Sentences with phrase «present day culture»
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Closer to the present day (and with much lower stakes), companies with whimsical office cultures have chosen to follow Caligula's lead and appoint some four - legged executives of their own — in this case, dogs.
It has become almost a truism to speak of present - day American culture as leisure - oriented.
Unfortunately, the common present - day interpretation of the Cain and Abel story is guilty of projecting present - day culture and values back into a story that long predated our particular culture.
The case is similar, as probably no one will really deny, in the domains of social policy, culture and education, in the attitude of Christians to thermo - nuclear and other modern weapons and in innumerable similar questions of public life at the present day.
Hence the chapters to follow range over what appear to be the principal problematic fields in present - day culture.
Unlike Bultmann's demythologizing and dismantling of the biblical worldview and Tillich's culture - correlated philosophy of religion — they and a few others were the «canon» in those days (the sixties)-- in Barth's work I found a theology that spoke to the heart and one also presented in a provocative, passionate, and personal way.
I'm describing not fourth - century monks, but present - day communities of Christians who think the church in the United States has too easily accommodated itself to the consumerist and imperialist values of the culture.
No one in present - day evangelicalism took feminism seriously until it became a dominant theme in our secular, humanistic culture.
Primarily through the lens of literature, film, and pop culture, Bowman traces the concept of honor from its roots to the present day.
Not only is present - day culture not serving as a binding force between nations, but it is being used to accentuate their mutual dissimilarities and animosities.
Author and activist Bryan Stevenson was recently interviewed on The Daily Show, and in his conversation with Jon Stewart, noted that Americans often have a difficult time acknowledging and confessing those corporate injustices — like racism — that are a part of our shared history and a part of our present - day culture.
And now the present day, when, like the first Christians, believers know that simply professing one's faith in an un-Christian culture can be a worthy calling.
Organizational Behaviour and Culture, 1971 quoted in Claude Alvares Homo Faber: Technology and Culture in India and China, and the West 1500 to the present day, Allied Publishers, Bombay 1979 p. 11.
Every day they reminded us to forget everything we thought we knew about church and christianity, and think about how to present scripture without these biases, so that the church and christianity could find its own path in new cultures and peoples.
It has been translated from long - forgotten cultures to the present day, and attempting to separate it from its history, and just taking the words as printed as genuine, is absolutely stupid.
ABOUT LOS ANGELES FOOD & WINE: Now in its fourth year, the Los Angeles Food & Wine Festival, presented with generous support from Founding Partners FOOD & WINE, Lexus, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Resort, JENN - AIR, Delta Airlines, is a four - day epicurean event showcasing the finest in food and drink culture throughout Los Angeles and culinary personalities from throughout the country.
The Nigerian Youth Organization of Boston presents The Taste of Nigeria, A Day of Art, Culture, Food, and Fashion (Boston)
The whole flash card culture seems designed to make parents feel guilty and kids feel pressured, and doesn't seem to be resulting in more productive, connected, interesting people than we had back when it was enough just to be present with your children when they needed you and to interact with them throughout the day.
San Francisco, CA — March 11, 2016 — Today at 6:00 pm at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society (PCRS) in Rancho Mirage, CA, Pacific Fertility Center (PFC) staff will present their research findings on pregnancy from embryos that have been cultured to Day 7 (D7).
I suddenly remembered studying various present - day cultures all around the world in which there are people who care for the mom and / or her new baby for the several weeks postpartum, allowing mom to heal and bond with the baby without having to tend to anything else.
CHESTNUT HILL, MA (June 9, 2014)-- Fathers want to be present and involved from the first days of their children's lives and increasingly expect their employers to support them through paid leave, flexibility, and ultimately a culture that respects their desire to be hands - on caregivers, according to a new study of 30 corporations and more than 1,000 fathers by the Boston College Center for Work & Family (BCCWF).
During the year - long observance, our culture, diversity and identity will be commemorated, alongside our rich history and growth from a small French - speaking settlement to our present - day eminence as a thriving first - tier suburb.
In fact, geophagy, or intentionally consuming dirt, has been documented in multiple historical and present - day cultures, many of which ingest specific soils medicinally to prevent diarrhea or increase iron intake.
