Sentences with phrase «urban violence»

The thing is, those measures will do little to help urban violence.

Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito will travel to Spain this week to participate in the first World Forum on Urban Violence Education for Coexistence and Peace to discuss policies that could reduce violence and promote urban environments.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito is jetting off to Spain this week to participate in the first World Forum on Urban Violence Education for Coexistence and Peace, a convening of leaders from around the world designed to discuss policies that could reduce violence and promote urban environments.

And, in fact, now looking back, the lead in leaded gas may have been causing brain cancer, and even urban violence.

The framing device that depicts unresolved black urban violence suggests a narrative lapse, yet it's very different from the patronization of political media - makers today.

What lends special interest is its provocative insistence on probing the links between urban violence and military indoctrination.

Brazil has a consolidated democracy, with strong institutions (that have been recently tested and have withstood the pressure), a very large economy (one of the largest in the world), and a society that, in spite of dwelling with urban violence, has been spared from terrorist acts, civil wars and regional conflicts, and is better educated, less unequal and more vigilant and conscious about its rights and roles.

Brazilian experts decry the high levels of violence, especially urban violence, that take their toll on the public in myriad ways.

The goal of this collaboration is to translate for Brazilians the science of early child development and the specific effects of urban violence on early child development.

His first works focused on urban violence, AIDS and racism.

For example, if you say something about closing our borders or urban violence, the go to response almost always involve the mention of» trailers, the south, hillbillies, or nascar.»

There is a certain level of urban violence that the rest of the country isn't even close to.»

But several U.S. and Iraqi archaeologists say that the minister wants to reopen the museum, which contains priceless artifacts from the first cities and empires, to show that Baghdad's long period of urban violence is over.

Yet it generates surprising sympathy for its sociopathic protagonist [and] makes some shrewd points about pain, loss and urban violence.

In his heyday, John Carpenter was the master of cinematic suspense and this story of urban violence was one of his best.

And I was surprised that, in talking about the problems related to incarceration and urban violence, neither candidate cited the importance of prison education or prisoner reentry.

The participating artists address themes such as memory and self - reflection, social and political issues such as discrimination, racism, the failure of the modern utopia, urban violence and exploitation of the Amazon rain forest.

A second move, to New Orleans in 1992, took his work into more local engagements with systematic poverty and urban violence — themes only intensified by the destruction experienced in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

In Germany, where the style was known as Neue Wilden or New Fauves, the style was intense - not least in its choice of subject - and referenced the «German Identity», post-Nazism, urban violence, and numerous allusions to primal instincts.

For their Violence Ambassadors program, the parent leaders educated over 2000 parents about the Protective Factors at the Urban Violence Prevention Summit at Chicago State University.

Representations of Early Childhood and Urban Violence in Brazilian Media (2014) This report, available in both Portuguese and English, examines the explicit and implicit messages embedded in the media's presentation of issues related to both early child development and urban violence in Brazilian newspapers.