Sentences with phrase «story about the culture»

Instead, make it a story about the culture of innovation and the many people who have sustained it; giving others role models and the license to have something to strive for.

MoJ's Rob Vischer uses this story about the culture of marital infidelity in Russia to raise questions about the relationship between law and cultural norms in maintaining general public adherence to the practices constitutive of healthy family life.

Andrew Zimmern describes his 10 - year - old food and travel show Bizarre Foods as «a show that tells stories about culture through food.»

But back when Zimmern was first shopping the idea for Bizarre Foods around to television networks, execs weren't exactly chomping at the bit to make «a show that tells stories about culture through food.»

Jayson and Mira have been to countries that many of us have never even heard of and know the real story about these cultures that we often talk about in health discussions.

What makes CONSCIOUS stand out is its dedication to stories about culture, people, and community that make a difference.

Sharing stories about your culture and what it was like growing up may very well help you understand each other better.

Black Panther is a story about culture and country that just so happens to have a catsuit enthusiast at the center.

After reading, ask students to tell you what they learned from the story about the culture of the Eastern Woodland Indians.

At times, it can seem as if students have replaced a previous single story about a culture with a new one that is based on a single interaction with a peer on the Out of Eden Learn platform.

Or, go out with the island's only taxi driver who will regale you with stories about the culture and history of the island's past: who lived in the now - abandoned old town of Port Boyd on the north side, and how one wealthy island resident even minted his own coins.

What makes CONSCIOUS stand out is its dedication to stories about culture, people, and community that make a difference.

It is part of a bigger Mancunian story about culture driving post-industrial regeneration — with the Whitworth, the new Central Library and the soon - to - open HOME contemporary arts centre being only the latest instalments.

[102] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children could learn positive stories about our culture and history, and to learn of the deeds of heroes like Jandamarra, William Cooper and Jack Patten.

Not exact matches

Think about how you can infuse culture from the word «go» and make it part of your success story.

A New York Times story about the company's internal culture makes for a good read, but the truth is likely far less inflammatory.

A story about an entrepreneur's experience that led him or her to found a company, or one about the history of a particular product, for instance, can enhance a company's culture by conveying its heritage or sense of purpose and direction.

Over the last few days, we've been engaged with The New York Times about a story they've now published regarding SoFi's business, culture, and our CEO Mike Cagney.

Listening to their stories about our business and their lives teaches me about shared values, which form the foundation for a strong corporate culture that motivates people to do their best every day.»

But they all paved the way for Ms. Fowler to be heard and believed, and for subsequent stories about sexist tech culture to be accepted at face value.

«FORTUNE does a fabulous job of bringing inspirational women from different industries and cultures together under one common roof to share stories, to talk about common issues (and) to promote collaboration.

On June 30, star investor Chris Sacca wrote on Medium that he took some personal responsibility for «the unrelenting, day - to - day culture of dismissiveness that creates a continually bleak environment for women and other underrepresented groups» in Silicon Valley (shortly before allegations of his own sexual misconduct emerged in the same piece that broke the story about McClure).

However, it's often even more about other things: being part of a community, being surrounded by inspiring people, and to broaden your horizon with different cultures and stories.

As we work to improve our company cultures, I hope next year we hear a different story in Silicon Valley, one about greater diversity making the tech industry even stronger and more innovative.

'» Asked to paint a picture of the company in 20 years, the executives mentioned such things as «on the cover of Business Week as a model success story... the Fortune most admired top - ten list... the best science and business graduates want to work here... people on airplanes rave about one of our products to seatmates... 20 consecutive years of profitable growth... an entrepreneurial culture that has spawned half a dozen new divisions from within... management gurus use us as an example of excellent management and progressive thinking,» and so on.

I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.

John Wilson, editor of Books and Culture, wrote about Stern's stories as part of a year - end fiction roundup in our December 2005 issue:

«Making up childish nonsense fairy stories about heaven, (In Hebrew culture ALL souls went to Sheol, the just and the unjust, and Sheol was NOT where Yahweh lived),»

Again, I really want to stress this is not about the messy never ending post divorce antics with an NPD but the culture of leaders in this publishing / speaking / minor celebrity circle that have smeared names and reputations in order to appear one way while behind the scenes another story is going on.

They were stories created to entertain children, just use them to learn about different cultures.

You can dismiss my views as unfounded or wrongheaded or unbiblical, but dismissing my journey in arriving at them as simply «taking the easy way out» or «capitulating to culture» makes a lot of unfair assumptions about me and my story.

In fact, Piper can read about some of them in his Bible in the stories of women like Hagar, Tamar, Lot's daughters, and Bathsheba, all of whom lived in highly patriarchal cultures.

My story is about leaving the boxing gloves behind, about calling a truce on the culture wars that have left so many people beaten and bruised and left for dead by those who claim to follow a crucified Savior.

I've thought about Frank the Gas Monster a lot over the past few years but particularly right now when the Duggar story is bringing a much - needed light onto the truth and consequences of patriarchal culture, particularly on women.

I think I have an idea of where it began and why it grew and how it continues to grow — it's a combination of my origin story, of comparison, of our messed - up culture, of over-heard comments, of patriarchal bullshit, of feeling different than the patented ideal, of thought conditioning, of despair, of how we centre women who conform to the ideal, of our fear of getting older, of how the women in my circles spoke about their own bodies and obsessed over calorie counting and wrinkles, of how our culture speaks about women everywhere from the Internet to sanctuaries to coffee shops to our own inner monologues.

There are a few main explanations: 1) long term failure in leadership by the Irish Catholic church, and connected with this, the awful Jansenist culture; 2) Europe — or rather, political interference from European Community institutions; 3) American money; 4) the claim of the «Yes» campaign that the Referendum was won by «the stories,» that is, the constant appeal to emotion and the complete refusal actually to think about the legal consequences of passing such a change not merely into law, but also into the Irish Constitution, the foundation of that law.

There are many things I could say about why it is never a good idea to offer bad Christian alternatives to pop culture, but the most important thing is that you got a GREAT story out of it!

Journalism, he concluded, «has been asleep at the switches,» because the Net is «not simply a story about technology, but it's a revolutionary change in the society and culture.»

The nature of the sayings, and their origins in an oral culture, put them in a different category from the stories about Jesus» actions.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

They also showcase stories of Indigenous women and cultural knowledge through their products and facilitate a powerful and positive narrative about Indigenous women and their cultures.

It's stories make perfect sense when viewed as adopted and adapted and edited and rre - edited stories from various cultures about various «strong men» heroes and legends and such.

That the stories about Jesus are largely taken from older myths from other cultures?

In addition to witty commentary on religion and culture, Zack writes thoughtful and accessible reflections on theology, as well as deeply personal, engaging stories like this one about the news that he and his wife are expecting.

Still, we must notice that the way Obama told the story undercuts the protect - the - real - persons rationale for creating a composite, because we can now see that anyone who actually knew the young Obama and Cook might have read Dreams and thought «I didn't know Genevieve was so obtuse about black culture.»

What is our culture really saying about women, when its biggest stories of all those projected on to cinema screens still don't recognise them as three - dimensional human beings?

The pastor's story also suggests something about the paradoxes of tradition in American culture.

In this regard it is clear that moral education, even in its diversity and its oppositions, is more a story about the legitimation of American culture than it is about its transformation; as in every generation in America, the substance of moral education has reflected the central assumptions and ideals of the prevailing zeitgeist.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In many cases, a large portion of geographic America is often ignored or misrepresented by the culture creators in New York and L.A., who are mainly focused on telling stories about young, abnormally beautiful people in large cities.