• For example, in many parts of Europe, the Black Death of 1348 sparked brutal pogroms, as Christians blamed Jews for somehow causing the epidemic of bubonic plague. (facinghistory.org)
  • The pattern, pace and seasonality of the spread of the disease reflects current medical work and standard studies on the epidemiology of bubonic plague. (boydellandbrewer.com)
  • While its demographic impact could not compare to that of the bubonic plague, it nonetheless held a tremendous purchase on the European social imagination. (yale.edu)
  • From the bubonic plague in the 1300s to the 1918 influenza pandemic to more contemporary epidemics like HIV/AIDS, SARS, H1N1, these epidemics teach important lessons. (davidson.edu)
  • Drug epidemics are not like plagues of locusts or earthquakes. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • Although the pre-Columbian populations may not have suffered from the waves of epidemics that killed so many people in Old World cities, the evidence shows that physiological stress in the form of infection and undernutrition was common, if not chronic, in many ancient Mesoamerican urban settlements. (gutenberg-e.org)
  • In the eyes of national statists the most important elements are, however, brought into account in the ancient subdivision of diseases into plagues, or epidemics and endemics, into diseases of common occurrence (sporadic diseases), which may be conveniently divided into three classes, and into injuries, the immediate results of violence or of external causes. (cdc.gov)
  • The contemporary model of U.S. capitalism is failing the majority of American society causing an 'epidemic of despair,' marked by high rates of drug abuse and suicide, write Professor Emeritus Anne Case and 2015 Nobel laureate Professor Emeritus Angus Deaton. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • Set in a ravaged and wild America, the story takes place in 2073, sixty years after the spread of the Red Death, an uncontrollable epidemic that depopulated and nearly destroyed the world of 2013. (cdc.gov)
  • But it was unknown elsewhere in the world, until it burst into a major epidemic in 1817 that then escaped India and began its devastating international career, reaching Europe for the first time in 1830. (yale.edu)
  • Chillag said social distancing measures like school closings or cancellation of mass gatherings, as we can see in the COVID-19 epidemic, can play an important role in public health response, but it is critical that they be grounded in the best available evidence, good governance, transparency, accountability, and solidarity. (davidson.edu)
  • This fall, Chillag will teach "The Epidemic Cinema Society: Public Health and Film," a course that uses movies to explore public health. (davidson.edu)
  • Baltimore, MD -November 1st, 2023 - In a world plagued by wars, social unrest, and environmental crises, artist James McDowell, featuring the captivating Justina Johnson, emerges as a talented artist with a powerful and inspiring message for all. (indiemusicreviews.net)
  • When human society enters the patriarchal society from the matriarchal society, men gradually occupy a dominant position in social production. (wikipedia.org)
  • The ethical thoughts of male superiority and female sorrow have existed in the patriarchal society. (wikipedia.org)
  • Her monologue is about her and her experiences as a woman, but Rani combines this with a scathing critique of patriarchal society that controls every aspect of a woman's life, including their name. (metawards.com)
  • Rani's powerful performance demands investment from her audience, not just at the level of empathy, but also at that of relatability, making everyone feel the frustration faced by her and millions of other women whose lives are controlled by patriarchal society. (metawards.com)
  • Such attacks, known as pogroms, were also common responses to outbreaks of plague or other disasters. (facinghistory.org)
  • The rest of this chapter explores the health problems of the inhabitants of New Spain, beginning with the frequent outbreaks of pestilence and other infectious diseases, on through to the more common ailments of everyday life. (gutenberg-e.org)
  • Political instability and weak democratic structures, inadequate political commitment to health development, and outbreaks of wars and social conflicts had been common. (who.int)
  • This background is crucial to the consideration of contemporary crises in Haiti. (ibw21.org)
  • They were often treated as "the Other" and made scapegoats for calamities and misfortunes suffered by societies in which they lived. (facinghistory.org)
  • In the ancient world, plague and pestilence were rather frequent calamities, and ordinary people were likely to have witnessed or heard vivid and scary reports about their terrible ravages. (cdc.gov)
  • Sometimes in the World Yajna controlled by Yajna incarnate Almighty God some calamities do set in like flooding, famine, earthquake, tsunamis etc. (selfgrowth.com)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has compounded and escalated a long-standing problem, rendering the mental health crisis and its dangerous consequences visible and exigent. (amacad.org)
