Sentences with phrase «own national history»

For example, the National History Museum of Los Angeles County, recently hosted a VR exhibit called theBlu, in which visitors could put on VR headsets to explore the ocean in virtual reality.

I thank my correspondents for their kind words and for their interest in a turbulent period in our national history, the effects of which are self - evidently clear every time Senator Barrack Obama» quintessential candidate of the Authorized Version of the Sixties» speaks.

It is a new chapter in a long national history of aggressive individualism, frontier lawlessness and the glorification of outlaws.

Paradoxically, the church must diminish the particularism of its various local, regional and national histories, but at the same time include them in the stories it tells, reinforcing its own authority as it does so.

The Second Vatican Council is briefly mentioned in only two of the eight texts I reviewed; it is not mentioned in the 250 pages of the national history standards.

«As a plain matter of fact, he has done more to start the nation toward a socialist order than all the agitation carried on by all the avowedly socialist agents in our national history» (March 22, 1933).

It is a national history museum.

I think it was the last period in our national history in which being a Christian and being at what was felt as the cutting edge of fresh thinking and social transformation went easily together for large numbers of young people — and adults as well.

William has learned a little about racial discrimination through Martin Luther King Day and conversations we've had about our complicated national history around the Fourth of July.

Israel's national history began in a warlike event.

For many of them a frontier situation has been transmuted from a fact of national history into a point of view in the mind.

The ferment of the 60s produced a challenge to our belief system that may have been the most drastic in our national history.

It is increasingly clear that Deuteronomy and the Priestly writings contain at least some material much older than is indicated by the usual dating of the documents.9 Increasingly, too, it would appear that scholars are disposed to accept the substantial reliability of the persistent tradition which sees Moses as a lawgiver.10 That law was an early and significant aspect of Israelite culture is further attested not only by ancient Near Eastern parallels but even more strikingly in the life, the work and the character of the first three great names in Israel's national history: Moses, Samuel and Elijah.

Moses was represented as identifying himself sacrificially with his people's lot until he desired no good fortune of his own apart from theirs — «Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written» (Exodus 32:32)-- and from such beginnings an illustrious record of vicarious suffering had brought the national history to Jeremiah, who, only a few years before Isaiah of Babylon wrote, had lived and died in voluntary self - giving for the salvation of his people.

It has not been my purpose here to evaluate the whole checkered story of civil religion and public theology in our national history but only to point out they have been absolutely integral to one aspect of our national existence, namely, our existence as a republican people.

Both views are embedded in our national history — the republican view more in the Declaration of Independence, where Jefferson in its opening lines refers to «the laws of nature and of nature «s God» that stand above and judge the laws of men; and the liberal view more in the Constitution, where there is no reference to God at all, and the emphasis is upon the balancing of powers.6.

As among the conglomerate people of the United States there is a common identification and a common sense of participation in the formative events of national history, so also the people of all of Israel's varied tribal backgrounds made the common confession of faith: «We were Pharaoh's slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand... and he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in and give us the land which he swore to give to our fathers» (Deut.

The distinction between rights and tolerance is developed at great length in Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind (Simon & Schuster, 1987), a book that is bound to be controversial because it argues that an excess of tolerance has led our culture to turn away from a dependence on those classic texts in our national history which celebrate certain principles on which the country was founded.

In the case of the national bicentennial four years ago, Americans did not lack resources; there were libraries full of national histories which aimed at covering the whole sweep as well as monographs which touched on nuances, cornices and curlicues of American existence.

In understanding (as they thought) the meaning of their national history, and linking their own action to its agelong movement, they found their lives dignified by being absorbed in a larger purpose.

The place is as filled to the brim with local and national history and memories as it is with Creole classics like shrimp clemenceau.

He takes the ride aboard Shutthefrontdoor, who is likely to go off one of the shortest priced favourites in recent Grand National history.

«Not only is he the most prolific player in national history, but he's probably the most humble athlete this area has ever seen,» Davidson added.

Later in the year, they participated in a mini National History Day presentation for which they designed exhibition boards with thesis statements, process papers and annotated bibliographies on ancient Maya.

If you've ever explored any of the Smithsonian Museums in Washington, D.C., you know some of our capital's finest museums — the National History Museum, the Air and Space Museum, even the National Zoo — always offer free admission.

These could be airwaves, as in public broadcasting, or water or climate, or national history or education or parks, prisons, or the military and its codes, membership and responsibilities.

It was with the advent of the Constructivist school that the paradigm of «strategic culture» was re-energized, re-asserting the enduring and pervasive influence of culture, national histories and values on security and doctrines of military strategy.

Bulgarian president Georgi Parvanov meanwhile said that entry to the EU represented a «heavenly moment», predicting that today's accession would «undoubtedly find its place among the most important dates in our national history».

She said he was a bright student — he had taken part in the school's competition for the National History Contest — and while he was reserved, Ms. Martin had discerned no reason to be concerned about him.

You come into office at a crucial moment also in our national history.

He recounts a proactive foreign policy based on membership of the UN Security Council, possession of a nuclear deterrent and a willingness to deploy military force globally — part of a continuity in our national history.

Jasinski, who is advised by Peter Dodson, a professor of paleontology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science and professor of anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine, collaborated on the paper with Steven C. Wallace, a professor at East Tennessee State University and curator at the East Tennessee State University National History Museum at the Gray Fossil Site.

Researchers from the CNRS and the Université de Poitiers, working in collaboration with teams from the Université de Lille 1, Université de Rennes 1, the French National History Museum and Ifremer, have discovered, in clay sediments from Gabon, fossils of the oldest multicellular organisms ever found (Nature, 2010).

«Deep national history of immigration predicts wide cultural comfort displaying emotion.»

Illinois National History Survey scientists conduct an educational tour of the carp - infested waters.

Using 3D engineering software, the researchers looked at the iconic brow ridge of a fossilised skull, known as Kabwe 1, held in the collections of the National History Museum.

Whether in a Britains highest pub, the Jersey Opera House, the National History Museum or a church up in the Arctic Circle, Jodrell Bank will certainly add to their impressive catalogue of locations.

A second big thing you have to do during the week is a visit to the Museum of National History.

Get interactive with nature at the National History Museum or create a spark between you and your date at the Science Museum.

The most superlative aspect of Viceroy's House and its chronicle of national history for the countries of India and Pakistan is the personal passion behind the project.

Essentially a biopic wrapped in a kung - fu art film, The Grandmaster's ambition but feeling of incompletion brings to mind Sam Peckinpah's analogous probing of national history, mythology, and masculinity.

What Paddington and the Browns don't know is that the director of taxidermy at the National History Museum (Kidman) also has her eyes on Paddington.

Over the past few decades, many schools have embraced national and even international academic competitions such as the National Geographic Bee, the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MATHCOUNTS, National History Day, and Odyssey of the Mind, among others.

He is the 2016 National History Day Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year and a 2017 NEA Teacher of Excellence.

He was recently chair of National History Day.

Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the leading candidate for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, last week attacked the voluntary national history standards in a speech designed to appeal to his party's conservative wing.

As often happened in our national history, we started off on the wrong foot and then we started running.

African American History Month Collection From TeachingHistory: There is a stockpile of engaging content in this resource from TeachingHistory from the National History Education Clearinghouse.

Tony Abbott has urged a rethink of the national history curriculum, saying it underplays the heritage of Western civilisation, gives too much focus to trade unions and overlooks conservative prime ministers.

National histories are traditionally introspective and teach little about linkages between the nations.