Sentences with phrase «cultural features of»

The regional centre of Nowra, situated on the beautiful Shoalhaven River, is a major town on the New South Wales south coast and is close to the many popular natural and cultural features of the Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands districts.

Traversing 85 kilometres of stunning landscape in this World Heritage Area, the Fraser Island Great Walk showcases natural and cultural features of the world's largest sand island.

We highly recommend his tour company for customized Guatemala tours and insight into the historical roots and cultural features of the land of the Maya.

Our daily walks, talks and activity program will teach you about the natural and cultural features of Fraser Island in a fun environment.

Camel Co is a fledgling tour operation delight in showcasing, interpreting, and sharing with visitors the natural and cultural features of Australia's outback.

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Fortunately, these locations all have historical or cultural features of interest in addition to the blossoms, and our leaders will be sure to make the trip worth your while even if we don't catch the peak... Read more»

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California Academy of Sciences Located in Golden Gate Park, the recently renovated scientific and cultural institution is one of the world's largest natural history museums, and features a planetarium, an aquarium and a stunning 2.5 - acre «living roof.»

Faced with the prospect of fewer visitors, Hong Kong is aggressively upgrading its own parks with features such as new hotels, cultural attractions and food trucks.

Last summer, he turned a building Lightspeed had just vacated into Never Apart, a non-profit cultural space that features the work of emerging artists.

StarTalk airs on Monday nights at 11 p.m. ET, and features the scientist interviewing cultural and political figures like George Takei of the original «Star Trek» series, film director Christopher Nolan and former President Jimmy Carter.

Takeaways include features of the Berkshire System from the shareholders» viewpoint: (1) Berkshire is unusually congenial to taxable shareholders, enhancing compounding rates considerably; (2) Berkshire's internal cultural features such as autonomy, decentralization, and permanence help attract sellers of high - quality companies to selll to Berkshire at reasonable prices with managers who stay on and become substantial shareholders; and (3) There is a close symbiotic connection between features (1) and (2) that reinforces Berkshire's high compounding rate and long time horizon.

Takeaways include features of the Berkshire System from the shareholders» viewpoint: (1) Berkshire is unusually congenial to taxable shareholders, enhancing compounding rates considerably; (2) Berkshire's internal cultural features such as autonomy, decentralization, and permanence help attract sellers of high - quality companies to sell to Berkshire at reasonable prices with managers who stay on and become substantial shareholders; and (3) There is a close symbiotic connection between features (1) and (2) that reinforces Berkshire's high compounding rate and long time horizon.

The Roman emperor was a central feature of the cultural context of the first century and must be taken consistently into account in exegesis of the New Testament.

As we list here several contemporary Asian theologians of liberation (there are many more) who are forging theologies unique to their own particular situation, we should remember — as these individuals keep reminding us — that Asia is a many - splendored continent and that, despite features common to all liberation theology, each country (and even some regions within a country) must have a theology built to its own cultural specifications.

These characteristics include at least the following three kinds — physical features, psychological or personality traits, and cultural patterns — and they combine to make a racial stereotype, a standardized picture of the typical member of a particular racial group.

Irrespective of profound differences in general and special environment, cultural level and religious level, the rites conducted in the «homes» of the American Indian, the Egyptian, the Chinese, or the German or Englishman of the sixteenth century have certain features in common, as compared with public, congregational ceremonies.

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In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

One interesting feature of the cultural life of Corinth often goes unnoted.

Stated differently, certain features of human nature will surface and seek expression and satisfaction whatever the cultural setting or era.

The end of the year featured a «Maypole» dance, severed from its cultural realities and imbued with a neutral, multicultural vibe.

The antisemitism which fueled the Holocaust, for instance, may have held (and still does) particular appeal to more impressionable, less - intelligent throughout Europe in the 1930s, but clearly, it was a feature of a particular social, cultural, and historical perspective.

We have good evidence that cultural evolution is a feature in the evolution of mammals and birds, and there is evidence that it may apply all down the line (Birch and Cobb).

But others have pointed Out that individualism is not only a feature of the cultural landscape between Boston and Los Angeles; it is reinforced in all advanced industrial societies, even in the Soviet Union, by the state's efforts to supply services and legal guarantees.

The book itself was little read, but Time magazine featured «the death of God» on its cover and the church was not able to conceal from its members that the dominant cultural community no longer affirmed the reality and activity of God.

The new middle class, I would argue, has a number of morally positive features, especially in its attitudes toward race and toward ethnic or other cultural differences; it is a racially and ethnically tolerant culture, and this is good.

