Sentences with phrase «cultural life today»

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Since work wouldn't hold the same social currency or cultural importance as today, intrinsic motivations and labors of love might become the benchmark of a life well spent.

«This decision reflects an important cultural shift we're all celebrating that empowers women who lead active, purposeful lives and encourage those in their communities to do the same,» Miss Universe president Paula Shugart told USA Today.

the problem is that ppl read the bible thats been translated, if you realy want to know what was said youll need to study hebrew... every letter has a meaning... every word isnt a perfect fit for english,, theres nuances and cultural differences that youll find,,, its a whole new thing to go back and look at the bible through hebrew eyes,,, they arent required to look like us,,, were supposed to look more like them,,, yashua was a jew,,,, all the apostles were jews, yashua was sent to the lost sheep of the house of israel, not the gentiles, paul took it to the gentiles, and he never stopped being and living as a jew, the laws are very viable today, but they do nt give salvation, thats what yashua did...

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

Education today in the industrial environment and in the political and cultural environments consists of how to ensure that the human resources (since both you and I are now reduced to being human resources rather than human beings) can be trained on a continuing basis, throughout our lives, to be recycled at the right moment, to be a profitable human resource?

In the cultural environment of the church today, there is very little appreciation for a Christian way of life.

«In the perspective of the Bible, conversion is turning from idols to serve a living and true God and not moving from one culture to another and from one community to another as it is understood in the communal sense in India today», and further that so long as baptism remains a transference of cultural or communal allegiance, «we can not judge those who while confessing faith in Jesus, are unwilling to be baptised» (Renewal in.

[We will discuss three inter-related issues in dealing with the subject of communication as it dominates the religio - cultural life of the world today.

«Whether it is business attraction and expansion, creating affordable housing, expanding our cultural footprint or enhancing Jamaica's livability, today's action plan presents a series of specific steps the City will take to unleash the potential for the betterment of all who live, work and visit the area.»

The findings, published today in Science Advances, add to ever - growing evidence that humans were living in much of the Americas well before the cultural group known as Clovis were present about 13,000 years ago.

Zubizarreta says the reason is as follows: «People are somewhat wary of the idea of living in a wooden house: it's an organic material, it's less consistent that concrete or steel and can catch fire, etc.» In this researcher's view, the reason for this wariness is largely a cultural one: «Today, there are excellent treatments to improve the durability of timber; with respect to behaviour in the event of fire, the CTE - M standard specifies how the structure has to be designed.

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

Some of the answers given by students from Allerton High School, Leeds, visiting the National Theatre in October 2015, were: «Trips give me cultural and «outside» experiences that I can use in adult life»; «Meeting someone in the theatre industry may help me when I'm older by letting me understand different jobs»; «School trips highlight the skills I have that I can transfer outside of school»; and «Today everyone got involved and we were learning through doing».

It was OK, they said, to call a Greek - Australian friend «Souvlaki» and an Indian friend «Curry» because this was an accepted, cultural practice in Australia: «that's just how we live today, like, in our society».

«A multimillion pound investment in music and arts education will help hundreds of thousands of young people from all backgrounds enjoy potentially life changing cultural activities, Schools Minister Nick Gibb announced today (18 November 2016).

«Through immersive content and unprecedented access, viewers return to high school for a unique look into life as an American teen today, a topic at the forefront of today's cultural conversation.»

Since then I continued exploring the topic, and today, I understand that student empowerment is the attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby learners gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including students and adults.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, and educated at Yeshiva University, Columbia, and Harvard, Goldman's books include Being Jewish: The Spiritual and Cultural Practice of Judaism Today, a memoir Living a Year of Kaddish and, the most recent The Late Starters Orchestra about his adventures as an amateur cellist in the New York based Late Starters String Orchestra.

Included are historical structures with incredible backstories, as well as cultural bastions of Santa Monica life today.

Today a cosmopolitan metropolis, modern Athens is central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece.

I really believe that if one can travel and live abroad will help with all the racial tensions, cultural misunderstandings, and ease up on the xenophobic sentiments that is rising in the world today.

Packed with ideas, style, and a whole lot of fun, this exuberant live event with a pop cultural spin is a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity for game aficionados to experience some of today's leading game designers sharing their thoughts and visions while demoing their latest titles.

«El Anatsui is perhaps the most significant living African artist working on the continent today,» said Baratta, citing his «originality of artistic vision, his long - term commitment to formal innovation, and his assertion through his work of the place of Africa's artistic and cultural traditions in international contemporary art.»

Her intertwining of classical genres with cutting edge technologies, such as the combination of live drawing with video environments, offer both lyrical readings and cultural commentary on today's world.

Lawrence's John Brown series was one of many such historical epics he produced in the 1930s and 1940s, examining the lives and experiences of African Americans — from heroic 19th - century figures like Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to the early 20th - century cultural phenomenon of the Great Migration — work for which he continues to be celebrated today.

Reaching viral proportions online over the last several months, Removed touches the nerve of a cultural phenomenon that today knows no global boundaries and relates to the soon to be estimated, two billion users of smartphones and other devices that have overtaken our lives, concentration, imaginations and attention.

«a / drift», an exhibition - as - allegory, employed the idea of drifting to suggest the increasingly porous quality of today's cultural life.

2005 The Gate: Not The Idea of The Thing But The Thing Itself, Cueto Projects, New York BHQF: New Miami Location, Miami The Life and Death of Bruce High Quality, Deitch Projects, New York A Cheap Publicity Stunt, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York Maybe Not Today, Maybe Not Tomorrow.

