This may be true since large numbers of the society's men were isolated from normal occupations, but whatever the resource impact, the regimental system clearly built on existing tribal cultural elements that could be adapted and shaped to fit an expansionist agenda.

An example of the society's cultural events showcasing Lomographers ' talents is the Lomokikuyu competition, which raises money for eye surgeries and vision care in Kenya, in partnership with Viennese vision aid organisation Light for the World.

Each of these three realms has a particular task: political institutions should establish political equality and protect human rights ; cultural institutions should cultivate the free and unhindered development of such realms as science, art, education and religion ; and economic institutions should encourage producers, distributors and consumers to cooperate to provide for society's needs.

Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values.

With the introduction of Jack Wilson's Ghost Dance, the fourth period of revitalization is ushered, which characteristically occurs after sufficient changes accrue to significantly warp the society's cultural pattern.

In April 2000, Scott Griffin started the Griffin Trust to raise public awareness of the crucial role poetry plays in society's cultural life.

Because the proponents of the concept came from different cultural backgrounds, no single definition of the term exists, but typically " Asian values " encompass some influences of Confucianism, in particular loyalty towards the family, corporation, and nation ; the forgoing of personal freedom for the sake of society's stability and prosperity ; the pursuit of academic and technological excellence ; and work ethic and thrift.

As a girl and young woman, hair, body, and color were society's trinity in determining female beauty and identity, the cultural and value-laden gang of three that formed the boundaries and determined the extent of women's visibility, influence, and importance.

In many ancient civilizations, individuals with widely varying physical appearances became full members of a society by growing up within that society or by adopting that society's cultural norms.

Technological innovations affect, and are affected by, a society's cultural traditions.

Certainly the warrior schools with male circumcision were a part of the ancestral society's cultural repertoire.

Traditional Chinese arts have also re-emerged from the Cultural Revolution, but their developments have been hampered by the Chinese society's ready acceptance of outside cultural influences, particularly the popular culture of Hong Kong, which has a huge following inside the PRC.

A language border is necessarily also a cultural border ( language being a significant part of a society's culture ), but it can also divide sub-groups of the same ethno-linguistic group along more subtle criteria, such as the Brünig-Napf-Reuss line in German-speaking Switzerland, the Weißwurstäquator in Germany or the Grote rivieren boundary between Dutch and Flemish culture.

In Lenski's view, members of any given society are united by a shared and distinctive culture, though these ties become attenuated to varying degrees as their society's store of information increases, their cultural and organizational patterns become more diverse, and intersocietal contacts increase with the acquisition of signals, and later, symbols, early humans gained the critically important ability to share information gained through individual experience.

Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values.

Watterson was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award in 1988 and the society's Reuben Award in 1986 ; he was the youngest person ever to receive the latter award.

Others have seen this both as real and as one of the society's main strengths: a paper read at the Science Museum in London in 1963 claimed that " of all the provincial philosophical societies it was the most important, perhaps because it was not merely provincial.

Although the 1770s was one of the society's richest eras in terms of its collaborative achievements, the society's meetings declined from regular occurrences in 1775 to infrequent ones by the end of the decade.

Shortly after his arrival Lunar meetings moved from Sunday afternoons to Mondays to accommodate Priestley's duties as a clergyman, while the society's dependence on Matthew Boulton was lessened by holding meetings at other members ' houses in addition to Soho House.

The result was to be the society's most productive era.

The Priestley riots of 1791The outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 caused political strains between members of the society, but it was the Priestley Riots of 1791 in Birmingham itself that saw a decisive falling off of the society's spirit and activities.

The DOB spread to Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles, and The Ladder was mailed to hundreds — eventually thousands — of DOB members discussing the nature of homosexuality, sometimes challenging the idea that it was a sickness, with readers offering their own reasons why they were lesbians, and suggesting ways to cope with the condition or society's response to it.

