Sentences with phrase «across human culture»

As for the belief that blacks or people of darker skins are inferior to whites, that belief was (and is) widespread across human culture.

This theory is no more plausible or implausible than blind faith except there actually is a large body of evidence to support this theory across all human cultures and «mythologies» (See Zecharia Sitchin, Rael, G. Cope Schellhorn, many others).

Introduction Protecting and nurturing the young is a universal goal across human cultures.

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There are international movements like Amnesty International, Oxfam and World Vision which imply visions of coverantal ties between human beings across lines of nation, culture, class, race, and gender.

A smile, for example, signifies happiness across all cultures because smiles are genetically encoded responses common to all human beings.

Indeed, it is awareness of limits that allows us to share human experiences across widely diverse cultures.

All these show that ours is a historical context conducive, not only to inter-religious but also to religion - ideology dialogues on building a common body of insights about being and becoming human - a dialogue in which Christianity can make a contribution from its idea of reconciliation of humanity and the creation of a Secular Koinonia across religions, cultures and ideologies.

While the school population reflects the different nationalities of a very diverse greater - Princeton community, the Waldorf curriculum embraces the unifying human elements across all cultures.

Cultural tradition: As previously stated, throughout most of human history, home birth has been considered the norm and it remains the norm in many different cultures across the globe.

Among humans, the roles of mothers are more clearly defined across cultures, namely that of primary caregiver.

Immordino - Yang is an affective neuroscientist and human development psychologist who studies the development of social emotion and self - awareness across cultures, connections to social resilience and morality, and implications for education.

His teaching load included classes far outside his research expertise, from introduction to education to human development and education across cultures.

Combs are one of our oldest tools, used by humans across cultures and ages for decoration, detangling, and delousing.

Sleeping arrangements between humans have evolved over time and across cultures.

«Kissing in human sexual relationships is incredibly prevalent in various forms across just about every society and culture,» says Rafael Wlodarski, the DPhil student who carried out the research in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University.

Human preferences for horse coat colors have changed greatly over time and across cultures.

Human sacrifice was part of many traditional cultures across the globe, marking important events like the death of a leader or the construction of a house or boat.

This stone engraving of an aurochs, or wild cow, found in a French rock - shelter in 2012, provides glimpses of an ancient human culture's spread across Central and Western Europe, researchers say.

And that might be the universal ability the researchers set out to find: «I will start looking for things which are unique to humans amongst the great apes and universal across cultures,» Haun notes.

Fisher added that love is a human constant, across all cultures and technologies.

Reading and interpreting literature encourages learners to be comfortable with ambiguity, engage in perspective taking and understand the human experience across cultures.

Rather than investigating bubble - sheet results, Gardner sought to illuminate the mental abilities that underlie actual human accomplishments found across cultures.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

The «evolution» of body movements is an obvious advantage in the human species, says Gardner; this evolution follows a clear developmental schedule in children, is universal across cultures and thus satisfies the requirements of being considered an intelligence, he says.

foster school curricula that encourages international understanding and goodwill, and a respect for the human rights and dignity across all races and cultures; 5.

The following aspects of the context were observed across both studies: the presence of a principal with drive and enthusiasm, the availability of school resources in the form of both human and technical resources, a strongly supportive school culture in which the expectation that staff would come on board was strong, and collegial support to help this happen.

DASGUPTA: I think we human beings are storytellers by nature, across cultures: that's how we transmit our values.

I recommend this book to all readers, even if you're not interested in China or Pearl S. Buck, because it's a dramatic story filled with the human emotions that are the same across all cultures (Loretta F).

Belief in a higher power has been part of the human experience across time and cultures, and it can permeate fiction as well.

We humans have chosen to share our lives and homes with companion animals for millennia; this human affinity and close connection with companion animals is shown across cultures and throughout time.

The event this year focuses on «Staying Ahead of Tomorrow», encapsulating the region's global lead in technology development; consumer understanding across different cultures; planning ahead for infrastructure build; launching new product; and developing human capital.

