Sentences with phrase «cultural connections which»

In recent installations, he revisits this archive, pairing images of Jackson with photographs of Ghana where Gray maintains a studio, exploring the diasporic dislocations and cultural connections which link the US to West Africa.

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Lastly, the team examined the connection between character and swearing on a larger, cultural level by comparing the 2012 Integrity Analyses of 48 U.S. states from the Center for Public Integrity, which measured the level of transparency and accountability of local governments, to how frequently residents of that state swore in their Facebook posts.

Second, they can join the evangelicalism stampede, providing heart - warming and entertaining experiences, which will provide very little connection to serious thinkers today, and gives scant attention, except for a few voices like Sojourners, to the truly catastrophic issues in the Social and the Cultural areas described above.

And to take seriously the cultural problematies through which specific practices are formulated is to begin to explore and identify connections between theological education and the local community from which the students (and often faculty) come and to which they return.

Teachers should offer: (1) collaborative learning, which entails collaborative intellectual exchanges among students and ensures that all classroom participants are actively involved in the learning process; (2) meaningful learning, which builds on student experiences and knowledge by making connections to significant events in their lives; and (3) cultural resources, which pro-actively build on the cultural, family, and community assets, values and practices students bring from home (Boykin & Noguera, 2011; Ramani & Siegler, 2011; Yeager & Walton, 2011).

Veteran ELL teacher Becky Corr describes an activity in which educators identify various cultural groups to which they belong and begin to form connections based on those shared experiences.

«Cats and women have a strong historical and cultural connection — much of which has resulted in negative stereotyping, especially of single female cat owners,» writes Forbes contributor Kiri Blakely.

During the session, Dr. Alexis Tam, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR Government elaborated the city's historic and cultural roots, which can make a strong tie that connects Macao with peoples of different regions around the world, with more friendly visits, exchanges and cooperation based on Macao's diverse cultural gems, such as cultural heritage, religion, Macanese community, returned overseas Chinese and immigrants as well as historic connections with Portugal.

This cultural art also sees a strong connection to traditional Aboriginal Culture, much of which is very much strongly embraced throughout the shire.

This cultural art also sees a strong connection to traditional Aboriginal Culture, much of which is

Karang Setra Hotel, Spa and Cottages is a great place to enjoy the different facilities that are on offer for you including the incredible swimming pool located in the gardens which flow up the hillside to where the cottages are located and are fully landscaped incorporating not only the facilities such as the bars and restaurants and the gym and the sports facilities but also the cultural Javanese ornamentation which creates a connection with the land and the culture when you are in the grounds of this modern hotel.

The city of Jakarta is unique in offering a representation of all of the different cultures of Indonesia and a growing connection with international influences which create a lively city with plenty of cultural attractions as well as modern and entertaining facilities such as bars and clubs.

Both the terra cotta pots in which the plants are displayed and the Tenango de Doria embroidery applied honor the work's cultural connections with craft traditions in Mexico.

Akunyili Crosby describes her interiors as «wormholes» which gives some sense of the broad cultural, social, and political connections she makes.

Activists who have been working to draw attention to labor practices in connection with the Guggenheim's planned expansion in Abu Dhabi — and who last week briefly occupied the loading dock of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice during the 2015 Biennale — said this week that their tactics seemed to be generating more overt resistance from the government of the United Arab Emirates, which oversees cultural construction projects.

This parallels the themes of genocide and substandard poverty which are juxtaposed with images from the Egyptian and Mesoamerica civilizations and highlights their further connection to Afro Futurism and cultural memory loss.

Over the course of the symposium, the invited participants, ranging from artists to literary scholars, cultural theorists, and art historians, will bring into sharp focus the ways in which the «Black Atlantic» continues to inform the production of art today by a new generation of artists, in connection with Frank Bowling: Mappa Mundi.

