Sentences with phrase «american generation before»

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Before the age of 10, DeJoria, a first - generation American, sold Christmas cards and newspapers to help support his family.

What would become Brascan, and then Brookfield Asset Management, first invested in a tramway system in Sao Paulo in 1899 before it became a major player in power generation and utilities in the South American country.

As it was for generations of American parents before them, it is beyond their reach economically to provide for their children as well as they would wish.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

The bestselling Left Behind novels, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins between 1995 and 2007, dramatize the premillennial view of the End Times favored by earlier generations of American fundamentalists, in which Christ «raptures» his followers to heaven before a series of apocalyptic events unfold on earth.

With municipal ID's and driver's licenses, undocumented immigrants today would be able to better provide for their families, contribute more to the economy and fully integrate into the American mainstream, just as generations of immigrants to this country have before them.»

The next generation of American leaders will be more diverse than ever before.

Like every generation before us, Americans are coming together to preserve a democracy of the people, by the people, and for the people.

«This flag should not offend anybody» said Brabenec, a first generation American whose parents and grandparents lived through Nazi Germany and Communism in Eastern Europe before making their way to the United States to provide a better life for their family.

With this he pivots and stumbles away down the old stone halls of the shop, as generations of his family's menfolk have stumbled before.I follow, and we stop before what Americans would call a cooler, in which Americans might store bottles of beer to toast the thrill of being alive after they've white - water rafted or parked an SUV atop an unclimbable finger of rock in the painted southwestern desert.

With her genuine smile, earthy beauty, and striking green eyes, Melina Kanakaredes staked her claim on daytime television in The Guiding Light before expanding her talents to numerous other popular series and, eventually, the silver screen.Born and raised in Akron, OH, the second - generation Greek - American was the third daughter of an insurance salesman and homemaker who began her career as an actress in a community theater production of Tom Sawyer at the age of eight.

Today, there are more Native filmmakers working than ever before, and the Institute is bringing forward a fourth generation of Native filmmakers and solidifying a pipeline of artists whose voices will have an important impact on American and global cinema and culture.

Put simply, by the early 1960s, most students in American high schools were getting, at best, a second - rate education compared with that of the generation before them.

Some students are second - or third - generation Chinese - Americans, some have dual citizenship, others had never left China before coming here, some attended private schools and others public.»

The Toyota Supra was first introduced into the American market in 1979 (then called the Toyota Celica Supra) and lasted through three subsequent generations before leaving our shores in 1998, four years before production ended altogether in 2002.

«This tenth - generation Civic is quite simply the most ambitious remake of Civic we've ever done,» said John Mendel, executive vice president of American Honda Motor Co, Inc. «We are bringing more new technology and innovative thinking to Civic than ever before to establish a new benchmark for fun - to - drive performance, fuel efficiency, safety performance and refinement in the compact class.»

Like every new Corvette generation that went before, Chevrolet has redesigned the iconic crossed flags logo specifically for the 2014 Corvette, and its release today provides Corvette fans with the first official glimpse of the new American sports car.

Six weeks before he died, his fellow Latin American novelists hailed him as the most important figure of his generation at an international conference he attended in Seville.

This has left experts to surmise that this generation is not very inclined to conform to the idea of the American Dream, unlike the generation before them.

Just before PS4's North American release on November 15th, I spoke with game director Hideo Kojima to learn more about Ground Zeroes and his plans for PlayStation's next - generation console.

In most cases the women artists had accompanied their significant others, while like the generation before them, the Afro - American artists, sought to escape the racism that was endemic in the States.»

By the 1960s, masterworks at MoMA like «Les Demoiselles d'Avignon,» «Girl Before a Mirror» and «Guernica» had so permeated American culture that, to the next generation of artists, they looked about as avant - garde as «Whistler's Mother,» «American Gothic» and «Christina's World.»

In the NYSun, Maureen Mullarkey reports: «A surprisingly satisfying exhibition that showcases the work of 11 postwar pilgrims to sites abandoned by the Lost Generation well before the fall of... read more... «Postwar occupation: American painters in Paris»

In the 1970s, fashion designer and art collector, Larry Aldrich, noticed that the new generation of American painters were repeating themes that were unlike the bold Pop and Minimalist works that had come before.

The Dead Nor am I a fan of Christopher Wool's work, pacem the canon formation / hagiography in operation in many of the notable reviews of the show — Peter Schjeldahl: «Like it or not, Christopher Wool, now fifty - eight, is probably the most important American painter of his generation,» Roberta Smith: first, October 24, «this exhibition is an elegant experiential treat» but, while assuring him the best patrilineage, still a bit tepid «How a painting is made has long been part of its content — before Pollock for sure, and even before Manet.

When Dia: Beacon opened, Michael Kimmelman in The Times declared Minimalism the «greatest generation,» just as Abstract Expressionism had bolstered the status of American art before.

* «Pot» did not always refer to a cooking implement * British groups had always been a feature of pop music * The VW Beetle had always been the alternative to a North American car * There had always been a nuclear threat in a cold war * Queen Elizabeth II was the only monarch they remembered * Germany had always been two countries (well, so far as current affairs went — rather hard for that generation to avoid knowing the history before the division, though.)

The high rate of substance abuse, especially alcohol abuse, has its roots in many traumatic events that have crossed generations among Native Americans and Alaska Natives, including a devastating population loss from an estimated 4.4 to 12.25 million people before European settlement of the Americas to a quarter million by 1900.