Sentences with phrase «cultural forces play»

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What you might not know about the intangible cultural force that forever changed the way we live, work, play and communicate.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Alyson Hannigan and Adam Campbell play lovers who wish to wed — Hannigan to fulfill her lifelong dream of being a bride and Campbell just because — but are forced to confront the difference in their cultural backgrounds as well as Campbell's former fiance, Australia's own Sophie Monk (in a role she probably hopes will lead to her Hollywood breakthrough).

There is no doubt that involving men in efforts toward gender equality has the potential to greatly enhance the impact and reach of this work, but whether it does so or not will depend on the play of political and cultural forces.

We then examine theories explaining educational inequality that have attempted to address the structural and cultural forces at play.

Formerly chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and recently a co-director of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, Schimmel is credited with playing a pivotal role in establishing southern California's unique contemporary art scene as a potent force on the global cultural stage.

Helen Molesworth, the chief curator of MOCA, says that although the art world is progressive, «that doesn't set us apart from the larger cultural forces at play, which have for the past several hundred years promoted the idea that genius and men and power and money are all very intertwined with one another.»

The panel will look at the strenghts and limitations of cultural infrastructure in the empowerment of intellectuals and social groups in the development and dissemination of culure, in organising effective and efficient roles for them in their own societies to make sense of history, map and influence contemporary forces at play and steer the particularities on local historical conditions in confronting globalisation.

There are cultural and structural forces at play, too, to which we can not be blind.