Sentences with phrase «by certain cultures»

Many people don't realize, however, that mushrooms have also been used as medicines by certain cultures for thousands of years.

Not exact matches

You believe in and are acting to generate a peak performance culture by standing for certain behaviors.

The deal of self - deception becomes more attractive to us when certain vices are elevated in our hierarchy of values, and in many cases these are determined by our culture.

For a certain sector of society, religion has been replaced by the aesthetic, by culture understood as high culture (and, increasingly, as deviant culture).

The third possibility is to create a system of cooperating cultures, united by certain common commitments required to adjudicate conflicts, but still preserving the group identities that give the separate cultures their distinctiveness.

In this context we should like to warn against the snobbery of certain circles who imagine that natural science, technology and social planning have nothing to do with culture, which in their view can only be created by individualistic elites.

The prospects for conscious control of human biological evolution posed by recombinant DNA research raise directly and sharply certain questions about the future not only of our own culture but also of the human species itself.

The whole point is not to forbid certain words that are labeled «cuss words» by its culture, but all speech that does not «build up.»

If you claim that hindu's or muslims or buddhist's are not serving the right God and therefore will spend an eternity being tortured just based on the fact they were born into a certain culture and taught a different religion by their peers, I don't think that would qualify as a «choice».

In each case, the passion to evoke a culture in letters seems driven by the authors» sense that their cultures are fading away, doomed to certain and swift dissipation into the pervasive ethos of modern...

The culture and beliefs of men in the Ancient Near East were by no means the same through all the areas of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Asia Minor, Greece, etc., but they did share certain common problems and themes.

Thus we should expect cultural differentiation on other worlds, but despite their diversity all would be characteristically stamped by that biological situation, just as all our cultures by contrast will be found to have certain peculiarly «terrestrial» features.

Our resistance to such claims is further increased by the fact that those who are most likely to make them are equipped with nice, neat lists of what God disapproves of — lists that generally reflect the bias of a certain class and culture and that show a special interest in sexual mores, lists that all too often can not distinguish between minor personal failings and major injustices.

So true is this that the whole spiritual movement of Hebrew - Jewish - Christian culture might in a certain perspective be thought of as a single event and might appropriately be called by his name.

In each case, the passion to evoke a culture in letters seems driven by the authors» sense that their cultures are fading away, doomed to certain and swift dissipation into the pervasive ethos of modern America.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

Once upon a time the old used to be cherished in a certain culture, and greatly loved by their families round the clock.

God is said to «build a church here,» with certain walls and certain windows, among certain people, but this, it becomes clear, is only an elusive attempt by the poet at explaining a bewildering fact of culture.

It was by that particular understanding of the gospel, wrapped in the culture of their days, that people guided their lives, spent their time, took certain actions and avoided others.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

Indeed, it was not until the 1960s that certain values pioneered by Holiness groups found widespread acceptance in American culture.

By so doing, the investigation was able to develop a more complete, comprehensive and, therefore, accurate picture of the individual as a human being embedded in and shaped by certain social conventions and the larger contexts of his culturBy so doing, the investigation was able to develop a more complete, comprehensive and, therefore, accurate picture of the individual as a human being embedded in and shaped by certain social conventions and the larger contexts of his culturby certain social conventions and the larger contexts of his culture.

In certain cases, archaic symbols linked with death, with sexuality, or with hope for an afterlife have been modified or even replaced, by similar symbols brought in by waves of superior cultures.

Every biblical text seemed to yield a strangely similar message and that message appeared to be shaped not so much by the text as by a certain «sensible» interpretation of culture.

The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).

«What we know for certain is he created these elaborate economic development schemes to take in millions of pay - to - play campaign donations by creating a culture of corruption that allowed his closest aide to line to his own pockets the way the Governor was lining his campaign coffers.

Controversial internet entrepreneur turned cultural critic Andrew Keen, who says the revolution of interactivity and user - generated content on the internet is leading to «less culture, less reliable news and a chaos of useless information» is one contributor certain to ignite debate at the two - day conference, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) through its e-Society programme.

