Sentences with phrase «americans in the rural town»

As The Washington Post notes, the family are some of the only African Americans in the rural town of Tenino, Wash..

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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.

«If every small town in rural America and Native American reservations had access to affordable rapid broadband, tomorrow they would all immediately be in the national economy and they could change their own futures,» he said.

December 16, 2017 • The sale of the outdoor retail giant to rival Bass Pro Shops has folks in Sidney, Neb., wrestling with the notion of becoming just another struggling rural American town.

In this small, mostly African - American, overwhelmingly poor town in rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't havIn this small, mostly African - American, overwhelmingly poor town in rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't havin rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't havin severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't have.

ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Two events occurred in 1955 that would forever change the face of American road racing: Chevrolet introduced its new small - block V - 8 engine, and the good citizens of Elkhart Lake, Wis., opened a new road racing circuit near their quiet rural town.

Corvette Racing Returns to High - Speed Wisconsin Road Course ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Two events occurred in 1955 that would forever change the face of American road racing: Chevrolet introduced its new small - block V - 8 engine, and the good citizens of Elkhart Lake, Wis., opened a new road racing circuit near their quiet rural town.

All the plots of the installments in the Silent Hill series, except Shattered Memories and The Room, share a common setting: the foggy rural American town of Silent Hill, which is a fictitious location set in the northeastern United States: some games specifically reference the town as being located in Maine, whereas in the film, the town is set in West Virginia.

Between 1915 and 1959, American studio photographer Mike Disfarmer (1884 - 1959) made portraits of the residents of Heber Springs, a small town in rural Arkansas.

In the sections that follow, depictions of coastal New England, small - town Pennsylvania, Midwestern farms and other rural regions will illustrate the dispersal of standard modernist styles, such as Cubism and Fauvism, and demonstrate the spread and gradual acceptance of these artistic movements in the American provinceIn the sections that follow, depictions of coastal New England, small - town Pennsylvania, Midwestern farms and other rural regions will illustrate the dispersal of standard modernist styles, such as Cubism and Fauvism, and demonstrate the spread and gradual acceptance of these artistic movements in the American provincein the American provinces.

American Regionalism is an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting realistic scenes of rural and small - town America primarily in the Midwest and Deep South.

Comprising approximately 60 prints from the MoMA collection that were included in the 1938 book or exhibition, the installation maintains the bipartite organization of the originals: the first section portrays American society through images of its individuals and social contexts, while the second consists of photographs of American cultural artifacts — the architecture of Main streets, factory towns, rural churches, and wooden houses.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

But the commonly held narrative of modern art decrees that Pollock the pupil had in fact rebelled against Benton the master, the explosive formal energy of Pollock's Abstract Expressionism supplanting the naturalistic imagery of Benton's brand of Regionalism, the Depression Era art movement that rooted American values in small town and rural life.

According to a recent report, more than half of Americans live in a child care desert, where there are more than three children for every licensed child care slot.21 While child care deserts are a widespread problem, licensed child care is especially scarce in small towns and rural communities.

In 2006, Regina Ragon launched her own nonprofit, Latin American Community Development, with the goal of helping people in rural Central American towns help themselveIn 2006, Regina Ragon launched her own nonprofit, Latin American Community Development, with the goal of helping people in rural Central American towns help themselvein rural Central American towns help themselves.

So in 2006 Ragon launched her own nonprofit, Latin American Community Development, with the goal of helping people in rural Central American towns help themselves.