«This means that the evolutionarily adapted algae display the same specific weight as the original, isolated cultures under present - day conditions.
By comparing the genomes to one another as well as to those of nearly 240 previously studied ancient people from nearby regions and about 2,600 present - day people, the researchers learned that the first farming cultures in the Levant, Iran and Anatolia were all genetically distinct.
It's not often that a single discovery can illuminate both the history of science and ancient office culture — but that is what happened in the ancient Mayan megacity of Xultun, in present - day Guatemala.
For the past 20 years, archaeologists have debated whether the two tribes belonged to the same culture or distinct cultures with origins in present - day Venezuela and Bolivia, respectively.
The artifacts push the history of modern human behavior in southern Africa back more than 20,000 years, archaeologists report online July 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, forging a link between the cultures of ancient and present - day humans.
meteorites, have been cultured, cloned and classified by 16S rDNA typing and found to be not essentially different from present day organisms
«Some different microbial species, derived from samples of [two] meteorites, have been cultured, cloned and classified by 16S rDNA typing and found to be not essentially different from present day organisms [here on Earth]; they also appear sensitive to growth inhibition by specific antibiotics.»
Finally, it implies that these two cultures retained distinct technological / cultural differences during a period of close proximity and peaceful co-existence and suggests that the two populations, at least at this location, may have contributed to form the latter day Taínos, the Amerindians present at the point of Columbian contact.
A tour through the somatic meanings and origins of alignment, symmetry, and «openness» in modern yoga culture, from 1930s Mysore to the present day.
Clinically I have seen many three day stool tests, showing «negative» for yeast culture and «many» yeast present under daily microscopic examination.
In the present day, social classes and cultures mix with ease in the many pubs, clubs, and restaurants in leafy Cambridge, which has been a stately dating destination par excellence since time immemorial; the difference now is that the sound has been turned up to 11.
Present day Chinese culture is an amalgamation of old world traditions and a westernized lifestyle.
It is in the brief last act, set in the hippie culture of 1975 and then the present day, when everyone is gray - haired and wearing wrinkle makeup, that the film leaves its element for a quick gulp of easy sentimentality.
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In the present day, American professor Dr. Alan Green (Wilcox) discovers a manuscript that may hold the keys to the lost Mayan culture.
Didy Veldman's latest work for the Ipswich venue explores the place of marriage in present - day western society: playing with the rituals, the social expectations and the myth of happy - ever - after endings peddled by religion and popular culture.
At the film's recent press day, MacLaine talked about coming to terms with her own legacy, why she's not afraid to take risks, the advice Joan Crawford gave her that will remain a secret, her surprise at meeting Alan Ladd at Romanoff's, how aging people are underserved in our culture and what she'd like to do about it, her impressions of her talented co-star Ann» Jewel Lee, her favorite scene, presenting the Best Foreign Language Film Award at this year's Oscars, why she wants to do an improvisation with Marlon Brando, and the unusual role she'd like to play next.
The static, silent menus opt for a splotchy paint and graffiti design that seems more tailored to present - day skateboarding than»80s breakdancing culture.
They'd make sure audiences would see parallels to present - day extremists in Ronan's vow to stay true to his Kree people's ancient ways and his determination to exterminate the modern culture spawned on planet Xander (whose inhabitants look just like Earthlings).
The Editing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Jonathan Amos for 20,000 Days On Earth from the UK (Directors: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard)-- Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international culture icon Nick Cave.
The Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary was presented to: Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard for 20,000 Days On Earth from the UK — Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international culture icon Nick Cave.
From Oscar and Emmy winner Alan Ball, and starring Oscar and Golden Globe winner Tim Robbins and Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Holly Hunter, the show is a provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present - day American culture, as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family — a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia, and their sole biological child — and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.
With each culture, I also included the present day country, did current events and tried to make connections to the past and their lives today.
The year culminated in two special events: an author event with Piers Torday and William Grill for 600 children at The Everyman Theatre; and a Sharing Day when teachers presented the impact of the programme on their pupils, including Changes in Personal Practice and Changing a School Reading Culture.
Present day stories from another culture, not including myths, legends, fables but actual real life fiction.