"It's manifest destiny," said Commisisoner Adam Silver to ESPN last month.
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Borglum picked his four presidents based on their role in Manifest Destiny.
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Westworld links the manifest destiny pioneers of the 1800s with tomorrow's pioneers of technology.
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It's long overdue that the two powers recognize the manifest destiny of united Korea.
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During the era of Manifest Destiny and the Gold Rush, there was Joaquin Murrieta.
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Manifest Destiny The United States government owns 47 percent of all land in the West.
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Meanwhile, in Minnesota, the Union furthered the quest for Manifest Destiny by executing Indian resisters.
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The Gen-Y twist is that her manifest destiny isn't just the beaches and palm trees.
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The promotional video stages a reenactment of Manifest Destiny without even a hint of self-reflection.
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They hang among rusty 19th-century farm tools and hunting traps — the artist's tribute to Manifest Destiny.
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There was no sense of a Manifest Destiny, which may help explain Canada's disinterest in asserting superiority.
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The story of the land-hungry country's manifest destiny is well known but well told by Mr Immerwahr.
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The book is best when Powell is teasing out the existential dread fueling Anahata's sense of manifest destiny.
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National policy was Manifest Destiny, which aimed to expand the United States and to settle an unpopulated continent.
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The California gold rush was the proving ground of Manifest Destiny, transmuting rugged individualism into wealth and glory.
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The first album's title was a play on manifest destiny, which was an excuse to kill Native Americans.
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"Sweet Land" is a parable of, and fantasia on, Manifest Destiny, performed outdoors at a richly suggestive site.
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THE BEST LAND UNDER HEAVEN The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny By Michael Wallis Illustrated.
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This is definitely next-level, to layer up this other cosmology against those old, compulsory Manifest Destiny illustrations.
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This type of imagery was indicative of manifest destiny and the promise of unexplored land during the 19th century.
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Manifest destiny or maybe just savvy programming has landed these twinned Samuel D. Hunter plays in the West Village.
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The age of the trees allowed for a kind of backdating of Manifest Destiny, into the mists of prehistory.
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Even so, the phrase "Cape to Cairo" retains some sort of incantatory power, Rhodes's unrealized version of Manifest Destiny.
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In this telling, Esther going to Hollywood feels like a continuation of white western expansion—Manifest Destiny on celluloid.
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The times are a-changing, of course, and the slow creep of boring legitimacy has already begun its manifest destiny.
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Our community — entrepreneurs and investors alike — have had a sense of manifest destiny to move humanity forward with our work.
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But as the New York Times recently put it, activists now take a kind of manifest destiny approach to legalization.
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Small-market franchises are in full manifest-destiny mode, tyrannically bullying major cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.
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Theodore Roosevelt ratcheted up the implementation of Manifest Destiny with his support of the Dawes Act and public lands campaigns.
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Willy Verginer's half-dipped, wooden sculptures create a visual contrast that highlight environmental issues at the hands of human manifest destiny.
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There's a distinctive Manifest Destiny-like tone to Agenda 2020, an implicit assumption that action sports are for the Olympics' taking.
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The piece, "Manifest Destiny," has since been bought by the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, where it currently hangs.
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" The time seemed right for Mr. Imperioli to fulfill his residential manifest destiny when he joined the cast of "Bone Collector.
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Historically, we have found countless ways to justify our continued exploitation of the environment: discovery, tradition, Manifest Destiny, even Chinese hoax.
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Zuckerberg has been a determined, even ruthless, steward of the company's manifest destiny, with an uncanny knack for placing the right bets.
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Proulx's narrative sprawls across the northern reaches of the Americas, and tracks a westward expansion fired by the principle of Manifest Destiny.
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The manifest destiny of the humanities and social science professoriat is to have politicized knowledge supersede truth, objectivity, facts and genuine learning.
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What we saw last night was a renaissance of that Manifest Destiny — a rebirth and re-dedication to the pursuit of exceptionalism.
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EW: In these paintings, you say you wanted to explore the legacy of the West and manifest destiny and protests and global technology.
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The 1872 General Mining Law, which still governs public land mining, is a relic of manifest destiny policies adopted to promote western settlement.
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John Jota Leaños answers Argote's clarion call, having created an animation that reexamines many of the precepts of Manifest Destiny and the American West.
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Hence the textbook, which I still have: a crimson-bound tome filled with the Pilgrims, the founders, Manifest Destiny, the Civil War, women's suffrage.
