Sentences with phrase «on cultural happenings»

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«To get the full change to happen, we probably need not only greater representation of women, but we need to see also a cultural shift in organizations that really places greater value on gender equity in the workplace, and makes it more legitimate and acceptable for women to lend a helping hand to other women in the work place.»

The God of the Old Testament was a false god, just like any other god at the time, Jesus was the first and only revelation from God Himself and any reliance of his on Jewish theology was merely a cultural phenomenon where he quoted occasional truths that Jews had happened across while worshiping the false God.

Unlike what happened in the West in the 60s, most of theseyoung people do not need to launch a revolution: they just need to follow suit, jump on the band wagon of cultural globalisation.

He wants to see them do five things: «Initiate a focused approach to the claims of Islam; make a political and cultural analysis of the unique impact of the Islamic evangelization of black males; approach Islam on theological and evangelical levels; assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of Islam in Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisons.

It's when people connect on this experiential level that ideas (in this case, «bad things shouldn't happen to good people») gain cultural traction and eventually make their way into religious imagery.

As had happened many times in my three years of teaching these same monks, their cultural and religious experiences - so far removed and foreign to mine - had enriched a seemingly mundane conversation on science.

This will happen by adopting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement that works to implement best practices across a full spectrum of sustainability dimensions — social, ecological, economic, cultural and accountability — for the benefit of all of agriculture and the peoples of the world that depend on it.

Whatever of note happens will appear on the cultural pages rather than in the sports section the following day.

Shiloh Baptist Church, the Reverend Wallace Charles Smith presiding, is a cultural landmark in Washington, D.C.. On a Sunday in June, which happened to be Music Appreciation Day, Shiloh's 150 - member choir rocked the house with song.

And with the service's centennial happening in 2016, NPS is working on a «plan of action» to improve the parks for the big celebration, as well as to address long - term concerns, including cultural resource management, invasive species, and climate change.

This is all very well to say, but like any cultural shift, movement happens in personal baby steps much faster than on the world stage.

«Trends are happening a lot faster now and you want to be able to react quickly and bring your spin on a certain trend or happening or cultural moment, so you've got to be technically faster in your lead times, in your ability to launch products,» says Schumacher, citing the company's «Speedfactory» in the Bavarian town of Ansbach, where Adidas is deploying new manufacturing processes like robotic cutting, digital knitting and 3D printing.

The blog is a contribution of all employee efforts, primarily focusing on industry trends while also highlighting cultural events and happenings internally.

Many great date ideas will actually be featured in your local magazines as well - festivals, cultural events, shows, concerts and so on happen throughout the year.

Linklater uses era - defining music as a sort of bookmark for time, shaping his stories around cultural happenings as defined by what was playing on the radio.

The gap left in the broader cultural imagination by this missing footage has, since the time of her death, been one filmmakers have returned to on numerous occasions in an attempt to fill the space she left behind with new visual data, new stories, new ways of comprehending what happened and what its broader cultural meaning could be.

Many of the film's depictions of Japanese culture — including a series of plays on the best - known Nihonga paintings, such as Hokusai's «The Great Wave off Kanagawa» — are these punchlines held in pregnant abeyance: we anticipate something off - colour or ill - considered to find that perhaps the only thing happening is a certain blithe, meaningfully meaningless cultural appropriation.

And Fargo opens with a pretty strong roundhouse slap: a title card indicating that the (totally fabricated) plot of the film was based on true crimes, implying that Minnesota is such a remote and irrelevant cultural environment that a half - dozen people could get slaughtered in one weekend and even the locals wouldn't be quite sure if they remember that actually happening.

This practice works best as a response to gaps in cultural learning and representation that happen when curriculum is perceived to have too narrow a focus on a white, middle - to - upper - class, male - dominated view of the world.

These worksheets are perfect for students to learn about Saint Patrick's Day which is a cultural and religious celebration that happens annually on 17 March to mark the death date of the most commonly - recognised patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick.

Limited Reliability: Many factors can influence standardized test scores, including variations in test makeup, whether a student «tests well,» language and cultural factors and how a student happens to feel on testing day.

The festival, which will be held from 13 - 15 April and 20 - 22 April on the Empire Polo Fields in Indio, California, is a cultural happening not just for music fans.

