It is a main priority for me as Culture Minister to make sure children can surf the net safely at libraries ,' states Brian Mikkelsen in a press-release of the Danish Ministry of Culture.

Possibly, the most profound example of extraordinarily prolonged dissociative fugue can be found in Iain Banks ' the Culture series novels, where " the perfect mercenary " Cheradenine Zakalwe persists in such a state for more than a millennium, including almost one hundred lifetimes in simulated environments.

Many examples can be seen at an annual competition hosted by the All Japan Swordsmith Association, under the auspices of the Nihontō Bunka Shinkō Kyōkai ( Society for the promotion of Japanese Sword Culture ).

According to the Nevis Department of Culture, the aim is to protect and encourage indigenous folklore, in order to make sure that the uniquely Caribbean culture can " reassert itself and flourish ".

Culture and ethnicity provide an environment where trust and communication between criminals can be efficient and secure.

A subsequent Culture novel Look to Windward ( 2000 ), whose title comes from the previous line of the same poem, can be considered a loose follow-up.

All Culture citizens can communicate in this variant.

It has been argued within the novels by opponents of the Culture that the role of humans in the Culture is nothing more than that of pets, or parasites on Culture Minds, and that they can have nothing genuinely useful to contribute to a society where science is close to omniscient about the physical universe, where every ailment has been cured, and where every thought can be read.

On the other hand, the Culture can be seen as fundamentally hedonistic ( one of the main objectives for any being, including Minds, is to have fun rather than to be ' useful ').

Techniques in genetics have advanced in the Culture to the point where bodies can be freed from built-in limitations.

Citizens of the Culture refer to a normal human as " human-basic " and the vast majority opt for significant enhancements ; severed limbs grow back, sexual physiology can be voluntarily changed from male to female and back ( though the process itself takes time ), sexual stimulation and endurance are strongly heightened in both sexes ( something that is often subject of envious debate among other species ), pain can be switched off, toxins can be bypassed away from the digestive system, automatic functions such as breathing or heart rate can be switched to conscious control, and bones and muscles adapt quickly to changes in gravity without the need to exercise.

Some Culture citizens opt to leave the constraints of a human or even humanoid body altogether, opting to take on the appearance of one of the myriad of other galactic sentients ( perhaps in order to live with them ) or even non-sentient objects as commented upon in Matter ( though this process can be irreversible if the desired form is too removed from the structure of the human brain ).

* Culture clashes can destroy value.

They can basically be divided into sports clubs and “ Arts and Culture ” clubs.

This critical turn in sociocultural anthropology during the mid-1980s can, in large part, can be traced to the influence of the now classic ( and often contested ) text, Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography, ( 1986 ) edited by James Clifford and George Marcus.

Jin Guantao, a professor of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fan Hongye, a research fellow with the Chinese Academy of Sciences ' Institute of Science Policy and Managerial Science, and Liu Qingfeng, a professor of the Institute of Chinese Culture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, have argued that without the influence of proto-scientific precepts in the ancient philosophy of Mohism, Chinese science lacked a definitive structure:

It was a major influence on the New Romantics in Britain, acts like Adam Ant and Flock of Seagulls extended it, and its androgyny and sexual politics were picked up by acts including Culture Club, Bronski Beat and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

The sculpture of the Kushan king Kanishka from this period depicting him wearing leather boots and a heavy warm coat amply reflects the influence of the central Asian Culture on Indian craftsmanship.

Many of the Culture novels in fact contain characters ( from within or without the Culture ) wondering how far-reaching the Minds ' dominance of the Culture is, and how much of the democratic process within it might in fact be a sham: subtly but very powerfully influenced by the Minds in much the same ways Contact and Special Circumstances influence other societies.

As the Culture saw it, the Idirans ' extending sphere of influence would prevent them from improving the lives of those in less-advanced societies, and thus would greatly curtail the Culture's sense of purpose.

The later stages of the war began with Culture strikes deep within the new Idiran zones of influence.

La Jeunesse, or New Youth () was an influential Chinese magazine in the 1910s and 1920s that played an important role in initiating the New Culture Movement and spreading the influence of the May Fourth Movement.

The concept of détournement has had a popular influence amongst contemporary radicals, and the technique can be seen in action in the present day when looking at the work of Culture Jammers including the Cacophony Society, Billboard Liberation Front, Occupy Movements and Adbusters, whose ' subvertisements ' ' detourn ' Nike adverts, for example.

* Japanese idol, a heavily promoted and merchandised singer or actor, a model that will later heavily influence the conception of " Idol " in Other Asian countries Pop Culture ( Such as: Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore ...)

In October 2006, Bozell founded the Culture and Media Institute, an MRC branch whose mission is to reduce what he claims to be a negative liberal influence on American morality, culture, and religious liberty.

Culture change may be necessary to reduce employee turnover, influence employee behavior, make improvements to the company, refocus the company objectives and / or rescale the organization, provide better customer service, and / or achieve specific company goals and results.

According to Faye Hammill's Cold Comfort Farm, D. H. Lawrence, and English Literary Culture Between the Wars, the works of Sheila Kaye-Smith and Mary Webb are the chief influence.

