Sentences with phrase «american rural home»

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The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

His characters turn their back on that San - Fran reaching for «Asian» pantheism and «Samoan / Native American» pagan - ism, and look to the old home place in rural America, where «I'll Meet You in Church Sunday Morning.»

Many American homes, especially in rural areas, can not receive TV pictures from terrestrial transmitters.

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

This inventive thriller, about an African - American man who finds himself trapped amid sinister shenanigans when he visits his white girlfriend's family at their rural home, is exciting, funny and written and directed with surprisingly stylish flair by comic Jordan Peele of «Key and Peele» fame.

So, seizing the opportunity of a sympathetic audience, and amidst a season where many of the 84 movies put forward by their home countries as Academy Award contenders are floating around at festivals — big and small, rural and urban, American and elsewhere — I thought I'd weigh in on the titles I've caught.

Mudbound explores the lives of two American soldiers returning home to a racially divided rural Mississippi after serving in World War II.

Marra homes in on rural Chechnya, a region that barely registers with most Americans, and, in heartrending prose, makes us feel every misfortune endured by the people there.

The United States Department of Agriculture has created a special home buyer opportunity for Americans that live in rural areas.

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But many rural and urban American homes did not have running water at the turn of the 20th century.

For an Indian retreat experience closer to home, Americans need look no further than rural Tennessee.

The show also includes the works of American painters John Singer Sargent and Frederick Edwin Church, and of course Scottish painters Francis Cadell (1883 - 1937) and Sir David Wilkie (1785 - 1841), whose masterpiece, Pitlessie Fair (1804), could keep the viewer occupied for hours enjoying the detailed painting of the activity that represents the cross-section of rural society in Wilkie's home of Fifeshire.

Mike Smith photographs the rural American Southeast in large - format color photography, exposing the unique beauty of the region and the people who call it home.

Kevin Beasley is an artist in his early 30s whose work with sculpture and sound has drawn on his upbringing in rural Virginia and, from his current home in New York, his communion with markers of African - American history, among other sources.

Kevin Beasley is an artist in his early 30s whose work with sculpture and sound has drawn on his upbringing in rural Virginia and, from his current home in New York, his communion with markers of African - American history, among other... Read More

The most famous Regionalist painting is Grant Wood's American Gothic, that familiar double portrait of two lean and pointy homesteaders standing bolt upright in front of their lean and pointed rural home.

Half of all second homes are located in rural areas, compared with 14 percent of primary residences, according to American Housing Survey data.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) issues loans with low interest rates and zero down payments to thousands of low - income Americans, so they can finance homes in rural and suburban areas.

The USDA Guaranteed loan program is another avenue through which rural Americans can finance the purchase of a home.