  • One of the few survivors, James Howard Smith, alias "Granser," tells his incredulous and near-savage grandsons how the pandemic spread in the world and about the reactions of the people to contagion and death. (cdc.gov)
  • In particular, the author focused his attention on behavioral responses to a pandemic, showing the emergence of fear, irrationality, and selfishness in a previously civilized and modern society. (cdc.gov)
  • This contemporary performance and exhibition with the Nowannago at Grand Central Art Center will transcend the boundaries of Kentifrica as a geography to serve as an abstract confrontation with the following issues and movements plaguing our local and global societies: The Black Lives Matters Movement, the current human trafficking trade, LGBTQ awareness, immigration reform, prison reform, white supremacy, genocide, xenophobia, etc. (grandcentralartcenter.com)
  • Interesting dimensions of this film include its examination of schisms within social movements and activists' reflections many years later about their survivor's guilt. (davidson.edu)
  • And the systems of care are just as problem-plagued, costly, and egregiously inadequate as the rest of health care. (amacad.org)
  • Wealth inequality, lack of affordable housing, and inadequate social safety nets often drive people to the streets. (thisjungianlife.com)
  • Despair, by contrast, is a disease of working-class Americans - people without a bachelor's degree - whose job opportunities, marriages, and social and economic institutions have weakened over the last half-century. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • The despair story is one of a society that is not serving large numbers of its people, effectively consigning them to second-class citizenship. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • Now operating openly, shamans (who act as mediums between people in the world in which we live and the spirit world) were and still are highly sought after by Buryat clients hoping to piece together the messages of the spirits that plague them. (lse.ac.uk)
  • This issue was exacerbated during plague and war, driving people from rural areas to cities. (thisjungianlife.com)
  • the issue is not that people die from the plague, but that people are plagued by death. (cdc.gov)
  • Social media, despite its promise of connecting people, has also become a breeding ground for communication breakdowns. (new-cms.org)
  • This campaign may give rise to the impression that 'everyone is an abuser' and cause us to belittle the problem, to think that so many people abuse women and it's just a trend. (timesofisrael.com)
  • People debate whether the family is a part of civil society. (dizerega.com)
  • Civil society by contrast emerges among people enjoying equal status and freedom of association. (dizerega.com)
  • Zerzan claims that anthropological evidence shows that before the emergence of these forms, people lived in an unmediated oneness and harmony with their world. (fifthestate.org)
  • Short, hard lives plagued by poor nutrition and ill health were the rule for most ordinary people. (gutenberg-e.org)
  • In The Scarlet Plague, London investigated many traditional issues of the literary theme of plague, ranging from a reflection on morality and justice to the contagion and clinical features of the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • Political polarization and the rise of echo chambers are other pressing issues in contemporary communication. (new-cms.org)
  • Introduction to ethical theory and to the evaluation of ethical issues in society such as sexual ethics and euthanasia. (oregonstate.edu)
  • The former establishes the gendered persona that Grass would develop in subsequent decades to relate contemporary issues to Nazi-era memories. (boydellandbrewer.com)
  • The fight with time, spatiality and social dynamics creates a never-ending cycle in which oppositional parties have to grapple with their issues. (grandcentralartcenter.com)
  • Chillag studies the social, ethical, and political dimensions of public health issues, often focusing on vulnerability and disparities. (davidson.edu)
  • As the performance unfolds, Rani brings to light the many issues that plague our society today. (metawards.com)
  • Exodus 9:14, Numbers 11:33, 1 Samuel 4:8, Psalms 89:23, Isaiah 9:13), the plague was viewed as one of God's punishments for sins, so the frightening description of its spread was interpreted as a warning to the Israelites to behave morally. (cdc.gov)
  • America operates in complete disconnect and does not have the knowledge, weapons or strategy to fight the morally and culturally embedded Islamic revolutionaries in the Arab world. (pravda.ru)
  • While Burke also avoids emotional response and the overall intention of the author, he specifically considers literature as logical reflections of society and its behavior (Adams 957). (freeonlineresearchpapers.com)
  • While a few later works of Arthur F. Bentley are known, his earlier work has rarely been discussed despite containing much of relevance to contemporary behavior analysis, social analysis, and psychological thinking, and despite showing his later work in a new light. (bvsalud.org)
