Classes are aligned to state standards with intense focus
on the language and culture required for high school success.
, The skin that we speak; Thoughts
on language and culture in the classroom.
For instance, with two dual - language Vietnamese schools in the district now, Tanner and her team added banh mi and pho to the menu served at all the schools, not just the two with a focus
on that language and culture.
With characteristic wit and aplomb, Hitchens reports
on the language and culture of «Tumorville,» the futility of prayer, the error of Nietzsche's claim that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and, most movingly, the loss of his voice.
Modern scholarship has revealed not only how much our capacity to be human depends
on language and culture but also the extent to which all language (and particularly religious language) is symbolic.
Not exact matches
All of these things take time to learn,
and this knowledge base is part of the unique
culture and shared
language of the company; when employees leave, or when new hires get brought
on board, the company needs to have a plan in place to preserve the continuity of the company's institutional knowledge.
Every trip provides an opportunity to experience local
culture, go
on thrill - seeking adventures, learn a new
language,
and volunteer abroad.
The Fund managers follow a growth - oriented investment process with emphasis
on qualitative research, as well as knowledge of local
languages and business
cultures.
The rules are interpreted differently from country to country depending
on the
language,
culture and mores of Facebook users.
Ola's shift from focusing entirely
on winning in India — a huge
and complex market with hundreds of
languages and cultures — to expanding globally is a big move.
Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan
and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality
and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools
and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays
and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger
and stronger in the area
on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood,
culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.
Don't focus
on the so - called individual, but
on culture and its net of inter-person communication, mediated mainly by
language (s).
The universe evolves, galaxies evolve, organisms evolve, societies evolve,
cultures evolve, technology evolves,
languages evolve,
and so
on and so forth.
What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new
language, to understand a local
culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence
and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the
language of the unchurched, understanding secular
culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence
and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing
on display.
Ideally they also learn
and practice other
languages than their own; their holidays are used to gather knowledge
and understanding of art
and other
cultures, rather than just sunning
on a beach.
There were no sons for my parents to rely
on in their old age, to provide for their retirement,
and then to care for them; that was the message I heard directly
and indirectly from family
and the extended «aunties»
and «uncles» who were not blood relatives but connected by ethnic heritage,
culture,
and language.
The different principles, colonial infiltration of English
culture and language have created the tendency for Indians to rely
on English versions as the primary sources.
The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach
and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself
and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological
language and thought forms of the Greek
culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea
and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century,
and go
on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.
On the other hand, they are a special group in respect to such features as rational capacity, imagination, memory, foresight,
language,
and the ability to create
and transmit
culture.
In medieval Europe, obligations were personal
and traditional, based neither
on common
language nor
on a single
culture; they did not interpose the bureaucratic machinery of a state between the subject
and the ruler.
Here's what the pontiff said at an interreligious prayer service at Ground Zero during his visit to the United States: «We can
and must build unity
on the basis of our diversity of
languages,
cultures,
and religions,
and lift our voices against everything which would stand in the way of such unity.»
In an extraordinary essay, «Colors,
Cultures,
and Practices» in The Tasks of Philosophy, MacIntyre draws explicitly
on Wittgenstein's arguments against a private
language, to argue that our judgments of color are socially established standards.
How would they (in light of their background,
culture,
language and so
on) have understood it?
’14 In a future that draws
on the diversity
and richness of our past
cultures, we should not expect one set of symbols
and concepts to provide the «religiously correct»
language of a global religion.
Postliberalism, with its emphasis
on culture and language, narrative
and community, character
and virtue, opened possibilities for being theologically serious
and doctrinally orthodox while avoiding the restrictive biblicism of the evangelical world.
None of us are so untouched by the biblical stories of God's self - disclosure that our understandings of mystery, nature, history,
and self are innocent of the interpretations provided of them by the impact of biblical faith
and doctrinal traditions
on our
culture and language.
An Emergent definition of relevance, modulated by resistance, might run something like this; relevance means listening before speaking; relevance means interpreting the
culture to itself by noting the ways in which certain cultural productions gesture toward a transcendent grace
and beauty; relevance means being ready to give an account for the hope that we have
and being in places where someone might actually ask; relevance means believing that we might learn something from those who are most unlike us; relevance means not so much translating the churches
language to the
culture as translating the
culture's
language back to the church; relevance means making theological sense of the depth that people discover in the oddest places of ordinary living
and then using that experience to draw them to the source of that depth (Augustine seems to imply such a move in his reflections
on beauty
and transience in his Confessions).