" Considering Murray's reputation to be " deservedly low " in academia, she argued that Murray's status as President of the Folklore Society had harmed the society's reputation and was a causal factor in the mistrustful attitude that many historians held toward folkloristics as an academic discipline.

They believe the observatory was related to the society's reliance on agriculture and understanding the seasons.

Foucault was known for his controversial aphorisms, such as " language is oppression ", meaning that language functions in such a way as to render nonsensical, false or silent tendencies that might otherwise threaten or undermine the distributions of power backing a society's conventions-even when such distributions purport to celebrate liberation and expression or value minority groups and perspectives.

The book portrays a society in which suffrage is earned by demonstrated willingness to place society's interests before one's own, at least for a short time and often under onerous circumstances, in government service ; in the case of the protagonist, this was military service.

This was a direct blow against the society's own dictionary published in 1886, and reform movement lost much of its momentum.

In this way, the United States Supreme Court " set the standard that a punishment would be cruel and unusual it was too severe for the crime, it was arbitrary, if it offended society's sense of justice, or if it was not more effective than a less severe penalty.

Although he never graduated, during his time at the university he was heavily involved in the Virginia Glee Club and the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, serving as the society's president.

Some of the society's members were members of the Allied High Commission and Erhard was able to make his case directly to them.

His use of Nadsat was essentially pragmatic ; he needed his narrator to have a unique voice that would remain ageless while reinforcing Alex's indifference to his society's norms, and to suggest that youth subculture existed independently of the rest of society.

Knight was President of the society from 1811 – 1838, and developed the society's aims and objectives to include a programme of practical research into fruit-breeding.

Ministers in Cain's government accepted assurances from Pyramid directors that the society's position was sound, and passed these assurances on to the public.

and this was reflected in the wording of article 7 of the SCSL statute which did not rule out prosecution but emphasised rehabilitation and society's reintegration.

Other sympathetic villains may be pushed to antagonistic lifestyles by society's mistreatment of him due to prejudice against something he is a part of ( such as racism, as is the case in American History X ), but goes to absurd lengths to achieve the equality he desires.

Cudjoe thinks the novel depicts " the gradual darkening of African society as it returns to its age-old condition of bush and blood " and thinks this pessimistic view indicates Naipaul's " inability to examine postcolonial societies in any depth " The novel examines " the homeless condition of the East Indian in a world he cannot call home " and shows in Salim's case his passage to free himself from " the constricting ties to his society's past ".

In the 1980s, economists Daniel Khazzoom and Leonard Brookes revisited the Jevons paradox in the case of a society's energy use.

Other examples are vandalism of public buildings, extremely large epidemics that disrupt normal functioning of society's institutions, such as in the case of AIDS in Africa ; external military intervention, such as in the invasion of Iraq by the USA and allied nations ; and even ( paradoxically ), external aid to countries which are rich in natural resources but have a poor economy and / or corrupt government ( the so called " resource curse ")

The Grant test lists three factors the courts must consider: ( 1 ) the seriousness of the Charter-infringing conduct ( focusing on a review of how society would view the actions of the state ), ( 2 ) the impact of the breach on the Charter-protected interests of the accused ( focusing on a review of how the state's actions affected the accused ), and ( 3 ) society's interests in the adjudication of the case on its merits ( focusing on a review of the importance and reliability of the evidence ).

At the same time, Jacinto also edited Kalayaan ( Freedom ), the society's official organ, but only one edition of the paper was issued ; a second was prepared but never printed due to the discovery of the society.

In the 20 years of the society's existence, during which Sharp was ever-present at Committee meetings, such was Sharp's modesty that he would never take the chair, always contriving to arrive just after the meeting had started to avoid any chance of having to take the meeting.

They are a part of their society's ruling class, overseeing the invasion force on Earth while their leaders, the invisible and never heard Council, remain back on Mor-Tax.

Legend has it that master Lao was saddened by society's moral decay and, sensing that the end of the dynasty was near, he journeyed westward to the unsettled territories, never to be seen again.