Sentences with phrase «modern language and culture»

Modern language and culture experts discuss the history and use of familiar words.

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The 1948 declaration which established the modern state of Israel pledges that the country will «ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex,» and that it «it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education, and culture.»

The liberal churches need their own particular language of faith to communicate with the cultured despisers of the modern world, in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»

The connection between modern fundamentalism and popular culture becomes evident in the language of those who boast that they have met the Lord, that they have a personal relationship with Jesus.

Modern Indian translators in the North Eastern and other parts of India are influenced by the tribal culture to bring different cultural languages in translations than the original.11 As Nida says, «there is every reason to believe that the revision (of the translated Bible) will be greatly welcomed by non-Christians with a Hindu cultural background.

In the modern age an interest has been awakened in the study of existing lower cultures, and as a result much of their legendary lore, their songs, their rituals, their laws, are being translated into modern languages and published.

Modern scholarship has revealed not only how much our capacity to be human depends on language and culture but also the extent to which all language (and particularly religious language) is symbolic.

The popularity of his work — it was quickly translated and published in many languages — stemmed from his ability to describe the social and political consequences of various Protestant «outlooks» or «principles,» consequences he judged the true source of the destructive influence of an ascendant modern and secular culture.

Although these three traditional regions no longer have modern borders, they are still very much relevant with it comes to differences in culture, language, and food.

FMG includes news and lifestyle English - language cable network FUSION TV, and a collection of leading digital brands that span a range of categories: technology (Gizmodo), sports (Deadspin), music (TrackRecord), lifestyle (Lifehacker), modern women's interests (Jezebel), news and politics (Splinter), African American news and culture (The Root), gaming (Kotaku), and car culture (Jalopnik).

In this lesson, students review their knowledge of the following concepts and themes: Spanish expressions to introduce yourself and greet others; vocabulary related to family, classes, and school supplies; rules of gender and number of Spanish nouns; and the worldwide influence of the Spanish language, including the modern culture of the United States.

Existing 1960s buildings at this Maori - language immersion school were removed to make way for a modern learning centre that maintained its links with the past, ties to the community, and reflected the local culture and landscape.

Education systems should incorporate multiple ways of learning, combining formal and non-formal, traditional and modern, local and outside languages, local and external teachers; high priority needs to be given to vocational learning, through community - based institutions; content should be focused on enhancing links with nature, culture, and society, encouraging community and collective thinking and working, respecting diversity, and other principles and values described in this section.

The best Classics teachers in independent school demonstrate to their students the influence of classical cultures on today's world, from the building blocks the languages provided for modern grammar to the cognates that inform the vocabulary of English and the Romance languages.

The search results are great and cover various categories such as classics, textbooks, math & science, children's books, philosophy & religion, plays, modern fiction, fantasy & romance, foreign language, history & culture, arts & entertainment, mystery and poetry.

With their location at the crossroads of trade, religion, language and the arts, these countries are home to fascinating modern cultures as well as some of the world's most ancient and timeless architecture.

It is very important to us that your Costa Rican experience is both effective for learning Spanish and very comfortable, which is why we place you in upscale, local homestays, so you can be immersed in the Spanish language, experience authentic Costa Rican culture, and have all the modern conveniences you need while staying in the Central Valley of Costa Rica.

The air - conditioned double - decker Bus includes commentary in your choice of languages, providing background to Abu Dhabi's culture, history and modern - day architecture.

Opened in June 2014, this privately - owned museum was established by a group of artists and archaeologists who wanted to showcase the pre-Columbian cultures of Peru «through a modern language and easy reading texts».

Over the past twenty years, Morris has resolutely trodden her own path, developing an abstract visual language that transcends modern traditions such as Modernism, Pop Art and urban culture, with craftsmanship and material playing a leading role.

«I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture,» says Charlesworth, who is represented in the show by photographs from her first two series of newspaper appropriation works, «Modern History» (1978) and «Stills» (1977).

Szyszlo's paintings distill vast areas of culture, European and American, modern and ancient, into a visual language that is his own.

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).

Her research centers on language - based work and intersections of experimental writing, performance, and visual culture in modern and contemporary art.

As a leading provider of creative education, University of the Arts London has thought carefully about its modern language courses and designed a programme that explores the fascinating relationships between language, art and culture.

At once economical and deeply sensual, they contain a timeless language, mediating between ancient and modern culture.

From the overtly politicised visual language of Kiki Kogelnik's anti-war sculpture Bombs in Love (1962) and Eulàlia Grau's photographic montages, the exhibition reveals the subversive underbelly of Pop's exploration of modern commercial culture.

In the exhibition we see the subversive creativity and the physical, ironic language used in Hail reflected in the work of contemporaries of Clark and Atlas's day, as well as among modern - day artists active in visual art and dance, music and pop culture, with their rebellious expressions.

His characters, symbols and people represent a smattering of different modern day cultures and languages mixed into one.

Maestros de la Fotografía intends to show us the diversity of the aesthetic and visual language that comes from historical, modern and contemporary photography, and from cultures of various origins and ways of seeing the world.

She makes playful use of a palette of styles and visual languages that ranges from Renaissance painting to modern art, combining them with everyday observations and humorous references to pop culture and pornography.

His books include Scene jezika [Scenes of language](Belgrade, 1989), Pas Tout (Buffalo, 1994), Prolegomena za analitičku estetiku [Prolegomena for analytical aesthetics](Novi Sad, 1995), Postmoderna [Postmodernism](Belgrade, 1995), Asimetrični drugi [The asymmetrical other](Novi Sad, 1996), Estetika apstraktnog slikarstva [Aesthetics of abstract painting](Belgrade, 1998), Pojmovnik moderne i postmoderne likovne umetnosti i teorije posle 1950 [Glossary of modern and post-modern visual arts and theory after 1950](Belgrade and Novi Sad, 1999), Paragrami tela / figure [Paragrams of body / figure](Belgrade, 2001), Anatomija angelova [Anatomy of angels](Ljubljana, 2001), Figura, askeza in perverzija [Figure, asceticism and perversion](Koper, 2001), Martek — Fatalne figure umjetnika: Eseji o umjetnosti i kulturi XX stoljeća u Jugoistočnoj, Istočnoj i Srednjoj Europi kroz djelovanje umjetnika Vlade Marteka [Martek — Fatal figures of the artist: essays on 20th - century art and culture in South - Eastern, Eastern and Central Europe through the work of Vlado Martek](Zagreb, 2002), Impossible Histories — Historical Avant - gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918 — 1991 (Cambridge Mass, 2003), Politike slikarstva [The politics of painting](Koper, 2004), Pojmovnik suvremene umjetnosti [Glossary of contemporary art](Zagreb and Ghent, 2005), Konceptualna umetnost [Conceptual art](Novi Sad, 2007), Epistemology of Art (Belgrade, 2008) etc..

I agree though that the realization that languages and cultures as distant and apparently as far removed as ancient Doric and modern Tajik are related, you really do realize how closely connected we really are.

Corporate work environments and mission objectives are important to modern employers, and many recruiters evaluate the language in a CV to determine if the candidate's personality would work well in the company's culture.