Sentences with phrase «just culture war»

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We're winning the culture war, and Twitter just shot themselves in the foot

The culture of death we see clearly in the gang violence on our streets and in the perpetual war that has ravaged homes in Iraq is just as real, though often harder to see, in the self - centeredness of our shopping malls and the loneliness of our workspaces.

So what is at stake here is not just money but the contested intersection of religion, morality and sexual politics that has been going in recent years by the tagline of «the culture wars.»

To what extent is this a church - universal struggle to handle certain Scripture texts faithfully, and to what extent is it just a theological repackaging of modern American culture wars?

As I've said before, the best way to move beyond a culture war mentality is to listen to one another's stories, and Justin's is just the kind of story we need to hear right now.

What if we were just as much against colonization, imperialism, and war, as you are, and that when we told people about Jesus and His love for them, we let them maintain their culture, their identity, and who they were as people?

In the short period of just over thirty years between the founding of the Republic and the Sino - Japanese war Chinese Muslims did their utmost to advance the culture of their people.

I've hung on before — through the science wars, the gender wars, the Christmas wars, the culture wars — but I'm just so tired of fighting, so tired of feeling out of place.

Just do something that mobilizes Culture War Without End Amen and you get all this self - generating free publicity.

My guess is that most just haven't thought through the implications of this resolution, the implications of potentially disassociating from the Boy Scout troops in their community, or the implications of consistently fighting this culture war against homosexuality.

This, in turn, has led to another flare up of the rumbling culture war between the analytics insurgents, who believe all human endeavour can and must be reduced to a single equation, and the traditionalist old guard, who believe the only way to understand a footballer is by following him around for weeks at a time and watching everything he does, meticulously observing his breakfast habits, which way «round he arranges his toilet paper, and whether he throws chewing gum into a bin or just drops it in the street.

Pink and blue arrived, along with other pastels, as colors for babies in the mid-19th century, yet the two colors were not promoted as gender signifiers until just before World War I — and even then, it took time for popular culture to sort things out.

The latest melee in the culture wars over public science funding comes from conservative CNS News, who apparently just discovered a government - funded study from 6 years ago on duck genitalia.

Both have been chosen because of their hopes for a brighter future, but over the decades, Frank (now played by George Clooney) has become disillusioned, and it's up to Casey and Athena to bring him around and in the process save the world from... Well, I won't spoil it, but let's just say this is the sort of movie in which a discussion of global warming plays a supporting role and the senselessness of Hollywood movies and video games receives its obligatory culture - war spanking.

Now, flesh - eating ghouls shamble and gnaw through pop culture from mainstream studio pictures (Zombieland, World War Z) to TV soaps (The Walking Dead), game - derived franchises (Resident Evil) to micro-budgeted efforts shot in folks» gardens (Colin, made for just # 45).

And it gives you an opportunity to learn about Irish culture and what America was like just after World War II, which is when it is set.

The novel, written in 1930, anticipated not just a second world war but a tabloid culture that would become, if anything, more fevered: One could plug in Page Six and Iraq, and Vile Bodies would seem even more startlingly contemporary.

The paradox of modern schooling after World War II, he found, was that just as our complex industrial society made formal education more important, adolescent culture was shifting teens» attention away from education, prompting adolescents to squeeze out «maximum rewards for minimal effort.»

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However, liberal and conservative civic educators can not agree on proper civic virtues, turning our public schools into just another front in the culture wars.

Although the documents are organized chronologically as the years just before or during the Civil War, the archive contains rich material for teachers and researchers interested in exploring other important themes in American History, such as slavery, immigration, ethnic groups, women's lives, reform movements, economic development, and political culture.

Nonfiction Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Spiegel & Grau) John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9 - 11, Iraq (Norton) Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco) Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward (FSG) Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War (Doubleday)

This time travel adventure has enough history, old Scottish dialect and culture, romance, sex, war, and violence for just about anybody.

Some people enjoyed learning about the people and culture in Otuam, Ghana: It was refreshing to read a story regarding Africa where the main theme was not about war, violence, extreme poverty, child soldiers, and «just falling apart.»

In Just One Catch, the definitive Heller biography, Tracy Daugherty reconstructs the author's life, and as our reviewer wrote, it «illuminate [s] the post-World War II culture of American fiction — from the emergence of Jewish sensibilities as a key narrative element to the influence of mass advertising and television to the corporatization of book publishing.»

The plot primarily follows two trajectories: life during and just after the Nigerian Civil War (July 1967 — January 1970), and the protagonist's growing sense of sexual identity in a conservative Christian culture.

Simon Reichley, assistant to the publishers and office manager at Melville House, went further, saying in a blog post: «And just as publishers like Influx have a responsibility to protect the marginalised and to create a cultural space and voice for those most vulnerable to a revitalised nationalism, so too do more mainstream publishers have a responsibility to bring more level heads to the table, to reintegrate the alienated and fearful white middle class, and to rapidly de-escalate the culture war presently looming on the British horizon.»

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Warriors at rest, far from home but resonant of domestic textures, they are reminders that war extends beyond the battlefield into every facet of life, and that in armed conflicts, culture is just as contested as territory.

After the Second World War, emerging researchers avoided explanations of their research based on race, just as determinedly as earlier researchers had avoided explanations that undermined notions of biological race.7 Culture replaced race, with researchers now collecting data about a vanishing way of life, and similarities rather than differences were emphasised.