Sentences with phrase «cultural offerings from»

Satellite cities differ from suburbs in that they have distinct employment bases, commutersheds, and cultural offerings from the central metropolis, as well as an independent municipal government.

You'll also find all the classes, sports, seniors and cultural offerings from your Community Services Department for the quarter.

Not exact matches

It offers a specialty in global energy management and sustainability, which encourages students to view the industry from political, environmental and cultural perspectives, in addition to teaching the fundamentals.

Then, after a section on transport options and lifestyle and cultural activities in London, Wings of China offers some «Tips from Air China.»

Over a quarter of our staff participated in our cultural reimbursement employee benefit last year — up from just 3 employees the first year we offered it!

In a sign that U.S. politics really has turned sharply from economic debates to cultural warfare, President Obama called Fluke to offer his support just before she was to talk on NBC with Andrea Mitchell.

The distinctly defensive tone is perhaps to be expected in the mainline (if one may be permitted the term) publication of evangelicals who are self - consciously outsiders, in contrast to Turner's appreciation offered from a position of greater cultural confidence.

While from an individual perspective Disneyland offers pure fantasy, from a cultural perspective its mythmaking — the stories and environmental settings — provide powerful indoctrination.

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.

In the expansion of Christianity around the world in the wake of European colonialism, new converts from the various indigenous peoples have not infrequently fastened on the apocalyptic component and blended it with their own cultural beliefs to create fresh millennial movements which offer their people hope of deliverance from imperialistic conquest and the arrival of a new age of bliss.

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.

Based amid one of the country's foremost cultural destinations along Grand Avenue, the event spans the city and offers guests the chance to sample the cuisines and products from some of the most prominent epicurean influencers, while enjoying the sights and sounds of the entertainment industry's brightest talents.

Set amid one of the country's foremost cultural destinations along Grand Avenue, the event spans the city and offers guests the chance to sample the cuisines and products from some of the most prominent epicurean influencers, while enjoying the sights and sounds of the entertainment industry's brightest talents.

December 15: The Cultural Survival Bazaar features works by indigenous artists and offers cultural performances, live music from around the world, Native American storytelling, cultural presentations, and craft - making demonstrations Cultural Survival Bazaar features works by indigenous artists and offers cultural performances, live music from around the world, Native American storytelling, cultural presentations, and craft - making demonstrations cultural performances, live music from around the world, Native American storytelling, cultural presentations, and craft - making demonstrations cultural presentations, and craft - making demonstrations (Boston)

Our nation and economy differ in significant cultural, political, economic and philosophical ways from other advanced nations that offer generous leave.

Notwithstanding these qualms, the role of linguistic and cultural knowledge offers much from which the studies of areas can profit, and, more specifically, the overlooked field of North Korean studies.

«From its inception, the Connective Corridor offered a vision for all revitalization initiatives to follow: connecting neighborhoods to foster an economic and cultural revival throughout the city of Syracuse,» said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - N.Y.).

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.

The Riverdale Children's Theatre offers full - scale theatrical productions across the borough to students ranging from four to eighteen years of age and prides itself on serving kids from all cultural backgrounds.

The statement also asserted that the university's roughly 5,000 international students do not displace those from New York, and offer «immeasurable academic and cultural value to our campuses and local communities, while making a significant economic impact to Western New York.»

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.

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.

She currently offers several types of biofeedback to patients, families, parents, and caregivers from diverse cultural backgrounds.

The intensely bright light produced at the ESRF offers scientists unique opportunities to explore materials and living matter in a multitude of fields, ranging from chemistry and materials physics to archaeology and cultural heritage and from structural biology, health and life sciences to environmental sciences, information science and nanotechnologies.

Our website, archdigest.com, offers constant original coverage of the interior design and architecture worlds, new shops and products, travel destinations, art and cultural events, celebrity style, and high - end real estate as well as access to print features and images from the AD archives.

From there she worked at an internet start - up, then ran her own consulting firm, and later led the team at Cultural Tourism DC before being offered her current position.

From safely traveling to meet a love interest abroad to building a happy relationship despite cultural differences, iDate Advice offers guidance on a broad range of issues facing international daters.

Born from rich cultural diversity, the city of St. Louis offers hundreds of museums, parks, art galleries, and world - class restaurants.

They can't find what they're looking for with the women from the same background as them so they're going to try and see if women from a different racial and cultural background may offer them what they need.

Interracial People Meet hopes to offer a professional environment with the help of which users from across the globe can find a companion from a different racial or cultural background.