  • What is of importance is that his early works show how his transdermal conception and critique of the inner/outer distinction stemmed from his social science research projects which described the way human behavior is shaped by external social and economic events. (bvsalud.org)
  • In his book Instagram and Contemporary Image he analyzes 16 million photos posted on Instagram in 17 global metropolises. (art.pl)
  • it analyzes both how the social functions in literature and how literature works in society. (freeonlineresearchpapers.com)
  • It analyzes these dynamics through "Stop the Spread", a Haredi "anti-gossip" campaign that links the ill health of social relations within the Haredi Jewish body politic to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 within its communities. (mdpi.com)
  • A tug of war will ensue during the performance in which the Nowannago will be used to illustrate the complex push and pull of realities within historical and contemporary hegemonic impulses that seek to condemn bodies that are misunderstood. (grandcentralartcenter.com)
  • The way in which the character intentionally turns her darkness into her greatest asset is validation of a self-authenticating strategy that suggests other, more affirmative and restored ways of tenanting in dark skin and blackness, both in the African American collective and the hegemonic society. (lu.se)
  • This article challenges this assumption and contends that COVID-19 has amplified pre-existing anxieties about the lack of proper social cohesion and solidarity within Haredi Jewish communities. (mdpi.com)
  • The 1990s saw the popularization of this term, in both the academic world as well as the media world. (wikipedia.org)
  • This confusion has plagued the very meaning of "postfeminism" since the 1990s. (wikipedia.org)
  • Via God's regular duties there is arrangement of proper rainfall everywhere and yet on certain occasions excess or lack of rainfall is witnessed by us all the world over. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Mohammed was strongly drawn to the Biblical doctrine of the Kingdom of God, of God's rule over the world, and this is what Islam purports to be. (chalcedon.edu)
  • Svetlana Bankovskaya's interview with Dr Giddens, obtained during his visit to Moscow last November, presents his up-to-date views on how globalization affects society and individuals. (strana-oz.ru)
  • A term that has become a mantra for her practice is the "Historical Present," as she examines the residue of history and how it affects our contemporary world perspective. (grandcentralartcenter.com)
  • great failure of contemporary American capitalism is that it is not serving everyone. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • There is nothing fundamentally awry in society, and certainly no sign of a deep flaw in the way that contemporary American capitalism is working. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • Cox stands out, however, as a scholar whose work consistently and rigorously proceeded from the conviction that making sense of the meaning of race and the character of race relations in American life requires an understanding of the dynamics of capitalism as a social system and its specific history in this country. (monthlyreview.org)
  • His sweeping critique of the modern world condemns not just capitalism, the state, technology and even "civilization," but he openly calls for the abolition of all forms of symbolic representation and a return to a hunting and gathering existence. (fifthestate.org)
  • The Kodak revolution, which grew out of the wide availability of cheap photo processing and printing through a vast network of photographic outlets, changed the photographic image just as profoundly, if not more so, than the emergence of social media in the early 21st century. (art.pl)
  • By exploring the motif of the plague, a consistent and well-spread theme in literature, London's novel is part of a long literary tradition, inviting the reader to reflect on the ancestral fear of humans toward infectious diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1842, the American poet and novelist Edgar Allan Poe published The Masque of the Red Death, a short story unique in the literary tradition of the plague by focusing only on the metaphorical element of the theme. (cdc.gov)
  • This causal relationship between plague and sin is seen also in Greek literary texts, such as Homer's Iliad and Sophocles' Oedipus the King (429 BCE ). (cdc.gov)
  • Nevertheless, early Christians tried to separate themselves from other Jews, both to win followers from the gentile (non-Jewish) world and to gain favor with Roman imperial authorities. (facinghistory.org)
  • Some forms of postfeminism strive towards the next stage in gender-related progress, and as such is often conceived as in favor of a society that is no longer defined by rigid gender roles and expressions . (wikipedia.org)
  • Among the unifying social structures of La Chaux-de-Fonds was the Loge L'Amitié, the Masonic lodge with its francophone moral, social, and philosophical ideas, including the symbolic iconography of the right angle (rectitude) and the compass (exactitude). (wikipedia.org)