Even so, there simply are too many instances of cross-fertilization linking German Romanticism to literary
and philosophical
culture elsewhere, France
and England in particular, to justify Safranski's exclusive focus
on German -
language materials
and the implication of a autochthonous German Romantic
culture.
I mean, communicated from a divine source by Jesus Christ as God, through inspired prophets
and wise men, apostles, teachers, the writers of the books of the Bible, councils of church leaders, popes,
and so
on, in such a way that the message has been transmitted in human
language, clothed in the external forms of human thought, given, indeed, in the characteristic
language and thought - forms of particular nations
and cultures, but at the same time in such a way that its essential content has been unaffected by the human mind's fallibility, ignorance
and feebleness of apprehension.
Just as Buber's understanding of law goes hand in hand with his philosophy of
language, so Buber's emphasis
on transformation through dialogue marks his views of
culture and politics, both in Germany before the Holocaust
and in Israel after it.
On the one hand, to ignore the religion and culture of a people only serves to alienate them from the liberation struggle being waged on their behalf; how can they participate if they do not understand the language in which the struggle is being articulate
On the one hand, to ignore the religion
and culture of a people only serves to alienate them from the liberation struggle being waged
on their behalf; how can they participate if they do not understand the language in which the struggle is being articulate
on their behalf; how can they participate if they do not understand the
language in which the struggle is being articulated?
So everyone has their view
and position
on a traditional «habit» that has spanned thousands of years,
languages and cultures.
Theological schooling will need to focus
on those tensions
and conflicts
and the various strategies congregations employ in negotiating them when they use the host
culture's
languages to practice their own discipleship.
Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic
language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching
on marriage
and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason
and recognised as such by all the major
cultures of the world.
«Chopra's speculation
on the «God consciousness» of Jesus imports a very alien worldview into the Jewish - Hebrew context
and culture of Jesus,
and means his
language is distorted completely.
The world is still characterized by an enormous range of differences in
language,
culture, economic patterns religious practices, values, wealth, educational levels,
and so
on and on.
If anyone is really interested in understanding the view
on women or slavery, you need to search the right websites that don't mock the Bible but that actually study the Hebrew
languages and their
cultures.
It must be hard to get your head around a different script but also really interesting — foreign
languages are such a great way to understand a different
culture and reflect
on your own.
We acknowledge also that
language,
culture, spirituality, health
and wellbeing
and nutritional
and medicinal knowledge are inextricably linked to peoples» traditional lands
and are strengthened, deepened
and replenished by being
on their traditional lands.
Got ta give the new kid time to learn the
language and adapt to a new
culture, might surprise us all but we don't want to put undue stress
on such a potential.
On the playing field
and off, be color blind
and accepting of different beliefs,
cultures and languages.
No one can fully understand the Latin
culture or way of life without considering the impact that the corrida has had
on the
language, custom
and art in Spain
and more than half of our hemisphere.
Reflecting
on the session, Pienaar said: «After having been through so much, fleeing war
and persecution to then arriving in the UK
and facing a new
language and culture, these sessions give people a chance to forget about their troubles for an hour or so, make new friends
and feel part of the community.
On top of this i'm hoping he's more settled now as he was struggling with the
language and culture of living in London.
As a child
and teen, I accompanied them
on trips around the world — learning about history, art,
language,
culture and trying new foods.
On exchange they live with that family
and are able to immerse themselves in daily life in another
language and culture while continuing their education at their host's local Waldorf School.
InCultureParent blends
culture, tradition
and language to present articles
on everything related to these areas.
Jerome, who has been an administrator since 1970, also frequently speaks
on global citizenship in schools, including
language and culture.
This will draw
on unrivalled knowledge
and resources to provide an open, independent
and sharpened focus
on contemporary China, informed by a deep engagement with China's history,
culture,
language and society.
Russia has powerful economic tools (restrictions
on imports, increases of gas prices, restrictions
on migrant labour); this leverage is complemented by more cultural sources of influence: shared
language, history
and culture,
and kinship.