By anthologizing essays, documents, and interviews by leading critics, historians, and artists on issues of site - specificity, conceptualism, feminism, and architecture practice, Surface Tension reveals the connections between cultural production and the very spaces in which such work functions.

A multimedia artist, previous works include Untitled (Ghardaïa)(2009), a scale model made from couscous, of the North African town that was an inspiration to architect Le Corbusier and a major installation at the art survey dOCUMENTA (13), in 2012, where he juxtaposed images of wounded soldiers from World War I with re-appropriated African masks, suggesting a connection between physical healing and cultural reconstruction, both of which are processes of repair.

London Oyster Shells recalls Flood - Paddock's large - scale installation Gangsta's Paradise, presented in 2010 at the Hayward Gallery, which made connections between Lewis - Carroll's poem The Walrus and the Carpenter, the film The Truman Show (1998) and the cultural specificity of moral questions related to the consumption of oysters.

«With his strong connections to the South, he also brings an important appreciation for and understanding of our region's cultural heritage, which is essential to our work.»

Academically, Massouras» research is focused on institutional history, and in 2014 he was awarded Paul Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue his project entitled Casts and Iconoclasts: The Twentieth - century Plaster Cast and the Reproduction of Culture which uses the history of plaster and casting to explore cultural shifts, art historical connections and theories of education.

Although I've lived in Ottawa all my life I feel a strong connection with my cultural heritage from India, which is as much a part of me as my Canadian roots.

«We are proud to partner with this exceptional event, which enriches Chicago's own arts community by deepening our cultural connections worldwide.»

However, by making conservationists more aware of how people construct anthropomorphic meanings around species and how they engage with species and attribute value to their characteristics — e.g. people may attribute personhood or emotions to species that they play with, such as pets or even livestock — they can create conservation programmes which speak to people through their cultural expectations and emotional connections.

The applicant must demonstrate permanent employment, meaningful business or financial connections, close family ties, or social or cultural associations, which will indicate a strong inducement to return to the country of origin.

In New South Wales, the only criteria for claims is membership of the Local Aboriginal Land Council, which can claim land within or outside its area if «claimable land» (effectively, unoccupied Crown land that is not needed for a public purpose).53 The Act expressly acknowledges the spiritual, social, cultural and economic importance of land to Aboriginal people in the long title, but also recognises the devastation effected upon traditional laws and customs and connection to land by colonialism through this broad basis for claims.

[insert following sentence from below] The Native Title Act allowed indigenous groups [deleted: to lay claim to unallocated Crownseek formal recognition and protection of their traditional rights in] land to which they had a clear cultural connection.

In Queensland, any group of Indigenous people may claim «claimable» land on the basis of traditional affiliation54 or historical association, 55 as well as economic or cultural viability.56 This acknowledges the greater impact of colonisation within these states, which saw substantial numbers of Indigenous people removed from their traditional lands to other regions under government powers to remove and confine Aboriginal people to any Aboriginal reserve.57 It also recognises that this removal did not sever the continuing connection of Indigenous peoples to the land, both their traditional country and reserves.

When I go to a place, it is an advantage because I've got a skin group; I've got family connections, cultural connections to an area, which gives me a good sort of lead - in, but I always consult with, yes, the people that have been at the school for a long time, the traditional owners, the people from this area, because I think teaching the kids from this area — there is no perfect model that you can bring in from anywhere.

Cultural practices and connections develop a strong positive identity, which is critical to trauma recovery.

The judgement in De Rose illustrates a further way in which recent court decisions have dealt with the question of connection in the context of its relation to cultural knowledge.

The existing land rights regimes also provide substantial security for traditional owners and Indigenous communities in terms of the inalienable nature of the freehold title to land, which protects spiritual connection to and cultural use of the land.

They also raise concerns about the extent to which the Court in De Rose has unnecessarily expanded the NTA's requirement for connection and interpreted it in a way that may infringe on the right enshrined in human rights instruments to participate in the cultural life of the community.