Sentences with phrase «observations about the culture»

When Scott Bearby, General Counsel for the NCAA, was asked by yours truly at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio last week about who holds the athletic trainers and medical staff accountible about return - to - play decisions for student athletes, it opened the door to an interesting observation about the culture of concussions.

For a book on dating girls, the majority of the content is on arbitrary observations about the culture of the Thai people and what.

Most everybody sets out with a vision for art, an observation about culture, or a social issue.

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Several good reasons underlie the paucity of observations about parish culture.

Marty's lengthy discussion of the role of denominations is fascinating — especially his observations (which I find convincing) about the continuing relevance of denominational entities in our reportedly «postdenominational» religious culture.

Randal Balmer has made a fool of himself by issuing a political statement about Bill Graham's observation concerning the state of our culture.

Rodney Stark wrote an amazing book called «The Victory of Reason» where he argued that something like the Enlightenment is only possible in a monotheistic culture where a belief in a Creator leads to a belief in a created order, which in turn leads to the possibility of an orderly set of observations about the world that we today call «Science.»

David can critique anything about the church institution or theology or culture — 30 years of observations is hard to argue with.

Having made observations about the fabric of our society, of the lack of a supportive culture and the threats which these pose to family life, we are presented on page 42 with a recipe for building family life based on the Rule, concerning external and internal dispositions of mind and heart.

They are abstractions: they represent a thematization of fundamentalist culture, an extraction from observations, a way of summarizing what fundamentalism is supposedly all about.

Following our guide along the trail we learned all about the local river ecosystem, local history and culture, and got to put our eyes and hands on a wide variety of plants — sharpening our observation skills in the process.

Such observations give biologists richer insights into animal behavior, others say, and might help researchers learn more about the roots of human culture by clarifying what makes it distinctive.

Well, the roots of the paleo movement actually span as far back as 1939, when dentist Weston Price traveled the world making extensive observations about the diets and health of indigenous cultures.

Yet, it simultaneously serves as a sophisticated satire that makes some thought - provoking observations about American culture «along the way.

The most frustrating thing about Anger Management isn't that Sandler is back to his old tricks, it's that there are observations embedded here about the state of our culture in decline that exhibit a genuine insight and cynicism that could have made for a fascinating satire rather than this unintentional one.

The rapidity of these sequences reminds me of an observation once made by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen about the differences between Japanese and Western cultures in relation to time.

It has meaningful observations about love, family, and the never - ending clash of cultures.

«Buried» also gets points for making interesting observations about American corporate and political culture, but it doesn't bog down in sermonizing.

Living in Ohio, I was often told by students that I reminded them of a Northern American, a decaffeinated American, rather than a Canadian, an observation, frankly, I found disturbing, and very telling about the US students and culture.

Since each site has its own history and culture, even a brief stay allows visitors to make comparative observations about climate, dress, economics and customs.

The script of each episode is packed with humorous observations about life and culture — ones that help to make strong points about the history being communicated.

She manages to skillfully weave personal observations, research citations, and understated British humor into a powerful story about the role education systems play in shaping — and reflecting — national culture and achievement.

Though interviews and observations on SUTD's campus, Fisher has learned a lot about how education models move and adapt between cultures.

The advantages come at the price of concerns about the limited number of country observations, the mostly cross-sectional character of available achievement data, and possible bias from unobserved country factors such as culture.

What I mean by this, is historical government initiatives have created a culture where teachers stress about lesson observations, spend a disproportionate amount of time planning that particular lesson and for what?

Small and Simple is an LDS Blog with Observations about Mormon Doctrine and Culture.

I am fascinated by the Mayan culture and I am looking forward to learning more about it through observation, interactions with locals and immersing myself in the everyday Guatemalan life.

These aesthetic observations of the physical form become metaphors by which to consider broader issues about empowerment, gender roles, beauty, politics, labor, pop culture — as well as ethnic and racial histories.

These aesthetic observations of the physical form become metaphors by which to consider broader issues about empowerment, gender roles, beauty, politics, labor, popular - culture — as well as ethnic and racial histories.

For Reinhardt, cartoons were a humorous platform for satirical observations about the art world, and culture and society more broadly.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

Small and Simple is an LDS Blog with Observations about Mormon Doctrine and Culture.

Small and Simple is an LDS Blog with Observations about Mormon Doctrine and Culture.

Cairo, Egypt About Blog This blog has my observations, as a Scottish Bellydancer, about adjusting to life, work and performing in Cairo, Egypt; the place, the people, the culture, the music and of course the dance and bellydance scene here in this crazy About Blog This blog has my observations, as a Scottish Bellydancer, about adjusting to life, work and performing in Cairo, Egypt; the place, the people, the culture, the music and of course the dance and bellydance scene here in this crazy about adjusting to life, work and performing in Cairo, Egypt; the place, the people, the culture, the music and of course the dance and bellydance scene here in this crazy city.

Small and Simple is an LDS Blog with Observations about Mormon Doctrine and Culture.