Sentences with phrase «culture shock at»

Both new to the region, Djurberg and Berg expressed a deep initial culture shock at the scale and diversity of the city as compared with either Germany or Sweden, and Djurberg talked about how their explorations of these differences would inevitably affect their work in unanticipated ways.

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If you're used to having support staff at your beck and call to handle matters large and small, you could be in for a real jolt of culture shock on your first solo day.

I imagined the incredible culture shock which most of the village youth must have experienced on their arrival at the boarding schools.

From the parable of the Good Samaritan, to meeting the samaritan woman at the well, Jesus shocked the culture of his time by ignoring accepted tribal divisions.

Beyond anxieties over deselection (or the threat of it), footballers are often at risk of culture shock, whether in the literal sense of having to acclimatise to a new and unfamiliar country or in the more metaphorical sense of having to adapt quickly to life at a new club or a new level: a Championship player moving to an established Premier League side, a youth - team star breaking into the first - team squad, a veteran making his way down the leagues.

Looking at Ozil a few times during the rotational fouling Marcus, think he has been quite close to that already, must be a real culture shock after the protection he received at a state run team.

He must have felt, what can be called as a «culture shock», when he arrived from Lorient at the start of last season.

If you were to believe popular culture, then pregnant women have around three emotions: Open - mouthed shock or extreme excitement at the positive test Serene, dreamy,...

Well, needing to suddenly be up at 6:30 or 7 am is going to be quite the culture shock!

Twice he emphasised that the FSA's report into the scandal found the worst abuses occurred in the build - up to the financial crisis, under Labour, calling the report «a shocking indictment of culture at banks like Barclays in the run up to financial crisis.»

Sajid Javid is not usually renowned for his sense of humour, but the Culture Secretary shocked the lobby at today's press gallery lunch.

After the initial culture shock, and getting used to the idea that I also had the largest nose in Chiba (I suppose that is why people stared at me), working in Japan was a little strange at first.

Although Czech scientists expressed interest in «self - promotion» and «industry collaboration» at the same level as general Eastern European culture, I was still shocked to find that they wanted me to write an article about entrepreneurship for their Czech science journal, Vesmir.

Apart from this added pressure, I experienced a total culture shock here, since I knew nothing of the Asian culture at all.

Similar shock treatments applied to cell cultures of barrel medic (Medicago truncatula)-- a plant similar to alfalfa — yielded a 168-fold increase in production of one chemical and at least a two-fold increase in 54 other compounds.

Dating 101: Film takes aim at America's hookup culture and the death of courtship — The shock of reading Laura Sessions Stepp's 2007 book, «Unhooked: How Young...

Heavy set Lebanese born in Lebanon, my father was the Fire Chief in Beirut, Lebanon... When I came to the United States, it was Culture Shock and Shell - shock at the same Shock and Shell - shock at the same shock at the same time.

There's something magical about seeing a packed house of 300 Taveuni locals laugh equally uproariously, and, without a nanosecond's worth of culture shock, at Queen Latifah in «Bringing Down the House» and Buster Keaton in «Steamboat Bill, Jr..»

Adaptation of the 1987 box - office smash about an innocent teen vacationing with her parents at an upscale resort in the 1960s Catskills, which gets a jolt of culture shock when she crushes on the hotel's handsome dance instructor.

Premiered in Sundance this year, Hosking's film sparked a controversy of sorts: Variety's Dennis Harvey detected «a sense of absurdism that stubbornly remains on the peepee / caca level,» and The Hollywood Reporter (John DeFore) commented, «in addition to being repulsive it's a witless bore»; conversely, IndieWire's Russ Fischer hailed it as «a new event movie for the truly weird at heart» and Jordan Hoffman, in the Guardian, found it «a welcome oasis of filth, depravity and shock in a culture that too often thinks merely being a little weird passes muster.»

The good folks over at Pop Culture Shock just shared the first photo of their new upcoming Halloween Michael Myers 1/3 Scale Statue.

Culture shock and loneliness plague Eilis when she leaves Ireland for America in the 1950s, but when her new homeland really does present new opportunities, represented not just by her new Italian - American boyfriend Tony (Emory Cohen) but also by the accounting classes she takes at night (where she is the only woman), she begins to embrace her little corner of Brooklyn.

