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American culture
Art, music, literature, people, sports, technology, business, politics, religion and more in the United States. American culture is primarily Western, but is influenced by African, Asian, and Latin American and Native American cultures.
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empowerment zones
Culture; American culture
Economic development strategy signed into law by Clinton in 1993 (appropriating earlier Republican ideas to revitalize neighborhoods through entrepreneurial zones with minimal government ...
editorial cartoons
Culture; American culture
Editorial cartoons, evolving from the art of caricature, normally appear on the editorial or Op-Ed pages of American newspapers. Generally single-panel drawings with some text, they provide ...
education and society
Culture; American culture
Educational models and opportunities in the United States reflect and embody national issues of socio-economic power and mobility and are influenced as well by how the United States perceives itself ...
St. Louis, MO
Culture; American culture
Eero Saarinen’s glistening Gateway Arch towers over this Mississippi River port, marking it as both a hub in transcontinental journeys westward and a crossroads on the Midwest’s North-South axis ...
Rocky Mountain states
Culture; American culture
Eight states—Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming—encompass a territory larger than Western Europe (864,000 square miles), shaped by the dramatic Rocky Mountains. ...
elementary school
Culture; American culture
Elementary school refers to the institution that provides the first four to eight years of a child’s formal education. The number of years of instruction varies from community to community depending ...
dual cities
Culture; American culture
Emerging in the 1980s and 1990s, this term describes the socio-economic segregation of urban society with special reference to New York. During the 1977–87 boom, the top 10 percent experienced a 20 ...
