Sentences with phrase «century work place»

The LifeSkills programme aims to inspire millions of young people and equip them with the key skills to move forward into the 21st century work place.

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Simple: Many big commercial clients sign leases for a quarter century or more into the future, so the industry keeps an eye on how work, and the places where we do it, are most likely to evolve.
The 21st century is a highly sedendary place to live and work, which has become a major health concern.
Although Calvin never lost sight of these themes, he is perhaps best remembered for his detailed exposition of the leading themes of the Reformed faith in his Institutes of the Christian Religion» widely regarded as the most significant religious work of the sixteenth century» and his wrestling with issues concerning the identity of the church and its place in public life.
Following the bible, is like following directions written centuries ago by some person helping someone else get from Jerusalem to Damascus, they don't work if you're going from New York to Jersey, or most other places today.
We have said something about the place of the Bible in the living Christian tradition which preachers represent and for which they function; we have discussed a few of the problems or questions which are raised both for preachers and for people; and we have tried to sum up the theological and moral implications of the gospel as these have been worked out in the tradition down the centuries.
Social historians, however, have linked the rise of the national concern over matters of etiquette in the 19th century to the rise of the great industrial city precisely because the bold new cities were places where, for the first time, it was possible to live and work entirely among strangers.
In the nineteenth century great advances took place in medical care and hospital provision, associated with Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910) and her reform of nursing, Louis Pasteur (1822 - 95) and his work in the development of germ theory, and Lord Lister's (1827 - 1912) advances in surgery.
While emphasizing that salvation takes place by grace, on the basis of the work of Christ rather than human effort or achievement, the Catechism seems reluctant to engage with the questions raised above and does little to reassure the anxieties of any readers familiar with the sixteenth - century debates.»
Yet if, so understood, Bradley's work can be seen as the axis which, in the Anglo - Saxon world, turns nineteenth - century German Idealism and empiricist sensationalism into the twentieth century, it is Whitehead who firmly inhabits the new age, establishing the structural model of the process of feeling in the place of any attempt to provide an original or final Real, or a center or privileged locus for the nature of things.
«In the 21st century it is not enough to be a great place to work, we need to be great places to grow.
The goal was lessons on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention of passing along the ways of racial segregation that marked that place in time.
The work of the IPPR and others is showing that it's the centre left that is best placed to answer the big challenges of the twenty - first century:
We have succeeded for a century because we care about making our state a better place to live, work and grow.
Like the work of Copernicus in the 16th century revealing the movement of the Earth, Darwin's idea shook the foundations of the establishment and profoundly altered humanity's view of its place in the universe.
It is also in a place where farmers have been working flat fields for centuries.
Although his unusual upbringing and his many controversial political sympathies once overshadowed his literary legacy — a wide - ranging body of work that includes criticism and poetry as well as his trademark ficciones — Borges has indisputably taken his place in history as one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
This 21st century El Dorado is an inhospitable place, where untold numbers of people live and work in the most precarious of conditions, hoping both for gold and a better life.
The story takes place in late - 19th - Century London, and revolves around supernatural forces at work in a «demimonde» of demons and other evil creatures.
Even though the current «X-Men» movie franchise takes place in the»80s, Cable is a time traveler, so Twentieth Century Fox could make it work if they wanted to.
Nearly a half century has passed since the publication of Coleman's landmark study, and no sociological work about today's youth has taken its place.
The last half century has seen loss of public purposes in research, increasing fragmentation of disciplines, privatized teaching, and weakening of relationships which connect educators to publics outside their institutions: evisceration of work for public purposes; work by publics; and work that takes place in public fashion.
NSCS instills in its 21st century learners personal habits important in the work place: accepting responsibility for personal decisions and actions; honesty, courage, and integrity; leadership; a healthy lifestyle; empathy, courtesy, and respect for differences among people; reflection; self - confidence; concentration and perseverance; responsible time management; assuming a fair share of the work load; and working cooperatively with others to reach group consensus.
A 21st century learner develops the following intellectual habits important in the work place: adapting to new situations and responding effectively to new information; critical thinking and solving problems; locating and evaluating information from a variety of sources; making flexible connection among various disciplines of thought; thinking logically and making informed judgments.
Another priority: Getting technology into schools so our students are prepared for the work place of the 21st century.
as well as GM just laid off some 40,000 works placing several plants on work shut down... and you've got the firestorm of the century brewing
Once essentially no more than a museum of great works, libraries in the 21st century have had to reinvent themselves as a community - based center of learning and production, not just a place to put your name on the list for the latest James Patterson hardcover.
Called In Need of a Good Wife, this book takes place in the American West of the 19th century and stars Clara Bixby, a woman who works as a broker of mail - order brides.
If you want to learn the 21st - century equivalent of those rules, The Spy's Son is a great place to start — although in real life, they don't always work as smoothly as in fiction.
Bakewell explores existentialist ideas, as well as those of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers (major 20th - century philosophers whose works were integral to existentialist thinking), and places the rise of this intellectual movement in the brutal context of Europe in the 1930s and»40s.