Aside from primary IM, sending, and communicating features, such on the sex dating sites are now broadening to offer other cultural media features like profiling, discussion boards, and video giving.

With The Music of Coco, we find a 13 - minute, 12 - second show that offers notes from Unkrich, Molina, Anderson, Venturini, composer Michael Giacchino, executive music producer Tom MacDougall, cultural music consultant Camilo Lara, music producer / composer / arranger Germaine Franco, sound designer Christopher Boyes, and actor Gael Garcia Bernal.

The screenplay by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida), adapted from a novel by British writer Naomi Alderman, provides generous insight into cultural and spiritual customs, and offers an intriguing perspective on how their patriarchal basis seems outdated in the 21st century.

Sunday's program offered some more leisurely activities, including a public art walk with an alumna who works in Boston's cultural affairs office; a calligraphy workshop with a Chinese language and culture teacher from Boston Latin School; and a storytelling and drawing workshop with a museum educator from New York.

Ten teachers from Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra were lucky enough to visit Central Australia in July this year, witnessing the historic and cultural delights of Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park, Watarrka National Park and all the iconic sights the region has to offer.

The United States has many lessons it can learn from how other countries are deploying virtual education and how it might partner up with those countries in different ways to offer a wider range of educational and cultural experiences to its students.

In last year's class, students pinpointed various leverage points throughout the system of bullying, from school cultural factors to counseling services offered.

Cass Street School, located on the lower east side within walking distance of museums and downtown cultural attractions, offers the SAGE small class size (18:1) program from 5 - year - old kindergarten through third grade and strong college and career readiness curriculum in all grades along with art, physical education and music classes.

Parent leaders offered important insights on the roles they have played in helping to engage other parents and families helping them navigate the system and become part of their own leadership pipeline as parents from increasingly diverse cultural communities.

«We find that aggregating results from multiple studies across different cultural, economic and political contexts suggests that incentive pay, as argued by merit pay advocates, offers a promising strategy,» the Vanderbilt study concludes.

The students will be offered reading lists, and website links for multicultural books, suggested ideas for family outreach initiatives, multicultural learning strategies within the classroom, challenging inner biases and / or stereotypes about children from other cultures, getting to know the whole child, understanding the cultural family dynamic of your students, and learning to adapt the classroom to the needs of your diverse body of students, etc..

Free schools can be set up by parents, teachers, charities, businesses, cultural and sporting bodies, community groups, academy trusts and sponsors, and existing schools in response to demand from the local community, either where there is a shortage of places, or where the parents are not happy with the places on offer.

From Model United Nations and High Q to the Pace Academy Board of Diversity, Gay - Straight Alliance and Hamilton Sing - Along Group, school clubs offer opportunities to advance important causes, improve cultural competencies and simply further our sense of community.

The Inspiration Trust was set up to offer children from all backgrounds access to the finest education: an academic approach that means our children have the knowledge to live happy, constructive lives; and a wider cultural and moral vision that encourages interests in sport and the arts, and a willingness to play a full part in society.

Borgonovi and Achiron offered this advice: «Training teachers to recognize and address any biases they may hold about different groups of students — boys and girls, socio - economically advantaged or disadvantaged students, students from different ethnic or cultural traditions — will help them to become more effective teachers and ensure that all students make the most of their potential.»

Teachers should offer: (1) collaborative learning, which entails collaborative intellectual exchanges among students and ensures that all classroom participants are actively involved in the learning process; (2) meaningful learning, which builds on student experiences and knowledge by making connections to significant events in their lives; and (3) cultural resources, which pro-actively build on the cultural, family, and community assets, values and practices students bring from home (Boykin & Noguera, 2011; Ramani & Siegler, 2011; Yeager & Walton, 2011).

«The goal of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) is to offer everyone unrestricted access to Germany's cultural and scientific heritage, that is, access to millions of books, archived items, images, sculptures, pieces of music and other sound documents, as well as films and scores, from all over Germany» explained Hermann Parzinger.

Each guide also features a wide range of the irresistible offers, privileges and bespoke services that are available to Quintessentially members across the globe — from reservations at some of the hottest restaurants and upgrades at the most prestigious hotels, to VIP treatment and money - saving offers at all manner of clubs, bars, spas, gyms, shops, sightseeing spots and cultural haunts across the world — all just a phone call away.

In addition to protecting the book as a cultural good, it is also meant to protect smaller book stores from being outcompeted by large chains offering big discounts.

This Missouri city is one of the most affordable major metro areas, yet it also offers cultural attractions from major museums and a famous symphony to one of the nation's few free zoos.