Sentences with phrase «shaped cultural life»

Little did anyone know at the time, but this small liberal arts college was to become an iconic experiment that influenced and shaped cultural life in this country well into the next century.

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«Moore provides a primer on how our commitments to Christ and his kingdom (as opposed to our political, social, and cultural agendas) should shape not only how we live our lives, but also what our lives should say to a watching, listening world.

The convergence of consumerism and individualism has so thoroughly shaped our lives that personal choice is not only our highest cultural value, it has become a central part of our eschatological imagination.

A second contribution is an awareness of historical and cultural conditioning — that how we see and think is pervasively shaped by the time and place in which we live, by culture, that there is no absolute vantage - point outside of culture or time.

The character of this suffering moves theological attention to the social systems that shape our lives — economic, political, cultural — as well as to public events themselves (the Holocaust, programs and policies of economic austerity, military intervention, terrorism, ethnic nationalist expression, struggles for survival and freedom).

This is a message not likely to be well received by those secular elites that shape much of American cultural life.

We live in the world which is in large part shaped for us by the system of cultural symbols and concepts which we inherit.

What we learn from cultural relativity is firstly this: our cultural convictions and practices are always relative, relative to the time in which we live, the position we choose to take, and the cultural inheritance which has shaped us.

However, very few policies in Christian institutions or in public life are actually decided on these bases, in part because class analysis simply does not and can not take account of the cultural factors that shape much of what is decided.

Every life is shaped by the struggle for survival, the accidents of history, and the power of cultural symbols and traditions.

For Christians who come from cultures shaped by another faith, an even more intimate interior dialogue takes place as they seek to establish the connection in their lives between their cultural heritage and the deep convictions of their Christian faith.

As important, by examining the political, technological, and even cultural history of this quest during the post-World War II era, this book highlights the essential role played by space exploration in shaping our understanding of life back on Earth.»

Daniel Ortega, associate professor and program coordinator of UNLV's Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Program, examines cultural connections to landscapes and how technology shapes and affects the places we live in.

At Padworth we have found that by strengthening the linguistic ability and cultural sensitivity of our students, we can help shape their understanding of the outside world and, more importantly, how their future careers will be influenced by how they live.

The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other (2003), captures the crucial exchange between parents and teachers, a dialogue that is both mirror and metaphor for the cultural forces that shape the socialization of our children, and The Third Chapter: Risk, Passion, and Adventure in the Twenty - Five Years After 50 (2009) explores new learning during one of the most transformative and generative times in our lives, and EXIT: The Endings That Set Us Free (2012).

They consider how factors such as group membership, traditions, customs and religious and cultural practices shape people's identity and impact on civic life, past and present.

The opportunity to (re) consider and (re) compare their own and other cultures can help students to situate their own lives, identities, and values relative to other students and to reflect on the ways in which they themselves are shaped, at least in part, by particular cultural influences or expectations.

She is interested in how teachers» beliefs and perceptions are shaped by their lived experiences and cultural histories and have an impact on how they view students with disabilities in the educational setting.

SRI holds that the practice of ensuring that each child is successful regardless of their external or internal, social or cultural contexts requires racial identity work — exploring the role that race has played in shaping our own and our students» lives.

Based on thousands of primary documents and 180 on - the - record interviews, the story unfolds day by day, hour by hour, and at times minute by minute, with a rich cast of characters — military officers, American and Viet Cong soldiers, chancellors, professors, students, police officers, businessmen, mime troupers, a president and his men, a future mayor and future vice president — moving toward battles that forever shaped their lives and evoked cultural and political conflicts that reverberate still.

Composed from amateur footage taken by Abraham Zapruder and subsequently published in Life magazine, Laing's shaped - canvas painting highlights the international fascination with America's cultural revolution and the ways in which it could shift the political landscape.

Gordon Winiemko works with social customs and cultural idioms, those «things we do» that are sometimes so commonplace that we often forget how they shape our lives, for better or worse.

Fusing Nigerian and American source materials, histories and cultural references her intricately layered scenes reflecting the rich complexity of contemporary lives shaped by postcolonial African cosmopolitanism and global, hybrid identities.

Marrying art history references and specific pop - cultural passions are key to Roberts» brilliance and in SOFT LIFE / HARD NITES we will see acrobatic amazonian women with hip - hop swagger pull shapes like they fell out of a Matisse painting and into the 21st century.

The works in the main gallery exhibition, «Transactions of the Eye,» act as a bridge between featured artist Harold Coego's two home countries: Cuba, where historical and cultural heroes surrounded him, and Canada, where new characters and new human interactions shape a different life.

Fadda seeks to arrive at a detailed account of cultural production in oPt - shaped as it is by certain socio - economic discourses, accelerated political violence and restrictive financial structures — and the strategies of artistic communities and Palestinian - led cultural interventions that are working to defy the artificial and violent constraints imposed on cultural life in Palestine.

Since the early 2000s, Rodney McMillian has created compelling paintings, sculpture, installations, and performances — live and filmed — that explore how cultural and socio - political history, memory, myth, and ritual — visible and invisible — shape experience, identity, and one's sense of place and belonging.

From a cultural perspective, I've shaped my firm based on the best practice of what I experienced in the various countries in which I have lived and worked.

A look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering university this fall.

Each year at this time, Beloit College produces it's Mindset List, in their words «It provides a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall.»

Wellington About Blog Anthropod is a blog documenting how a cultural anthropologist thinks about research, teaching, and the ways that we live in and shape the world around us.

The report opens with patients describing key historic events that have shaped their lives, stories of family being relocated off country to settle in townships, children removed from parents and families, cultural practices and languages, as well as education and employment opportunities, limited or denied.

Since print media discourse can both reflect and shape societal values, cultural norms and ideals of workers in this country, it is important to understand this representation and its potential influence on the occupational engagement and life transitions of Canadian workers.

Narrative therapy is also very interested in the historical, political, economic and cultural factors that shape the stories in our lives.

Our approach is to focus on the early influences on your life including the family and cultural contexts that help shape you.

We all need to understand how culture shapes child development in order to improve the lives of children in a way that respects their cultural backgrounds.