Sentences with phrase «history as a constructed»

Forge of Empires» main mechanic is as follows — you'll maneuver through out the annals of history as you construct your own city and transform it into a grand kingdom.

As its starting point, it considered the notion of history as a constructed sphere, constantly in flux, simultaneously being buried and excavated.

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The goal is to construct a history as it ought to have been to authenticate women's aspirations and sense of self.

This understanding is not new; Aristotle's view of life in the polis as understood and constructed is similar: such knowledge is grounded in concrete history within the norms, values, and hopes of the community.

With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.

If you properly engage in this work, you will be interested in arriving at a position on whatever it is that interests you (philosophy, critical theory, history, philology, literary criticism, or whatever) that is preferable to any other that you know of on that question, and you will concomitantly want to be clear as to what the position that you construct and defend is, what it excludes, how best to show that its competitors are less adequate than the one you want to defend, and in what sense this is true.

These traditions, such as the resurrection narratives and the opening chapters of Acts, certainly give us some very valuable clues concerning the rise of the Easter faith, but each of these has to be examined and evaluated before it can be used in constructing even a skeleton history in the events immediately following the death of Jesus.

The most urgent immediate task, therefore, is the development of education on the basis of the sciences, both natural and social, for only with their help can society as a whole be taught to construct a life completely in accordance with that knowledge which has become the factor by which our age is distinguished from all preceding periods of history.

Besides collecting (and often correcting) the facts of Greenes history, Sherry functions as a mythographer: he constructs the mystery of a character and personality.

It is fundamental to any adequate understanding of Ricoeur to note that his phenomenology is so constructed as to be open to the «signs» generated by «counter-disciplines,» and indeed to read the meaning of human existence «on» a world full of such expressions generated by the natural and social sciences, as well as in the history of culture.

«Listener to the Christian message, «2 occasional preacher, 3 dialoguer with biblical scholars, theologians, and specialists in the history of religions, 4 Ricoeur is above all a philosopher committed to constructing as comprehensive a theory as possible of the interpretation of texts.5 A thoroughly modern man (if not, indeed, a neo-Enlightenment figure) in his determination to think «within the autonomy of responsible thought, «6 Ricoeur finds it nonetheless consistent to maintain that reflection which seeks, beyond mere calculation, to «situate [us] better in being, «7 must arise from the mythical, narrative, prophetic, poetic, apocalyptic, and other sorts of texts in which human beings have avowed their encounter both with evil and with the gracious grounds of hope.

It is a sign of Plato's essential continuity with his Greek predecessors that his own definitive and most sophisticated meaning for soul is «self moving mover», and that when he comes, in the tenth book of the Laws, to construct the first formal proof for the existence of God in the history of western thought, a version of the cosmological argument, he will seek to establish the existence of soul as self moving mover.

At the same time, modern attempts to construct a view of Jesus that omits any emphasis on the death, focusing instead on a message or practice Jesus taught without reference to his own fate — which are implausible as history and often lack distinctive Christian character.

Now ask yourself how many regimes have borrowed as much as this one in the history of Nigeria, how many regimes have constructed less roads, recorded less economic growth, less infrastructural development, less investment in efucation and health, less employment, less industrial development, less foreign investment, less coordination.

As Pickering says in his book Constructing Quarks (Edinburgh University Press, p 413): «It is unproblematic that scientists produce accounts of the world that they find comprehensible; given their cultural resources, only singular incompetence could have prevented members of the (particle physics) community producing an understandable version of reality at any point in their history.»

As recently as 2012, his seminal TV documentary series The Untold History of the United States proved that the brain, the imagination and the eye for constructing layered, complex stories in engaging, penetrative fashion was still therAs recently as 2012, his seminal TV documentary series The Untold History of the United States proved that the brain, the imagination and the eye for constructing layered, complex stories in engaging, penetrative fashion was still theras 2012, his seminal TV documentary series The Untold History of the United States proved that the brain, the imagination and the eye for constructing layered, complex stories in engaging, penetrative fashion was still there.

