Sentences with phrase «other cultural issues»

Bottom line, like all other consumer experience initiatives you might be employing, being sensitive to the language and other cultural issues of your foreign - born client is a must.

Other cultural issues found their way into the pages of the CENTURY.

He gets into the Obama Free Birth Control Rule — recently and laudably enjoined against a company owned by Catholics — the German circumcision decision, and other cultural issues I haven't discussed here.

Not exact matches

It is time to tackle these issues — and a host of other cultural barriers to progress — head on, and I have faith in the mission of the Biden Cancer Initiative to do that.

Some of the demonstrations, which are also celebrated under the International Workers» Day banner, reflected cultural traditions, and many others were a rallying cry for equal rights, equal pay, and a renewed focus on social, environmental and civil - rights issues.

Customer focus is a cultural issue, Bezos says, that distinguishes Amazon from other companies, whose chiefs craft strategy in competitive terms.

This assessment is a milder expression of Uber's cultural issues than those voiced by some of Uber's own executives in the wake of Fowler's blog post, which detailed how other female engineers had shared similar stories of harassment.

Based on the above, UKTI commissioned the ECR program in combination with the PIB service to, among other things, allow companies to employ foreign - language - speaking students at U.K. universities and other British institutions of higher learning to address issues related to language and cultural barriers that companies may face in entering particular foreign markets.

But initially at least Canada was seen as an additional complication to completion of the TPP, a «difficult» negotiating partner that brought its own baggage (such as a less than robust IPR regime, a traditional antipathy to the interests of the brand - name pharmaceutical manufacturers, a penchant for protecting so - called «cultural industries», and other trade issues that did not align with US interests) that might have resonated with some of the other TPP countries.

Let me add I have not seen your 3 posts asking me about how I feel about it before now when I copied and posted those above and If I had seen before I would have answered you with out any hesitation but did not because I moved to other blogs... And to satisfy you interest my saying I do not like it as a cultural habit but if religion failed to stop it and had to regulate it then what can I do about it... people can still lie and give you an elder age and how can you tell if 9 - 10or more at villages there are no birth certificate issued nor villagers interested to obtain it... what can you tell from their teeth like sheep??

Focused on other issues, the hierarchy is unlikely to interfere with any cultural awakening.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

Important issues are indeed at stake, including the right of Christians and adherents of other religions to uphold their vision of sexual integrity and marriage even if they are in the cultural minority.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Henry rejected liberal versions of the social gospel which tended to be all social and no gospel, but he appealed to an earlier evangelical consensus of cultural engagement that included the work of William Wilberforce in campaigning for the abolition of the slave trade in England, the revivalist impulses of Charles G. Finney against slavery in this country, as well as evangelical concerns for suffrage, temperance, child labor laws, fair wages for workers, and many other progressive issues to which many theologically conservative Christians were once committed» before what David Moberg has called «the great reversal,» an evangelical withdrawal from such concerns.

Other scholars who have similar views to Cobb's have begun to speak quite openly about the necessity of a new tyranny, even to speak favorably of the issue of the Chinese cultural revolution.

The issue is important if for no other reason than that it has a bearing on the «legitimacy» of our cultural and social worlds which are always built on the premise that purpose is worth seeking out.

Even if the northern New Mexico crops will never feed the world — which, given the landrace's limited growing areas, they never will — Madison hopes as people become aware of the chile it will help northern New Mexico's other cultural and environmental issues.

Showing that Greek life plays a large role in even larger cultural issues (the whole point of the post) at SU and other campuses.

But that's not really the issue here, as it is a cultural issue, about how we as a society interpret how we interact both with each other and with our environment.

«The EU's advice is totally in agreement with our public position on the same issue, to the effect that the Buhari administration must refrain from massive deployment of State violence and use of dark side of the laws of the land as well as levying of political, economic, social, ethnic and cultural wars against members of the Nigeria's Igbo and other Southern nationalities.

For Story and the other members of the nascent Refugee Information Network, the goal is wider: to provide «basic information about all EU countries: what rights you'd have there, what the asylum process is like, but also cultural issues like the level of acceptance of refugees in those countries.

He posts regularly at his website, http://behindtheblack.com, on space, science, and other matters relating to cultural and political issues.

One of the apps assesses measures of mood and anxiety; the other asks questions related to life issues including physical and mental health, addictions, cultural factors and environmental stress.

In this, he concedes that he and other professionals are contending with «deep - rooted social and cultural norms around divisions of labor and a lack of awareness regarding gender issues.»

