Sentences with phrase «challenges influences this culture»

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Cultures, even with all their values which their people do well to prize, need to be challenged and transformed through the influence of Jesus as this is mediated through his followers in every age.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

We look forward to working with her to raise awareness of and challenge some of the forces that influence the culture in which we feed our babies.»

The symbolic Einstein touches me through his seismic influence on popular culture; the scientific Einstein reaches me through his serpentine formulas and theories; the philosophical Einstein reaches deepest into my heart, challenging my notions of beauty and spirituality.

The challenge of fostering leadership distribution is greatly influenced by the existing culture of the school; autonomous teacher cultures are strong sources of resistance to leadership distribution efforts.

The bold, uncompromising nature of Pop art challenged the divide between high and low culture, questioning the influence of commodity and the boundaries of contemporary art making.

«Each artist was presented with a challenge: to study Swedish design and culture over the past year and make works of art which demonstrate that influence.»

Finding inspiration in pop culture, advertising and punk influences, Noble & Webster have challenged the conventional career path of the artist, utilizing different media — including electric lights and garbage - to tease out new relations between spectacle, conceptual gravity, and pure entertainment.

His large - scale paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture blended Native Northwest culture with images influenced by art around the world, in the process challenging traditional notions of what Native art could look like, probing how art intersected with colonization, trauma, and identity.

The Progress of Love at the Menil Collection reveals how artists in Africa today are questioning, reflecting, and challenging received images and norms of love - sexual, familial, friendly, communal - as derived both from traditional culture and Western influences.

The artist developed a style in her large - scale works that challenges a traditional linear art history; these works were influenced by a wide range of images from different cultures, including techniques from Persian miniature painting, studies on the female body and subjectivities, and science fiction.

Engaging a wide range of experiences, techniques and materials, the nine artists featured in this volume challenge the images of black women that continue to pervade our culture and influence perceptions: stereotypes such as the suffering mama, the angry black woman and the temptress.

But as experimental studies show, it's possible to disable or blunt culture's heuristic influence: when people's cultural identities are affirmed, they don't experience the threatening affective response, or are less influenced by it, as they consider information that challenges beliefs that pre-dominate in their group; when they can't discern a consistent connection between the cultural identity of advocates and positions on some risk issue, they can't simply adopt the position of the advocate whom they perceive as having values most like theirs.»

The class is also influenced by Amitav Ghosh's 2016 book Great Derangement, which, according to the course description, «suggests that the world's collective failure to meet the challenges of climate change stems from an ongoing crisis of culture and, more fundamentally, of the imagination.»

Influenced and promoted wellness culture through continuous health education, seminars, and fun challenges

This webinar will look at culture from a research based perspective in order to help directors understand the influence of culture - the child's, the educator's, and the center's (school's)- on behavior because a cultural conflict, visible or invisible, can cause or contribute to challenging behavior.Full Description

Given how hard the job of parenting is today, my focus is on how communities can support parents and challenge undermining influences in the larger culture.

This webinar will look at culture from a research based perspective in order to help directors understand the influence of culture — the child's, the educator's, and the center's (school's)-- on behavior because a cultural conflict, visible or invisible, can cause or contribute to challenging behavior.