Concerned with losing their cultural identity, the group later arranged with English investors to establish a new colony in North America.

" Indeed, Li ' l Abner incorporates such a panoply of characters and ideas that it defies summary ," according to cultural historian Anthony Harkins.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of a cultural complex known as the " Intermediate Area ," between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions.

Bryan Sykes, professor of genetics at Oxford University, understands this decision: " The Confucius family tree has an enormous cultural significance ," he said.

Another influential voice in discussing matters of cultural imperialism is the self-described " practical Marxist-feminist-deconstructionist ," Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Also called " Forry ," " The Ackermonster ," " 4e " and " 4SJ ," Ackerman was central to the formation, organization, and spread of science fiction fandom, and a key figure in the wider cultural perception of science fiction as a literary, art and film genre.

Known for his hedonistic lifestyle of " sex, drugs and rock ' n roll ," Brood was an enfant terrible and a cultural figure whose suicide, apparently caused by a failure to kick his drug and alcohol habit, only strengthened his controversial status.

A 2005 study stated that " differential validity in prediction suggests that the WAIS-R test may contain cultural influences that reduce the validity of the WAIS-R as a measure of cognitive ability for Mexican American students ," indicating a weaker positive correlation relative to sampled white students.

Whereas the central Maoist leaders encouraged the masses to criticize reactionary " ideas " and " habits " among the alleged 5 % of bad cadres, giving them a chance to " turn over a new leaf " after they had undergone " thought reform ," the Ultra-Left argued that " cultural revolution " had to give way to " political revolution " – " in which one class overthrows another class ".

Against Marx's " historical materialism ," Weber emphasised the importance of cultural influences embedded in religion as a means for understanding the genesis of capitalism.

Continuing to ride what one movie reviewer has called a " pop cultural wave ," they also appeared at a live show in April 2009 for the comedy film I Love You, Man.

At the same time that rhetoric was becoming divorced from political decision making, rhetoric rose as a culturally vibrant and important mode of entertainment and cultural criticism in a movement known as the " second sophistic ," a development which gave rise to the charge ( made by Quintilian and others ) that teachers were emphasizing style over substance in rhetoric.

" Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut were rebelling against existing cultural values and used cinema as a means of expression simply because it was the most avant-garde medium at the time ," said Besson in The New York Times.

After struggling to be accepted by them, he discovered his first strong sense of self in America within the " family of the Group Theater, and more loosely in the radical social and cultural movements of the time ," writes film author Joanna E. Rapf.

By contrast, in " Patterns of Force ," where the crew discovers that a Federation cultural observer has contaminated the culture he was supposed to be observing by having blatantly reformed a planet's government to emulate Nazi Germany, they help the local resistance overthrow the government.

Circa stardate 2534. 0 ( 2266 ), in the Original Series episode " Patterns of Force ," cultural observer and historian John Gill openly created a regime based on Nazi Germany on a primitive planet in a misguided effort to create a society which combined what he ( mistakenly ) viewed as the high efficiency of a fascist dictatorship with a more benign philosophy, thereby contaminating the normal and healthy development of the planet's culture.

This world is lit by an eternal red sun at the center of Mystara, and serves as a " cultural museum ," preserving the societies that have become extinct in the outer world.

The AOASF is designed to graduate ( 1 ) " Innovative risk takers willing to experiment ," ( 2 ) " Exceptional commanders, schooled in the art of command, and leaders of campaign planning and strategic and operational design ," ( 3 ) " Creative leaders who can solve complex-adaptive problems at the strategic and theater-strategic levels of conflict ," ( 4 ) " Expert evaluators of the practical strategic and operational implications of cultural differences ," and ( 5 ) " Masters at developing and mentoring junior officers.

Though the terminology originates with the Japanese publishers, cultural differences with the West mean that labelling in English tends to vary wildly, with the types often confused and mis-applied.

