Well, change is happening all over the world: both environmental changes such as land degradation and decreases in water resources, but also
social changes caused by events such as war and financial crises.
Inspired by pioneers like John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28) from the school of English landscape painting, as well as Theodore Rousseau (1812 - 67) and Jean - Francois Millet (1814 - 75), and initially linked with the Naturalist and Realist movements, which were themselves a reaction to
the social changes caused by the Industrial Revolution, the principles of plein - air art later formed the core of Impressionism - specifically Impressionist landscape painting - as practised by Monet (1840 - 1926) during the last 30 years of the century.
The effects of global warming are the ecological and
social changes caused (directly or indirectly) by human emissions of greenhouse gases.
Not exact matches
Before founding
Social Change Nation, Schukman spent a decade working with companies to develop
cause - driven brands such as AmeriCorps, Habitat for Humanity and World Relief.
The Trudeau government believes accepting the scientific evidence for human -
caused climate
change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are critical to gaining
social licence for pipelines, Carr says.
Seeing fellow entrepreneurs throw themselves wholeheartedly into such good
causes gives me hope that people's attitudes about the
social responsibilities of business really are
changing.
It's easy for a company to donate money to a good
cause or to sponsor a charitable event, but to have true impact, companies serious about
social or environmental
change need the buy - in of staff.
Social causes drive 30 percent of all activity, which Massolution expects to
change as more startups and SMEs begin leveraging the platform.
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caused base business,
This has
caused me to reflect more deeply on the
changes we are seeing and how a new
social buyer ecosystem is forming.
Whether it's for a
social cause, your well - being, or simply for a
change from the traditional day - to - day work routine, the ideas of how and why we work will continue to evolve.
He explained his findings in nontechnical terms in Slate magazine: «Although doubt will always remain about what
causes a
change in
social custom, the technology - shock theory does fit the facts.
Here there seem to be three options: to continue the pursuit of theology as though this
change had not taken place, to engage in introspective analysis of theology's role amid the academic disciplines, or to identify theology with some
social cause.
There are many
causes for this drastic
social change.
Although as an analyst she was radical for her times in her feminist views, she lacked the explicit emphasis of radical feminist therapists today on the therapeutic necessity of empowering people in therapy to
change the
social - political
causes of their personal problems.
It's important to remember that a similar
change, also shaped by
social, economic and technological developments, occurred in the late 19th century industrialization, urbanization and immigration
caused people to move from the village to the city.
Focusing on schizophrenia as a particular exemplar of this
change, Luhrmann examines the evolution of psychiatry from psychoanalysis (mental illnesses are
caused by emotional conflict) to a purely biomedical scheme (mental illnesses are
caused by genes) to present theories, which incorporate both the biological and the
social causes (and treatments) of mental illness.
Fundamental economic,
social, and cultural
changes that address the root
causes of poverty and environmental degradation are required and they are required now.»
These same people say that the problems of the family are temporary dislocations
caused by evolutionary
social change.
Careful analysis of
causes of cultural and
social changes reveal the part religion plays in the fomentation of the revolutionary and evolutionary development of society.
One of the greatest and most far reaching of the
changes in the
social life of Europe
caused by the Reformation concerned the position of women.
George Will zeroes in on the
cause in no uncertain terms: «Karl Marx, who had a Reaganesque respect for capitalism's transforming power, got one thing right: Capitalism undermines traditional
social structures and values; it is a relentless engine of
change, a revolutionary inflamer of appetites, enlarger of expectations, diminisher of patience.»
In Mansfield Park she contrasts the traditional notion of
social «role» with this new individualist notion, and shows the
causes and effects of this
change.
The Nicaraguan people's overthrow of a U.S. - backed dictatorship in 1979 and the existence of popularly based movements for
social change throughout the region had
caused great concern in Washington.
The first is that they might become, or be made into, palliatives to structural situations
caused by the economic system, rather like the St.Vincent de Paul Conferences in the XVIII and XIXth Centuries: fine people but ineffective in the struggle to
change social relations.
The same appeal that saved Juno's child is at the root of what has
caused one of the most rapid
changes of opinion on a
social issue that most can remember.
The nod was to the view that
social problems are not
caused by institutional defects in the government or marketplace but by individual irresponsibility — hence the solution is to
change hearts and minds one by one.