The secrecy may ultimately signify the murky intersection within today's society of faith, morality, and politics, but can also be seen to underscore the ritualistic nature of human life across centuries and cultures.

For them, this was a way of exploring something essential about art, about the way that certain forms and patterns recur across cultures, and about how in art — as in myth and dreams — there are archetypes that appeal to human consciousness.

Our focus spans the African Diaspora across history, from the diaspora at the origin of human existence through the contemporary African Diaspora that has affected communities and cultures around the world.

Finally, a series of mesmerizing video installations Order, More and Culture Plate # 7 (ALL 2003) featuring emblematic, anonymous figures in patterns, culminates in the monumental Time Left (2002), a grand opera of isolation and connection, in which row upon row of human figures forming a vast wall text in motion, endlessly march across the entire perimeter of a room to an unknowable destination.

The Barnes collection is displayed in ensembles that integrate art and objects from across cultures and time periods, overturning traditional hierarchies and revealing universal elements of human expression.

The depiction of food in art spans across cultures and all of recorded human history.

The jurors noted that the artist's practice explores the enduring effects of colonialism, and they stated: «Attia's passionate engagement with current affairs and with the shared fate of humanity has close links to Joan Miró's involvement in the critical episodes that marked his generation, while Attia's unique take on complex, often traumatic, human relationships across cultures resonates with Miró's universal aspirations.»

Flowers are a beautiful and powerful symbol of life across the ages, and when the petals fall off the rose, or the lilies decay, they also have come to represent peace in the afterlife — every civilization & culture in human history has derived different meanings from different flowers, according to their mysterious rhythms.

The Newark Museum has been collecting and exhibiting modern ceramics since 1910, and its inter-departmental ceramic holdings number thousands of objects that embrace human culture all across the world from prehistory to the present.

Extending across the entirety of the museum, the exhibition allows for free association between artists and the themes they address: at once playful and dynamic, works from Ryan Gander, Institute for New Feeling, Liu Wa, and Yangzi invite audiences to explore a wealth of possibilities through combinations of meditation and wry humor; classical mediums of sculpture and painting are reinvented by Yngve Holen and Austin Lee; insidious implications of our hi - tech society are skewered by Lawrence Abu Hamdan and aaajiao; the powers of synthetic materials over human desire are brought to the fore by Sean Raspet and Pamela Rosenkranz; and products of Internet culture are given to refined study with Gillian Wearing and Amalia Ulman.

Pondick's animal / human hybrid sculptures have a long lineage across many cultures, and many of Feintuch's paintings play with historical mythological and religious imagery.

Finch is widely recognized for his work across a variety of media that captures the artist's aesthetic probing of nature, human culture, and memory through a unique cross current of science, perception, and personal experience.

However, once removed from their original context, concepts such as the beetle, the heart, or the flower are distilled into elemental signs and symbols which read clearly across different times and places and attest to the universality of human culture.

We are surrounded by conflicting ideas across all levels of humanity: different cultures; readings of nature and the universe; political ideologies and systems of government; interpretations of human history, the history of art and definitions of contemporary art.

For The Walthamstow Tapestry (2009), a textile work that scrolled 49 feet (15 metres) across a gallery wall, Perry arranged a series of detailed images — decoratively inspired by traditional Sumatran batiks but replete with references to contemporary consumer culture — into a sweeping narrative of a human life.

And, as common as these shared behaviors are across both history and culture, it's fascinating to realize that the special ways that people note this unique passage of one day into the next are probably all manifestations of the human animal's fundamental imperative for survival.

From a human rights perspective, leadership particularly on the part of governments and the private sector, is regarded as essential to drive the legal and policy changes that can facilitate the development of a human rights culture across society.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has noted that indigenous peoples across the world have been, and are still being, discriminated against and deprived of their human rights and fundamental freedoms and that as a consequence, the preservation of their culture and their historical identity has been and still is jeopardized.