Sentences with phrase «cultural offerings as»

During the 1970s, Pittsburgh began to recognize its cultural offerings as an increasingly meaningful economic asset, with potential to attract tourist dollars and stem the drain on the city's population.

Residents in the area point to great job opportunities, low cost of living, and exciting cultural offerings as reasons for their migration into the area.

We can't wait to share our free audio companion for Frieze Sculpture and look forward to visitors sharing their highlights from the park, and from London's fantastic cultural offering as a whole this summer.»

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The university's contributions go well beyond funding, as evidenced by the affordable housing it provides for community residents; the program it sponsors to allow university staff to serve as volunteer firefighters in Princeton; the students who help staff the first aid and rescue squad; the auditing program it offers to community residents; the intellectual, cultural and athletic events it makes available to community residents; and it supports entities like McCarter Theatre and Garden Theatre.

After merging with tour booker AdventureQuest.com, the company relaunched as Away.com and expanded its offerings to include «cultural» trips — for example, wine - country tours.

Brookside offers residents and tourists a plethora of cultural, dining, and shopping opportunities, along with popular annual festivals such as The Art Fair, The Trolley Run, and the St Patrick's Day Warm - up Parade.

In his review of Charles Murray's new book, Yuval Levin offers this as one of the reasons why Fishtown has fallen so far behind Belmont: [T] he cultural disaster Murray describes seems to be a failing of America's moral (and therefore largely its religious) institutions.

The ADL by failing to offer the same defense of this organization as it would any other under bigoted attack reveals itself for exactly what it has always been: a cultural imperialist organization only willing to defend those cultures it believes it can capture.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

Actually, Gittins offers, «it is probably still true to say that there are far more cultural Christians in the United States than there are Christians, and it is certainly worth arguing that there are more African cultural Christians than there are African evangelical, disciple - like Christians as some of the theologians would like to imagine.

For they seek to rise above all conflicts of conviction, sometimes as purveyors of rights, sometimes as proponents of tolerance, sometimes as cultural diplomats offering to manage conflicts with the give - and - take of identity politics.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

At the same time they encourage participation in church social events as a substitute for secular cultural offerings.

Its theme parks offer the chance for a secular pilgrimage that must be engaged in as often as possible, but at least once a lifetime, lest our children be deprived of a certain cultural blessing.

Clifford Geertz, in his paper «Ideology as a Cultural System» offers a less negative understanding.

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.

This reading practice, offering a purchase on literature to anyone who wanted one, receded in the 1970s as pedagogues turned from New Criticism to Big Theory, and further in the 1990s as poetry and novels lost prestige and young people no longer aspired to read them closely for cultural capital.

McLuhan, although he would deny the charge without offering an alternative view, [3] sees cultural and social formation as determined by media technology.

Turning first to the Asian values claims, I offer a four-fold critique of the these culture - based claims: first, I will briefly address the Asian values claim on a substantive level; second, I will address a related cultural prerequisites argument which seeks to disqualify some societies from realization of democracy and human rights; third, I will consider claims made on behalf of community or communitarian values in the East Asian context; and fourth, a recent shift to concern with institutions and their role in social transformation will be considered as a prelude to the constitutionalist argument addressed in the second half of this essay.

If I have to choose sides, I'll choose my sides with them, because the radical recognition of God's absence as a cultural fact offers the only basis for theological speculation in our time.

The misunderstanding about Catholics and their relationship with Mary is unfortunate because Mary as model offers much to the women CURE serves» women often gravely oppressed by cultural norms.

The fact that Melchizedek, l6 the priest - king of Jerusalem (already identified with Christ in Hebrews), offered bread and wine (Gen. 14:18) made it natural for the royal priestly people to think of their cultural celebrant and spokesman, by assimilation, as their high priest.

Lakes Culture aims to bring together the area's tourism and cultural sectors to better promote the wealth of cultural activities on offer reaffirming the area as the UK's leading rural cultural destination.

Both cities offer award - winning cultural pursuits and cuisines, as well as sight - seeing and shopping.

Locally Inspired Pairings: Overlooking San Juan's vibrant skyline all the way to the old city, Sheraton Puerto Rico Hotel & Casino offers a palatable cultural immersion for groups with its recently activated Paired Program, which is a curated menu comprised of plates such as chorizo manchego empanadas and Puerto Rican arancini, served alongside local craft beers.

And the new menu items reflect the region's cultural diversity, with offerings such as tamales filled with vegetables, vegetarian sushi and Greek salad.

«As a member of the Northwest Suburban Recreation Association, we are also able to offer a full array of activities for the disabled - cultural activities, sports and athletics, the same type of programs we offer to people without handicaps.

The 1922 fieldhouse is now being used as a cultural center, offering art crafts, drama, music, and senior citizens programs.

