Sentences with phrase «other cultural elements»

Cultural appropriation is defined as «the use by cultural outsiders of a minority, oppressed culture's symbols or other cultural elements».

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This included circumscribing commitments covering cultural products, which was achieved through an exchange of side letters with the other parties, and reflecting elements of the progressive trade agenda of the Liberal Trudeau government, including through the change in the name of the agreement, a side letter eliciting strengthened labour commitments by Vietnam, and side letters acknowledging traditional knowledge.

Each element of worship rather expresses a particular cultural form that will naturally be more welcoming to some and less to others.

Criticism of many of the elements of historic Christianity, especially of its dogmatism and cultural imperialism, led to the suggestion that it had much to learn, as well as much to teach, in its encounter with other faiths.

There are, as one would expect, several essays in the book on Jews and Judaism, some reflecting Kristol's religious interests» the need, for example, to sustain in Jewish identity a religious element and not merely a cultural one» others his political ones, exploring the relations of modern American Jews with a pluralistic American society that has given them an uncommonly large, though not unlimited, berth.

Mujerista theology brings together elements of feminist theology, Latin American liberation theology and cultural theology, three perspectives which critique and challenge each other, giving birth to new elements, a new reality, a new whole.

Muhammad used his family's moon god, (Sin), and cooked up his religion using all kinds of other circulating, well known cultural themes, and elements.

When we speak of Christianity, and of its importance to European cultural history, we commonly assume that Christianity belongs to European culture, that it is a part of that culture, an element among other elements: e.g., Jewish ethics, Greek democracy and philosophy, pagan sacrality, Roman law and organization, not to mention the customs of the Germanic, Slavic, and Hungarian tribes who were invaders.

It further states that In the Third World, where all religions together face the challenges of enslaving social and cultural systems and the need to struggle for justice, religions should meet each other, exploring and sharing their liberative elements.

The marble statues are Roman in style, which provide additional insight to the cultural impact of Rome's annexation of Nabataea in 106 A.D. «The Nabateans were true geniuses in many ways, in part because they were ready and willing to assimilate to and adopt elements of other cultures around them,» Parker said.

Archaeologists have long used thermal infrared images to locate buried architecture and other cultural landscape elements.

It has long been a central cultural element in the region of its initial domestication, but has since worked its way into the sinews of many other cultures.

Outside the Western filmmaking mainstream, other filmmakers took up the challenge of the new order in the action genre, adding cultural elements peculiar to them.

The four elements posit LD as: 1) heterogeneous; 2) intrinsic or neurobiological; 3) marked by a significant discrepancy between learning potential (measured intelligence) and academic performance (measured skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and oral language); and 4) not caused by cultural, educational, environmental, or economic factors or by other disabilities (such as mental deficiency, visual or hearing impairments, or emotional disturbance).

«We've also looked at incorporating elements of Indigenous and other cultures that relate to students in our cohort... a place where our science students can do cultural investigations — they might decide to grow something or see the effects of something, look at hydroponics or aquaponics.

Equitable access of all human beings, in current and future generations, to the conditions needed for human well - being — socio - cultural, economic, political, ecological, and in particular food, water, shelter, clothing, energy, healthy living, and satisfying social and cultural relations — without endangering any other person's access; equity between humans and other elements of nature; and social, economic, and environmental justice for all.

This element involves students identifying, observing, describing and analysing increasingly sophisticated characteristics of their own cultural identities and those of others.

In her study of motivational factors that impact student engagement, Kathleen Cushman identified «social learning with others, links to students» own interests, cultural connections, physical activity, relevance to the larger world, competition, an element of choice and sheer curiosity about an intriguing puzzle» (2013, p. 42).

In the late 1990s, the recently diversified Annandale High School in Virginia pulled together administrators, teachers, parents, and other elements in its community to build an accepting climate and draw students from all cultural groups into advanced classes.

The combination of period drama, alternative timelines, fantasy elements, zombies, and complex socio - historical - cultural contexts makes this book a welcome departure from other contemporary genre - specific young adult texts.

Artissima has always been characterized by its dual cultural and commercial vocation, so it is only fitting that the other new element for 2014 involves the part of the fair concerned with planning a cultural programme to accompany the market - based offering.

These artists as well as the others included in the exhibition expose elements of wit, sarcasm, and controversy, challenging cultural assumptions that gender is ever natural or innate.

«Dunhuang showed me that centuries ago people were already living in a very diverse era where different cultural, artistic, and religious elements were all at a crossroad, blended with each other,» Cai says.

«Take It or Leave It,» Ellegood explains, aims to challenge power structures and social - cultural institutions — be it politics, media, racism, sexism or art museums themselves — through artists who borrow and re-contextualize images, text and other elements from pop culture and fine art, among other places, to make a conceptual point.

The way cultural elements and themes can become intermingled or amalgamated has been with us throughout human history: just think of the some of the other elements in Husain's paintings, like the centaur — a being that contains elements inherited from myth and reality.

While his works have often been compared to those from other key figures of the pop art movement, such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Rosenquist's pieces were unique in the way that they often employed elements of surrealism using fragments of advertisements and cultural imagery to emphasize the overwhelming nature of ads.

In Zhou Yilun's art, this cocktail of contradictory cultural elements doesn't have the alluvial and demanding vehemence of other artists sharing the same genre, but a type of guilelessness, pleasant purity which finally offers the feeling of comfortable honesty and freedom regarding personal expectation and prejudice.

BOEM is particularly interested in receiving information on historic sites, districts, and National Historic Landmarks, as well as cultural corridors and other historic properties, whose viewsheds may be a contributing element to eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places.

The right to housing is an element within the right to an adequate standard of living and is recognised as central to the realisation of all economic, social and cultural rights.32 The right to adequate housing is also recognized in other international human rights instruments including; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women; the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

This element constitutes particular risk as children and adolescents awaiting asylum are subjected to the compounded stress of being supervised and / or communal living with others outside their family / cultural group.

The Canadian and American cultural values of self - disclosure and talking with others are seen as important elements for resolving problems.

This conflict is facilitated by governments and industry that focus heavily on economic outcomes and ignore the other elements essential for our well - being including our social, cultural, political and spiritual systems.