Sentences with phrase «first language and a culture»

The parish tends to be close - knit because it shares a common first language and a culture drawn from a homeland far removed.

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His support for the unborn resonated with Americans fighting the consequences of Roe v. Wade: The right to life movement received a new language and dimension when he first spoke about a «Culture of Life» in 1993 — significantly, during a visit to America — and two years later, described his full vision in his great encyclical, Evangelum Vitae.

Ricoeur there proposes a philosophical analysis of symbolic and metaphoric language intended to help us reach a «second naivete» before such texts.17 The latter phrase, which Ricoeur has made famous, suggests that the «first naivete,» an unquestioned dwelling in a world of symbol, which presumably came naturally to men and women in one - possibility cultures to which the symbols in question were indigenous, is no longer possible for us.

Then come complex multicellular organisms, societies of animals with new emergent properties at the ecosystem level, and, finally conscious beings who create culture, use symbolic language — and experience the first intimations of transcendence.

Just as Jesus assumed the language, culture, and life of a first - century Jewish teacher, so the Bible «belonged in the ancient worlds that produced it.

Last week, we discussed Enns» incarnational analogy — in which he posits that just as Jesus assumed the language, culture, and life of a first - century Jewish teacher, so the Bible belonged in the ancient worlds that produced it.

The humanist movement in its turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.

«We are first in the world for soft power thanks to our language, culture and creativity.

«Climate science is a «data - heavy» discipline with many intellectually interesting questions that can benefit from computational modeling and prediction,» said Dovrolis, a professor in the School of Computer Science, «Cross-disciplinary collaborations are challenging at first — every discipline has its own language, preferred approach and research culture — but they can be quite rewarding at the end.»

Do not be over enthusiastic to greet in her Asian language during your first meet, talk to her and get to know her and you may be surprised that her family has immigrated two generations back and has been raised in the western culture.

Swedish was the first scandinavian language I learned and I'm in love with this language and the swedish culture and nature.

Students are encouraged to write in their first language, and we include books, pictures, and objects that reflect our students» culture into our classroom.

G.O.L started in 2011, when Mostafa joined one of the US Dept. of state scholarships called SUSI (Study in the United State Institutes), where he learned how to start a community service project, deposit; it was his first time to travel abroad but communicating with a different language and meeting new people with different culture & religion were never an obstacle to him as he was very open minded and always accepts others differences.

Using data collected at EF centers in different parts of the world, the project focused on adolescents» academic writing proficiencies across different first languages / cultures (China, Russia, U.S.) and across different types of texts.

«FDP promotes the importance of building a strong foundation for early learning that begins by honoring each family's home culture and first language.»

This new resource brings educators primary sources and first - person accounts about a painful period in Canadian history, when about 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their families and stripped of their language, culture, and traditions.

Aside from culture building and norm setting, the first six weeks of each school year is dedicated to the evaluation of students» language and academic levels to ensure differentiated and learner - centered instruction.

Just imagine: so many different kids interacting with people of so many different cultures and languages for the first time.

We currently live in a world where our knowledge about other cultures, languages, and traditions is extremely important to foster understanding and mutual respect, and we are now expecting teachers to be our first responders on the front line in this complex task.

First, we must cultivate an understanding for multiple cultures, languages and perspectives; and second, we must instill in one another a civic sense that compels us to give back to our community and world.

To challenge the labeling of students from minority groups as disabled, assessment must focus on (a) the extent to which children's language and culture are incorporated into the school program, (b) the extent to which educators collaborate with parents in a shared enterprise, and (c) the extent to which children are encouraged to use both their first and second languages actively in the classroom to amplify their experiences in interaction with other children and adults.

«Super Sad True Love Story» is a clever, trenchant satire of our near future, poking fun at homeland security, social network communication, corporate culture, the degradation of language, youth obsession, first - generation - immigrant sensibilities, delusions of inferiority, religious observance, the coarsening of fashion, fiscal irresponsibility, privatization of state functions, bipartisanship, our portable computers, and senseless infatuation.

The ETA first appeared in the 1960s as a student resistance movement opposed to General Franco's military dictatorship (Franco banned the Basque language, suppressed their culture and had Basque intellectuals tortured for their beliefs).

Taste a food you never thought you'd like, immerse yourself in a different culture, and spend time in a place where English is not the first language — getting outside of your comfort zone is fun!

Dakota Goodhouse, Native American Expert and Writer and Editor of The First Scout, shares about Native American legends, including the importance of wind in Native American culture, and gives a demonstration of his beautiful native language, Lakota.

In its first appearance at an art fair, ever, Norte Maar presents «watching the conkers arrive,» curated by Jason Andrew, Kanad Chakrabarti and Sarah Pettitt featuring a collection of works by seven artists from the UK, Canada and Brooklyn, which interrogate language, geography, culture — all involving cross-disciplinary works with abstract grounding, leaving room for reflection on heritage and the borders of experience.»

«I turned to photography because I thought it was the dominant language of our culture,» says Charlesworth, who is represented in the show by photographs from her first two series of newspaper appropriation works, «Modern History» (1978) and «Stills» (1977).

The methods of teaching developed at the BMC — such as an emphasis on interpretation and dialogue in the form of the student critique (or «crit»)-- are still present in many of our most advanced art schools; the language of interdisciplinarity began at BMC and the mixture of disciplines and mediums gave way to what is largely regarded as the first «happening»; and the aspirations of intentional communities, utopian ways of thinking, bridging the gap between art and life, and the creation of a counter-culture that are characteristic of American culture in the 1960s all flourished at the college in the preceding decades.

Taíno is the indigenous culture and language of Caribbean islands like Hispaniola that the colonists first made landfall on, making it an appropriate root for the term.

Oforiatta - Ayim first envisaged the project, which was launched three years ago, as early as 2009, when she was researching for her PhD on African languages and cultures at SOAS, University of London.

Thomas's layered process of fragmentation, in which she begins with a photographic portrait and moves to collage and then on to painting, is the result of discreet borrowings from our twenty - first century language of mass culture.

They belong to the first Italian generation to grow up in a cosmopolitan, international climate: their art and their languages are global, yet closely tied to Italian culture.

Although such population loss represented a huge threat to First Nations societies and cultures the museum demonstrates that the cultures did survive and that their languages, stories, and traditions continue, at least to some extent, today.

We have always asserted that Canada needs to make amends for the damages caused to our languages and cultures from residential schools by providing the supports needed to advance and protect them in current education systems — First Nations or provincial.

The First Nations of Canada have to stay united against FNEA to save Aboriginal cultures and languages for future generations.

If you can try to mirror their own language within your resume, you will create a positive first impression and will look as if you will fit right in with their existing company culture.

Just as our knowledge resources explore First Nations, Inuit and Métis women's journeys into motherhood, including pregnancy, maternity care, birth, and breastfeeding, we also document the significant role fathers and grandparents play in the development of strong infant attachment and bonding, child rearing, and the transmission of culture and language.