Sentences with phrase «completely new culture»

You've set up your own bank accounts, looked for an apartment abroad, and adjusted to a completely new culture.
To embrace a completely new culture, language and type of people means you are open minded, fearless and up for a challenge.
«It can be quite overwhelming to teach, take all the required coursework, find a thesis mentor, and start from zero in a completely new culture,» he says.

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An organization must decide beforehand whether it intends to completely change the corporate culture or to integrate the new hires with the existing staff, says Gassia Maljian, head of executive search at Toronto recruiting agency Creative Niche.
Moving yourself out of your home country to a completely new and different culture... and language... certainly qualifies as a big and complicated task.
Because the Church is universal she must often decide between many cultures, traditions, attitudes and tendencies, and in doing so may not please anyone completely, taking in too little that is new for one and retaining not enough of the old things for another.
Where Jesus designed an opportunity for a disciple to lean into a new family, learn a new culture, and serve under the head of a household (who best knows his own need), we march in with a plan and the resources to git «er «done — completely missing out on the gift of being «a worker worth his wages».
It also means that churches and religious schools and seminaries must take a new and completely different view of the profound role television is assuming in our culture, unless they are prepared to abdicate their own role as the place where people search and find meaning, faith and value for their lives.
It was easy for me, then, to become cynical about the faith that I was raised in, to punch the holes into the theology of the people I grew up with and spot the gaps in the preaching and methods, and point a finger of blame when «they» got it wrong, to separate myself from the culture and, like most kids raised by immigrant parents (because, in a way, my parents were like immigrants to this strange new land of Christianity), I took for granted my life in the new Kingdom, completely unable to imagine a life without freedom, without joy, without Jesus.
There was something about capturing special moments during my exploration of new cultures and terrains that I found irresistible, and the decision to keep finding new things to shoot once I got home was completely natural.
Getting to experience a new culture so closely is such a blessing (even if it's frustrating at times:) I used to speak Spanish fairly well, but once I started immersing myself in Chinese, I completely forgot it!
You can never completely know a new coach's fit within the culture of the program ahead of time, you don't know which recruiting battles he's going to win and lose, etc..
A naïve bird does not develop a completely new route, but instead changes an existing route that it acquires from a bird in the previous generation — and that's a hallmark of cumulative culture, Biro adds.
In recent years, VTT has developed plant cell culture technologies with the aim of creating a completely new and groundbreaking method of producing vegetable foodstuffs and ingredients.
From how to make your own cultured butter to a completely new take on breakfast casserole, Mark has great resources for anyone.
For old school goal diggers such as myself, it meant getting acquainted with a completely new corporate work culture.
I enjoy traveling, knowing new cultures, but I love doing this with my partner to feel completely full.
There exists a new upper class that's completely disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large July 2013 One of the most common types of advice we give at Y Combinator is to do things that don't scale.
There exists a new upper class that's completely disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large The old «round pound» has ceased to be legal tender - here's what to do if you have any left
There exists a new upper class that's completely disconnected from the average white American and American culture at large
Sounds like a suitably broad canvas for Lee to paint on — this should afford him plenty of room for a typically nuanced investigation of class, sexuality and popular culture, while offering him another completely new story world to explore.
Director Thom Zimney is completely unconcerned with whether you think he's one of the greatest rock - and - roll stars of all time, or perhaps one of the first true culture vultures: eating up black spirituals and then combining them with country and western tunes to create a whole new sonic beast.
So, a completely fresh approach... and the new vision was to have those close ties to the community, which is very important, and reflect the local culture, history and the landscape, wasn't it?
Tapped in 2012 to lead a turnaround of the failing 652 - student school, Brengard and an almost completely new staff launched a new project - based learning environment and set about changing from the top down the culture of the school, which he said was «in a rut» because teaching had become so hyper - focused on standardized testing outcomes.
In our view, at least half of the staff and the leadership should be completely new if you really want a culture change, and that may very well be a requirement of the grants.
Whereas the previous generation turbocharged 2.0 - litre was criticised for being a little too cultured for a hot hatch, in the 2017 updates Skoda has partly remedied things by providing the petrol RS a completely new exhaust system and an «RS» button.
At the same time, she reveals how complicated it is when cultural, national, and religious identities intersect; even before adding the culture shock that comes with immigration to a new country with completely different social rules.
Here are some of our favorite activities (and a few on our to - do list) that are completely FREE and still let you experience the beauty, adventure and culture that New Zealand has to offer.
Experience this interesting insight into a new culture by spending your time sleeping in a dwelling completely surrounded by nature and trees with a view of the sea 3 metres below.
With a whole variety of new cities and spots to explore, completely different cultures and languages, this type of surfing holiday will keep you on your toes for sure.
You'll take your first tentative warp jumps into new systems containing unique planets and discover existing civilizations or huge space creatures or dangerous hazards, colonize new worlds, build up your industry, culture and research capabilities, raise fleets and wage war, all while completely overacting everything you do in true Shatner style.
Coming from a third world culture and realizing the entire way of thinking about business has completely altered with all kinds of new demands for tech skills and the opportunities and pitfalls of this new paradigm have an enormous learning curve.
Both Istanbul and New Orleans have existed as exotic relics of a colonial past, and both have undergone extraordinary transformations over the past 100 years, which have brought them back from a marginal position to centrality in world culture with completely new identities shaped by the global econoNew Orleans have existed as exotic relics of a colonial past, and both have undergone extraordinary transformations over the past 100 years, which have brought them back from a marginal position to centrality in world culture with completely new identities shaped by the global econonew identities shaped by the global economy.
Like fellow pop artist Claes Oldenberg, American painter and photographer Richard Prince's practice also recasts common, popular objects in a completely new light to help us to reexamine how these seemingly innocuous things operate in our culture.
Completely engaged with the present - day world and its flaws, the Czech artists at Urban Spree explore new contexts brought to us by the increased speed of information, short - attention span aesthetics of today's culture, and technologization of life.
Many law schools have developed programs for study abroad — not just the summer - abroad programs that have been standard fare for decades (that may or may not include instruction in foreign or international law), but also semester - abroad programs, exchange programs with law faculties in other countries, and special legal institutes with a comparative or international focus, including some that are situated in foreign jurisdictions.18 For example, Temple operates year - round programs with full - time faculty in Tokyo and Beijing; as well as a summer program in Rome; exchange relationships with the Universities of Cork, Tel Aviv, and Utrecht; and an Institute for International Law and Public Policy in Philadelphia.19 One of the more unusual efforts of this kind has been Georgetown's undertaking to create a completely new institution in London that is cooperatively run by several leading world universities and that brings together equal numbers of students from several different nations to study law together for a semester in a setting that is not tied to any single legal culture.20
The physical and emotional manifestations of their symptoms begin to go away and, while not completely settled, they've started to feel more at home in their new culture.
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