The Fort Ancient culture was influenced by the contemporary Mississippian culture society based along the mid-Mississippi River valley with its North American center at Cahokia ( in present-day Illinois ).

In a book review of `` The Soviet Cultural Offensive '', he says, `` Long before the State Department organized its bureaucracy into an East-West Contacts Staff in order to wage a cultural counter-offensive within Soviet borders, the sharp cutting-edge of American culture had carved its mark across the Russian steppes, as when the enterprising promoters of ' Porgy And Bess ' overrode the State Department to carry the contemporary ' cultural warfare ' behind the enemy lines.

That he mastered every aspect of his medium according to his own great talents and contemporary judgments, is a good and solid symbol of his people under the tremendous pressures of proclaiming and practising the rigors of a new culture ; ;

A satire portraying a future and dystopian Western society with — based on contemporary trends — a culture of extreme youth rebellion and violence: it explores the violent nature of humans, human free will to choose between good or evil, and the desolation of free will as a solution to evil.

Many contemporary definitions of " artist " and " art " are highly contingent on culture, resisting aesthetic prescription, in much the same way that the features constituting beauty and the beautiful, cannot be standardized easily without corruption into kitsch.

Image: Aegis of Isis-Sudan 300s bc-British Museum-83d40m. JPG | Aegis on an image of Isis from the Nubian culture of the 4th century BC found in contemporary Sudan-British Museum

Their growing interest in folk music coincided with a contemporary social interest in traditional national culture.

The political scientist Michael Barkun discussing the usage of this term in contemporary American culture holds that a conspiracy theory is a belief which explains an event as the result of a secret plot by exceptionally powerful and cunning conspirators to achieve a malevolent end.

The culture of mainland Greece contemporary with Cycladic culture is termed Helladic.

Despite the ubiquity of computer music in contemporary culture, there is considerable activity in the field of computer music, as researchers continue to pursue new and interesting computer-based synthesis, composition, and performance approaches.

* Remnants of contemporary culture accordingly appear as valued antiquities or sometimes just as unrecognized survivals, lending a rare feeling of nostalgia for the present to the stories.

The " Christmas elves " of contemporary popular culture are of relatively recent tradition, popularized during the late 19th century in the United States, in publications such as Godey's Lady's Book.

Oxford University Press's art history text Australian Painting 1788 – 2000 concludes with a long discussion of graffiti's key place within contemporary visual culture, including the work of several Australian practitioners.

But in the 20th century it made a resurgence, used in historically informed performance of older music, in new ( contemporary ) compositions, and in popular culture.

The jaguar and its name are widely used as a symbol in contemporary culture.

They were approximately contemporary with the mastabas of the archaic period of Egypt ( first and second dynasties ), the brick temples of Sumeria, and the first cities of the Harappa culture in India, and a century or two earlier than the Golden Age of China.

The post-war motels, especially in the early 1950s to late 1960s, sought more visual distinction, often featuring eye-catching colorful neon signs which employed themes from popular culture, ranging from Western imagery of cowboys and Indians to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic era iconography.

Heathenism, also known as Germanic Neopaganism, refers to a series of contemporary Pagan traditions that are based upon the historical religions, culture and literature of Germanic-speaking Europe.

Some of British punk rock's leading figures made a show of rejecting not only contemporary mainstream rock and the broader culture it was associated with, but their own most celebrated predecessors: " No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones in 1977 ," declared The Clash song " 1977 ".

states that the contradictions are only apparent, and that " postmodernism " as a category and a phenomenon is important in the analysis of contemporary culture.

In Western culture, the contemporary concept of a police paid by the government was developed by French legal scholars and practitioners in the 17th and early 18th centuries, notably with Nicolas Delamare's Traité de la Police (" Treatise on the Police "), first published in 1705.

" Chambers ' Dictionary mentions the contemporary usage of the term " pop art "; Grove Music Online states that the " term pop music ... seems to have been a spin-off from the terms pop art and pop culture, coined slightly earlier, and referring to a whole range of new, often American, media-culture products ".

