Sentences with phrase «on everyday society»

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We need to build appealing subcultures rather than advance our own version of the Great Society or spend all of our energy on roiling national debates that stand far apart from the everyday experience of those Americans who could most benefit from what we have to offer.

We ask you to hold closely those young people in our country who are on the margins of society and struggling with everyday life.

Still, White is doing what he can to shed light on an issue that he feels both Houston and the rest of the NBA have failed to address, even though it runs rampant in the league and in everyday society.

For me, that offers one of the key perspectives on understanding societies, and it is a way of thinking about politics that shifts it away from the great theories and abstractions of political philosophers, who often can not speak with reference to everyday life.

He admitted «it is sad to note that thirty - eight years on, the vices of corruption, nepotism, cronyism, etc., which led to the eruption of June 4th in 1979 have slowly crept back into our everyday life and arguably surpassed the obnoxious period preceding the June 4 event,» adding «our nation is once again grappling with the canker of widespread, extreme corruption that has permeated the whole of our society, including officialdom.»

Speaking at a packed panel discussion on how to achieve everyday equality for disabled people, hosted by Scope and the Fabian Society, the shadow work and pensions secretary Debbie Abrahams attacked the current social security system.

These retreats cater to the overworked and overhauled members of Korean society (professionals, stay - at - home mothers, and even high school students) and encourage guests to detach themselves from worldly affairs by focusing inward on their spiritual healing, without the crutch of everyday distractions such as their phones, technology, and work.

Our society generally frowns on people who do actually make these jokes in everyday life and now they're putting these jokes in movies?!

who become criminals on the lam has a tenderness and romantic despair that makes this memorable movie quite moving as it examines two everyday people who are very much the «victims of circumstances» in Depression era society.

Her beautiful, exhausted performance in You Only Live Once (1937) as the young woman partnered with a vulnerable Henry Fonda who become criminals on the lam has a tenderness and romantic despair that makes this memorable movie quite moving as it examines two everyday people who are very much the «victims of circumstances» in Depression era society.

The humor is so spot on and unapologetic with its criticism of society and the ridiculous nature of what we accept as the everyday.

Ideas and paradigms and worldviews are important, and so are new ways of thinking about ourselves and our relation to the ecology of capitalism, but it is those ideas that are located in the routines and rituals of everyday life that are more likely to have an impact on transforming society.

In this episode, WISC - TV Editorial Director Neil Heinen interviews Gray on subjects ranging from the tools IGE provides for making ethical decisions in everyday life to the big picture questions of how we, as a society, view ethics today.

Focusing on the choices made by ordinary people helps students appreciate how history is shaped by the everyday actions of individuals and counters the popular narrative that only leaders have the power to influence society.

Hosted by the Data & Society Research Institute, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the conference explored emerging civil rights issue connected to the rise in big data and complex algorithms used in our everyday lives.

Throughout the year and especially during September Guide Dog Awareness month, Thomas hopes to help educate society on the importance of what guide dogs do for people in everyday life.

The new cat and dog everyday adoption center, officially opening on Oct. 26, frees up kennel space at the Spokane Humane Society's main shelter location and allows adoptable pets to live in a new pet - friendly venue until they are adopted.

ChariDeal is an easy way to get great discounts on the things you do and buy everyday while helping the Connecticut Humane Society earn funds to save pets» lives.

In an artistic and documentarian manner, Seitz dissects life in Kazakhstan and investigates the areas that reflect the transformation of a society: in everyday life, on the streets, in the country, in buildings, at monuments, and in bodies and faces.

His more recent works, which include print making, painting and installations, still draw on this theme of everyday objects and their changing nature in society and artistic practice, using their pre-defined contextual symbolism as a way to make an audience re-think what we see, and what we know.

Curator Eugene Tan said, «The artists in our inaugural exhibition prompt us to consider how attentive we are to the visible and invisible structures and networks that exist in our society, and how enormous an influence these have on our everyday lives.»

Drawing on his experiences of imprisonment in a succession of concentration camps, Lurie's riotous collages and paintings accuse society of shirking responsibility for its crimes against humanity, dovetailing evidence of Nazi atrocities with advertising imagery and everyday banalities.

«Within our society and culture, it is useful to focus on this every - changing medium's current and historical roles and the ever - growing influence it has upon our everyday lives.

Teruya manipulates everyday objects, transforming their meanings to reflect on contemporary society and culture.

Viewers got to see Hayuk's colorful, layered weave paintings that balance between tradition, psychedelic, strict geometry and abstraction, Revok's abstract geo - based works inspired by patterns and waste materials from urban environments, Peterson's signature b / w visions of power struggles and conflicts in the society, and Deiana's meticulous ball point pen on paper works that create abstraction out of textures, TV static and other everyday occurrences.

The constant stream of images that society produces and encounters everyday on their electronic devices, such as tablets, and our physical relationship to them in the way we hold, swipe and tap them is being thought about when making these works as well as how that relates to making sculpture and the process of constructing form and image through material processes.

Over the last 70 years since Konrad Zuse invented the first computer, digital development overtook society so quickly that barely any time remained to consider its dominant impact on everyday social life.

With my personal narrative I attempt to reflect on our contemporary society and a culture where we manage complex feelings and the conflicting emotions of our everyday lives.

Stephanie Kiwitt is using photography to observe public space and reflect on the increasing commercialization of everyday life in our affluent Western society.

Hannah Hoch, Richard Huelsenbeck, John Heartfield, and others pioneered the technique of photomontage, using preexisting photographs, often drawn from mass - media sources, to create composite images that sharply critiqued German society and culture in the aftermath of World War I. Drawing on the foundations of Dada, neo-avant-garde artists of the 1950s like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns created assemblages that brought collage techniques into three dimensions — laying the groundwork for much contemporary sculpture — as well as works on paper that incorporated found elements drawn from the mass media and everyday life.

Alicja Kwade's work investigates and questions the structures of our reality and society and reflects on the perception of time in our everyday life.

He is deeply influenced by pop culture, everyday life observations and often comments on the human being within society.

The campaign has also created important opportunities for student activists to learn about coalition building, negotiation and compromise, with campus forums and events sparking critical reflection on what climate change means for society and how everyday citizens, especially young people, can become involved.

Alongside Michael Pawlyn, leading the course will be Julian Vincent, Professor of Biomimetics at the University of Bath, who will focus on materials and structures in biology; Graham Dodd, Director at Ove Arup & Partners, will look at system, composite and structured material strategies with examples of each in nature and in design; Neil Thomas, Director of Atelier One structural engineers, will consider the role of engineering in everyday life and objects and how it can go wrong; Andy Middleton, management consultant and director of TYF EcoSapiens, will look at the role of the design industry within business and society.

I know that it can't be zero, after all, those societies on are the tv to see everyday and NO ONE wants to live under those conditions (see Somalia and Afghanistan as examples where one pays no taxes).

This susceptibility begins in law school and eventually has an impact on society by affecting people who rely on lawyers to manage their everyday legal problems.