Thus, Bingham positions his study as a follow - up to and update of the much - revered first major research on the biographical genre, George Custen's pioneering and influential Bio / Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (1), which mainly covered the Hollywood studio years.

Reportedly budgeted around 100 million dollars, the movie turns out to be one of the most expensive flops in history, considering the amount of absurdities that are found within the poorly constructed plot lines, including a government conspiracy inside the White House, as well as taking itself a little too seriously to be taken as a genuine offering.

For example, in the «Bridges» capstone (PDF), students learn about the mathematical and engineering concepts necessary to construct bridges, as well as the symbolic meaning of bridges in literature, history, and social studies.

For example, a teacher may assign students the task of designing or constructing a bridge while learning about the history of famous bridges, bridges in poetry and literature, as well as mathematical principles and engineering processes involved in building bridges.

Says Givens, Woodson saw the week as an opportunity to bring about «an epistemic shift in schools» — for teachers to illuminate the way racial power operated in America, and for students to reimagine the ways knowledge and history were constructed.

25 - 30 minutes of history in grades 2 - 4, rooted in the exploration of primary source documents as well as informational and literary texts to construct meaning about the past

On the other hand, proponents of the view that history is about facts and dates would regard essay - based tests as deeply flawed, since they assess students» writing and linguistic skills as well as historical knowledge (what is sometimes called «construct - irrelevant variance»).

As a construct, «whiteness» has a long and complex history beyond simply noting a cluster of a few, vaguely - shared physical attributes, and Dr. Irvin Painter documents how the concept has changed over time:

However, as we look to assess writing in the context of science, English literature, or history, as called for in the CCSS, new advances are needed to produce reliable sub-scores for both writing and the content area constructs assessed (p. 16).

Fans obsessed with the Italian automaker will undoubtedly take an interest in the book, as it highlights every road and race car ever constructed by Ferrari, every driver contracted by the company, and a complete history of the automaker itself.

-- Sunday Times «Jake Arnott's The House of Rumour is as ambitious and curiously constructed a novel as I have read in years, a linked collection of stories that brilliantly blends history with fiction.»

The portfolios were constructed using mutual funds (a new feature of ETFReplay) as opposed to ETFs, due to the longer trading histories of many mutual funds.

The visitor center features exhibits that highlight the history of the region and how the Hoover Dam was constructed and the Powerplant Tour offers exhibits and other media that provide a comprehensive view of the massive dam and its operations, as well as highlight many of the unique features around the site.

Founded as a military outpost in 200 BC, Datong has plenty of history on offer with a recently renovated old - town that is simply charming, despite the fact that most buildings have been constructed in the last decade.

Towering at the top of a 6,000 ft mountain above the town of Berchtesgaden, the Eagle's Nest (or Kehlsteinhaus, in German), has a dark history; it was constructed as a gift for Adolf Hitler as a 50th birthday present, and remained unscathed by bombing during World War II.

I'm not as familiar with MMA, but I have come to notice an everlasting bridge constructed between the two, as marketing, fanbases, and even talent have a long history of intersecting.

Western art history has nearly always been constructed as a narrative in which women are viewed through male eyes — as subjects and as objects.

Thinking back to the time she wrote her most famous piece, she once told Reilly that «there was no such thing as a feminist art history: like all other forms of historical discourse, it had to be constructed.

After all, painting as an activity is a cultural construct, and it can not really be seen and understood without some sense of its relation to art history.

«She aims to reveal the shortcomings of how we read photographic images, what constitutes as accurate, and how we construct narratives of history.

The material ephemera and the oral histories that construct her narrative will be presented in an immersive installation, as a reconstruction of a space resembling the municipal archives of Bordeaux.

In this series, Cheng constructs his own narratives about the history of three cities — New York, Hong Kong and Jerusalem — through re-edited video collages of moving images extracted from the news, as well as natural and urban landscapes.