Be on the lookout for exclusive offers in NYC and the Caribbean as well as cultural events and happenings we're excited about.

As it happens, the Drawing Center may yet find a home, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council may yet find a vision, but the debate over memorials at Ground Zero drags on, and so do plans for Governors Island.

If optimism fueled the impulse to create large, permanent works in the «60s and «70s, the artists in this exhibition are more likely to rechannel that optimism into collaborative and collective experiences; to dwell on memory and the ephemeral by charting the traces of the just - happened; and to embrace the rich social, cultural and political meanings of their throwaway materials.

That will not happen tonight, as writer, humorist, and cultural commentator Fran Lebowitz reflects candidly on the trials and joys of her close friendship with the artist.

The full list of options for exhibition receptions and cultural happenings on the East End follow.

In a recent episode of his absorbing podcast, «Revisionist History,» cultural critic Malcolm Gladwell interrogates a statue modeled after a news photograph of a confrontation in 1963 between a police officer with a dog and a young black boy in Birmingham, Alabama.1 Made by African American sculptor Dr. Ronald McDowell, The Foot Soldier (1995) is far more horrific than the photo, Gladwell convincingly argues, because it bears an added imaginative potency: the narrative is told by a traditionally silenced voice, and for Gladwell this «is just what happens when the people on the bottom finally get the power to tell the story their way.»

Learn about local artists at the Tiger Lily Press Annual Print Sale, happening at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center on Saturday.

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Focused on the digital and creative agencies, its Twitter feed covers the latest design jobs, and shares links to opinion pieces and cultural happenings.

These conversations about art, cultural politics, and equity are not just being held in the academy; they are happening on the front lines of culture, in our museums and galleries.

Inspired by the Kongos» (of the Democractic Republic of the Congo) power figure nkisi nkondi, Destierro (Displacement, 1998 - 99) represents the spirit of the Cuban people who awakens in order to make good on the promise of revolution that has yet to happen; even without this specific cultural context, the artwork haunted me as a symbol of a popular consciousness, political betrayal, and a building hunger for change.

Creating works in a diverse array of mediums, employing fabric, audio, video, film, installation, cultural events, and artistic happenings, Riedel often copies or recycles his own past work or art - related objects to comment on, expand, or even invert the meaning and intention of the original object or event.

It will include information on fair offerings as well as other cultural happenings around town in May.

It's all part of the enterprising — and common sense - ical --» Strike Series» at CAF, through which the gallery capitalizes on the empty venue between exhibitions with varied cultural happenings.

The exhibition «Films and Videos by Artists on Itaú Cultural Collection» happens in Curitiba and presents works by Gisela Motta & Leandro Lima, Sara Ramo, Thiago Rocha Pitta and other artists.

Some said that the Cadillacs and other fancy cars pulling up in front of 2033 Fifth Avenue on Lloyd's opening night were the only indication for many people in Harlem that something «cultural» was happening.

The influence of cultural cognition explains why people with different outlooks and identities are forming such strong and divergent understandings of what happened despite their having almost no clear evidence to go on.

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I think it's important to acknowledge what's happened on the cultural level in terms of indoctrinating people to disposability.

The blog is a contribution of all employee efforts, primarily focusing on industry trends while also highlighting cultural events and happenings internally.

The blog is a contribution of all employee efforts, primarily focusing on industry trends while also highlighting cultural events and happenings internally.

Mindlessly carrying on chasing commissions with blinders well fitted (which bakes - in a well entrenched belief system that all is well... as long as the big bucks keep coming in and the pot - of - gold at the end of the rainbow still exists) will only lead to a stubborn self - sustaining cultural resistance to what is slowly, relentlessly, happening out there; government types are finally, seriously looking at the wild - west amateur - gunslinger real - estate - agent show.

The app gives shoppers updates on cultural events happening at the property in addition to informing them of retail sales and providing links to Asbury Park's Facebook and Twitter pages.

Working with an international client on 2600 Seventh Avenue presented us with other challenges, like understanding the buyer from a cultural perspective, communicating in a different language and explaining the differences between how their country closes real estate transactions versus the way we make deals happen in the U.S.