Some favorites were from the 19th century: records from an institution that sheltered unwed mothers, a pamphlet on the care and feeding of babies, newspaper articles (which were written in a very dramatic style then), travel guides, doctors» accounts of life at Blockley Almshouse, a guide to doing charity work with the poor, accounts of underpaid working women, home health - care manuals (most health care took place in the home, and detailed guides were written for mothers) and so much else.
These thought - provoking works of narrative nonfiction, memoir, and a graphic novel in essays portray places in decline or busy reinventing themselves; ask where we are and where we might be heading in terms of jobs and the economy; and reveal what it's like to immigrate to twenty - first - century America.
Both also distribute their published works on Kindle Singles, with several starring on the bestseller list there, including The Fearless Mrs. Goodwin (Byliner) by Elizabeth Mitchell, a 44 - page true - crime account of a brutal bank heist taking place in turn - of - the - century Manhattan, and Blind Sight (Atavist) by Chris Colin, a 38 - page nonfiction narrative about a Hollywood movie producer's horrific car wreck that killed his new wife and his subsequent 10 - year journey recovering from devastating brain injuries.
The Standard poodle hails from Germany and records place it back as far as the 17th century where he was used as a working dog in the military.
St. Bernard Facts By Cara Lederman History Recognized by the AKC in 1885 and placed in the Working Group, the St. Bernard's history began in the 11th century with the founding of the famous Hospice in the Swiss Alps, a refuge for travelers crossing the dangerous passes between Switzerland and Italy.
the dionysian parties that took place before World War II) and focuses on works by European and American artists made during the first half of the 20th century.
La Chola Cusco Restaurant has a legendary story in the middle of the twentieth century worked here a cookhouse with the same name, famous throughout the city for being a meeting place for renowned artists, poets, writers, politicians and intellectuals.Among the most famous visitors can not fail to mention to Pablo Neruda, who, inspired by the majesty of Cuzco and in love with the beauty of the house during his stay he composed much of his work referred to Cusco and Machu Picchu.Su culinary tradition has been restored and recovered giving new life to the restaurant offers a menu with dishes from the new Peruvian and international cuisine, the wine cellar built inside an Inca wall helps maintain the quality of a rich selection of wines with different characteristics.
Only by travelling to these places and talking to locals you can find out about beauty rituals and traditions that worked for centuries or thousands of years.
Two authors will take her place; Tom Bissell, writer of Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, and Rob Auten, who worked as a consultant for 20th Century Fox.
With a career extended across more than half a century, Stella both holds an important place in the history of American art and maintains contemporary relevance as his work continues to influence younger generations of artists.
Bringing together political, imaginative, and whimsical works, the show «offers a vision of Africa in the twenty - first century as a place of unbounded optimism, rapid growth, and massive cultural transformation and presents the continent as a hub of experimentation that generates innovative design approaches and solutions with worldwide relevance.»
With works such as this, Judd takes his place among the pantheon of twentieth century artists who fundamentally changed the course of history.
His work occupies a unique place within the practice of contemporary photography, employing anachronistic production techniques, borrowing from the aesthetics of the finest figurative painters of the 19th and 20th centuries, and drawing upon the longstanding tradition of vanitas imagery.
But Georgiana Houghton (1814 - 84), whose work pre-empted that of the abstract expressionists by nearly a century, is worthy of her place, for she was a true visionary.
The Prado's Hieronymus Bosch exhibition marks one of the only times in the past five centuries that this many of the artist's works are together in one place.
The catalogue's authors recognize what a remarkable and curious artist he was, yet place him squarely within the Dutch art world of his time, as an artist following in the wake of Flemish landscape painting of the 16th century, and working in a vibrant artistic milieu of admiring colleagues and a burgeoning middle - class market for easel paintings and prints.
With attendance of more than 900,000 visitors throughout the year, 2017 saw such landmark presentations as No Place Like Home, which traced the artistic appropriation of domestic objects from the early 20th century through today; Ai Weiwei: Maybe, Maybe Not, examining notions of individuals» relationship to their social culture; as well as bodies of work by acclaimed Israeli photographers Ilit Azoulay and Micha Bar - Am.
This is juxtaposed with her work from the ancient city of Angor, Tetrameles Nudiflora of Ta Prohm (Angkor)(2015) which places an emphasis on the beauty and strength of the environment and the notion of «Eternal Life», with imagery depicting trees growing out of ruins of the ancient civilization dating back to the 12th century.
Jordan's emphasis on the intersection of art and politics in the twentieth century informs much of her academic research, and she is currently working on a book that places the aesthetic and political conflicts of Picabia's era in dialogue with more contemporary political debates.
Both «A Sense of Place: Selections from the Guild Hall Permanent Collection» and «Cornelia Foss» highlight works illustrating the influence of the light, landscape, and seasonally bucolic ambiance that has attracted artists for more than a century to the East End of Long Island.
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