  • Includes the study of philosophical theories of moral responsibility and moral virtue, and the philosophical ideas behind ethics debates in society. (oregonstate.edu)
  • Following World War II, governments worldwide focused on providing housing for citizens. (thisjungianlife.com)
  • Democracy requires citizens to stay alert, to open their eyes and their mouths - to understand that societies of sheep typically beget governments of wolves. (johnkeane.net)
  • Ferguson now believes that Europe, Japan, and America have experienced the same sort of downward spiral in in their governments and civil societies. (aleteia.org)
  • This body of work involves a Kentifrican narrative that provides a social critique of how we are chained to the residue of the past and how bodies that are deemed the â“otherâ†through labels of queerness, racial constructions and gender constructions are treated. (grandcentralartcenter.com)
  • At the 18th edition of Mahindra Excellence in Theatre Awards, be prepared to be transported into the mesmerising world of Savita Rani's theatrical performance, where she takes on the daunting task of straddling between different genres of art and leaving no stone unturned in her social critique. (metawards.com)
  • Manduhai Buyandelger 's Tragic Spirits: Shamanism, Memory, and Gender in Contemporary Mongolia is a compelling study of the nomadic Buryats' response to sweeping changes after the fall of the USSR in 1991. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Patriarchy, Civilization and the Origins of Gender" nods towards eco-feminism, one of the few contemporary intellectual currents Zerzan has shown a fundamental affinity towards. (fifthestate.org)
  • He is the author of twelve books, including The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor (2019), A Passion for Society: How We Think about Human Suffering (with Iain Wilkinson, 2016), and Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience (1988). (amacad.org)
  • Already in South and Southeast Asia, serious questions about the Theravada sangha's moral and social authority are being debated. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • It mirrors the alienation and dislocation experienced in a rapidly evolving society, where individuals feel lost amidst the tumultuous tides of change. (thisjungianlife.com)
  • By fostering open dialogue, promoting digital literacy, and embracing diverse perspectives, we can hope to bridge these gaps and ensure that communication remains a unifying force in our rapidly evolving society. (new-cms.org)
  • These conditions hinder job stability and social relationships, exacerbating the risk of homelessness. (thisjungianlife.com)
  • Yet, paradoxically, modern society is plagued by a multitude of communication breakdowns that hinder progress, understanding, and cooperation. (new-cms.org)
  • Misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and linguistic discrimination can hinder social integration, exacerbate cultural divides, and hamper economic opportunities for individuals who do not speak the dominant language. (new-cms.org)
  • His theatre has often employed such imagery for political ends, to comment on the real dynamics and perils of contemporary culture. (realtimearts.net)
  • Its theme will be deriving and applying social and cultural frameworks for understanding the dynamics of time or, more generally, temporalities. (northwestern.edu)
  • This essay is reprinted from Race: A Study in Social Dynamics , the new abridged edition of Oliver Cromwell Cox's Caste, Class, and Race (Monthly Review Press, 2000). (monthlyreview.org)
  • He writes easily and with grace about a variety of relevant topics from liberal political theory to contemporary apocalyptic terrorism, from Sorel to Muslim fundamentalism. (johnkeane.net)
  • The renewed American-led wars in Iraq and Syria have unthinkable ripples effects to the whole of the Arab and Muslim world. (pravda.ru)
  • America and its European allies are super imposing the unknown sectarian divides of Sunnis and Shias to make headways in street violence and enlarged societal conflicts across the Muslim world. (pravda.ru)
  • Alexandre A. Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush, in Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union, A Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World (University of Chicago Press, 1979), trace the history of Muslim communism. (chalcedon.edu)
  • Add to this factor within the Soviet Union an external factor, the rise of Muslim nationalism and Marxism outside of the Soviet Union, in Asia, the Near East, and North Africa, and you have all the ingredients for social turbulence, war, and revolution. (chalcedon.edu)
  • Such scenarios, while undoubtedly terrifying, are seductive in the freedom from conventional morality and social bondage they envision, but are equally fantasies which deter us from imagining actual methods of altering the systems of power that presently exist. (realtimearts.net)
  • Lawyers, who can be revolutionaries in a dynamic society, become parasites in a stationary one. (aleteia.org)