Despite his continuing to work and write to the beginnings of World War I, Tylor did not surpass the influence of his Primitive Culture.

This is exemplified by the influence of Canadian Douglas Coupland ’ s 1990 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, which explored the economically-bleak and apocalypse-fixated worldview of Coupland's age group.

Culture is defined by Ebbutt ( 1998, p. 416 ) as a “ constellation of both written and unwritten expectations, values, norms, rules, laws, artifacts, rituals and behaviors that permeate a society and influence how people behave socially ”.

Like many academics in the humanities during the Cold War, Ward refrained from direct opposition to American foreign policy for most of his career, although his work, much of which is included in his career retrospective Red, White, and Blue: Men, Books, and Ideas in American Culture, implies a dialectical approach to understanding culture that would influence the New Left and other expressly radical critics.

Culture also has a great influence on the appearance of vernacular buildings, as occupants often decorate buildings in accordance with local customs and beliefs.

During the time of the Dutch " Culture System " a flourishing trade in colonial cash crops attracted many Chinese entrepreneurs and the Chinese influence is still evident in the batik for which Cirebon is famous.

Next, Ishmael launches into a discussion of " Mother Culture " ( the personified notion of the influence of our cultural mythology ), our civilization's delusion that our intelligence is a curse inherently propelling us toward making terrible decisions, and our culture's fallacy that all human societies ( or, at least, all the " civilized " ones ) developed out of a state of foraging to a superior state of farming, neglecting the tribes all over the world who continue the foraging lifestyle.

A History of Surf Culture by Drew Kampion ; The Encyclopedia of Surfing by Matt Warshaw ; Riding Giants documentary film by Stacy Peralta-to name just three ) as being the single main influence to bring surfing and the surfing subculture into the American mainstream.

Sacramento News & Review speaks at length of their influence in the positive hardcore movement and their positive effect on the Punk Culture.

Zone One is the Historic Center, ( Centro Histórico ), lying in the very heart of the city, the location of many important historic buildings including the Palacio Nacional de la Cultura ( National Palace of Culture ), the Metropolitan Cathedral, the National Congress, the Casa Presidencial ( Presidential House ), the National Library and Plaza de la Constitución ( Constitution Plaza, old Central Park ).

The Đồng Đậu Culture, 4000 – 2500 BC, produced many wealthy bronze objects.

Archaeologists use the term " Gulf of Georgia Culture Area " to refer to the San Juan and Gulf Islands, the whole of which shows many archaeological commonalities.

Culture in its general sense indicates everything whereby man develops and perfects his many bodily and spiritual qualities ; he strives by his knowledge and his labor, to bring the world itself under his control.

In his book, The Visual Culture of Violence in the Late Middle Ages, Valentin Groebner argues that the images composed on coats of arms are in many cases designed to convey a feeling of power and strength, often in military terms.

Although the Culture was originated by humanoid species, subsequent interactions with other civilizations have introduced many non-humanoid species into the Culture ( including some former enemy civilizations ), though the majority of the biological Culture is still pan-human.

As a Culture citizen, he naturally plays with a style markedly different from his opponents, many of whom stack the odds against him one way or another, such as forming backroom agreements to cooperate against him ( which is allowed by the game's rules ).

Peking University was influential in the birth of China's New Culture Movement, May Fourth Movement, the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 and many other significant events.

The initial stages of the war were defined by a hasty withdrawal of the Culture from vast galactic spaces invaded by the Idirans, who tried to inflict as many civilian casualties as possible in the hope of making the Culture sue for peace.

* Shell World ( Culture )-Planet sized objects which contain many layers of concentric shells, each of which is a habitable environment with a complete atmosphere.

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the area covered by what is now Mayes County has many prehistoric sites.

* Captain Marvel Culture A history of the many Captain Marvels

Writing Culture helped bring changes to both anthropology and ethnography often described in terms of being ' postmodern ,' ' reflexive ,' ' literary ,' ' deconstructive ,' or ' poststructural ' in nature in that the text helped to highlight the various epistemic and political predicaments that many practitioners saw as plaguing ethnographic representations and practices.

Just over a month before the announcement, Margaret Hodge, a Minister of State at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport suggested " that the Proms was one of several big cultural events that many people did not feel comfortable attending " and advocated an increase in multicultural works and an effort to broaden the audience.

France has many cities of cultural interest, some of them are classified as " Town of Art and History " by the French Ministry of Culture.

" The book is inspired by many large companies ' work environments ( with reference to the Corporate Culture and Mission Statements )

As such many have contributed to the wide spectrum of Iraqi Culture.

Therefore, many of the Culture novels deal with outside agents or mercenaries in the employ of Special Circumstances.

Contact membership is seen as a high achievement for people of the Culture as even the best of the best still tend to be too many for the limited available places.

Culture war disputes are considered by many to have had significant impacts on national politics in the United States in the 1990s.

* 2004: Editor of the public documentation and texts in connection to the literary polemics in summer 2004, concerning many issues, including an Open letter to the Minister of Culture Mrs. Andreja Rihter written by the literary creators on 6 July 2004: Dosjeji I, Apokalipsa, 2004, no.

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