Sentences with phrase «growing cultural impact»

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As a result of this focus, and given the clear impact the operations of the banking sector have on the country's economy and individual consumers, calls from all stakeholders for a significant cultural and behavioural change in the industry are growing.

Reporting on the recent Barna study on Gen Z attitudes and behaviors, Jonathan Morrow, director of cultural engagement at Impact 360 Institute, writes: «With the best of intentions, we bubble wrap our kids and create Disney World - like environments for them in our churches, and then wonder why they have no resilience in faith or life... In short, teenagers need a grown - up worldview not coloring book Jesus.»

According to McGregor (2012), both internationally and nationally there is a growing practice to adopt art - based teaching strategies as more and more social activists, cultural workers and educators realise their benefits to learning and their social impact.

The nation's growing demographic diversity and the increasing impact of globalization underscores the need to prepare future companion animal veterinarians, food animal veterinarians, public health veterinarians and veterinary researchers, educators, and scientists with the knowledge, skill and cultural sensitivity to productively engage this complex emerging environment.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

Ecosystems provide a rich array of benefits and services to humanity, including habitat for fish and wildlife, drinking water storage and filtration, fertile soils for growing crops, buffering against a range of stressors including climate change impacts, and aesthetic and cultural values.

Wilcox: Long term, we hope that SXSW Eco will grow in size and importance to have the cultural impact that our other events enjoy today.

Accordingly, the flux of writing has grown exponentially, with resulting impact on cultural evolution.