing and are in the process to move charismatically with a tide over where bipartisan element also comes into play well integrated to test the mettle of the top leader of the country who has to stand over the continuous democratic element evolving of the country both in economic as well as inherently in spiritual terms for the good of the people at large mixing with the culture of exchange that has humanity behind it to survive??

Her work should be required reading not only for students of American religion, but also for anyone who wishes to study sympathetically and fruitfully a different religious culture.

One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.

American culture is the working out of the necessities and responsibilities of interpersonal existence in an environment more hospitable to activity than to reflection.

Many allusions to German culture and history in his work are likely to go unrecognized by the first - time American viewer, especially anyone who has not read some of the growing critical literature on Kiefer or the excellent guide by Mark Rosenthal to the Kiefer exhibition now touring the United States.

For centuries now, when the U. S. government has not promoted or at least allowed genocide, it has worked to eradicate the difference between Native American cultures and the Anglo one.

Cornel West is one of the most prophetic voices in American culture today, and Race Matters is his most significant work.

I would posit that until typical Americans are going to work work nude from the waist up (men and women) then our culture considers then to be unpresentable.

From our home base in downtown Manhattan, we work with hundreds of chefs and restaurants as well as corporate and culinary partners to bring the diverse worlds of Asian culinary culture to global - minded North American consumers.

dIn 1929, sociologists Robert and Helen Lynd published Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, an enduring work that was designed to study your average small American city over a long period.

His philosophy reflects the diverse cultures (European, Asian, Middle Eastern and American) in which he has lived, worked and studied.

Modern American culture, Lareau wrote, valued the qualities that middle - class children were developing over the ones that poor and working - class children were developing.

Western culture has worked to help heal the emotional wounds of Native Americans, though there is still so much work to do.

• It is the broad Left's abandonment of independent working class politics since 1936, not some American exceptionalism rooted in our political institutions and culture, that best explains the absence of a mass party of the Left.

«We immediately thought about the culture that has existed in Albany and we wanted to be able to empower women who work in politics, particularly young women and interns who head to their internships idealistic and wanting to be part of American government and are disillusioned by it,» she said.

«Black history is American history, and wonderful events like his honor the legacy, culture, sacrifice, and achievements of black pioneers, who have worked so hard to achieve so much.»

Chinese scientists «are a very good asset» to the U.S. economy he reveals, explaining that many American employers are quick to hire U.S. - educated Chinese familiar with U.S. culture and industry to work in outstations their companies establish in Asia.

«Their eagerness, concentration, and willingness to work together was impressive, as was their familiarity with American popular culture.»

Ryujiro Hara, Ph.D. relates his personal experiences as a Japanese scientist living and working in the USA, noting differences between Japanese and American lab environments, as well as academic and business cultures.

We need to work together to create a safe, supportive environment and culture that encourages young scientific talent rather than deterring it,» said Eric Davidson, president - elect, of the American Geophysical Union.

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Marlo Thomas is an award - winning actress, author and activist whose body of work continues to impact American entertainment and culture.

Of course there are many cultures whose cuisines are naturally not «proper» food combining such as Mexican, South American, Mediterranean or even Asian, but for people native to these areas, their food combinations work for them.

Since American history dates back less than 300 years, it's good to look to other cultures to find food items that have worked for several...

They have to work here and live here so following the American culture is the must to support themselves and their family.

Russian women admit that American men are very hard working and are often highly skilled professionals; however they lack general knowledge about the world history, culture, literature and have naive perception of Russia, imposed by the media.