Sentences with phrase «cultural history at»

Clements similarly mixes architecture and cultural history at the 2010 Whitney Biennial.

Explore Hawaii's cultural history at nearby sites such as Diamond Head Crater, the Koolau Mountains, the Dole Pineapple Pavilion or the Polynesian Cultural Center.

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Alaska native heritage center Built by Alaskan natives as an educational and cultural institution, the centre gives a look at the state's variety of Native peoples and their history.

With its rich artistic history, Florence is a great vacation destination for anyone who wants a cultural experience at the center of their time off.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

And while the brand is smaller in the U.S — at a 1.9 percent share — it has been a major cultural force with a history of groundbreaking ads dating back to the 1960s when Doyle Dane Bernbach won plaudits for an anti-establishment approach and classic copy lines like «Lemon» and «Think Small.»

Ben: Yes, well, as I was saying, we're at this unique cultural moment in history where orthodox faith is under attack from all sides and we're barely communicating our faith to the next generation.

According to Nathan Hatch, professor of American religious history at the University of Notre Dame, this kind of populist sentiment - expressed in 1803 by the New England politician and polemicist Benjamin Austin, Jr. - represents the salient contribution of American religion to the formation of our cultural ethos.

If we view ourselves in this light, we are both utterly dependent upon God for our existence and at the same time unavoidably responsible for creating the course of cultural and technological history.

It is true that cultural prejudice and human sin has at times in history limited women's place in ecclesiastical life, and Christian civilization has made significant strides in this regard.

I must conclude that the cultural attitude toward sex, in terms of legalistic moralism, is not the Judeo - Christian attitude toward sex at all, but is rather a reflection of the way that an earlier era of our history related to the circumstances of sex.

However we approach the question, it remains true as a matter of simple history that Christianity in its development represents what we might describe as the marriage of Jewish realism and of cultural forms which are not Jewish at all.

... viewing morality not simply as individual perfection but as part of a social context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national, cultural lines respecting different political and cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.

Often, it's a person who shares our cultural history who can help us the most at these early stages.

Insisting on the cultural importance of «stigmatized knowledge,» he looks at the history of this tradition, going back to the Order of Illuminists founded in 1776 by Bavarian law professor Adam Weishaupt to free mankind «from all established religious and political authority.»

We withhold a third cheer — partly because at the present cultural moment it seems inappropriate to give three full cheers for anyone or anything, partly because we remember too well recent history's oppressive misuses of Thomas's thought.

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

Higher criticism includes an analysis of the literary genre of the text, its historical background, the history of the oral tradition behind the text, and the cultural and psychological factors at work on the author and editor (or editors) of the text.

If you look closely at our country's history it has a very deep vein that is based on cultural and religious intolerance... unless you are a WASP... be suspious and «watch out» for anyone that is different from «us».

They also attribute negative intent — or at least uncritical cultural consumption — to everyone from conservative Christians (who are determined to «return all women to the barefoot - and - pregnant era of world history») to leftist attachment - parenting types (who are making «homemade baby lotion out of elderberry extract»).

In South India, where I teach as often as possible, the racks at the front of the bookstores are no longer filled, as they were a scant decade ago, with volumes dedicated to the preservation of village life, or to the intellectual, cultural or social history of South Asia, or to the writings of spiritual and political leaders calling the people to overcome imperialism and colonialism.

At least Islam's polygamous history is cultural.

First, the simple fact that this structure of divine - human unity emerged at a time and place in history where the cultural, linguistic, political, and religious maturity and unity of a significant portion of humankind bode well for its apprehension is a major factor in its importance.

This isn't Tom Wright writing the definitive history of Israel, but a New York Times chart - topper with 50 times Wright's global influence, choosing to put an ancient biblical story at the heart of the cultural zeitgeist.

