Sentences with phrase «for cultural history»

The Nature Conservancy calls this one of the Last Great Places on Earth, no less for its nature as for its cultural history.

In modern times, real estate developers have attempted to raze these traditional neighbourhoods to the ground to make way for high rises, but the local government has taken steps in recent years to preserve the hutongs for their cultural history.

Research Center for Media - and Performance Art and Guest Professor for Cultural History of Modernism at the Bauhaus - University Weimar.

Fellow fansite, the Dreamcast Junkyard, is to be preserved by the British Library for cultural history.

Philipp Amour is co-founder and member of the Committee of the International Society for Cultural History (ISCH).

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For reasons that aren't entirely clear, Glass was ousted from Twitter before it turned into a cultural phenomenon and didn't even get much company stock, according to a new book about Twitter's history.

With its rich artistic history, Florence is a great vacation destination for anyone who wants a cultural experience at the center of their time off.

For example, the American Museum of Natural History issued some $ 78 million in bonds through the Trust for Cultural Resources in New York CiFor example, the American Museum of Natural History issued some $ 78 million in bonds through the Trust for Cultural Resources in New York Cifor Cultural Resources in New York City.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

It's the longest running sitcom in American history, a cultural phenomenon that made it OK for adults to watch cartoons.

The embroiderers were known for being particularly extraordinary; Guo Pei has changed history because, during the Cultural Revolution, that skill was stopped, so people in the area lost the skill of embroidery; and now that she's brought it back, there's even a woman in her studio whose great grandmother was one of the embroiderers in the last dynasty.

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ACC Accounting & Auditing, AFR Africa, AGE Economics of Ageing, AGR Agricultural Economics, ARA Arab World, BAN Banking, BEC Business Economics, CBA Central Banking, CBE Cognitive & Behavioural Economics, CDM Collective Decision - Making, CFN Corporate Finance, CIS Confederation of Independent States, CMP Computational Economics, CNA China, COM Industrial Competition, CSE Economics of Strategic Management, CTA Contract Theory & Applications, CUL Cultural Economics, CWA Central & Western Asia, DCM Discrete Choice Models, DEM Demographic Economics, DEV Development, DGE Dynamic General Equilibrium, ECM Econometrics, EDU Education, EEC European Economics, EFF Efficiency & Productivity, ENE Energy Economics, ENT Entrepreneurship, ENV Environmental Economics, ETS Econometric Time Series, EUR Microeconomic European Issues, EVO Evolutionary Economics, EXP Experimental Economics, FDG Financial Development & Growth, FIN Finance, FMK Financial Markets, FOR Forecasting, GEO Economic Geography, GRO Economic Growth, GTH Game Theory, HAP Economics of Happiness, HEA Health Economics, HIS Business, Economic & Financial History, HME Heterodox Microeconomics, HPE History & Philosophy of Economics, HRM Human Capital & Human Resource Management, IAS Insurance Economics, ICT Information & Communication Technologies, IFN International Finance, IND Industrial Organization, INO Innovation, INT International Trade, IPR Intellectual Property Rights, IUE Informal & Underground Economics, KNM Knowledge Management & Knowledge Economy, LAB Labour Economics, LAM Central & South America, LAW Law & Economics, LMA Labor Markets - Supply, Demand & Wages, LTV Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty, MAC Macroeconomics, MFD Microfinance, MIC Microeconomics, MIG Economics of Human Migration, MKT Marketing, MON Monetary Economics, MST Market Microstructure, NET Network Economics, NEU Neuroeconomics, OPM Open Macroeconomics, PBE Public Economics, PKE Post Keynesian Economics, POL Positive Political Economics, PPM Project, Program & Portfolio Management, PUB Public Finance, REG Regulation, RES Resource Economics, RMG Risk Management, SBM Small Business Management, SEA South East Asia, SOC Social Norms & Social Capital, SOG Sociology of Economics, SPO Sports & Economics, TID Technology & Industrial Dynamics, TRA Transition Economics, TRE Transport Economics, TUR Tourism Economics, UPT Utility Models & Prospect Theory, URE Urban & Real Estate Economics.

And while the brand is smaller in the U.S — at a 1.9 percent share — it has been a major cultural force with a history of groundbreaking ads dating back to the 1960s when Doyle Dane Bernbach won plaudits for an anti-establishment approach and classic copy lines like «Lemon» and «Think Small.»

Percassi shares Starbucks passion for the history and cultural heritage of the country.

It's that his personal history — not only the two divorces, but also the repeated affairs and the way he behaved during the dissolution of his marriages — makes him the most compromised champion imaginable for a movement that's laboring to keep lifelong heterosexual monogamy on a legal and cultural pedestal.

If we view ourselves in this light, we are both utterly dependent upon God for our existence and at the same time unavoidably responsible for creating the course of cultural and technological history.

