Sentences with phrase «complex national histories»

Organized into four loosely chronological categories — 19th century colonialism, early 20th century nationalism, 1950s — 70s revolution, and post-1970s postmodernism — Between Declarations and Dreams collapses complex national histories into a compact regional narrative.

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The building of the Church as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.

New research from the National Museum of Natural History's Smithsonian Marine Station scientist Seabird McKeon and the museum's predoctoral fellow Jenna Moore of the Florida Museum of Natural History has helped unravel the complex symbiotic relationship between these crabs and the coral reefs they live in and defend.

The complex event and its aftermath can also be further illuminated via discussions of larger themes in social and political history, such as balancing national safety and civil rights — comparing reactions to 9/11 with those following the attack on Pearl Harbor, for example — or the grounds for overseas military interventions — such as the recent U.S. engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan as compared with the U.S.'s position on the League of Nations after World War I. «These themes put a light on it,» Brodsky Schur says, giving teachers and even parents a way to integrate such a seemingly unteachable event.

British is charming for the long and complex history, abundant national culture, pleasant pastoral scenery, the genuine castles and more.

Stephen A. Feinberg, M.A.T.» 72, director of national outreach in the education division of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., says a complex combination of societal forces accounts for why it took more than three decades for that history to reach the classroom.

I retired from the Y - 12 National Security Complex several years ago and I have always been interested in «Secret City» history.

The world's largest museum and research complex offers attractions like the Air and Space Museum, the American History Museum, the Natural History Museum and the National Zoological Park.

In her short film Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy (1989), which was selected for official competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival, she engages with both national and personal history through the complex relationship between an aboriginal woman and her dying white foster mother.

For his exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, Casebere created site - specific works that referred to the building's complex political history as a representational National Socialist structure.

The elite group of just 28 members nationwide were selected on the basis of their national reputation and achievements in litigation support, forensic accounting and business valuation, their history of serving members of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) and their clients in complex financial matters during divorce proceedings, and their commitment to integrity in the process.