Sentences with phrase «manifest destiny»

Since those who believed in Manifest Destiny also believed that Whites had the right to disregard treaties and rights of the Native American, they were surprised at Red Cloud's ability to use his forces as an effective military leader.

Where other American landscapists went for Manifest Destiny posturing, Inness favored splotchy, atmospheric renderings of fens and lakesides that may put you in mind of Emerson and Thoreau.

Canadians shrugged off its 2013 acquisition by Loblaws, and endorsed Shoppers» quest to become the Canadian Tire for the human body as manifest destiny.

Camille Hoffman's current work is a mixed - media meditation on Manifest Destiny and its representation in the romantic American landscape.

Reading the story of Manifest Destiny by those who lost gives students a second view of history.

«We talked about manifest destiny, slavery, genocide of native populations — and we talked about all of this in relation to American art in the 18th and 19th centuries,» Hockley told Essence.

Although denominational leaders, seminary professors, and pastors may know that dreams of American manifest destiny influenced nineteenth - century theology, few seem to recognize the ways in which the American Dream still influences the church today.

Mae: Manifest Destiny became a commonly held ideology in the early 19th century and was the belief that the United States had a God - given right to aggressively spread values of white civilization across the land mass of the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

«when you used Christianity to promote manifest destiny and wipe out those heathen Indians.»

a) Erika Wanenmacher Manifest Destiny, 2004 Fimo, found object, rocks, acrylic over found print, steel 2 parts: 13 x 10 x 10/10 x 12 x 1 1/2 inches EWs 1 b.) John Haddock Wounds of an Iraqi Child Transferred to the American President, 2004 paper mache, wool, acrylic paint, hair, velvet pillow 2 parts: 11 x 8 x 5 1/2 inches each JHs 1 5.

FOR MANY YEARS, my only experiences of 101 Spring Street were the glimpses of Donald Judd's desk and Carl Andre's 1986 brick work Manifest Destiny that I saw through the ground - floor windows of...

Then there is the way in which Americans determine their own national interest» from manifest destiny, to Woodrow Wilson's crusade for democracy, to the delegitimation of America's war in Vietnam, to the debate over just war and the Gulf War.

Realizing America's manifest destiny involved enslavement of Africans and extermination of native peoples.

Neither he nor Vattimo mentions manifest destiny or the white man's burden, but these ideas lurk disturbingly close to the surface of their urbanely arrogant prose.

Manifest Destiny justified the conquering of the indigenous peoples of Texas, New Mexico, California, and other parts of the Southwest; and the inclusion of the Oregon territory in the United States.

Russian Pograms Crusades Jonestown Salem Witch Trials Holocaust the Protestant v Catholic conflicts Manifest Destiny of the North and South American destruction of Native cultures Ad Infinitum...

With a footprint that now extends from Boston to Colorado, Unidine is reaching for its own manifest destiny as it finalizes plans to expand to the West Coast using its successful formula.

Of course, Howard's personal manifest destiny wasn't the only major roster shake - up this off - season.

His books Manifest Your Destiny, Wisdom of the Ages, There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, and The New York Times bestsellers 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace, The Power of Intention, Inspiration, Change Your Thoughts — Change Your Life, Excuses Begone!

Synopsis: A secret society, the Knights of Aragon, seeks to keep the United States from achieving manifest destiny — and only the legendary Zorro (Antonio B...

Her eponymous «hero,» a symbol of European manifest destiny, wants to get somewhere, preferably away from his post in South America, and he will be repeatedly shuffled around.

It's a laudable adventure that neither redefines nor simply mimics the genre's storied conventions, a sturdy, mildly stirring revisionist cinematic portrayal of the American West as a place where manifest destiny meant not only modernity's expansion, but also ancient cultures» decimation.

That was important to me to show the difficulties in search of a better life through manifest destiny.

I've wanted to write about people who come to LA and that manifest destiny kind of ideal.

Disregard the inherent silliness such a premise could conjure to find a tale of intergalactic manifest destiny and cabin fever madness that transcends the likes of lesser science fiction fare.

Oscar - winning Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu doesn't apologize for American history; he even avoids the Mexican — American War and the policies of European colonization that might specifically explain Manifest Destiny.

For NEW 2016 GCSE History Edexcel American West unit This lesson covers the following: Migration and early settlement The factors encouraging migration, including economic conditions, the Oregon Trail from 1836, the concept of Manifest Destiny US government policy: support for US westward expansion Looking at the reasons why the early Pioneers go West.

The Snowmads, led by Lord Fredrik, not only manifested their destiny but also froze the entire island over to suit their tastes.

Visitors have two options for navigating the exhibition: a left route, which I'll call Manifest Destiny, and a right route, which I'll haphazardly dub Re-Cut Contexts.

Working across collage, print, video, installation, and sound, Henriquez connaturalizes stereotypes originating in corporeal notions of beauty and athleticism and expanding to manifest destinies perpetuated by contemporary ideals of cognitive ability, economic achievement, political power, and art history.

These artworks are part of her unique and intensely appealing approach to bringing the wilds of the historical American frontier into the gallery space, tapping into the myths of the country's rough - and - tumble Manifest Destiny and its up - by - the - bootstraps story of persevering in a forbidding place through sheer will.

From the early imperial advocates of Manifest Destiny adopting the great pictures of the Hudson River School to today's «true» American advertising of beer and truck ads with a snowy cap on every beer can or a rugged terrain in every commercial, landscape and the American brand go hand and hand.

More recently, Wanenmacher has integrated her political sentiments into the piece Manifest Destiny, (included in the current exhibition) a two - part work with a framed hand - colored print of Jesus guiding a young ship captain juxtaposed with a wood carved and fimo sculpted shipwreck.

From Arlando Battle's curated «hacking» of the OUTLET website to Joseph Moore's inspection of the connection brought about through touchscreen technology, Manifest Destiny shows us how the new west will be won.

In 2004, the Brooklyn Museum featured Manifest Destiny, an 8 - by -24-foot (2.4 m × 7.3 m) oil - on - wood mural by Alexis Rockman that was commissioned by the museum as a centerpiece for the second - floor Mezzanine Gallery and marked the opening of the museum's renovated Grand Lobby and plaza.

The narratives depicted circle around an inverted version of manifest destiny wherein men abandon their conquests and choose stillness, allowing the next frontier to be an inward quest.

It's kind of like building a railroad track, but it's not like it's time for Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion, where we have the East Coast colonized, and now we want to colonize the rest of the country.

Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a wistful title about traveling the land, sharing stories and surviving manifest destiny.

In Pieceable Kingdom, MAD's Spring 2017 Van Lier Fellow Camille Hoffman presents new mixed - media artworks that offer meditations on Manifest Destiny and its latent representation in the romantic American landscape.

Beginning on the cusp of the 20th century and spanning 30 years, There Will Be Blood is a genuine epic about manifest destiny, good old - fashioned American ambition, the obsessive pursuit of money, and the equally feverish pursuit of God.

Or when you used Christianity to promote manifest destiny and wipe out those heathen Indians.

Erika Wanenmacher Manifest Destiny, 2004 Fimo, wood, rocks, acrylic on paper, steel 2 parts: 13 x 10 x 10/10 x 12 x 1 1/2 inches EWs 1