Sentences with phrase «cultural changes they bring»

Gentrification, congestion and the cultural changes they bring are disrupting historic communities in Washington, D.C., and other cities.

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The embroiderers were known for being particularly extraordinary; Guo Pei has changed history because, during the Cultural Revolution, that skill was stopped, so people in the area lost the skill of embroidery; and now that she's brought it back, there's even a woman in her studio whose great grandmother was one of the embroiderers in the last dynasty.

Hornsey cautions that despite some immediate changes, which include a new bring your child to work day and an employee resource group dedicated to parents, real cultural change is both difficult and time consuming.

The eight criteria of a «mature faith» include these: «Holds life - affirming values, including commitment to racial and gender equality, affirmation of cultural and religious diversity, and a personal sense of responsibility for the welfare of others,» and «Advocates social and global change to bring about greater social justice.»

Facing this reality brings us back to the long and arduous work of cultural change — including the political realm, but without neglecting the academy, entertainment, religion, and the arts.

With private property initiatives and market incentives kept in place, appropriate cultural changes («a great deal of educational and cultural work,» CA No. 36) can be introduced to purge capitalism of consumerism and thereby bring the market economy to a higher level of moral perfection.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

I believe that while God wants the church to lead the world in bringing out cultural change and redemption, the church is too often resistant to change, and so God turns to culture to be the primary leader of the change He wants to see, that's why some churches at City Central are always looking for a change, and to improve and make people improve.

Since the New Deal a series of slow, but steady, changes has brought the cultural hegemony of Mainline Protestantism to an end, and with it the predominant set of values associated with the old term, «Protestant.»

Each of our Great Awakenings has brought about major changes in our cultural orientation.

Because its roots run so deeply into the religious and cultural subsoil of history — because we have been forcefully reminded over the past few months that the deepest currents of world - historical change are religious and cultural — analyzing the causalities that brought us to September 11, 2001 is no simple business.

These changes are brought about principally by the increased participation of women in employment, but this has led to a cultural shift in the way men view caring for children — as women's aspirations have changed, so have men's: the desire to participate more in the lives of their children is growing in all social groups, particularly among younger parents.

Just as cultural and ethnic diversity allows for distinct perspectives to be a part of the discussion, bringing women to the table of policy decisions fundamentally changes a conversation.

That's been changing since the advent of molecular gastronomy, which has brought cultural cachet to the kinds of work industrial food scientists do all the time — albeit that many foodies would still rather their food came au naturel than highly engineered.

The results suggest that there should be: improvements to policy and management to champion biodiversity issues; a strengthening of environmental laws and enforcement; recognition of socio - economic issues especially among indigenous and local communities; increases in funding and resource allocation; knowledge, research and development to inform decision making; a greater understanding and protection of the rights of nature and cultural heritage; a more holistic public awareness and participation to bring about change to promote conservation.

It has long been debated whether that change in subsistence strategy involved the mass migration of people from the Near East bringing innovative technologies and domestic animals to Europe or whether it was due to a transmission of cultural practices passed on from neighbouring populations.

Eisenstein's argument, similar to Marshall McLuhan's «the medium is the message,» is that changes in media trigger profound changes in society, by shifting who receives attention, and hence, bringing prominence to new cultural forms.

These changes are part of our ever - increasing globalization — a process that is shrinking our planet and bringing us all into more intense contact with one another, often across lines of social, cultural, and racial differences.

Given the context of a wide cultural gap between the East and West (or for that matter North vs South), we need to be actively and cohesively involved in bringing about a change in our own neighbourhood / community and simultaneously connecting to global challenges and sensitive to diverse needs.

The Teaching Schools Council will work with teaching networks to bring about cultural change in the profession by addressing barriers to flexible working.

What are the first few steps in bringing about an organization - wide cultural change for adopting eLearning?

What brings about change in dominant cultural tones — the class in power?

The 1980s — an era of big hair, big phones, and big egos — heralded a moment of unprecedented cultural change in America, bringing us MTV and Madonna, the first commercial mobile phone and first Trump Tower.

It brings together cultural artifacts that capture the changing spirit of Coney Island over more than a century.

The artworks included in this small, focused, survey exhibition encourage conversations surrounding indigenous cultural practices such as mark - making and mapping; visual representations of settlement and expansion; and depictions of changes to the landscape brought about by colliding cultures.

Alongside Open Studios, ISCP's 2012 institution - in - residence Clark House Initiative, Bombay brings a program to New York that illuminates the philosophical and cultural strategies that have served to withstand or conjure tectonic social and political shifts of upheaval or change.

Oceans brings together the work of over 20 artists who explore the cultural, political, and biological dimensions of the oceans, examining the effects of human - made issues, such as climate change and rising sea - levels, and reimagining human's relationship to the planet.

She brings to the Foundation more than 30 years of experience leading cultural institutions, a fundamental belief in the power of artists to catalyze social change, and a deep commitment to the role artist foundations can play in expanding opportunities for cultural conversation.

It begins with Eugène Atget «s Paris storefronts of the early twentieth century and brings together photographers who have explored the reflective ambiguity and cultural significance of the storefront as a changing still life.

Australian painter Mandy Martin's ongoing art and social practice in Paruku (an Indigenous Protected Area in Western Australia) brings awareness to challenges facing Aboriginal peoples, and simultaneously informs positive environmental and cultural change in the area surrounding Lake Gregory — a terminal desert lake that has been a source of food and site of Aboriginal cultural production for fifty thousand years.

«Reference points for this work come from my interest in the historic changes brought about in art by the social and cultural upheavals and rapid developments in science and technology in the 1960's and 70's.

Our annual Bransten lecture brings noted artist and thinker Liam Gillick to speak on his recent book, Industry and Intelligence: Contemporary Art Since 1820, around the topic of aesthetic breakthroughs in the 19th and 20th centuries as they interact with cultural and political change.

The artists each talked about their practices using their Creative Capital - supported projects (and others) to illustrate their experiences in working closely with communities to bring about change through creative engagement, embedding themselves in particular neighborhoods to realize social goals, build networks and affect cultural practices.

Rauschenberg exhibited his work at the National Art Museum in Beijing in 1985, as part of the Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Interchange (ROCI) program, which Rauschenberg believed could bring positive social change to the world.

Reflecting the artistic, cultural and social changes that have occurred locally and nationally over the past five years, many work in performative, socially - engaged and time - based media; others bring twenty - first - century perspectives to traditional media, including painting, sculpture and drawing.

We need sweeping legal changes — but we also need deeper cultural changes which legal changes don't always bring.

From the press release (here): «Holmgren uses a scenario planning framework to bring to life the likely cultural, political, agricultural and economic implications of peak oil and climate change.

Instead we'd be far better off working to find those points — be they cultural, technological or political — where we can have the most effect, and then apply as much pressure as possible to bring about the change we need.

Those that are quick to adopt new technology, invest in new practices and bring about cultural change within their firms, have a golden opportunity to position themselves as pioneers, stepping out ahead of the pack.

To address both the actual and perceived burden of red tape on Indigenous communities, the Morgan Disney report recommends a «paradigm shift» at the federal level to bring about organisational and cultural change.

Somali parents» experiences of bringing up children in Finland: exploring social - cultural change within migrant households.

She explores the cultural forces that have changed marriage in our society, and then explains how therapists can address the new consumer mindset most couples bring into therapy, prioritizing individual happiness and self - fulfillment above other relationship concerns.

The public brings a rich and complex set of cultural models to thinking about how people change.