  • That history begins in the mid-1990's, when students across the country became increasingly aware that apparel produced by big corporations like Nike was being made in sweatshop conditions, predominantly (though not exclusively) in the third world. (marxisthumanistinitiative.org)
  • Continuous rumors, lies, myths, and misinformation about Jews have existed throughout history, and many of them persist in the contemporary world. (facinghistory.org)
  • That is something that societies throughout history have had to endure, and will no doubt have to endure again. (diplomaticourier.com)
  • In a similar manner, The Betrothed and History of Infamy, both written by Italian novelist Alessandro Manzoni, were extraordinary descriptions of the plague that struck Milan around 1630. (cdc.gov)
  • The Buddhist sangha is perhaps the longest-lived institution in world history. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • Are the contemporaries privileged witnesses of their own history, or do they wander aimlessly among its mysteries, like Fabricio del Dongo on the Waterloo battlefield? (icr.ro)
  • Whereas in the Christian world, the revolutionary direction of history was to challenge centralized power in church and state, and to base the faith in the heart of man, the Islamic tendency was and is to equate strength with centralized power. (chalcedon.edu)
  • The Scarlet Plague, originally published by Jack London in 1912, was one of the first examples of a post-apocalyptic fiction novel in modern literature. (cdc.gov)
  • "Our World Is On Fire" is an attempt to inspire peace, embolden unity, and underscore the need for society to collectively strive towards social justice. (indiemusicreviews.net)
  • Through her performance, Rani challenges the audience to think critically about the society we live in, and how we can collectively bring about positive change. (metawards.com)
  • Conflict - for an individual, group, organizational, institutional, and national level - is re-cognized as the major avenue for economic and social progress, and world conflict resolution theorists and practitioners have been long looking for better ways of negotiating and settling conflicts - normally including constructive channeling of conflicts. (strana-oz.ru)
  • Nikita Pokrovskiy's article comments on Dr Giddens's views expressed in a lecture given for a student audience at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, particularly in respect to the current condition of the Russian society. (strana-oz.ru)
  • The rules generating a spontaneous order are more narrowly focused than those generating civil society because they seek to facilitate cooperation within specific value domains such as economic exchange, scientific discovery, or deciding common public values. (dizerega.com)
  • Firstly, the politician-criminal-bureaucrat nexus has grown into a gangrenous disease, eating into the very socio-economic texture of society. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Viewing the consequences of the Arab economic prosperity bubble, the Western oil importing industrialized nation have transformed the Arab world into impotency and a dehumanized culture of thinking and living. (pravda.ru)
  • In civil society each individual freely balances many ethical concerns along with other desires and incentives in choosing what to do. (dizerega.com)
  • Throughout, Keane gives prominence to ethical questions, such as the circumstances in which violence can be justified, and argues that violent behaviour and means of violence can and should be 'democratised' - made publicly accountable to others, so encouraging efforts to erase surplus violence from the world. (johnkeane.net)
  • We now live in a world of complete alienation, where everything we experience has been standardized and controlled, turned into quantifiable forms that are repeatable and exchangeable. (fifthestate.org)
  • Moving south of the river, the pioneering work of three female architects who worked for the public sector on major social housing schemes in the 1960--70s reveals another layer of the contribution of women to the contemporary cityscape. (frieze.com)
  • However, both agree that there are three major problems plaguing the sangha: nationalism, sexism, and a lack of education in critical thinking. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • Homelessness remains a persistent issue in many societies due to various political factors. (thisjungianlife.com)
  • Unlike some of his contemporaries, such as Ralph Bunche, Abram Harris, or E. Franklin Frazier, Cox was not particularly prominent within the racial advocacy or political activist groups of the day, though he did comment on contemporary affairs in venues such as the Journal of Negro Education . (monthlyreview.org)
  • When it runs amuck (and in Russia, it seems to run amuck most of the time), the desire for political visibility is frustrated by grotesque images of a society lurching toward socio-political and cultural disaster. (chtodelat.org)
  • This correspondence qualifies it as an archetypical disease of poverty, and implicated cholera in the larger nineteenth-century political anxiety over the "social question. (yale.edu)
