Sentences with phrase «cultural features which»

Host to many of the landmarks and cultural features which make Barbados unique.

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It may well be also that features which seem distorted to us do in fact have roots in Watanabe's cultural heritage.

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.

The revolution was to mount until in the twentieth century every people, tribe, and nation was profoundly altered and the whole human race was ushered into a world which in time dimensions was rapidly shrinking and which was displaying common cultural features.

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.

«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.»

This weekend is the Cultural Survival Bazaar in Cambridge which features arts and crafts from indigenous makers.

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.

He was an iconic scientist of the late 20th century, a stature confirmed by that arbiter of cultural relevance, The Simpsons, in which he was a featured guest star in one episode.

Recordings from China, which borders with 12 other countries from the sample, feature the butterfly harp string instrument and singing examples from the Han cultural group, often with a bright sound and prominent singing in relatively high frequencies.

The main theme running through «Jimmy's Hall» is established in the credits, which feature Depression - era archival footage of New York City set to classic jazz; it's here that Gralton spent a decade enjoying the cultural scene before returning to his home town to share it with curious locals.

But little else about Atán and Pivato's debut feature compares to Federico Fellini's masterpiece, which is distinguished by its regional detail and cultural critique and culminates in an honest, earned conclusion of hope mixed with despair.

The Focus Features release, which opened Christmas Day, was one of the year's last major entries to screen for craft guilds and critics» groups, giving it little time to court industry momentum and seep into the cultural consciousness.

The set - up of Red Sparrow is a potent damnation of Russia's seedy netherworld — it's unfortunate state censorship would deny the possibility of material like this ever being made there, as it creates a striking lack of cultural authenticity which makes Red Sparrow's credibility suffer (something which also hobbled something like 1983's Gorky Park, a famous landmark featured in an early sequence here as well).

It's shot by Robert Elswit and features music from Jonny Greenwood, and certainly feels expensive — in short, this Inherent Vice is a production that required the full support of those titans of cultural conformity toward which Pynchon's novels have long cast a wearily jaundiced eye.

While criticisms against Anderson are often levelled against his upper middle - class bias and his man - child protagonists, his ninth feature Isle of Dogs has awakened a familiar debate over the responsibility of representation and cultural appropriation which has engulfed discussions of the film since its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year.

Thanks in considerable part to powerful cultural trends, which have featured ever more insistent popular demands for personal freedom, marriage rates since the 1960s have tumbled, and percentages of births that are out of wedlock have escalated throughout much of the economically developed Western world.

For many reasons, which we discuss below, current efforts of professional development featuring multicultural education in general, and specifically literacy as cultural practice, fall depressingly short.

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Khan gracefully balances portraying the unique features of Amina's cultural and religious background with familiar themes of family, belonging, and friendship worries, which should resonate with a wide range of readers.

Additionally, my YouTube video, The Adventures of Dr. Patrick Mahaney: International Veterinary Volunteer, brings you up close and personal with our professional responsibilities and cultural explorations (DISCLAIMER: this video features graphic elements, such as bot fly larvae extraction from a dog's eyelid... from which he readily recovered).

The mass celebration — which was recently declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO — features a fertility amulet known as a martisor, that is traditionally pinned over the heart.

Every January for the last 40 years or so, for example, there is a massive cultural celebration known as the Sydney Festival, which lasts three weeks and features almost every artistic and musical genre you could imagine.

The cost of your South Africa train holiday covers flights and all other transport arrangements including luxury train travel, an itinerary featuring excursions which showcase South Africa's greatest historical, cultural and natural highlights, quality overnight accommodation and selected evening meals.

This includes the Telekishe Ramasobana Cultural Village, which has been constructed using authentic Pedi styles and features.

Explore the fascinating elephant cave archaeological site and also the Ubud Royal Palace, which features an artistic cultural centre, traditional Balinese houses and a vibrant art market.

This new integration scheme features a complete selection of products which complement each other and will offer the best entertainment and unique experiences surrounded by the natural, cultural and archaeological richness of Mexico.

From the doorstep you can stroll to the Queensland Cultural Centre, which features the Art Gallery, Museum and State Library and the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.

• Rehabilitation - Large Category This category recognizes projects that make possible the continued historic use, or a compatible new use, through repair, alterations and additions, while preserving those portions or features which convey a site or structure s historical, cultural or architectural values.

