Sentences with phrase «early political experiences»

Unlike the early political experiences of most candidates for office, Mr. Cuomo's unfolded in public, starting when he was a teenager.

But she doesn't begrudge her early political experience.

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Earlier in the day, Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer tweeted that the Brexit is «the most significant political risk the world has experienced since the Cuban Missile Crisis.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

It took me by such force - a great early awakening which linked personal experiences with political activity, and which certainly played an important role in my decision to work in politics.

Though the movie is set in 1991, both the Dude and Walter are obsessed with their experiences in the late «60s and early 70s (political activism and Vietnam, respectively).

Conversely, many states which had experienced democratization at an earlier stage found their political systems in a state of decay by the end of the 20th century as a result of their increased vulnerability to the global economy.

Providing early learning experiences to children has found a place on political agendas nationwide.

From her earliest poem in English, which addressed the Vietnam War, to her award - winning 1978 novel Sitt Marie - Rose, she explores the political and personal dimensions of violence and articulates her experience of exile from familiar landscapes and languages.

Known for his skilled handling of light and shadow, and for the enigmatic narratives embedded in his paintings, Larraz's early experience as a political cartoonist emerges in his incisive, often humorous depictions of individuals.

The selected portraits include cultural and political figures admired by Neel, among them playwright, actor, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr., whose 1945 Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City is among the key academic studies of the African American urban experience in the early twentieth century; the community activist and cultural advocate Mercedes Arroyo; and the academic Harold Cruse, known for known for his widely - published academic book The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967) and for teaching at LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem.

Early in her career, while working in Los Angeles, she primarily concentrated on mass media imagery, reproducing scenes of war, violence, and disaster borrowed from television and newspapers that reflected both the tumultuous political moment of the 1960s as well as her childhood experiences in war - torn Europe.

Since the early 2000s, Rodney McMillian has created compelling paintings, sculpture, installations, and performances — live and filmed — that explore how cultural and socio - political history, memory, myth, and ritual — visible and invisible — shape experience, identity, and one's sense of place and belonging.

A relentless innovator always pushing the traditional boundaries of art, Oiticica moved rapidly and radically from early works influenced by European modernism to large - scale installations that were meant to be physically experienced and often to critique political and social issues.

No less a figure than the artist Hans Haacke — whose long - standing commitment to rendering transparent economic, social, and aesthetic structures throughout culture has led him to be immanently associated with the paradigm — used the phrase «consciousness industry» as early as the mid-1980s to describe the sophisticated networks of institutional support necessary to make visible ostensibly adversarial avant - garde artistic gestures.4 Works seeking to emphasize the moral, political, and intellectual forces that determine and enforce culture, he observed, were nevertheless dependent on a museum or gallery platform designed to privilege aesthetic experience.

Our team has decades of high - level experience with state and local early childhood, education reform, human services and political campaign and messaging work.

Ultimately, his experiences as a young dad shaped his position on early childhood and parent education throughout his political career.

This member - exclusive event introduces educators from across the country to political advocacy techniques to better advance the mission of high - quality early learning experiences for young children and the profession.