Sentences with phrase «as civic life»

At her funeral Monday, her family remembered her contribution to politics as well as civic life in Queens and that Cooper was the first woman to run for the state Senate.

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Tailored beauty ads are unlikely to do any harm (except perhaps to less digitally savvy lipstick manufacturers), but the idea that we may soon be living in information bubbles so finely crafted as to suit our very personalities and bombarded with political messages designed to push our specific buttons, has worrying implications for civic conversation.

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

And that bleaching has not produced a more tolerant people, but a far more intolerant civic life, of which the recent awfulness in Charlottesville, Virginia, may stand as a vile symbol.

In 2017, we need to restore stability and trustworthiness to marriage, social institutions such as universities, and civic life more broadly.

As the years went on, Richard seemed to grow ever more knowledgeable, poised, intellectually many - sided, and well informed about the vast array of conflicts, arguments, clashing ambitions, and hidden purposes that mark our national civic life.

It is quite clear from the current economic debacle that the flourishing of our civic life depends on faith as well.

This is no less true of the civic communities in which we participate — and the stories that we live out as citizens.

I believe that its presence as a presupposition of efforts to generate a new civic culture can be signified and lived sacramentally in a variety of ways by religious groups involved in the dialogue.

If it is ever to be brought into being in the real world, my basic democracy would, of course, require a fleshed - out superstructure in which real humans could live together — arguing as well as deliberating, competing as well as deciding, united and distinguished by something beyond their shared conviction that equality, freedom, and civic dignity are essential to collective self - government by citizens.

Ethnically cohesive bodies such as the various Lutheran churches were not fully engaged in the civic life of the society.

In Christian saintliness this power is always personified as God; but abstract moral ideals, civic or patriotic utopias, or inner visions of holiness or right may also be felt as the true lords and enlargers of our life, in ways which I described in the lecture on the Reality of the Unseen.

It serves as our most intimate and reliable experience of «home,» and thus provides us with the metaphysical ballast needed to endure the greater fluidity, heterogeneity, and change in modern civic life governed by the social norms we rightly seek to protect and preserve.

Such churches, respecting the difference between church and state yet recognizing the cultural and practical interconnection of civic and religious life, can serve as schools for civic as well as personal virtue, for public - spirited citizens as well as for devout believers.

Francis Campbell sees Benedict XVI's message — especially as delivered to a gathering of MPs and leaders of civic society in Westminster Hall, a highlight of the State Visit — as central for today's Catholics, striving to make a positive contribution to national and community life in the 21st century.

First, since human society always employs violence to enforce some set of standards, Christians» whom Christ called to live out a radically different form of community, one in which it is the crucified rather than his judges who is vindicated as God's Word» should simply take up the burden of civic order and abandon the Gospel where prudentially necessary because, you know, someone absolutely has to kill heretics, and so we should make sure the right heretics get killed.

Then, as the year drew to an end, the horrific attacks on Paris, and in particular the Bataclan, brought a new wave of horror and revulsion to French civic life.

«I've lived in and served the 6th District for my entire life — as an Assembly member, a community board member and a civic leader.»

«Even doing those groins not to allow the water to break cost a lot of money and then with frozen taxes in the last eight to ten years, there has not been any increase in taxes unlike in the United Kingdom for instance where any young person living there knows that once you start working at the age of 18, your civic obligation is that you must pay tax but here nobody takes it as their business that the new road I am using I need to pay something and so they only pay tax when they are inside the real tax net that is you are paying pay as you earn.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens

At 6:30 p.m., Sen. Michael Gianaris, Assembly members Nicole Malliotakis and Rodneyse Bichotte and NYC Councilman Corey Johnson are panelists as part of the Citizen's Union civic conversation, «A Day in the Life of New York Legislators,» CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

I shall be campaigning vigorously in favour of Scotland remaining part of the Union, and I hope that as many others as possible in Wales's political and civic life — from the First Minister down — will do the same.

We stand for the Monarchy; traditional marriage; family and community duties; proper pride in our nation's distinctive qualities; quality of life over soulless utility; social responsibility over personal selfishness; social justice as civic duty, not state dependency; compassion for those in need; reducing government waste; lower taxation and deregulation; our ancient liberties against politically correct censorship and a commitment to our democratically elected parliament.»

The vibrancy of businesses or economic and civic life in the region is on its historic lull, as evident in the frequent sit - at - home orders issued by IPOB leader, which compliance is enforced by members of BSS through intimidation, coercion and brute force.

