Sentences with phrase «american national myth»

During her lecture, «Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad,» former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reflected on what she called the great American myth that if one works hard, one can achieve anything.

During the lecture, «Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad,» cosponsored by the Askwith Forum and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Rice reflected on what she called the great American myth that if one works hard, one can achieve anything, even if coming...

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«We... feel obligated to go on record with the facts regarding Pollard in order to dispel the myths that have arisen from this clever public relations campaign... aimed at transforming Pollard from greedy, arrogant betrayer of the American national trust in to Pollard, committed Israeli patriot

The story is related by Richard Nixon himself — a figure who, in Coover's portrayal, has totally accepted the American Myth and sought unflinchingly to become its personification as president, representative of the American Way of Life and symbol of the national psyche.

National organizations such as EdChoice (formerly the Friedman Foundation, established in 1996) and the American Education Reform Foundation (founded in 1998) and Alliance for School Choice (founded in 2004), which later became affiliated with the American Federation for Children (founded in 2009), were the most prominent voices in state capitols, providing early leadership on choice - related policy and working to counter choice policy myths.

Their latest national survey has one little nugget of information that sets many of the myths we've been creating about the American traveler on its head: When asked to name the most important reason they travel, 64 % of this year's respondents said they traveled «to relax.»

EXHIBITION Part of its Princeton & Slavery Project, a campus - wide initiative examining how Princeton is directly linked to and has benefitted from slavery, the university museum presents «Making History Visible: Of American Myths and National Heroes.»

Featuring: Amna Asghar, Dana Davenport, Umber Majeed, Tammy Nguyen, Ke Peng, Sahana Ramakrishnan, Sheida Soleimani Amna Asghar speaks on the construction and translation of disparate references, cultures, geographies, and generations from Pakistan and America; Dana Davenport addresses the complexity of interminority racism within her own community and institutions from her experiences as a Black Korean American; Umber Majeed's practice attempts to unpack the temporalities within South Asia as site, familial archival material, popular culture, and modern national state narratives; Tammy Nguyen interrogates natural sciences and non-human forms to explore racial intimacies and US military involvement in the Pacific Rim; Ke Peng documents the feeling of alienation and disorientation from urbanization and immigration by taking a journey into an imagined childhood in China, Hunan, where she was born and Shenzhen, a modern city where her family relocates to; Sahana Ramakrishan explores myths and religion from Buddhist and Hindu tales to speak upon the magic of childhood and the power dynamics of sexuality, race, and violence; Sheida Soleimani is an Iranian - American artist and a daughter of political refugees, making work to highlight her critical perspective on the historical and contemporary socio - political occurrences in Iran.

Traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; and Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin (catalogue) Innovation: American Art of Today from the Misumi Art Collection, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan (catalogue) The Changing Image, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan (catalogue) Vehicle, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York 1995 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Richard Artschwager, Peter Cain, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Robert Gober, George Stoll, Steve Wolf, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco Summer Group Exhibition: Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, John Chamberlain, Andreas Gursky, Roni Horn, Gary Hume, Andy Warhol, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum (catalogue) 1994 Desire (Visionaire / DIFFA Benefit Exhibition), Charles Cowles Gallery, New York The Institute of Cultural Anxiety, Works from the Collection, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (catalogue) 1993 Pittsburgh Collects, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (under the aegis of the Venice Biennale)(catalogue) 1993 Biennial Exhibition, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul A Series of Anniversary Exhibitions: Part III, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles Slittamenti, Venice Biennale The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York.