Following T. Dobzhansky and F. Ayala, we may define the concepts of internal (or natural) and external (or artifactual) teleology as conceptually useful terms in describing causal features in biological and cultural evolution.9 Such a definition of internal and external teleology was recently summarized by Ayala as follows: 10

Four years later, the neighborhood's dream is coming true — Kerbey Lane Cafe will open in Mueller in the fall of 2018 on Aldrich Street, the neighborhood's vibrant activity hub featuring a mix of local shops, restaurants, parks, and cultural attractions.

«Andaz Kitchen & Bar embodies the cultural melting pot of New York, featuring authentic ingredients from a variety of international cuisines and cultures,» said Chef Consorti.

Chocolate & Chillies features all different kinds of cultural cuisines.

Agrifest will be made an annual feature of Agri Month, and will entail a rich cultural component, providing entertainment for all the stakeholders who would have worked hard and demonstrated great dedication — the bedrock of this thriving sector.»

I think the authors REALLY got creative on ways to use up grains, and they were really thoughtful about cultural appropriation but still having a wide range of different ethnic foods to feature.

Designers work hard to give every brand its own artistic style and attention - grabbing package, a feature that differentiates craft drinks from big - brand manufacturers and has elevated craft drinks packaging into its own form of cultural statement.

Golden Road DTLA will feature a Beer & Food counter serving fresh locally - brewed craft beer in one of LA's most iconic cultural hubs.

Le Méridien arrival experience consists of four elements: large - scale artwork in high impact areas; the sensory experience, illustrated through the brand's signature scent, sound and use of light; Unlock Art programme, featuring artist designed key card collections that offer access to Le Méridien affiliated contemporary cultural centers in the city; and a 24 - hour curated soundtrack.

Monster Energy Carolina Rebellion — May 6, 7 and 8 at Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, NC — has announced the lineup of festival experiences, as well as details for the expanded Pig Out BBQ Village, which will feature Gourmet Man Food that reflects cuisine of the region and the cultural food explosion that is happening around the country.

The hotel features 178 luxuriously appointed guest rooms and suites, Michelin - starred dining, innovative bar concepts and a award - winning holistic spa all situated within the top nine floors of the soaring, Cesar Pelli - designed Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, a site offering spectacular views of the city skyline while also providing access to stately banquet and conference facilities within the adjacent Mitsui Main Building, a Japanese cultural - heritage property.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

Irish fest is a two day festival for the entire family featuring a huge line up of Irish entertainment, food, vendors and cultural programs.

In this double issue of Attached Family, we take a look at the cultural explosion of breastfeeding advocacy, as well as the challenges still to overcome, with features such as: The Real Breastfeeding Story, Extended Breastfeeding Around the World, When Breastfeeding Doesn't Work, Breastfeed, Chicago!

Every gender and cultural studies course should feature at least one class of live public breastfeeding, and a discussion about how our country supports — and undermines — mothers trying to juggle work and family.

These include the introduction of territorially autonomous regimes that can be formed without the need to have been part of other pre-existing political - administrative divisions, but on the bases of ethno - cultural features; the recognition of community justice as parallel and coexistent with ordinary justice, exercised by the «native indigenous peasant nations and peoples» authorities according to their principles, cultural values, norms and proceedings» (Art. 199); and the consolidation of a system of collective land titling following ethnicity - based criteria.

In August, Humanists UK hosted the International Humanist and Ethical Union's annual conference, this year on these growing threats to freedom, human rights, and the rule of law around the globe, which featured the UN Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Religion or Belief and in the Field of Cultural Rights.

Rockland Community College's upbeat musical performances of «Godspell» will be featured at the Cultural Arts Theater this month.

The luncheon will feature the Saratoga County Cultural index — the economic impact of arts and cultural institutions in Saratoga County, New York and its connection with economic deveCultural index — the economic impact of arts and cultural institutions in Saratoga County, New York and its connection with economic devecultural institutions in Saratoga County, New York and its connection with economic development.

The cultural side of Japan is also a feature of this trip as we have included a journey on the iconic bullet train to Kyoto for a taste of quintessential Japanese lifestyle, history and culture.

«If the world does not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, continued heating could increase the vulnerability of plants, wildlife, physical features, and cultural resources in the globally unique US national parks.»

This trip was my first visit to South America, so some of the odd cultural features that I encountered upon arrival were probably not specific to this region.

Many of these supposed ancient cultural features lie uncomfortably close to established archaeological sites being studied by Miracle and others.