Contributing to API is an opportunity to offer your support and knowledge, participate in a movement of cultural change and advocate for Attachment Parenting and families, build your portfolio as a writer, receive feedback and encouragement in your writing, express your observations, feelings and experiences as a parent, help us build the body of knowledge on Attachment Parenting and contribute as a volunteer to a valued organization.

Bolstering professionalism, morale, and confidence by offering trainings on topics such as communications, cultural differences, conflict resolution, marketing, advocacy, customer service, and financial management.

There is no reason to treat earlier regimes of property rights as sacrosanct given the possibilities offered by free and open cultural access.

Natasha Caputo, director of Westchester County Tourism & Film, said the county's success as a tourism destination is the result of great industry partners who offer exceptional dining experiences, accommodations, recreation and cultural and entertainment attractions for every age and budget.

Project BOOST offers our students innovative cultural and academic enrichment opportunities that will greatly influence their educational paths and helps students grow and learn as they move forward in school.

In addition, he gave the organization another $ 51,000 as a local initiative to support cultural programming and operations at the Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center, which offers arts and youth programs to the Uptown cocultural programming and operations at the Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center, which offers arts and youth programs to the Uptown coCultural Center, which offers arts and youth programs to the Uptown community.

In addition to providing some of the best natural snowfall available, Chautauqua County offers lakes, grapes, wineries, cultural, culinary, and resort centers, as well as events and festivals every weekend.

Mr. Jackson (also known as Sekou Molefi Baako) is an East Elmhurst resident with a long history of community service, including 36 years as Executive Director of the Queens Library's Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions aCultural Center, a full - service, general circulation library with an extensive reference collection of materials related to African American history and culture, and a cultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions acultural arts program that offers a variety of programming of independent film video screenings, stage presentations, panel discussions, concerts, art exhibitions and more.

The «Only in Queens» Summer Festival will also offer a wide range of activities for people of all ages, including: • Guided tours of the New York State Pavilion's Tent of Tomorrow, the Queens Library Mobile Unit, the Queens Theatre and the Queens Museum; • Family - friendly fun including cultural performances, face painting, inflatable bounce houses, a Delta Air Lines Scavenger Hunt, activities run by the United States Tennis Association, and an appearance by Mr. Met; • Food and craft vendors offering a variety of international cuisine and merchandise for sale; • Exhibits of memorabilia from the original 1939 - 40 and 1964 - 65 World's Fairs, classic cars and a boat from the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival; • Virtual reality demonstrations by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the group People for the Pavilion and Queens - based RPGA Studio as part of the international ideas competition currently underway to solicit imaginative and creative public input for how the New York State Pavilion can best be adapted for public reuse.

This will come about as a result of a cultural change whereby the university is not only seen as «a marginal phenomenon», a place to practice skills, but instead as an academic meeting place which offers a stimulating and pleasant working climate for everybody who works there.

The researchers believe that while there are some economic, cultural and social factors that may make certain of the «soft path» measures such as population control difficult, the «soft path» measures offer the more realistic path forward in terms of reducing water stress.

Indeed, beyond their enduring cultural nuance and personal charm, these systems might also offer an unexpected look ahead — a sign of things to come as we open our streets, buildings and cities to self - driving cars and home - delivery drones.

Up to 30 percent of household food ends in the bin, often due to factors such as cultural norms that prescribe offering plenty of food to guests, misperceptions about food safety and exaggerated disgust.

Because of existing cultural associations in the United States that link Black American males with aggression, hostility, and untrustworthiness, the researchers hypothesized that the participants might be more likely to perceive a low financial offer as unfair if it came from a Black rather than White proposer.

«Certainly, there?s a geographical bias in the survey as well: People prefer places like Berlin and Munich, which don?t only offer high - quality research institutes, but cultural value as well.»

The TU Berlin Summer and Winter University offers courses from a wide variety of topics, workshops and team - building activities as well as a diverse cultural program.

They regulate the risks of natural hazards and climate change, offer cultural and spiritual values to our society, and support key ecological functions such as nutrient and water cycling, filtering and buffering, and are central to economic vitality.

McLean Hospital offers a customized service that guides international clientele through the hospital's premier programs, beginning with a confidential and comprehensive evaluation at The Pavilion and continuing through specialized treatment as needed — all with careful consideration of cultural and family issues.

See some of the sports and cultural experiences that Aalborg has to offer you as an international student.

The workshops will focus on cultural practices, organic regulations, incentives and certification fees, and also offer producers a chance to meet with potential marketers such as Ardent Mills, he said.

Staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities, which initially decided to offer the class to students with and without disabilities, suspended the program because they fear the teachings could be seen as «cultural appropriation.»

They offer a slew of dining and cultural dates, as well as heart pumping activities like boot camp for two or couples hip hop class at Alvin Ailey.