Sentences with phrase «debate over the culture»

Kate Upton has been making headlines over the past couple weeks after a high school senior asked her to his prom in a YouTube video that went viral, eventually sparking a controversial debate over the culture of male and female entitlement on April 2, 2013.

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At a time of great debate over employee pay, corporate responsibility and the impact of workplaces on corporate growth, it was great to see that so many companies, varied in size, industry and lifespan, believed not only in their products and services, but also in their culture.

Huffington isn't blaming the startup culture for this, though, referring to the debate that has raged over the past few years about venture capitalists and angel investors being biased against women entrepreneurs.

Those who have followed the debate over same - sex marriage understand very clearly that law and culture ought to work together to promote and preserve families and communities; we should apply the same vigor to strengthening economic policies that make it easier for people not to sin.

For in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generations.

A culture of bullying has taken over in this area, and the idea of academic freedom, wide enquiry, and genuine debate and analysis is no longer seen as essential in university life.

When one looks at the myths of surrounding cultures, in fact, one senses that the current debate over creationism would have seemed very strange, if not unintelligible, to the writers and readers of Genesis.

Even Roberts acknowledges that «few people are really listening, that the debate is politically rigged, that few people have the nerve or willingness to hold unpopular positions» and «the development of the culture over the last few decades has inured people to the creational realities.»

The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism By Wendy Steiner University of Chicago Press, 232 pages, $ 24.95 It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars»» the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied....

While debate over the understanding of Biblical interpretation lies at the heart of current evangelical discussions concerning women, differences in theological tradition lie at the center of discussions over social ethics, and disagreement over one's approach toward the wider secular culture is surfacing as the focus of controversy regarding homosexuality.

At present, the rediscovery of culture in the social sciences, at the debate over methods of studying culture empirically, promises to shift studies of religion and politics more in the direction of looking at religious and political culture.

The consortium describes the Templeton Foundation as having «made up to $ 3 million available for research grants to stimulate and sponsor new research insights directly pertinent to the «great debate» over purpose in the context of the emergence of increasing biological complexity, ranging from the biochemical level to the evolution of life andthe emergence of society and culture.»

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

Western culture has been plunged into seemingly endless debates about what is art, or what is philosophy, or what is theology, and over and over again those who stirred such debates arrived at the answer that there are no answers.

The Church must begin the work of challenging and transforming the culture, taking a bold approach to challenging the faulty anthropologies that plague the «debate» over sexuality and marriage in the UK.

He said: «We're going to need to change by virtue a humanised political debate over exactly what we want to see in our country, that means changing the law, it is also changing the culture so people view abortion as what it is, destruction of an unborn child.»

Its welcoming calm and nondenominational culture are in stark contrast to the emotional debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where planes flown by al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,700 people.

The findings fit into the ongoing debate over whether tools mark the start of modern human culture, or predate Homo.

The research aims to settle a major anthropological debate over whether political systems develop the same way regardless of culture; the results suggest that some aspects of political development are in fact universal.

I know, I know... You'll get heated debate about both of these topics... meat eating vs veganism, and raw foodism... however, it's historical FACT that our current species (and historical ancestors back over a million years ago) in almost every culture around the world, ate at least some % of plant - animal food combination and raw food / cooked food combination (even if it was at different times of the day, or even different times of the year).

While there's debate over which prebiotics are the most effective, it is clear that ingesting any prebiotics with probiotics or cultured foods is beneficial.

This lighthearted comedy pokes fun at the culture wars, and the debate over same - sex parenting.

Barron and Darling - Hammond describe evidence - based approaches to support inquiry - based teaching in the classroom: (1) clear goals and guiding activities; (2) a variety of resources (e.g., museums, libraries, Internet, videos, lectures) and time for students to share, reflect, and apply resources, while debating over information discrepancies; (3) participation structures and classroom norms that increase the use of evidence and a culture of collaboration (i.e., framing debates as productive conflicts, using public performances); (4) formative assessments that provide opportunities for revision; and (5) summative assessments that are multidimensional and representative of professional practice.

Washington, D.C. — With the debate over standardized testing reaching a fever pitch, a new report from the Center for American Progress finds a culture of testing and test preparation across many schools and districts, with students in analyzed school districts assessed as many as 20 times per year in the classroom.

A little healthy debate over things as simple as terminology can be a huge contributor to company culture, and help improve understanding of the very concepts language exists to describe.

The answer was that, for us, artists like Levine and Bender have deliberately and steadfastly embraced a «critical» practice — work that is, at its core, committed to challenging the dominant culture and creating a space for debate — while those like Prince and Koons did not do so consistently over time, up to and including their most recent work (although individual works by both artists might arguably be described as such).

Made over a period of six years, the series brackets a historical period that saw the much debated Culture Wars and the de-funding of the National Endowment of the Arts, the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, and perhaps most significantly the death of nearly 350,000 Americans to AIDS - related causes prior to the development of an effective combination of antiretroviral medications in 1996.

In this state of relative non-recognition within the discourse and debate around art and culture in general, the subject of the «reductive» as a possible antithesis to the overpowering reintroduction of representational painting and at the same time to the emergence of the focus on new media, technology and photography, has regained considerable strength over the last decade within an international frame of cultural production and commerce, as well as through the firmly held lone positions of artists like Mosset, Charlton, Armleder, Morellet, Palermo and others throughout the 80's and 90's.

Debate over the «compensation culture» should eschew the insults and focus on common areas of agreement, says Gary Beazleigh

Since the change of government, and the passage, with support from all parties, of a Parliamentary apology to indigenous Australians, Professor of Australian Studies Richard Nile has argued: «the culture and history wars are over and with them should also go the adversarial nature of intellectual debate», [34] a view contested by others, including conservative commentator Janet Albrechtsen.