Notable group exhibitions include; «Cake and Lemon Eaters: Viktor Pivovarov and Ged Quinn», Galerie Rudolfinum, Czech Republic (2014); which toured to The Gallery of Fine Arts in Ostrava, Czech Republic (2014); «Somos Libres II», Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Italy (2014); «Landscape 2000», Osnabrück Cultural History Museum and Felix Nussbaum Haus, Germany (2013 2014); «Looking at the View», Tate Britain, London, England (2013); «The Future is Not What It Used To Be», Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, UK (2013); «Beyond Reality: British Painting Today», Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic (2012); «Everywhere and nowhere», Reydan Weiss Collection, Oberstdorf, Germany (2012); «The Witching Hour», Water Hall, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Leverkusen (2010); «Lust for Life & Dance of Death», Kunsthalle Krems (2010); «Newspeak: British Art Now», Saatchi Gallery, London (2010) touring to State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersberg (2009); «Made Up», Liverpool Biennale, Tate Liverpool (2008); «Collezionami 2», Biennale of Southern Italy, Bari, Puglia (2006); and «The Real Ideal», Millennium Galleries, Sheffield (2005).

The artist was eight years old when the Cultural Revolution began, and the tumultuous narrative of his nation's recent past remains an integral part of his life today not merely as «historical fact,» but as a «psychological state.»

In the same statement, Cassel Oliver said, «There are artists from myriad social and cultural backgrounds who are not fully represented in today's art world, and we need to ensure their stories are part of the rich narratives we bring to life in our museum.

The result of that effort is a 180 - page report released today called «CREATENYC: A Cultural Plan for All New Yorkers,» which aims to reorient the city's cultural life toward neglected corners of the five boroughs by bringing the arts to previously ignored neighborhoods and pushing some of the jewels in the city's cultural crown to make a greater effort towards getting residents of those neighborhoods through theiCultural Plan for All New Yorkers,» which aims to reorient the city's cultural life toward neglected corners of the five boroughs by bringing the arts to previously ignored neighborhoods and pushing some of the jewels in the city's cultural crown to make a greater effort towards getting residents of those neighborhoods through theicultural life toward neglected corners of the five boroughs by bringing the arts to previously ignored neighborhoods and pushing some of the jewels in the city's cultural crown to make a greater effort towards getting residents of those neighborhoods through theicultural crown to make a greater effort towards getting residents of those neighborhoods through their doors.

Hiller's explores the polylingual nature of today's lived experiences within urban environments, embracing cultural translation by weaving together 23 different languages such as Arabic, Livonian and endangered idioms.

«There are artists from myriad social and cultural backgrounds who are not fully represented in today's art world, and we need to ensure their stories are part of the rich narratives we bring to life in our museum.

These photographs speak of the cultural anxieties provoked by surveillance which today has become so much a part of daily life.

Katja Novitskova and Timur Si - Qin Artists: Katja Novitskova and Timur Si - Qin Curated by Agatha Wara Adopting the language of global advertising and offering acute reflections on what it means to live under today's historical conditions, Katja Novitskova and Timur Si - Qin present images, objects, and texts that address our contemporary state of conflation: the value transitions between the biological and the cultural, from information into matter.

A Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution, later a scriptwriter in Beijing for state television - after having lived through deportation to Outer Mongolia - poet and actor, he began to sculpt, working almost exclusively in wood, a material through which he freely expresses sensuality which, in China, even today, is still a cause for repression.

It is dedicated to today's cultural avant - garde: art that defines itself unconstrainedly through the breaks in life — even by breaking taboos — in the tradition of Jewish collectors, who have always promoted the latest trends in art.

Deconstructing the images and then repositioning them over stenciled backgrounds, with pieces of torn canvas and wax for texture, Opalka questions the role of the artist in the cultural and political climate we live in today.

We ask what artists can tell us about our collective cultural identities and the societies we live in today whilst considering the role artists can play in helping us remember, reflect and commemorate.

Traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin (catalogue) Innovation: American Art of Today from the Misumi Art Collection, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (catalogue) The Changing Image, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan (catalogue) Vehicle, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York 1995 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Richard Artschwager, Peter Cain, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Robert Gober, George Stoll, Steve Wolf, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco Summer Group Exhibition: Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, John Chamberlain, Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Andy Warhol, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum (catalogue) 1994 Desire (Visionaire / DIFFA Benefit Exhibition), Charles Cowles Gallery, New York The Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue) 1993 Pittsburgh Collects, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (under the aegis of the Venice Biennale)(catalogue) 1993 Biennial Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul A Series of Anniversary Exhibitions: Part III, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles Slittamenti, Venice Biennale The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York.

Speaking at the announcement today, IMMA Director Sarah Glennie stated: «IMMA is one of Ireland's leading cultural institutions and a key source of creativity and inspiration for visitors of all walks of life.

From 2000 -2011, Angel was the Director of Cultural Center at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC, where he continues to live and work today.

He explained that his people carry out traditional and cultural activities on their lands today as they always have, and the only restriction is a moratorium on clearing forest earmarked for conservation — a moratorium endorsed in their own Life Plan and backed by the Paiter - Surui Parliament, but financed by the REDD project.

In the following Figure, from her entertaining TEDxManchester talk The fascinating physics of everyday life, she shows how the physics of the every day applies over a huge range of scales (in time and space); bracketed between the exotic worlds of the extremely small (quantum mechanics) and extremely large (general relativity) which tend to dominate our cultural perceptions of physics today.

In supporting the Declaration today, the Government is also respecting the important place land and resources have in the cultural, spiritual, social and economic lives of Indigenous Australians.