Sentences with phrase «cultural thing about»

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Ultimately, building a dedicated community from the ground up is hard work, but if you find the right location, lead by example, think about cultural fit, create impactful events, and don't overcomplicate things, you'll be well on your way to building a lasting professional community.

While it's impossible to share all there is to know about cultural transformation, the following are a handful of things that will absolutely crush any attempt to re-imagine and re-invent a business.

For one thing, you'll want to know about special festivals or cultural celebrations you wouldn't ordinarily get to experience.

In the process, it's also given a spit shine to what's always been popular about the city, such as its music, food and other cultural assets, leading to a reawakening of all things New Orleans.

There are a number of hard - to - figure things about the Japanese, and perhaps, building on top of distinctive cultural traits regarding sex and love that go way back, the 21st century Japanese really have become erotically....

You could say the same thing about vibrant faith, which survives change (be it cultural or experiential) by continually reassessing, reforming, and rebuilding upon its current structure.

Paul does many of the same things in his letters, using a genre and language that was common in his day to subvert the prevailing cultural views of the day about Caesar worship.

Might it be time to find your place among followers of Jesus who concentrate on following Jesus, loving others, and helping those who need help rather than among those who spend their time worrying about «marital cultural traditions» and similar things?

The easiest thing to grasp about the City of God is that it is not the City of Man — that is to say, that all existing moral - political authority is all - too - human, and that every individual represents some promise, some meaning, some destiny far beyond anything that can be represented in the economy of an actual political - cultural world.

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

A great thing about Robinson, of course, is that she's not only written novels, but lots of essays — philosophic, theological, cultural, and political — for those of us who have that prosaic learning style.

Mark Edmundson is a professor of literature who has said some interesting things about the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, as well as the larger cultural implications of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.

Bloom, Boyer, Bok, and maybe even Kimball, would have much cheerier things to write about if the cultural literacy Hirsch advocates were to become a reality.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

It might seem laborious to have to define terms so specifically and painstakingly when it comes of a simple Twitter hashtag, but it's not hard to see the dysfunction inherent to chatting about things as emotionally charged as faith, belief and constructs of systemic cultural privileges.

It can be a social science, for instance, most immediately concerning things about money, and extending to the calculus of social and cultural exchanges where notions of benefit and utility operate.

The thing about Star Wars, as with all great cultural phenomenons, is that the setting and mechanics of the story are incidental.

The first thing to notice about this reorganization [of all cultural interests] is that there is no place for what is currently termed «science.»

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.

One of the striking things about this period is the extent to which the Protestant ministry has reflected new cultural patterns and ideals.

«There are few things more telling about a culture's cuisine than street food,» said Chef Chris Santos, who is credited with turning the Lower East Side into a premier dining, nightlife and cultural destination over the last decade with his establishments Beauty & Essex and The Stanton Social.

I hear all these comments about the pancakes being too thin, and I'm wondering if this isn't a cultural shift or a generational «thing.»

Say the man who moved Rams from St.Louis to the Los Angeles... it is like he moved Arsenal from London to the Manchester... This man does nt care about anything his main goal is the money... It is called cultural theft, you buy something and say positiv things, pople gets excided but what he does is selling everything worth at that (club) and afterwards he let it go down the drain...

(Further things to consider: «X When providing support to fathers, be aware of cultural issues: the fact that parent support can be considered as a female domain, that accessing support is an admission of failure, and that fathers may lack basic confidence about what their parenting role should be.

Of the many things that I adore about this post (and there are MANY), one that specifically stands out to me is this: when we identify the problem externally and not internally — when we make the issue about systematic and institutional and cultural barriers to breastfeeding and not individual decisions not to breastfeed — then we help to focus the problem away from moms vs. moms.

Step outside that narrow cultural context and things change, yet, we're still talking about homo sapiens.

As well as chapters on such things as: combining routines and feeding on demand, gentle parenting even when it is giving you the shits, managing the needs of a sleep - hating baby, etc., Nagle talks a lot about the problems she perceives with our current cultural and social attitudes towards breastfeeding and sleep.

It tells your provider how you feel about things like who you want with you during labor, what you want to do during labor, if you want drugs to help with labor pain, and if there are special religious or cultural practices you want to have happen once your baby is born.

But these things take time and there is a cultural shift that is required as they go about that.

«Part of the appeal of the UK is its cultural reach, the things that make it a force on the world stage but aren't about military power.

But considerable recent research aimed at broadening this empirical base has revealed that children's knowledge about living things and the relations among them is sculpted by the cultural and environmental contexts in which they are raised.

«The thing to remember about dopamine is that it's not at all the same thing as pleasure,» says Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, who looks at dopamine in a cultural context in his book, Satisfaction.

The privy was neither talked about nor acknowledged, a cultural convention demonstrated by the common proverb Kusaimono ni futa wo suru (to keep a lid on stinky things).

«The thing to remember about dopamine is that it's not at all the same thing as pleasure,» says Gregory Berns, a neuroscientist at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, who looks at dopamine in a cultural context in his forthcoming book, Satisfaction, due out in September.

«When compared to what their ancestors did, the great thing about the Puebloans is that they have a high degree of cultural continuity.»

«I wrote an article in 1973 saying that the big challenge now, the most important thing, is to learn about cultural variation.»

Time can mean many things, but Hillis's machine needs to track a particularly messy version: Earth - surface clock / calendar time, which is based on a byzantine agglomeration of astronomical rotations, orbits, and perturbations of hugely varying lengths, overlaid with arbitrary cultural whims about how to divide it up.

Dunbar has fun with the argument that science is a cultural construction and therefore subject to fashion, and he is bothered by Bryan Appleyard's Understanding The Present, a sustained whimper about science taking away the mystery of things.

And while we're bragging about the vegan or paleo or whatever lifestyle we've chosen, have we considered the cultural histories that allowed peoples past (you know, those who would find our debates about things like Obamacare strange signs of an unhealthy time?)

It's difficult to navigate through the cultural myths and subtle messages about dieting, not to mention all of the advertising and products marketed at women that can trick you into buying things that don't really help you get healthier, lose fat or get lean.

But according to what I've read about Dian Fossey's observations, the insect eating by primates is a social / cultural thing.

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As you can see, there are a lot of different things that you can think about when it comes to cultural sensitivity.

Be aware that there may be cultural differences about certain things like flirting.

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