Sentences with phrase «national myth»

During the lecture, «Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad,» cosponsored by the Askwith Forum and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Rice reflected on what she called the great American myth that if one works hard, one can achieve anything, even if coming...

During her lecture, «Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad,» former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reflected on what she called the great American myth that if one works hard, one can achieve anything.

Although no new national myth has emerged in place of the long - standing belief that America is «God's new Israel, «1 it is clear that American culture is a secular culture.

States are rooted in common national myths.

Pitched as a sort of Japanophile equivalent to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, the movie takes a historical incident that has since become an essential national myth, frontloads it with supernatural elements, and then plays it completely straight.

This, says Dale, a member of Evangelicals and Catholics Together as well as co-editor of Pneuma, the Society of Pentecostal Studies» journal, helped create «a new national myth.»

During the lecture, «Why Democracy Matters: Education, Empowerment and the American National Myth at Home and Abroad,» cosponsored by the Askwith Forum and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Rice reflected on what she called the great American myth that if one works hard, one can achieve anything, even if coming from humble beginnings.

They engage in terrorism in defense of empire, but they know that to acknowledge openly abhorrent means and goals could undermine the national myths that hold the nation together.

America as an asylum for the oppressed is one of the oldest elements of the national myth, part of the millennial meaning of the American experiment.

Our pluralist ideals would be more fully realized, he suggests, by a turn toward «reflective democracy,» his term for a process of personal and shared examination of our national myths.

Would $ 2 trillion in cuts to basic government services somehow restore America to the greatness of our national myths?

The pyramids provide the national myth that Bosnians have always lacked, plus an influx of money and an exciting new chapter in archaeology.

But the pirate movie has always skated on the edge of self - parody — go watch Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks if you don't believe me — while the western genre has underpinnings of seriousness, even in comedies and B movies, that befit a national myth.

Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir and his own detective work, Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits - from folklore to pop culture to family traditions and national myth - and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.

In this meeting the artist will explore colonial stories and national myths.

In doing so they make use of the staging of fiction from the genre of sci - fi literature, film and media history, national myths and collective narratives.