Burials in barrows or tomb chambers apply to the kurgan culture, in accordance with the original version of the Kurgan hypothesis, but not to the previous Sredny Stog culture nor to the contemporary Corded Ware culture, both of which cultures are also generally associated with PIE.

Her goal was to become the first Christian singer-songwriter who was also successful as a contemporary pop singer.

In the book, she also made comparisons of her close gay friends to today's homosexuals, who " jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through " and that some contemporary homosexuals behave like " fairground freaks ".

In some cases, the name языкъ блъгарьскъ was used not only with regard to the contemporary Middle Bulgarian language of the copyist but also to the period of Old Bulgarian.

In this context, it is more readily construed as meaning " school of thought ", since it is also used to construct the names of philosophical schools contemporary with Confucianism: for example, the Chinese names for Legalism and Mohism end in jiā.

Many jelly desserts are traditionally set with agar and are flavored with fruits, though gelatin based jellies are also common in contemporary desserts.

She was a near contemporary of better-known American artist Mary Cassatt and also received her training in Philadelphia and France.

By the mid-20th century many rhyming slang expressions used the names of contemporary personalities, especially actors and performers: for example " Gregory Peck " meaning " neck " and also " cheque "; " Ruby Murray " meaning " curry "; " Alans ", meaning " knickers " from Alan Whicker ; " Max Miller " meaning " pillow " when pronounced / ˈpilə / and " Henry Halls ".

All contemporary Jewish movements consider the Tanakh, and the Oral Torah in the form of the Mishnah and Talmuds as sacred, although movements are divided as to claims concerning their divine revelation, and also their authority.

Paradoxically, achieving this connective human quality has also moved his buildings away from the abstract imageability valued in contemporary architecture, and this is one reason why his buildings are under-appreciated at present.

Her early and later allegorical and didactic treatises reflect both autobiographical information about her life and views and also her own individualized and humanist approach to the scholastic learned tradition of mythology, legend, and history she inherited from clerical scholars and to the genres and courtly or scholastic subjects of contemporary French and Italian poets she admired.

These albums ( except the last ) were also known for using contemporary paintings as cover art, featuring the work of Joan Miró on Time Further Out, Franz Kline on Time in Outer Space, and Sam Francis on Time Changes.

This is also the logical structure of contemporary database indexes.

Doublespeak might also have some connections with contemporary theories as well.

Second, Laozi was Lao Laizi ( " Old Come Master "), also a contemporary of Confucius, who wrote a book in 15 parts.

In the contemporary era of technological connectivity, sessions may also be conducted remotely by phone, email or online chat.

It is also often rendered dharam in contemporary Indian languages and dialects.

While playing in thumb position, few players use the fourth ( little ) finger, as it is too weak to produce a reliable tone ( this is also true for cellists ), although some extreme chords or extended techniques, especially in contemporary music, may necessitate its use.

Jenner's vaccine also laid the foundation for contemporary discoveries in immunology, and the field he began may someday lead to cures for arthritis, AIDS, and many other diseases.

Edinburgh is also home to a flourishing group of contemporary composers such as Nigel Osborne, Peter Nelson, Lyell Cresswell, Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Edward Harper, Robert Crawford, Robert Dow and John McLeod whose music is heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and throughout the UK.

Later, he also referred to himself as a " phonometrician " ( meaning " someone who measures sounds ") preferring this designation to that of a " musician ", after having been called " a clumsy but subtle technician " in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911.

Some Essene rituals, such as daily immersion in the mikveh, coincide with contemporary Hasidic practices ; some historians had also suggested, that name " Essene " is a Hellenized form of the word " Hasidim " or " Hasid " (" pious ones ").

In that sense, not only is Kraepelin's significance historical, but contemporary psychiatric research is also heavily influenced by his work.

There is also a large body of contemporary research and development directed toward using expert systems for human behavior modeling and decision support systems.

Further concerns about the impact of industrial farming ( grains ) on animal welfare, human health, and the environment are also having an effect on contemporary human dietary habits.