Sentences with phrase «cultural sources such»

She notes, «The inspiration for my work comes not only from personal and psychological sources but from diverse cultural sources such as Modern Western art and Aboriginal culture.»

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On behalf of Christianity it must be recorded that it was the source of most of such new cultural achievements as were registered in the Roman Empire after the second century.

One need not ignore economic and geopolitical factors to be more impressed by the explanatory narratives provided by scholars such as Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington who accent the cultural and religious sources of the current conflict.

An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches language to the culture as translating the culture's language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections on beauty and transience in his Confessions).

It also could provide a means whereby other influential factors could be investigated and addressed, such as differences in the social and economic purposes of broadcasting, the social sources of violence and how media portrayals interact with those causes, how the restraints and traditions of media production cause the media to pick up particular cultural images while ignoring others, and how particular audiences respond to and use media images.

In an ambitious project to assess the correctness of Talcott Parsons» theory of evolutionary universals, Gary Buck accumulated masses of data for 115 contemporary nation - states from every part of the world.7 He developed elaborate indices (as of 1960 wherever possible) of the ten variables Parsons discussed: (1) communication, (2) kinship organization, (3) religion, (4) technology, (5) stratification, (6) cultural legitimation, (7) bureaucratic organization, (8) money and market complex, (9) generalized universalistic norms, and (10) democratic association.8 Information was taken from such sources as the United Nations Statistical Yearbook, the Yearbook of Labor Statistics, and UNESCO's World Survey of Education.

Corruption is cultural heritage to Nigeria and Nigerians, where civil servants display so much wealth in the society without anybody deemed it fit to ask for sources of such wealth but rather worship such individuals.

She commended the 2000 edition of the Dietary Guidelines for acknowledging the cultural diversity in American food choices and presenting plant - based foods, such as soyfoods, as a good source of several key nutrients.

Designed to facilitate more authentic and deeper learning, teachers will brainstorm ways to integrate the Essential Skills in Economics to also develop students» mastery of other K - 12 English / language arts and social studies skills such as analyzing and synthesizing primary and secondary sources; using evidence to draw conclusions and make generalizations; articulating and defending positions using content vocabulary; comparing and contrasting historical, cultural, and political perspectives; explaining cause - and - effect relationships; and practicing good citizenship skills while collaborating and compromising.

Murphy draws material from primary sources, such as private diaries, newspapers, and books, to give insight into the political, social, and cultural challenges of the yellow fever epidemic.

She prints a digital photograph of an image — usually appropriated from mainstream cultural sources, such as TV — using water - based inks, and then douses it with water, allowing the inks to bleed, blend, run and pool in arbitrary ways.

Through a range of image sources and her stage - like environments, such as gallery walls painted with Chroma Key blue paint used in film or TV studios, Hamilton explores our associations to surreal and seductive cultural imagery while examining the histories of art, film, and performance.

Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources, a practice that is particularly evident in this work.

Whereas the then - fashionable neo-Expressionists combined images pastiched from eclectic cultural sources with a loose painterly style, Jensen renewed the symbolist impulse that fueled the work of late American Romantics and early American Modernists such as Albert Pinkham Ryder and Marsden Hartley without resorting to parody or kitsch.

Glenn Ligon's intertextual works examine cultural and social identity — often through found sources such as literature, Afro - centric coloring books, and photographs — to reveal the ways in which slavery, the civil rights movement, and identity politics inform our understanding of American society.

Prouvost is wonderfully, unmistakably French, and her work merges subjects from a challenging diversity of cultural sources: such enlivening pluralism surely helps to make this a «British» prize, which corresponds to the complex composition of art as it is developed in, and in relation to contemporary British society.

Instead, they take their own culture and heritage as primary sources of inspiration and combine photography with other techniques such as collage, silk - printing, painting, and images that use cultural ephemera and archival documents.

The book finds parallels between the works of luminaries such as Jean - Luc Godard, Joseph Cornell, Elizabeth Price, Joyce Wieland and Jeff Wall, tracing the lasting impact of such seemingly disparate cultural phenomena as voguing, hacking and the use of audio and film as a kind of a globally available, open source language in art that deals with the mass proliferation and dissemination of images and knowledge brought on by digital technologies.

Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African - American and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources.

Examples of such systems or economies can be found in, for example, Aboriginal cultural property, Open Source software, the fashion industry, blogging, academic citation, ordinary conversation, journalism, historical publishing practices, and the world of libraries and education.

Relationship - related representations, as is the case with most knowledge structures, can be derived not only from first - person direct experiences in romantic relationships, but also from indirect sources such as shared relationship beliefs of family and friends, cultural norms and the media (Hatfield & Rapson, 2010).