Sentences with phrase «part of our common culture»

Indeed, movies are an integral part of our common culture because they reveal themes that transcend race, sex, and socioeconomic status.

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As part of Glassdoor's 50 Most Common Interview Questions series, career strategist Mary Grace Gardner from The Young Professionista says that «knowing what excites you helps to assess whether or not you fit with the company's culture.»

Once these works were part of the common heritage of European culture and exercised an immense literary influence.

And he has noted what any person of common sense has also noted: «The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life.»

There is much that is not known concerning them, but it is known that long, long before they arrived in India they were part of a great migratory movement of people, sometimes identified incorrectly as a race, probably better as a people of a common culture.

It can no longer rely upon the fact that it originally grew out of the soil of a common Western European culture to ensure comprehension between its different parts.

«Amazingly, children - at - risk from different parts of the world [who have] similar problems have more in common with each other than with other types of children within the same culture.

We tend to think of men as less nurturing than women, thanks in no small part to images in pop culture and the media as portraying men as lovable buffoons who mean well and try to do well but ultimately don't have the common sense to find their own behinds with both hands and a compass... unless, of course, we have an understanding and vastly more mature wife to help us along.

The common good is not just a matter of creating or redistributing wealth; it requires that we be part of a common project, a common culture.

Part of the allure of skating is the common love for the sport and the acceptance of all comers regardless of culture, status, or looks.

MEG NAGLE: Yeah, well I think the bottle culture and formula feeding has become such just a normal part of many cultures around the World, the whole wet - nursing thing and cross-nursing started to become less and less common, because now people have a way to feed their babies with something other than their breastmilk, which was a much safer alternative to anything else that they had previously.

His tolerance for dissent and his secularism, his commitment to the Oriental - Christian culture as part of a common larger Oriental - Islamic civilisation, and his «integrity as a Christian» member of it, as well as his scholarship, made him an eminent personality and also a contact person for Islamists and the secular, for pan-Arabists and nationalists as well as for the right and the left.

There are multiple mixed families between Russians and Ukrainians and many perceive the both people as parts of one due to common culture and history.

Our neurochemistry is our lowest common denominator, and this brings a nuanced counterargument to Locke with an appeal to the universality of emotions: because emotions are neurochemically mediated, they are present across cultures as part of our genetic inheritance.

«That's the message sent loud and clear yesterday by thousands of parents across New York who rose up against a top - down, one - size fits all approach to education that focuses on the over-utilization of high stakes Common Core standardized tests and refused to have their children be any part of this culture of testing.»

This unique human possession, which we hold in common, is at the core of a large part of our culture and our imaginative intellectual life.

Most people get their daily recommended dose of vitamin D through the milk that they drink, but that depends on the culture you come from and whether milk is considered to be a necessary and common part of your diet.

It became very common for certain nomadic cultures to rely on dried yogurt as part of their staple food.

There is true potential in being apart of a multicultural relationship in today's society, as these relations have really become a more common and accepted part of Western culture.

The film of 2012 that provided the most piercingly accurate gauge of our current ideologico - aesthetic situation was Kony 2012 with its canny manipulation of youth culture, the drive for a global community, child - like whimsy and Apple Inc. utopianism — all as part of a project that has less to do with real social activism and more to do with the self - interested exploitation of our common desire for a better world.

Broadly speaking, the designs for new public sector schools are part of a lowest common denominator outlook and, with their lifespans of 30 - 50 years, a sad reflection of today's throwaway culture.

So, we wanted to have things like common unit lesson plans, we also wanted to develop more of a team culture so that there's more sharing of ideas and more collaboration... But we also wanted to develop resources that could be used within the school and beyond the school, because a lot of our students, we find when they leave us they don't return to any other education environment, they're sort of outside the education system... As part of our intervention we developed a suite of teaching materials around the Certificate I in Core Skills for Employment and Training that can be used widely.

That's because, writes Vatterott, in her chapter, «The Cult (ure) of Homework,» the concept of homework «has become so engrained in U.S. culture that the word homework is part of the common vernacular.»

This has built a culture where expertise is not tied to the position you hold or the numbers of years you have been part of our school community, but rather the standards and specific demonstrations of what «Highly Accomplished» and «Lead» practice means, have given us a common language to not only value expertise, but to be able to collectively recognise it.

As students study cultures throughout world history, remind them that although the individuals in these societies share a common identity, they (i.e., all Greeks or all Chinese) were not the same — just as the members of their class maintain distinct characteristics while being part of a class and larger school community.

As a part of the Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative, GLISI developed this professional development toolkit to help school leaders in identifying, influencing and avoiding the common pitfalls associated with changing school culture.

The island is officially part of Colombia, but it has a long connection with England and a multicultural and bilingual culture, with the most common spoken languages being Spanish, English and Creole.

Car stereos, discarded parts of plastic furniture, and other relics of cheap consumer culture are some of the objects that are produced in the banal evolutions of common situations.

The common thread linking these fields is her interest in how images evolve and accumulate meaning, becoming familiar, iconic and part of the narrative of popular culture and wider history.

Both are part of an American avant - garde which takes common, everyday experiences and turns them back on themselves, exposing the paranoia of American culture.

This interview is part of the «Boston Common» series that highlights the people and institutions that shape Boston and New England's culture sector.

Those concerns are heightened when the adoration is not just a one - sided thing in which the object of the celebrity treatment takes no part in it and does not encourage it, but one in which the object rather seems to enjoy and participate in that phenomenon, and / or takes to making general public pronouncements on various issues, which is a common element in modern American celebrity culture.

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You will play a key part of defining our culture and choosing our tool set and be driven by a common goal - to provide an online marketplace where teachers empower other teachers.