Sentence examples for cultural initiation from inspiring English sources

Indeed, he could serve as Exhibit A in a study of the outsider phenomenon: cases of wild, solipsistic genius that challenge the values of formal training and cultural initiation, not to mention sanity, in significant art.

You think gay men are going to respond to Julia Roberts?" Mr. Polito said that for many young gay men these screenings are their first chances to see Barbara Stanwyck or Bette Davis on the big screen, turning the evening into a gay cultural initiation.

The results revealed that a model of social conflict evolution, that is, social conflict within the learning community evolved through five general phases including cultural initiation, social harmonization cycle, escalation of conflict, intervention and stabilization, and adjourning.

The fact of placing this in a context of cultural initiation rites, in which one endures a hardship during a certain period of time in order to get to a next phase of life with an enhanced state of being, could be interpreted as a coping strategy of the sub-Saharan communities.

Infrastructure, HIRs access, socio-demographic factors, cultural influences, poor initiation of users and geographical locations were some of the factors affecting the health information seeking behaviours of HPs in developing countries [ 16- 18].

While these recently published studies have shed some light on smoking among Indigenous youth, one was retrospective and limited in its scope by gender and geographical location [ 19] and the other did not explore in-depth the broader social and cultural determinants of initiation and smoking [ 18].

Cobbling together ancient cross-cultural myths of initiation and humans who turn into animals, it tells the story of Kenai (Mr. Phoenix), a hot-headed Native American boy on the verge of manhood who is transformed into a bear so he can learn compassion for all creatures great and small.

Cobbling together ancient cross-cultural myths of initiation and human beings who turn into animals, it tells the story of Kenai (Mr. Phoenix), a hot-headed Indian boy on the verge of manhood who is transformed into a bear so he can learn compassion for all creatures great and small.

Although the vast majority of circumcised African women, like myself, take great cultural pride in our initiation there are clearly those among us who, for whatever reasons and there could be a number of reasons, do not share these positive experiences.

Through listening to the stories of Aboriginal women and their health care providers, findings from this study provide insights into social and cultural influences concerning smoking initiation and maintenance by Aboriginal girls and women.

It was shaped by a complex interplay of cultural factors related to the initiation into womanhood, the status of woman and the need to be accepted by men.