  • Unfortunately, corruption in the political class runs deep in Haitian society. (ibw21.org)
  • There are ecological, spiritual, psychological, social and political implications to his perspective, and they form the basic beliefs held by most radicals who today call themselves "anarcho-primitivists" or "anti-civ. (fifthestate.org)
  • As does loneliness for both physical and psychic pain, as well as social media for adolescent anxieties. (amacad.org)
  • Daughter's teen frustrations make her a social pariah, unable to forge meaningful connections with her parents or peers. (realtimearts.net)
  • Ellis doesn't fall prey to this tendency, however, and Poet #7's setting (or rather, settings) within a world that has undergone a cryptically-referred-to Armageddon are not accomplished simply in order to make crude comments on the problems of modern life. (realtimearts.net)
  • We feel compelled to make images of it and share them with others as a key part of our effort to understand the changing world around us and our place within it. (art.pl)
  • Different social groups make the same decisions when being photographed, which is then reflected in parallels in the aesthetics and manner of presentation of the photographed subject. (art.pl)
  • In this manner in order to make World Yajnas well managed and regular time and again, God gave great Rishis at the commencement of creation 'technology' called Yajna. (selfgrowth.com)
  • She delves deep into the root of the problem and asks how we can counter the notions that are steeped in prejudice and make the lives of everyone except those from the dominant section miserable. (metawards.com)
  • Despite the heavy subject matter, Rani balances the depth of her act with humour, using it as a mechanism to make her social commentary more accessible and to interrogate the intangible elements of contemporary society. (metawards.com)
  • the ways in which these sources make apparent this social understanding is exactly what is of interest to Kenneth Burke. (freeonlineresearchpapers.com)
  • Human Yajnas are just not merely mediums of understanding World Yajnas but are helpers in directing World Yajnas. (selfgrowth.com)
  • 2 As everyone now knows, these pathogens eventually played a critical role in the conquests of the New World, whose inhabitants had no immunity to the Old World diseases brought by the conquistadors and early settlers. (gutenberg-e.org)
  • For several generations, the frontiers had ceased to be impenetrable, and waves of "barbarians" kept streaming into the Roman world. (icr.ro)
  • The underpinnings of today's mental health crisis include both social structural inequities and neurobiological vulnerabilities. (amacad.org)
  • [2] Other postfeminists say that feminism is no longer relevant to today's society. (wikipedia.org)
  • In general, the majority of traditional Chinese societies culture concept believes that sons can take responsibility for their family, instead of girls. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is obvious that agriculture needs physical strength in a primitive agricultural society. (wikipedia.org)
  • Time also provide templates for academic theory -- anthropological theory of the past, for example, depicted societies in an evolutionary continuum from primitive to modern. (northwestern.edu)
  • Austin Harrington outlines in his book, Art and Social Theory, six ways in which art can be approached from a sociological standpoint: 1) humanistic historic approach, 2) Marxist social theory, 3) cultural studies, 4) theory of art in analytical philosophy, 5) anthropological studies of art, and 6) empirical studies of contemporary art institutions (15). (freeonlineresearchpapers.com)
  • While it is no secret that equally serious violations of the professional boundary between analyst and patient plague analysis today, there remains the damning fact in his case that many of Khan's contemporaries-the venerable Winnicott included- knew of his infractions at the time he was committing them but did nothing. (bostonreview.net)
  • It's revealing that a great deal of the discussion surrounding the early experiences with cholera revolved around the question of whether this was, in fact, the return of the plague. (yale.edu)
  • together, elected, responsible government and the dispersal of power within civil society provide organised protection from the fear or fact of injury or loss of life. (johnkeane.net)
  • While Britain was becoming the most industrially-advanced nation in the world, many vaunted the superiority of the present to the past - yet others felt that if shadows of past ways of life haunted the present, they were friendly ghosts. (boydellandbrewer.com)
  • And yet what the above mentioned Mantra is trying to say that predominantly Yajnas are instruments for world humanity to fulfill their desires. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Buyandelger is an associate professor of Anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tragic Spirits builds upon her previous studies of shamanism and its role within Mongolian society. (lse.ac.uk)