12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley's exploration of the decade - long lead - up to the LA riots takes an unflinching look at the city's gang culture, drug use and the shocking police tactics that built to a disastrous and tragic crescendo.

Pre-orders launch Monday, May 7 at 3 pm PST on Pop Culture Shock Collectibles «1/3 scale Michael Myers statue, which has been carefully crafted to recreate...

The waste campaign group, Love Your Tent and Buckinghamshire New University are making a call to festivals organisers and retailers alike to end the shocking wasteland culture at festival campsites.

(Elbow) The waste campaign group, Love Your Tent and Buckinghamshire New University are making a call to festivals organisers and retailers alike to end the shocking wasteland culture at festival campsites.

«But until you can deeply understand the culture and the way people think in that particular context, you will constantly be shocked at the norms that are created after decades of conflict.»

While I successfully completed my first cycle of culture shock, adjustment and acceptance at my new school, I acknowledge that an effective educator must continuously face challenges, confront biases and develop professionally.

After running the cars with the highest levels of downforce possible for first part of the year, it was a bit of a culture shock to how the car needs to be set up and how it needs to be in order to go fast around 8.3 miles at Le Mans.

At the same time, she reveals how complicated it is when cultural, national, and religious identities intersect; even before adding the culture shock that comes with immigration to a new country with completely different social rules.

Many students who returned to the U.S. reported feeling shocked at the extravagance and excess of American culture.

Alert Bay on Cormorant Island is home of the outstanding Potlatch Collection at U'mista Cultural Centre and of Culture Shock, an interactive gallery and winner of a 2009 Aboriginal Tourism of BC (ATBC) award for its unique hands - on cultural experiences.

, how «exotic» you want to go (Asia can be a huge culture shock, at least away from the main tourist traps), and what your budget is (flights to places like Sri Lanka can be very expensive, but it's very cheap once there!).

It's still Asia so it's not like at home, but the culture shock won't be too much to bear.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, their subject matter knows no limits: from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to much admired paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnières (1884); from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the shocking photographs of Mexican photographer, Enrique Metinides.

In early 2010, her work will be included in the exhibition Unusual Behavior at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and Culture Shock: Video Interventions at the QET as part of the Vancouver 2010 cultural Olympiad.

Their performances are inspiring, hilarious, willful, even shocking, and «Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities» gives them back the autonomy and power the culture at large so often strips away.

In a research paper titled «Culture Shocks and Consequences: The causal link between the arts and economic growth,» co-authors Peter Pedroni and Stephen Sheppard, economics professors at Williams College in the nearby Williamstown, conclude that arts institutions benefit surrounding communities with both the short - term multiplier effect of day visitors spending money and long - term improvements to local income levels.

Thus, we are enforcing aesthetic immigration clampdowns at the same time that we descend into a new culture of hate and repressive politics, queer rights being rescinded, seeing bodies on the line, and a culture in shock after seemingly moving so far forward under Obama only to see the left turn against itself.

«Culture Shock» runs at the Torpedo Factory's Target Gallery through Oct. 22.

Alongside this is a personal and insightful introduction by Fryer's long - term advisor Duncan Ward, and an essay by Amanda Harlech, both of which underline that Fryer's art works on multiple levels, and that it is conscious of its uniqueness and validity: «These works arrive at a time when little art has the tonic to shock and popular culture has seen to the dismantling of the avant - garde and the experimental in all it's sub sects... Paul Fryer senses the storm, and unfurls a kite so that we can connect with it.»

«Necklaces» resides at the borderline of culture shock when differing belief systems and sacred ideologies are put in the same room with one another to engage in conversation and -LSB-...]

If you are wondering how consumption became our way of life and why we are throwing so much stuff away all the time, this documentary looks behind the scenes of things and shows the shocking truth about why we have become a throw - away culture and where obsolete objects end up at.

At this stage, the symptoms of culture shock begin manifesting themselves.

Knowing what to expect, and checking your assumptions at the border, can take a lot of the initial shock value out of the equation and prepare you for accepting your new culture more quickly.