When oldline Protestant churches began experiencing membership losses in the mid-1960s, the primary
cause of the decline was their failure to adapt to
social and demographic
changes.
Pope Francis
caused controversy with the publication of his encyclical Laudato Si», (LS), concerned with humanity, climate
change,
social cohesion and spirituality.
This approach recognizes that the family crisis is
caused both by cultural
changes and by
social - systemic developments in areas of work, economics, child care and gender inequality.
The only solution to El Salvador's problems is economic and
social change that eliminates the
causes of the war.
Because of the complex interaction of religious broadcasting with other
social characteristics such as broader religious and cultural movements,
changing social uses of mass media, and
changing historical circumstances, it is unlikely that a simple
cause - effect relationship between the viewing of religious programs on television and individual faith and church interaction could ever be isolated.
In such societies, this picture of what it is to understand God tends to be best sustained in relatively small Christian communities that can retain a degree of communal identity in the midst of these
social changes without moving to the margins of
social turmoil and withdrawing from active participation in the reformist or revolutionary movements that
cause the
changes.
Any homiletics that is going to engage the religious imagination for the
cause of
social change must enter this treasure house of tradition and rediscover there the connection to the transcendent and corporate dimensions of imagination that have been lost since the rise of romanticism and the technological society.
Changing hormones make life tough enough without the added pressures often
caused by
social media and modern advertising.
This is done by making
changes to justify their stressful behavior, either by adding new parts to the cognition
causing the psychological dissonance, or by actively avoiding
social situations and / or contradictory information likely to increase the magnitude of the cognitive dissonance.
There are many
causes of secondary enuresis including psycho -
social factors, physical factors, diabetes, child abuse, or
change in sleep patterns.
She stated that Ghana is a» globally acknowledged democracy» which has
changed governments successfully since 1992 «without
causing any dislocations to the political, economic or
social systems of the country» therefore «all investors are assured of a stable and peaceful country to invest in.»
Thus, a belief in Natural Rights can
cause social, political and legal
changes; some of these
changes may be seen by contemporary protagonists and / or by future generations as historical landmarks.
Sponsored by the Progressive Communicators of DC and facilitated by Massey Media's Sarah Massey, the discussion included dozens of DC - area media - relations experts and focused on the reality of promoting ideas and
causes in a press environment upended by technological and
social change.
Even though new technological infrastructures or individual tools rarely, if ever,
change the world in one blow or
cause particular events, they still have implications, biases, long - term implications, like the ones discussed by careful, deep thinkers of long - term
change like Harold Innis and Elizabeth Eisenstein and more immediate ones for how we live our lives, as studied by
social scientists willing to let the chips fall as they may.
In the new research, the UB scientists found they could reverse those
social deficits with a very low dose of romidepsin, which, they found, restores gene expression and function using an epigenetic mechanism, where gene
changes are
caused by influences other than DNA sequences.
The study noted: «A variety of sociodemographic shifts, manifest in census data, could be
causing these
changes; however, because
social change in the U.S. between 1997 and 2007 centered on the expansion of communication technologies, we hypothesize that the sudden value shift in this period is technology driven.»
People with autism are generally less socially responsive to others, whereas those with Williams syndrome typically have an inability to inhibit
social responses.The question, of course, is, What
changes in the brain
cause such radically divergent
social characteristics?
The region has recently faced
social and environmental
changes caused in part by the government's attempts to integrate rural and urban areas.
«If the vegetation is more clumped... they'll end up on the same food plant, which means they'll contact each other and
cause each other to
change» into
social insects, Simpson says.
«Brain's insular cortex mediates approach and avoidance responses to others in distress:
Changes in insular cortex excitability,
caused by the hormone oxytocin, inform
social affective behaviors.»
Associate professor of natural resource
social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate
change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural
causes or an equal combination of both.
He also cited neuroimaging studies showing that prolonged periods of reduced audio stimulation can lead to faster rates of atrophy,
changing the brain's structure Additionally,
social isolation
caused by hearing loss may contribute to further brain decline, Lin said.
Problems of anti-
social behaviour, privacy, and free speech on
social media are not
caused by anonymity but instead result from the way technology
changes our presence.