Sentences with phrase «turn of the century american»

According to the announcement, her speciality is turn of the century American paintings, and specificially the transatlantic exchange between Europe and the United States during the late - nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

A graduate of Stanford, and Art Center College of Design, Case has developed a visual and material vocabulary that draws from turn of the century American painting, animation and this digital age of imaging.

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We're sitting in his 10th - floor office in the Phelan Building, a San Francisco landmark built at the turn of the century by James D. Phelan, an American industrialist and senator, who also happened to be the son of an Irish immigrant.

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans over the age of 64 are working more than any other time since the turn of the century.

How such a spirit of sobriety expresses itself, not simply in literary or philosophic reading lists, but in platforms and party rhetoric that can resonate with 21st century Americans, I to a large degree leave to others (our Pete comes to mind), even if my turning here to the example of Solzhenitsyn reminds me that faith in God's promises will be necessary to sustain us in the quite possible event that even our grasping and steadfastly acting upon the «most precise» political prudence might yet fail to stop catastrophe.

In his book, The Rise of Creative Class, Richard Florida says that fewer than 10 percent of Americans were doing creative work at the turn of the 20th century.

In fact, the only two times in American history when the gap between rich and poor grew were at the turn of the last century and in the past 30 years.

The intersection of the Whig narrative and American Christianity was merely tactical; the Whig narrative turned against its Protestant Christian counterpart in the twentieth century.

In the 21st Century, there is mislead segment of the American population that are trying to turn this country into a theocracy.

Or Wallace Stevens, the lawyer for — and eventually vice president of — the Hartford Insurance Company, who turns out to have been another great American poet of the twentieth century.

The mediocrity they now noticed had afflicted American campuses since the turn of the century: seven decades of torpor.

On the other hand, they were captive of turn - of - the - century WASP models that called for assimilation, accommodation, homogeneity in American life.

I think most of the Americans are in lost... as most of them do not know who their father is and it is very unfortunate... even if they know who their father is, the mom has children from diff men outside of marriage... and while a child is being raised, watching what his / her parents do to enjoy their life... so things become normal when they grow up... like if you go back early nineteen century, women were not allowed to go to beach without being covered... and now it totally opposite... if you do not have a boyfriend or girlfriend before 15, the parents worries that their teenage has some problem... and lot more can be listed... And then you go to Church, what our children learn from there... they see in front of the Church an old man's statue with long beard standing with extending of both hand... some of the status are blank, white, Spanish and so on... so they are being taught God as an old dude... then you learn from Catholic that you pray to Jesus, Mother Marry, Saints, Death spirit and all these... the poll shows a huge number of young American turns to Atheism or believing there is no God and so on... Its hard to assume where these nations are going with the name of modernization... nothing wrong having scientists discovered the cure of aids or the pics from mars but... we should all think and learn from our previous generations and correct ourselves... also ppl are becoming so much slave of material things...

This migratory flow had increased dramatically around the turn of the century, with the construction of the transcontinental railroads and the All - American Canal.

The turn began around the start of the new century when HBO's The Sopranos pushed Americans to question whether something had to be dumber just because it was on a smaller screen.

First, the American religious empiricists defend religion by placing it on a purely descriptive basis, using for this a radically empirical sensibility together with inductive generalization; but soon, as I have attempted to indicate, any circumspect reader can see the extent to which this description is loaded with temperamental and, possibly, contextual bias — and, further, by the specificity peculiar to Christianity and American turn - of - the - century neonaturalism.

It is a subject worthy of reflection that the common «culture» we share even now is largely the product of a culture industry, itself a technological achievement whose advent roughly coincides with the completion and consolidation of American continental expansion at the turn of the twentieth century.

If food is destined to cost more, so be it — Americans spend an average of only 11 percent of their income on food now, while they spent more than 50 percent on food at the turn of the century.

Versions of the argument, with key twists and turns, have been introduced in Western philosophy through the centuries by thinkers from Descartes and Leibniz down to the twentieth - century American philosopher Charles Hartshorne.

And what does it tell us about American politics at the turn of the century?

Undoubtedly, the widespread acceptance of the study of comparative religion or the history of religions in American universities and seminaries from the turn of the century was greatly aided by religious liberalism.

Keipp was known internationally for her documentation of rural African American life in the Black Belt around the turn of the twentieth century.

It started out as British and American investment at the turn of last century, then the Japanese arrived in a big way in the 1980s and 90s and in more recent times - New Zealand, China, the US again, Germany and Malaysia, to name just a few, have come and in some instances gone.

With his carefully prepared, hearty American dishes served in an elegant, turn - of - the - last - century industrial space, Cured is a victory in more ways than one.