On the one hand, there is the thesis of Oswald Spengler, who believed that he had identified a natural law for the great moments in cultural history: First comes the birth of a culture, then its gradual rise, flourishing, slow decline, aging, and death.

One of the contributions of Eliade, which will have great significance for study of NT history is that Eliade sees cultural contacts and reciprocal influences between Indo - Iranian, Mesopotamian, Mediterranean worlds.

Of course through such coexistence for long periods, there developed symbiotic interpretations of religions and cultural and social values, creating not one but several composite cultures and syncretic religious trends in different regions of the country in different periods of its history, with one or other religious value or cultural system having dominant influence.

We withhold a third cheer — partly because at the present cultural moment it seems inappropriate to give three full cheers for anyone or anything, partly because we remember too well recent history's oppressive misuses of Thomas's thought.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

This picture of «tradition» versus «progress» fits our wider, modern political and cultural frameworks of «right» versus «left,» but it is grossly inadequate for understanding the history of modern Catholic theology.

By late antiquity, this caste system had already declined, and Pierre - Simon Ballanche has argued that the history of antiquity is the story of an ultimately successful plebeian struggle for initiation into political, cultural, and religious privilege.

If you look closely at our country's history it has a very deep vein that is based on cultural and religious intolerance... unless you are a WASP... be suspious and «watch out» for anyone that is different from «us».

My own desperate clinging to the tattered label evangelical has less to do with any political or cultural uniformity as it does to these core convictions, or rather, the core conviction that the good news of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection for sinners and a broken world is the mightiest power set loose in the history of the world.

First, the simple fact that this structure of divine - human unity emerged at a time and place in history where the cultural, linguistic, political, and religious maturity and unity of a significant portion of humankind bode well for its apprehension is a major factor in its importance.

Every life is shaped by the struggle for survival, the accidents of history, and the power of cultural symbols and traditions.

One is that it is truly impossible for any of us to uncover the «real» Gospel story, because the «real» Gospel story always comes to us wrapped in a cultural history we can never fully understand.

For instance, if one believes that Christ is in some sense God incarnate, then there is a sense in which the divine second person of the Trinity stands above history, There is also a sense in which the teachings of Christ might be said to have some trans - cultural character, despite being embedded in very particular cultural forms.

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.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

History presently offers us a scenario of socio - economic, cultural and spiritual crisis, which highlights the need for a discernment guided by a creative proposal of the Church's social message.

Ponder for a moment the peculiar character of European cultural history.

The overarching concept that, for Lasch, links changes in women's roles and the family to the cultural history of the West in general is the rationalization of everyday life.

Nord devotes more pages to the process of public school secularization than his neutrality thesis requires and fewer than would be necessary for a thorough cultural history of religion and education.

Their communities have been fertile grounds for new religions and cultural movements, and their history is filled with religious - cultural encounters and conflicts of all sorts.

To say that a symbol has a «history» can mean two things: (a) that this symbol was constituted at a certain historical moment and that therefore it could not have existed before that moment; (b) that this symbol has been diffused, beginning from a precise cultural center, and that for this reason one must not consider it as spontaneously rediscovered in all the cultures where it is found.

To me, this approach is the touchstone for assessing the difference between fact and fiction in history The core question is: Does the description of ancient people's behavior ring true when we compare it to the way contemporary people behave in a similar cultural area?

I'm doing a project on the history of peanuts and peanut butter in South America for cultural connections.

I will be honest and say that I bought this more for the history and cultural aspect than actually planning to cook these recipes.

The new art labels are a tribute to this innovative moment in cultural history and to one of its shining stars, Fortunato Despero, who had a deep connection with Campari, working extensively to produce truly unique works of art for the brand,» said Karraker.

For example a 50 + year military occupation and systematic political - cultural indoctrination of my country of birth complete with Orwellian thought policing, mandatory Russian language classes in school, revisions of known history, and mandatory displays of support for communiFor example a 50 + year military occupation and systematic political - cultural indoctrination of my country of birth complete with Orwellian thought policing, mandatory Russian language classes in school, revisions of known history, and mandatory displays of support for communifor communism.

Having lived in Italy as a tour guide and worked as a researcher for Rick Steves» travel guides, Detours founder Amanda Scotese created cultural tours because she realized people were missing out on great history in their own city here at home.

For example, the Birding in Costa Rica tour is primarily focused on birding, while the Northern Greece Birding & Natural History trip includes cultural stops and botany interests as well as daily birding.

She worked for the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage as an archivist, and she has also worked on many oral history and folklife projects.

Her issue focus has ranged from climate change (The Climate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish History).

Vermont's Green Mountains and Lake Champlain for hiking, rowing historic pilot gigs, and lake ecology and cultural history.