"Naila was an international student at Williams College so she knows what it is like to come to a small rural school from a far away country and try to navigate something completely different from the large urban setting where she grew up, and where Islam is the cultural norm and background for daily life.
Today, he's a celebrated performer with fixations that speak to his background, from life for American veterans of color (the subject of his latest record, Holding It Down), to the overlap of jazz and Indian music.
The cultural background for the spiritual life is the religious life, primarily as found within the Catholic Church and informed by the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century accounts of Eastern religions.
Studies in the United States and Canada have shown that health workers with a rural background, a preference for life in smaller communities, and education in rural medicine are likely to be both recruited for and retained in rural communities [ 30- 32].
Yet in a time of biotechnology, genomics, and even species revivalism, biological life forms can no longer be considered a stable background for human forms of life; life forms, far from being anchored in a living substance, rather point to a mode of "organization, morphology, and pattern" that has at times become strangely disconnected from material substrates (Helmreich and Roosth 39).
The book provided the background for Wall's life inside of the FLDS and focused on her marriage to Allen Steed, whom she portrayed as "boorish and odd".
Somehow, it's an appropriate setting for a man whose background has marked him for life as a citizen musician.
Rather, a mixed linguistic background prepares one better for life in a 'globalising' world.
In a way, Dylan's Jewish background equipped him better for life in Greenwich Village than did Rotolo's Italian heritage.
His use of colour was especially fine, and he was one of the first artists to use a light-coloured background for his still lifes.