The popularity of the dish exploded during the turn of the century when Irish immigrants in American were able to cheaply get their hands on this once hard to find meal.

In honor of this most spirited of American holidays, Whiskey Cake will be serving up a wide selection of pre-Prohibition style cocktails at special prices, using bartending techniques created at the turn of the 20th century.

Certain robust gentlemen with a bit of a brogue about them were the talk of the American sporting world at the turn of the century, for at that time Irish - American athletes dominated a large section of the sports world.

Since its founding by steel magnate - turned - developer Henry Flagler at the turn of the century, Palm Beach has been the warm wintertime playground for the American elite.

A 12 - panel exhibit for ages 6 to adult demonstrating how Americans enjoyed leisure time at the turn of the 20th Century.

What is clear, however, is that millions of Americans have turned away from smoking since its health effects became obvious in the second half of the 20th century.

Peary and MacMillan succeeded because they melded the best of turn - of - the - century American technology with the sophisticated skills of the Inuit: They wore Inuit clothing, learned their language, copied their sled designs, and hired many of them as guides and hunters.

The term «nanotechnology» entered into the public vernacular quite suddenly around the turn of the century, right around the same time that, when announcing the US National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in 2001 [2000; see the American Association for the Advancement of Science webpage on Historical Trends in Federal R&D, scroll down to the National Nanotechnology Initiative and click on the Jpg or Excel links], President Bill Clinton declared that it would one day build materials stronger than steel, detect cancer at its inception, and store the vast records of the Library of Congress in a device the size of a sugar cube.

Sky rocketing costs, clinical limitations, and side effects of drugs all contributed to Americans once again beginning to turn to more «alternative and complimentary» options in the later part of the 20th century.

Since the turn of the century, however, millions of Americans, young and old,...

The film also weaves in lots of scenes that are meant to make us think that Barnum was the first 21st century - style «woke» white straight man in America — a goodhearted fellow who gave circus jobs to outcasts of one kind or another (talk about a big tent: the repertory company includes African - Americans, little people, giants, conjoined twins and a bearded lady), not just because they happened to possess certain talents or physical characteristics that Barnum could exploit (often by appealing to the majority's prurient interests or bigotries) but because the onetime poor boy Barnum sees himself in their striving, and wants to build a theatrical - carnival arts utopia in America's largest city with help from his new partner, rich kid turned playwright Philip Carlyle (Zac Efron).

The idea of the comedy duo was born in the British music halls and American vaudeville stages at the turn of the 20th Century.

Set during the turn of the 20th century, the film stars Mia Wasikowska as young American heiress Edith Cushing, an aspiring author who has no interest in romance, whether in real life or her stories, despite the fact that childhood friend - turned - physician Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam) clearly fancies her.

But turning a disheveled mountain of public education into a national schoolhouse on a hill will be a job as daunting as the marvelous, half - century - long, but ongoing rendering of a statue of Crazy Horse, the great Native American warrior, out of a Black Hills mountain by the Korzczak family.

Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston's heavily vernacular novel depicting the life of Janie Crawford, an African American woman in the Jim Crow South at the turn of the 20th century.

A new survey by the College Board suggests that the «graying» of the American college campus evident in this decade will continue through the turn of the next century.

And the Streets Are Paved With Gold 09/28/2000 [Language Arts, American History Grades 6 - 8 Submitted by Brenda Dyck] Using the links provided, students explore the immigrant experience at Ellis Island, New York, at the turn of the century, and answer questions that challenge them to use thinking skills from various levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Touches on, and links well to American History at turn of the 20th century.

Touches on, and links well to American History at the turn of the 20th century.

From their stories emerges a fleshy and nuanced profile of the American high school at the turn of the 21st century.

At the turn of the 20th century, reformers established a web of support in American cities to assist growing numbers of immigrants toiling in physically demanding jobs and living in crowded and squalid conditions.

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy: Be they school choice advocates or activists for revamping teacher quality or even standards and accountability proponents, many reformers have a tendency to believe that their favored solution will transform American public education.

Ron Fellows built a name for himself with three American Le Mans Series wins in a row at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park at the turn of the century.

Told in the immediate first - person voice of 10 - year - old Carrie, Zora Neale Hurston's best childhood friend, each chapter in Bond and Simon's story evokes the famous African American writer's early years in turn - of - the - last - century Florida.

Readers follow three different men through three different time periods: Jack, a young Jewish - American captain in the war; Amitai, an Israeli - born art dealer in the current day who deals with repatriated items; and Dr. Zobel, a pioneering psychiatrist at the turn of the 20th century in Budapest.

This wonderful book explains the history of mass transit, from the beginning of an idea by futuristic thinker Alfred Beach in Scientific American to the reality of the subways in Boston and New York around the turn of the nineteenth century.