The Arts Fund is known for the Teen Arts Mentorship Program that matches promising high school students with professional artist mentors in intensive workshops representing all the cultural arts, and the Community Gallery which presents professionally curated art exhibitions featuring artists from across the county.

Bartlett has been championing what he dubs «The New Tourism» — a concept featuring short - and long - term measurable objectives, which culminate in tangible cultural and economic benefits for the tourist, provider of the tourism experience and the host country.

The «Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces» covers 16,603 hectares in southern Yunnan, and features the rice terracing which descends down the slopes of the Ailao Mountains to the banks of the Hong River.

A Chicago landmark on the city's Cultural Mile along Michigan Avenue, the hotel's refreshed interior design carries through to the hotel's 335 guestrooms and suites, which feature marble accents, plush bedding and dynamic textiles.

Other places of interest include the Brambuk Aboriginal Cultural Centre, which provides tours featuring insight into Aboriginal culture and Aboriginal rock art.

Yet again the most interesting feature of the room is its brightness, and the window view of old Rome, and particularly of the Jewish quarter, which gives you naturally and immediately the feel of Rome's historical and cultural legacy.

There are a number of luxury hotels in Bandung featuring spas all of which are of a great standard and you can visit the cultural areas of Bandung and the temples as well as the museums using the tours which are set up by a number of companies and are offered by most of the hotels in Bandung area.

Other places of interest include the Brambuk Aboriginal Cultural Centre, which provides tours featuring insight into Aboriginal culture.

In early September, Sozopol hosts the Apollonia Festival of Arts, which features concerts, performances, and all kinds of free cultural activities in the streets.

is a fortnightly column by Ollie Barder which covers videogames that feature robots and the pop - cultural folklore surrounding them.

The exhibition, which features installations as well as drawings, examines the Russian artist's «lifelong research and quest for preserving cultural memory within the undefined terrains of the Antarctic Circle,» according to a press release.

Featuring a boyish animatronic figure reminiscent of literary and pop cultural characters such as Huckleberry Finn, Howdy Doody, and Alfred E. Neuman, the mascot of Mad magazine, the work is suspended with heavy chains from a large mechanized gantry, which is programmed to choreograph its movements.

Pryde's exhibitions — which often feature sculptural forms as well as photography — connect and flatten signifiers from political, pop cultural, and art historical discourses.

From 1996 through 2006, he published Index Magazine, which featured interviews with prominent cultural figures.

Including all cultural activities in the work that he does and maintaining a lively pace are two of the features for which Obrist is well recognised.

Art Night also features open artist - studios, provocative art installations, a free concert, the art opening of first year students at Otis MFA Public Practice entitled Autonomy and Ana Guajardo's Marketplace Tianguis, which consists of a cultural explosion of diverse craftworks by twelve artisans in 18th Street's parking lot.

The publication also features archival reviews by Frank O'Hara, Edwin Denby and James Schuyler, which highlight the changing opinions of Katz's work throughout time and the influence of the cultural landscape on his practice.

Zhang's images have frequently featured a central cutout, the edges of which form the silhouette of an well known cultural icons from both eastern and western culture.

This exhibition will feature work ranging from Penner Bancroft's For Dennis and Susan: Running Arms to a Civil War (1978), a powerful body of early photographs depicting the impact of leukemia on Penner Bancroft's sister and brother in law, to works from the 1980s and 90s that examine the representation of the family and the cultural frameworks through which landscape is perceived.

Of his DD6 - featured work, the artist states, «I selected grocery bags as the source materials because I noted two things — the power of advertising in focusing attention and the stimulation of interest in a product within which brands become so familiar they obtain iconic cultural status.

Exhibitions during the anniversary celebration include Opener 29: Arturo Herrera (through August 23, 2015), featuring new works from the Berlin - based artist's recent body of abstract paintings for which he manipulated small books found at flea markets; Machine Project — The Platinum Collection (Live by Special Request), (September 19, 2015 — January 3, 2016), which will feature a series of interventions, performances, and happenings created for the Tang by Skidmore alumnus Mark Allen in collaboration with his Los Angeles - based collective Machine Project; Affinity Atlas (September 5, 2015 — January 3, 2016), inspired by the work of pioneering cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg, charts an exploratory path built upon idiosyncratic treasures and contemporary art culled from the Tang's and Skidmore's collections; and Alma Thomas: A Retrospective (February 6 — June 5, 2016), which will explore the work of this influential but sometimes overlooked artist in the first museum survey of her work since 2001.