«As someone who has devoted much of his life to furthering civic causes, I am thankful that Borough President Katz has appointed me to Queens Library's Board of Trustees,» Mr. RUSSO said.

«The Jamaica Now Action Plan reflects an exemplary collaboration by the Mayor, the Borough President, civic groups and the community that can restore Jamaica as one of the region's most affordable and attractive destinations for living, shopping and working,» said Regional Plan Association Chair Elliot Sander.

Melinda Katz, who succeeded Marshall as borough president, called her «a larger - than - life figure in the civic life of Queens and the state of New York.»

Helen Marshall was a larger - than - life figure in the civic life of Queens, the City and State of New York, having served in the New York State Assembly (1983 - 1991), the New York City Council (1992 - 2001) and as Queens Borough President (2002 - 2013).

He said, «The right to vote is not only a civic responsibility, but the opportunity to determine the course of our lives as a people.

Other civic engagement research suggests that when youth participate in school - sponsored activities, they are more likely to take part in civic behaviors later in life such as volunteering, voting, or reaching out to public officials.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

Activities such as service learning, discussing current events in classrooms, discussing civic and political issues with one's parents, non-sports-related extracurricular pursuits, and living in a civically responsive neighborhood had a positive impact on students» commitments to civic participation.

The event assembled community planners, civic leaders, environmentalists, architects, museum curators, and educators, who covered topics such as the purpose and importance of design and how it permeates the way we think and live.

She brings a new twist to the issue of the gap between American minority low - income children and middle - class children; what has engaged her passions and formidable abilities is not the academic gap, though of course she is fully aware of it, but the gap in the ability to participate effectively in the civic life, to influence political choices, the «Civic Empowerment» gap, as she labels it.

Substantive classroom discussion is demanding on students and teachers alike, to say the least, and yet research indicates that this practice is as important in citizenship formation as civics classes and, for some students, can compensate for a home life bereft of such debates.

To see, I reviewed the new AP framework, comparing it with civics as I've come to know it; in my own life of public employment, service and engagement.

The challenge for our diverse, pluralistic and democratic society — a challenge that, as ever, falls most heavily on schools, the civic institutions with the broadest reach in American life — is to blunt the sense that we are, in fact, coming apart.

We asked Carrie James, a sociologist at the Harvard Graduate School of Education who explores connections between young people's digital, moral, and civic lives, to share perspectives on the Carter / Roy case, as well as takeaways for parents and educators.

We see it in important initiatives such as iCivics, where Supreme Court Justice Emeritus Sandra Day O'Connor has led a national movement to use gaming to teach civics, and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, where simulations are demonstrating how role - playing games can bring the legislative process to life for kids.

She's a vocal tweeter not just about education, but also public institutions and civic life as a whole.

They explore how people interact across cultural boundaries and consider how factors such as group membership, traditions, customs and religious and cultural practices impact on civic life.

These efforts accelerate as more students, families, and educators experience Linked Learning firsthand, and as the results of their successes reach leaders in education, industry, and civic life.

They consider how factors such as group membership, traditions, customs and religious and cultural practices shape people's identity and impact on civic life, past and present.

They exist because states believed it was important to lay out clear expectations for what all kids needed to know at each grade level in order to succeed in future educational settings, the workforce, or as a contributing member of civic life.

We recognize there are other outlines that might have resulted from this analysis, but we suggest the following nine objectives as common ground to advance the education of our students» heads, hearts and hands for their successful preparation to enter college, career, community and civic life.

About Advance Illinois Leaders from more than a dozen civic, philanthropic, business and education organizations from across the state came together to found Advance Illinois in 2008 to serve as an independent, objective and nonpartisan voice promoting a healthy public education system that prepares all students for success in college, career and civic life.

Previous research has suggested that teachers» conceptions of students» sociocultural affiliations (as inferred from discursive features of their writing), regarding race (Ball, 2009), class (Seitz, 2004), and gender (Haswell & Haswell, 2009), can shape teachers» feedback on student writing and, thus, affect students» future participation in higher education, professional communities, and civic life (Taylor, 2002).

Students and teachers comment that the deep learning students engage in during these projects impacts their academic skills as well as their perspectives on civic engagement and their future lives.

The Black Lives Matter and DREAMer movements are two examples of how youth civic engagement in the United States is changing as young people bypass traditional civic and political gatekeepers and leverage social media to make their voices heard around the world.

School reform is just as much about the three Cs: curriculum (what knowledge and skills students actually learn); counseling (how we prepare young people, professionally and socially, for adult life); and civics (whether we teach students how to participate in American democracy).