Weaver is constructing a fictive history for the Black Bottom community using a variety of fake elements: handmade museum vitrines, handmade maps and documents of the community, various faux sculptures and textiles, as well as installation and audio components.

A shared interest in geology, ecology, preservation and history serves as inspiration for the artists, who construct these new works through distinct processes.

Much like Indianapolis's Indiana Avenue District, various parts of the Near West Side of Chicago and the Bottom were destroyed to construct an expressway and a university; as a result, the community lost much of its history.

As hinted at in the exhibition title, Axell engages with both contemporary stereotypes of femininity as well as centuries old role ascriptions and correctively intervenes in persistent gender relations: reflecting on art history — such as Venus iconography, Leda with the Swan depictions and distinguished portraits like Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — she subverts historically sedimented, male perceptions of femininity and renegotiates the socially constructed image of women as either «angel in the house» or femme - fatalAs hinted at in the exhibition title, Axell engages with both contemporary stereotypes of femininity as well as centuries old role ascriptions and correctively intervenes in persistent gender relations: reflecting on art history — such as Venus iconography, Leda with the Swan depictions and distinguished portraits like Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — she subverts historically sedimented, male perceptions of femininity and renegotiates the socially constructed image of women as either «angel in the house» or femme - fatalas well as centuries old role ascriptions and correctively intervenes in persistent gender relations: reflecting on art history — such as Venus iconography, Leda with the Swan depictions and distinguished portraits like Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — she subverts historically sedimented, male perceptions of femininity and renegotiates the socially constructed image of women as either «angel in the house» or femme - fatalas centuries old role ascriptions and correctively intervenes in persistent gender relations: reflecting on art history — such as Venus iconography, Leda with the Swan depictions and distinguished portraits like Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — she subverts historically sedimented, male perceptions of femininity and renegotiates the socially constructed image of women as either «angel in the house» or femme - fatalas Venus iconography, Leda with the Swan depictions and distinguished portraits like Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa — she subverts historically sedimented, male perceptions of femininity and renegotiates the socially constructed image of women as either «angel in the house» or femme - fatalas either «angel in the house» or femme - fatale.

«The End Has Different Stories» provokes viewers» imaginations by what the artist describes as «constructing a myth in order to make history tangible.»

By constructing the history of masturbation through art, the curatorial intervention attempts to unveil the wide array of social and political mechanisms which have proclaimed this pleasurable act as immoral or unhealthy.

Responding to its location and surrounding neighbourhood in contemporary time, Montgomery's light poem, constructed in wood, metal and LED lights, illuminates aspects unique to this area of Shoreditch and its history, such as the now demolished Eagle Music Hall and «Grecian Salon'that stood on the corner of City Road and Shepherdess Walk very near Parasol unit.

Drawn from various sources — referencing actual geographies and histories alongside constructed and surreal imagery — the landscape for Todd takes on a certain unreality, there are references to the fantastic, the layered mark, the art of the outsider, the obsessive, the tiered, the mad and the random and their conjunctions with the present, becoming a world of open diversity and retrospective reflection — a kind of performed cosmos where the world forms us as we form the world.

In interacting with the work over a significant period of time, we felt that that the most compelling way to structure the exhibition was to expose the common threads that run throughout this material: formal constructs such as grids / fields, verticality, pictorial imagery, and repetitive sequences; content such as color as subject, element as subject, interest in early American history (particularly that of Massachusetts), discourse about other artists and art; and relationships to the history of poetry.

Examining the role that African art and culture plays in the genesis of Rythm Mastr's main storylines — particularly as a gateway to this alternative reality — this paper posits Marshall's project as a revisionist history in graphic form that offers a world of possibilities outside of the commonly accepted narrative constructed around African art and modernism and its institutional legacy.

Her early paintings and sculptures reassemble disparate architectural elements from history as well as animal and body parts to construct unified compositions.

[4]» Thomas» work unmasks the constructed barriers that attempt to constrict manifold identities through presenting the mask itself — a motive that potentially contributes to this history, as it undoes it.