This culture would include Shakespeare and Darwin, together with myths about tolerance and kindness to animals, imperial memories and a certain feeling of superiority to those unfortunate enough not to be British... Equally it could be said that Britain is multicultural: a diversity of regional varieties in modes of living and speech, enlivened still further by ethnic imports from the aforesaid former empire, and so on.

If we consider certain major components of parenting to be mentoring, then it has been the prevailing methodology by which the continuous components of civilization and culture are passed on from one generation to another.

But after several questions about potential outcomes of such early research, Niakan did «wildly speculate» that, if certain genes are found to be particularly important for development, one eventual approach might be to check during IVF whether eggs were making the proteins encoded by those genes, and if not, then add them to culture media.

Although Arnold Gehlen once labeled humanity as a «flawed being» that had to create its own culture to survive nature's environment, we can be certain he had not yet considered the opportunities presented by bionics, marine biology and microbiology.

In fact, in hunter - gatherer cultures, rejection by the tribe means certain death.

Yogurt is just a variant of sour milk, but the fermentation process is controlled by using special cultures to obtain a certain taste, or to stimulate the growth of specific bacteria.

These diets also traditionally include a certain amount of cultured or fermented foods, which have an enzyme content that is actually enhanced by the fermenting and culturing process.»

More of an art than a predictable science, this bio-active invitation of live cultures into our foods not only helps to predigest hard - to - assimilate foods, making certain key nutrients more bioavailable by removing anti-nutrients and toxins, but it also engages with the beneficial bacteria that is ever present in our environment to build enzymes, produce essential b - vitamins, omega 3 - fatty acids and several strains of pre and probiotics.

A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in di..

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From a certain point of view, it's a polar bear version of The Little Mermaid as Norm is influenced by human culture when a little girl drops hr MP - 3 Player and Norm learns to dance.

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Kate Winslet recently spoke out against the culture of sexual harassment in Hollywood, saying at the London Critics» Circle awards on Sunday that she has «bitter regrets» over the «poor decisions» she made in working with certain certain «directors, producers, and men of power.»

What made the film so brilliant and compelling despite its theoretically repellent cast of characters is that instead of going for cheap shots or silly attempts at psychological insight, Coppola simply observed them in ways that helped inspire a certain understanding into their mindsets and how they had been shaped and influenced by a celebrity - obsessed culture that overwhelms them on a daily basis.

Whether you're teaching about a culture, a country, or an historic period, or simply are looking for great books for students of a certain age, you can search this database of children's books by one of those categories.

Are preferences for certain hobbies determined by culture?

YA seems no longer bound by strict genre lines or pegged below a certain benchmark of quality — Kephart noted that YA novels are taking «more risks than ever with voice, structure [and] form,» and Weiss argued that the generally high quality of YA writing, coupled with increased interest on the part of adults, is facilitating a «leveling of the difference between high and low culture.»

Whereas it can be argued that the «digital age» has democratised up to a certain extent a «culture of making» by encouraging people to create and share open - source code, the software and hardware of today can simultaneously alienate users from an awareness of the material conditions of production that still underpin creative labour.

If a person has a sexual relation before marriage in a culture that opposes it, that person will be disrespected for by many especially for girls, and if a person keeps his / her virginity till marriage or to a certain age people may also make fun of it.

Dr. Conrad took stool from healthy dogs, screened it by culturing microbes to check for certain bacteria, then liquified the stool and injected it into the intestines of sick puppies with a rectal tube.

The other major factor, unfortunately, is that a lot of dog behavior advice in the media and popular culture still has a tendency to pin most behavior issues on dominance, or conflicts over social status — so it makes a certain amount of sense to think that by spaying or neutering the dog and «taking them down a notch» in the pecking order, we might be able to fix the problem.

While there is some evidence that intact, large and giant breed dogs may be less prone to a certain few health problems, the general lack of personal responsibility evinced by most humans in this culture make spaying and neutering absolutely necessary for pet population control.

While some traditions and elements of the culture of the Laotian people are untainted by the influence of visitors, certain aspects of the town cater to western visitors.