  • one can see how society felt and what tragic experiences can do to the people's views on subjects ranging from decease and disease to its emphasis on the journey of life to death. (freeonlineresearchpapers.com)
  • These figures do not include the even larger liabilities of welfare entitlements - Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. (aleteia.org)
  • In terms of the vocabulary of emergence we have been developing in our conferences, civil society is a complex adaptive transformative system, but it is not a spontaneous order . (dizerega.com)
  • Language barriers are another communication breakdown that plagues modern society, especially in multicultural and diverse communities. (new-cms.org)
  • Ferguson's short, articulate, and powerful book describes a quartet of pathologies plaguing the United States and most Western countries: "democratic deficits," "regulatory fragility," the "rule of lawyers" rather than the rule of law, and an "uncivil society. (aleteia.org)
  • Human reactions to the plague are also the central themes of historical titles such as A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe, a long, detailed narrative of events, anecdotes, and statistics regarding the Great Plague of London of 1665. (cdc.gov)
  • We live in the midst of a constantly evolving microbial world in which the microbes have an inherent advantage because of the frequency of their mutations, and the extremely brief length of a microbial generation, compared with a human one. (yale.edu)
  • As we are now witnesses to this exhibition and/or the performance, and its evolving space of participatory action, the artists invite you to respectfully add names, with the chalk provided, of those who have died at the hands of hate crimes, police brutality, human trafficking, and other unjustified actions that have taken place in our society. (grandcentralartcenter.com)
  • We inhabit a landscape of emptiness, grief, stress, boredom, anxiety in which our 'human nature' is as steadily degraded as is what is left of the natural world", he writes in this collection's title essay. (fifthestate.org)
  • However, when these achievements were compared with achievements in other parts of the world, it was clear that progress in the Region has been slow. (who.int)
  • Follow the artist on social media and reach out through email for interviews, reviews, and/or collaborations. (indiemusicreviews.net)
  • Social media platforms must take responsibility for regulating harmful content and promoting healthy online discourse. (new-cms.org)
  • I do not in any way wish to pass judgment on others, nor do I wish to hurt anyone's feelings, yet I believe that the #metoo campaign which has gone viral on social media in recent days is not a healthy one. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Each day, electronic media and social networking sites spit out millions of photos. (art.pl)
  • Contemporarily, there is a distinction between academic feminism and the pop-feminism practiced online, in social media and news media (often in opinion pieces or tabloid news). (wikipedia.org)
  • Here the person cleaves so tightly to their passions and values, that they come to hate the world which cannot live up to them, and so, eventually, seeks to destroy the world they inhabit. (principiadiscordia.com)
  • To herald a peaceful social existence in such a society, one must destroy the very roots of crime and not be contented trimming foliage. (tribuneindia.com)
  • Generally, public health problems disproportionately affect vulnerable and marginalized groups," she said. (davidson.edu)
  • The first is largely descriptive, giving an overview of the historical and contemporary role of surveillance in public health and legal responsibility for public health. (cdc.gov)
  • For most of us, this particularly sensitive sphere of knowledge encompasses our sex lives, our income, and our health - or, perhaps more accurately, problems with our health. (cdc.gov)
  • Chinese agrarian society influences sex preference deeply as well. (wikipedia.org)
  • It worked across class and regional lines, even after the two world wars and the imperial twilight. (thebaffler.com)
  • Indigenous peoples around the world are often imagined as "traditional" and "local" with customs "as old as time. (northwestern.edu)
  • Where the sangha has been involved in violence, there has correspondingly been a slow but sure decline in trust invested by laypeople, especially now that these local incidents are broadcast around the world via satellite and the Internet. (buddhistdoor.net)
  • Of particular interest will be society\'s views of the ordering and pacing of life events. (northwestern.edu)
  • Like, say, that between contemporary Western life and radical fundamentalism? (principiadiscordia.com)
  • Moreover, their concern has been more with "the sins of the Shah" than with current and pressing problems. (chalcedon.edu)
  • Alexander Filippov in his essay draws attention to the problems of scientific expertise. (strana-oz.ru)
  • The only nation in the world north of Israel with a barren area and two oceans surrounding it is Russia. (jvim.com)