Since at least the Renaissance, musicians, composers, music publishers ( and, in the 20th century, radio stations and recording companies ) have been part of a wide-ranging and continuous process of cultural appropriation that developed in the wake of the European colonisation of America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

The company was one of the few game publishers that attempted to bridge the cultural gap between the Japanese and American video game industries during the 1990s with an eclectic selection of releases from various genres, and was also one of the earliest American publishers to make use of the CD-ROM format for full, spoken English dialogue in their products at a time when voice acting was not a common feature in most mainstream games.

Birds and People is a ten-year long, groundbreaking collaboration between the publishers Random House and BirdLife International, to survey and document worldwide, the cultural significance of birds.

Zeyringer points out that on one hand this custom enables also the publication of non-mainstream and complicated literary works but on the other hand reduces the awareness of the necessity of adequate marketing activities of many cultural organizations, including publishers.

The district is home to a great number of museums, theatres, cinemas, cultural associations, booksellers, publishers and libraries, including the National Library in a new building.

Green ( Old World ) archaeoastronomers rely heavily on statistics and are sometimes accused of missing the cultural context of what is a social practice.

The arguments surrounding the authenticity of the Testimonium fall into two categories: internal arguments that rely on textual analysis and compare the passage with the rest of Josephus ' work ; and external arguments, that consider the wider cultural and historical context.

However, such cynicism can alternatively be read as a " realism " about the transformation of cultural life, where airports and even museums ( due to finance problems ) rely just as much on operating gift shops.

Stock characters rely heavily on cultural types or names for their personality, manner of speech, and other characteristics.

Humans would no longer be innately averse to incest, but would rely on their capacity to internalize such rules from cultural practices.

He knew he could not rely on Museum curators or other members of the cultural establishment – in 1908 he wrote “ The main difficulty so far seems to have been that Indian art has been studied so far only by archaeologists.

Since the Pygmies rely on the forest for their physical as well as cultural survival, as these forests disappear, so do the Pygmy.

# New Media as Digital Data Controlled by Software – The language of New Media is based on the assumption that, in fact, all cultural objects that rely on digital representation and computer-based delivery do share a number of common qualities.

This being the case, a single person could be described as hearing by one person and deaf by another because the first person was thinking simply about the subject's sensitivity to sound whereas the other person was thinking, partially about the persons ability to rely on residual hearing, but also about their personal views, their identity, or perhaps their ignorance of cultural norms.

Gwichʼin people have been very active in protesting and lobbying against the possibility of oil drilling in ANWR, due to fears that oil drilling will deplete the population of the Porcupine Caribou herd which they rely on for nutritional and cultural needs.

To the extent those broader cultures rely for cultural meaning on Hebrew-language-based scriptures, those idioms sometimes prove puzzling.

The state expected artists, filmmakers, and intellectuals to become economically autonomous and not rely on state subsidies ; this new market orientation forced cultural producers to seek foreign financing or simply to leave the country altogether.

Many national governments rely solely on a government ministry or department to deliver their cultural policies and support programmes.

The natives are ill equipped to comprehend this, since they're a subsistent people who rely on the forests, and have no cultural precedent for tyranny, slavery, or war.

Visual Culture as an academic subject is a field of study that generally includes some combination of cultural studies, art history, critical theory, philosophy, and anthropology, by focusing on aspects of culture that rely on visual images.

Without group self-determination, any group, but particularly American blacks would rely on the benevolence of other groups with political, economic and cultural capital, to voluntarily integrate with blacks which would lead to the dismantlement of black institutions and cultural traditions ; rather than facilitate an equal and negotiated sharing throughout society.

Many members of traditional, indigenous cultures and religions are suspicious of neoshamanism, believing it to rely too heavily on cultural appropriation, or that it is an excuse by fraudulent shamans to cover up inconsistencies in their ceremonies.

Originally, excavations in the Ushnu-Solduz Valley were intended to explore a series of stratified occupation levels in the area with the objective of reconstructing a regional cultural history from Neolithic times until Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia beginning in 334 BC, such that any conclusions would rely solely on material evidence from the region itself, independent of linguistic or literary evidence from adjoining regions.