Close collaboration between the OST and other diplomatic divisions, such as the Economic Department, the Cultural Services of the Embassy of France as well as French Research Organizations (CNRS, Inserm, CNES, CEA), allows the OST to efficiently handle the many economic and social implications of current science and technology issues.

The other is looking at cultural issues in neuropsychology and brain injury rehabilitation.

His current research interests are sleep / wake disorders after acquired brain injury and issues of cultural diversity that impact rehabilitation outcomes with a strong motivation to improve neuropsychological testing and cognitive rehabilitation interventions for Spanish - speakers and other underserved populations.

The Revisionaries showcases how public education has become the latest battleground in a new wave of cultural, religious and ideological clashes, with local Texas education board members advancing agendas of Creationism and other religious issues in public schools.

But beyond «Get Out,» there were many other powerful meditations on relevant issues, be they class («The Florida Project,» «Lady Bird»), gender dynamics («Battle of the Sexes,» «The Beguiled») or cultural discrimination («The Big Sick,» «Beatriz at Dinner»).

Many other cultural critics have since picked up on the trope of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, including Anita Sarkeesian who explored the issue in her Tropes vs. Women: # 1 The Manic Pixie Dream Girl video where she concludes the such characters have little of their own purpose or autonomy:

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

Activities conducted under this program include: Development Discourse Pluralism and Peace Building (Formation of ulti - ethnic self - help groups, Pancasila Forum, Cultural Dialogue and Intercultural Dialogue, Development of sermon of various religion with Peace issues, Interactive Dialogue on the Radio, Campaign for Peace and Democracy Development Through Various Media); Cultural revitalization («Mosehe» Culture of Tolaki Ethnic Group, Inter-religion dialogue); Other activities (Working jointly to build a places of worship, building Peace Monument, Performing Arts and Sports, economic activities)

The program also provides training and consultation about cultural adjustment, trauma, and other mental health issues to educators and other professionals working with refugees throughout the state of Colorado.

How students use «critical thinking tools» (problem posing, multiperspectivity, reflective skepticism, systemic thinking and dialog) and «rhetorical tools» (positioning of self and others, invoking cultural narratives, justifications, challenges, resistance) provides insight into whether or not discussions deepen student's understanding of controversial issues and foster recognition across groups in conflict, she says.

The ongoing shift from heavily immigrant to primarily native - born children means schools must address other issues, particularly poverty and cultural identity.

By exploring their own and others» histories, values and cultural practices, and the benefits and challenges of interacting with diverse groups, students learn to see common issues through diverse cultural lenses and to practise empathy.

Most of the other states in our sample fall between states D and J regarding the issue of cultural and linguistic diversity.

English teacher educators may wish to coordinate other traditional methods - course tasks (like having teacher candidates create their own assessments, research a professional issue like computer grading, or plan instruction that addresses students» cultural / linguistic backgrounds) with SWAP materials in order to allow them to consider the consequences of their own instructional decisions and conceptions of writing and writers.

We have to work on cultural issues, like gathering the collective commitments, collaborating and setting goals as I have talked about in other blogs AND we have to work on classroom practice.

Other issues with a special impact on minority communities include: student achievement gaps, the need to increase diversity and cultural competence in the teaching workforce, and securing adequate and equitable resources for public education.

This document explains MALP and the need for it in addressing the cultural issues faced by SLIFE and other culturally and linguistically diverse struggling learners in school settings.

Dr. Christensen has published articles on cultural and literary issues in Philosophy and Literature, Christianity and Literature, Renascence, Modern Age, and various other scholarly journals.

We have no studies to investigate these issues and it is likely dependent on the breed of dog, regional differences in geography and cultural differences, as well as other factors.

Community cat issues are complex and varied, impacted by geography, climate, the presence of other animals including predators, past and current community cat programming, cultural norms and numerous other factors.

But what differentiates the Culture - ist from so many other travel blogs is its interest in cultural awareness, humanitarian issues and gender equality across the world.

In that piece, she said: «We must have a meaningful conversation about mental health issues and other possible cultural and societal contributors to violent behavior, such as violence in video games.»

In his 40 year career, Luna gave voice to Native American cultural issues, pursued artmaking with innovative and versatile media, and charted waters for other artists to follow.

Proposals are evaluated on the basis of the following criteria, which are weighed equally: How well a project aligns with the MAP Fund's goal of supporting experimentation and innovation in all traditions and disciplines of live performance, especially work that brings insight to the issue of cultural difference, be that in class, gender, generation, race, religion, sexual orientation or other aspects of diversity The artistic strength of the proposed project The viability of the project, based on the applicant's professional capabilities as demonstrated in the project narrative, bio and artist statement, and work samples.