Sentences with phrase «own cultural relevance»

If we can learn anything from these companies, it's that cultural relevance and solving region - specific problems often trumps the value of an internationally recognized brand name.

But that's not all; The vape was also selected for its cultural relevance, reflecting both e-cigarette's momentous rise in popularity along with dramatically shifting attitudes and policies towards marijuana use (weed is now legal in Colorado and Washington, and will soon be in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C.)

Great brands such as IKEA explore the societal and cultural relevance of their brands to identify ways to create shared value.

Spiritualizers expect of the text a cultural relevance, but they must also allow for an original cultural relatedness Evangelicals must subject the text to the literary - critical fate of all writing.

«25 Further, he wished to reopen this debate in order to make the Atonement achieve and retain cultural relevance.

Then yesterday, I read at Chris Elrod's blog that someone at Exponential stated that «Urban church planters care way more than rural church planters about cultural relevance... probably because they need to.»

The standard list of contradictions published by the Dawkins loyalists have all been debunked due to intentional twisting of translations or time / cultural relevance.

A number of observations counter his suppositions and provide the sort of evidence regarding «cultural relevance» that Easum would have every reason to regard as pertinent.

While it's true that I've changed my mind about the place of women in church ministry, that hasn't happened because I chose cultural relevance over Scripture.

By the way, when I speak of Christians in this article, its a somewhat ambiguous term that does not include everyone who practices the religion, but the intersection of religious faith, political push and cultural relevance.

This ultimately means more money, yes, but it also means retaining cultural relevance and acquiring the ability to pursue personal charitable or social missions sometime in the future.

February 1: Join Historian Desiree Taylor as she shares the origins of Black History Month and explores its current cultural relevance (Boston)

He is fearless about pushing his students to «think about the way you've been trained to think» and works tirelessly to ensure students understand all aspects of cultural relevance in African American studies.»

Vergun and colleagues explained that many Native Americans didn't see the cultural relevance of studying STEM.

He was an iconic scientist of the late 20th century, a stature confirmed by that arbiter of cultural relevance, The Simpsons, in which he was a featured guest star in one episode.

Each chapter in the book is devoted to one of five objects and each builds on the cultural relevance of materials, exploring the connections between artists» materials and their everyday life; showing how materials could be used philosophically and playfully.

And yet everything instead points to an acute crisis of masculinity, which at least gives the film some cultural relevance.

It's funny how the long - term cultural relevance of a film has such low correlation with its box office tally.

For a series that includes many games never released outside of Japan, Awakening was an explosion of cultural relevance.

Keegan - Michael Key and Jordan Peele recently brought to an end the sketch comedy series that, perhaps together with Amy Schumer and the ladies of «Broad City,» have worked to bring Comedy Central back to some degree of cultural relevance for the first time in a little while.

Coogler is able to masterfully balance the action with humor, the comic book icon with the black touchstone, futurism and cultural relevance.

Adam Wingard strips a classic manga story of its cultural relevance in this regrettable adaptation.

Berman and Pulcini also attempt to find some kind of cultural relevance to the story by weaving in real - life events from NYC's upheaval at the time, but they mostly come off as distractions since the film doesn't really dive deep into any of these issues.

This reboot of National Lampoon's Vacation has jokes of variable quality — and none of the cultural relevance of the 1983 original

«Billions continues to be a show on the rise, growing not only in audience, but in critical buzz and cultural relevance,» the premium cabler's David Nevins said of the Damian Lewis, Paul Giamatti, Maggie Siff and Malin Akerman led show «It offers a unique mix of pure entertainment with sly commentary on our current have / have - not economy.

Although the readings hooked students as they came to identify with characters and situations, I knew we had to go beyond cultural relevance if they were to pass the state test.

«If you want every teacher to teach cultural relevance, you need to change the curriculum.

To do that, noted Sargent, the curriculum should include incentives to teach cultural relevance.

In order to cross this divide, educators must, not only understand the cultural differences between them and their students, but also be able to reflect on their own cultural relevance and how this may benefit or harm the school community.

Mrs. Lamour: We want to incorporate project - based learning with an eye towards social justice and cultural relevance.

The Causal Effects of Cultural Relevance: Evidence from an Ethnic Studies Curriculum.

These problems of practice include behavior management in schools staffed by novice teachers, cultural relevance of instruction, instructional supervision, and shaping a respectful school climate.

This article makes the case that one of the important areas of focus for change — teaching quality — must embrace cultural relevance as a necessary and absolute component.

It fundamentally lacks social and cultural relevance for the most disadvantaged children, impacting on their confidence and engagement in learning.

Readers will focus on their attitude toward students, their relationship with students, their compassion for students, the learning environment, and cultural relevance in instruction.

In the same way that there are language standards for English Language Learners with Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP), there should be research - based standards for cultural relevance and responsive pedagogy.

Noted for her expertise in urban education, she specializes in teaching and learning, incorporating cultural relevance and addressing the needs of varied leaners, especially African American students.

«Those organic results are always a sign that a brand is generating real cultural relevance.

The island's dreamscapes may be silver screen - worthy, but the island is making cultural relevance a prominent part of any journey.

With all of this in mind you will also be able to indulge in the historic sites of incredible cultural relevance as well as telling the fascinating and dark history of this island of incredible people.

«We've brought together «best of breed» experts in the fields of technology, online gaming, branding and localisation who have a shared vision for global MMO games that deliver on the highest levels of quality and cultural relevance,» says Yang of the talent on board.

For a while now, video games have been rising in mainstream cultural relevance.

[Gamasutra's Simon Parkin attended Nottingham, UK's GameCity, to find one of the world's most idiosyncratic celebrations of video games pushing the medium's cultural relevance.]

The organizers hope the Prize — which will be awarded annually from now on — will become the gaming equivalent of the prestigious Man Booker prize for literature, or Mercury Music prize for recording artists, awarded to the game with the most significant cultural relevance.

Sadly Todd Howard wandered away from his phone at that point muttering something about the cultural relevance of Snap Chat and its importance to the Elder Scrolls series.

As a result, when reading various features and editorials, it can seem as if most game writers and journalists understand the emotional, moral and cultural relevance of story and experience driven games.

The abstract expressions reference civil rights and social justice issues and are composed of materials of personal cultural relevance to Edwards.

George Washington University Nakeya Brown's photography touches on the racialized and commodified bodies of black women and highlights the cultural relevance of their lived experiences.

That was something that gradually came along within the development of my artistic practice, and it provides me with a way to ask deeper questions about sports» political, social, and cultural relevance.

Written in an engaging, straight forward style by prominent art historian Matthew Israel, The Big Picture presents ten outstanding examples of contemporary art, each with significant historical or cultural relevance to contemporary art's big picture.