At times in history some churchmen have played into the hands of this false image, but far from the Church being suspicious of cultural and political globalisation, she actually holds the key to the future of humanity.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

To set the stage, he provides a brief history of Hispanic presence in the United States and an overview of the economic, demographic, religious, and cultural factors at work in the current debate.

But here you are proclaiming your mother - approved cherry - picked cultural referents as being what you want regardless of history, logic, reason, common sense, April 17, 2012 at 12:12 am Report abuse Reply

History never disappears, either, and the lessons of our evolutionary and cultural past can be ignored only at our peril.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

To say that a symbol has a «history» can mean two things: (a) that this symbol was constituted at a certain historical moment and that therefore it could not have existed before that moment; (b) that this symbol has been diffused, beginning from a precise cultural center, and that for this reason one must not consider it as spontaneously rediscovered in all the cultures where it is found.

You'll also find more free cultural fun in celebration of Black History Month at the Wake County Commons Building, and you can catch a haywagon shuttle between the two locations.

Having lived in Italy as a tour guide and worked as a researcher for Rick Steves» travel guides, Detours founder Amanda Scotese created cultural tours because she realized people were missing out on great history in their own city here at home.

Over the weekend, we also investigated the history of babywearing, looked at the cultural side of babywearing in the UK and discussed different parenting styles.

A cursory glance at infant feeding history will reveal that the introduction of formula marketing probably contributed to this break down as well as the cultural expectations developed in the early 1900s that only specific health professionals hold all the answers for our bodies.

At 3:30 p.m., state Sen. Jesse Hamilton announces legislation recognizing 400 years of African - American history and hosts a roundtable on diversity and inclusion in cultural institutions, Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Ave., Brooklyn.

While at the University of Uyo, she served variously as Director, Centre for Cultural studies; Head, Department of History and International Studies; Vice Dean, Faculty of Arts; Dean faculty of Arts; adjunct professor, Akwa Ibom State University.

In a remarkable video he made in Uganda that is posted on YouTube (since removed, though activist and blogger Andrés Duque made a copy, which is posted at the end of this story), Cabrera described the «cultural shifters» throughout history as a despotic rogues» gallery — Communists, Nazis, the North Korean government.

Also at 6 p.m., Sen. ose Peralta and the NAACP Corona - East Elmhurst branch will celebrate African - American History and Heritage Month, honoring NYCPublic Advocate Tish James and community leaders and activists, Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, 100 - 01 Northern Blvd., Corona, Queens.

Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a social activist and leader whose ideas impacted a generation and transformed the social, political, and cultural landscape of our nation; his impassioned «I Have A Dream» speech delivered at the historic March on Washington in August of 1963 was heard in homes across the country and is recognized as one of the most powerful and profound orations in American history

Von Behr, who has a master's degree in social research — his master's work focused on the history of technology — recently set up his own knowledge brokering consultancy, behr outcomes, aimed at the education and cultural heritage sectors.

says Jan Bill, an archaeologist at Oslo's Museum of Cultural History.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

Discovered by Museum of Natural and Cultural History paleontologist Greg Retallack during a 2014 class field trip on fossils at the UO, the Ice Age trackway is the focus of a new study appearing online ahead of print in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

«Thirty years ago, the National Park Service was at the forefront of research on the cultural history — American, French, Spanish, and Native American — of our country,» Plog wrote to Science in an e-mail message.

The Neotoma Paleoecology Database and Community — which takes its name from one of nature's premier accumulators, the pack rat — is one of many research projects based at the Springfield - based museum, which houses extensive collections showcasing the natural, cultural, and artistic history of the state.

As Pickering says in his book Constructing Quarks (Edinburgh University Press, p 413): «It is unproblematic that scientists produce accounts of the world that they find comprehensible; given their cultural resources, only singular incompetence could have prevented members of the (particle physics) community producing an understandable version of reality at any point in their history.»

Adds co-author Anna Shoemaker, also a PhD at Uppsala University «The 50 questions in this paper make no distinction between the history of people and landscapes, or natural and cultural, the two are fundamentally connected.»