Sentences with phrase «american national consciousness»

The realities of «limit» and «boundary,» the spirit - educating forces that operate when one can not move on, or start anew, but must come to terms with life where it is and where it is bound to remain — these forces have not deeply entered into the American national consciousness.

Up to this point we have considered a number of the organizing symbols and mythic elements of American national consciousness as it developed in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

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but fortunately there are psychologists, mental health practitioners and others who do and I have benefitted greatly from their work, personal testimonies and the various articles / publications which they have produced --(for example, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology; The Religious & Spiritual Problems category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM - IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association; The US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database of healthcare and scientific literature)-- about the adverse psychological effects which can arise when persons engage in intense / deep spiritual practices such as intense / deep prayer, fasting and meditation which alter their state of consciousness.

Our literature, the clearest confessional of our national self - consciousness, is permeated through and through with the mood of the vastness of the setting of the American enterprise.

QSR unveils its fifth - annual Best Franchise Deals report, a collection of upstart brands building a foundation for robust growth, emerging concepts clamoring for a spot on the national stage, and well - known names seeking deeper inroads into the American consciousness.

Buirski illustrates these scenes of national consciousness - raising with snippets from race films, an American genre of interwar movies starring black actors and filmed for black audiences.

ANITA / U.S.A. (Director: Freida Mock)-- Anita Hill, an African - American woman, charges Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas with sexual harassment in explosive Senate hearings in 1991 — bringing sexual politics into the national consciousness and fueling 20 years of international debate on the issues.

Beyond its association with the development of a national historic consciousness that began in the 1870s, the Colonial Revival style in architecture, decorative arts, landscape and garden design, and American art has served to promote notions of democracy, patriotism, good taste, and moral superiority.

Like the Organization of Black American Culture in the same city, which had created the Wall of Respect, the first of many murals by community arts organizations, AFRI - COBRA sought «to liberate its audience and define a national Black consciousness «9 This effort was in part a response to a climate that permitted what now seem acts of amazing insensitivity by mainstream institutions.

Starting today — April 22 — until July 13, the worldwide display hits New York City, transforming 12,000 of the city's square - feet (including the South Street Seaport, World Financial Center, and Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian) into a virtual Brazilian Amazon jungle — and if Eugenio's master plan works out — it'll transform both the children's and the general public's distant and indifferent attitude towards the forest, into consciousness and concern.