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Unlike most Americans, I was raised in Southern California, along the shores of Manifest Destiny, about as far from Plymouth as the mainland extends.
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"Clearing the Land" features lumberjacks hacking down trees, but the smoke and stumps express an ecological regret that negates any pride in Manifest Destiny.
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She would have been thrilled at the Thatcher-Reagan collaboration, which was based upon an almost divine manifest destiny to govern strongly but compassionately.
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Similiarly, the show puts faces on the human costs of Manifest Destiny and of the territorial expansion that created the United States we know today.
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Recovery of market share has become manifest destiny for Iran, and Tehran would hardly endorse any freeze on the cusp of Friday's critical parliamentary elections.
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The 1803 Louisiana Purchase, for example, was both a step on the road to Manifest Destiny and also part of a pro-France foreign policy.
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Panelist Robert Cherny, author of Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art, said Arnautoff meant the mural as a critique of Washington and Manifest Destiny.
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By the 1840s, the party had embraced the idea of "manifest destiny" — that (white) Americans were divinely entitled to domination of the whole North American continent.
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In between these two poles come images, explicit or otherwise, embodying violence, acquisitiveness, wealth accumulation and an American faith, still very much alive, in Manifest Destiny.
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And the colonizing of Nature he so hated — hyped as Manifest Destiny — was being cheered on by artists who claimed to revere him, Durand among them.
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He played the role of Mr. Manifest Destiny, a loudmouth bully who took what he wanted — Western land, Native American lives — on behalf of the People.
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Subsequent landscape artists, especially those of the Hudson School, actually rejected most of his proto-environmentalism and instead embraced manifest destiny and American might in their work.
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With more than 100,000 cultural sites, Bears Ears was home to indigenous peoples for 3,500 years, before they were forced off in the name of manifest destiny.
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"It's really the last law still on the books from that Manifest Destiny era encouraging a resources free-for-all," said Lauren Pagel, policy director of Earthworks.
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It also alludes to the debates surrounding climate change and the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, which saw this country seize, through war and plunder, California from Mexico.
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And then—perhaps drawn by the weather, perhaps by manifest destiny—Reeves became the first mogul, but certainly not the last, to abandon Cleveland for a sunnier climate.
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That was the allure of even the old notion of manifest destiny, people within America moving further and further west, hoping to settle their own patches of land.
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"Girls" is an outright rejection of the romantic West of Puccini, of the hubris of Manifest Destiny, of all the rosy myths you've heard about the Golden State.
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LAND ART, WITH its almost mythical clichés of man against nature and heedless Manifest Destiny, is one of the contemporary art movements most urgently in need of reconsideration.
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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.
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Keeping Score LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers played at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, fulfilling their manifest destiny as basketball villains and bullies against the Knicks.
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For the Latinx hero, being an American means murdering evil Mexicans ("you will bleed out on American soil," he tells them) and embracing the history of white Manifest Destiny.
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They first crossed the vast North American continent, and when they ran out of land, Manifest Destiny took to the sea, unrolling an expanding American frontier across the Pacific.
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Installed in the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park south of Chicago, "Paul" slouches forlornly, dragging his axe in the dirt, his wrinkled face worn from the burden of manifest destiny.
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What I was thinking about at first was the beginning of San Francisco and its history, and these paintings are located here—this is the edge of manifest destiny.
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But one thing I noticed while a presidential candidate and while traveling alongside President-elect Trump during his primary battle, was this appeal to a new American Manifest Destiny.
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Beyond the plenary power doctrine, much of our constitutional law, from the treaty power to the war power, was established within the context of westward expansion and Manifest Destiny.
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Meanwhile, Zombieland used overt Native American symbolism alongside character names (Columbus, Little Rock) and a plotline (a westward trip destroying everything in its path) that pointedly invokes manifest destiny.
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Lifting the club's 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th European Cups was not an inevitability, the manifest destiny of a club that thinks of itself as the king of Europe.
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It's a relic of the Manifest Destiny era of pick-and-shovel miners, completely out of touch and out of scale with the landscape-level impacts of today's mining operations.
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It gave a resolute and rugged reminder to all approaching San Francisco of the continued Indian presence in America — a final red punct on the white sentence of Manifest Destiny.
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With the exception of that moron who lit himself on fire while trying to torch an American flag (Manifest Destiny?), there was very little chaos or mayhem at the convention.
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Ever since Alibaba listed its shares in New York four years ago, the company has used a sense of manifest destiny to beguile investors, stock analysts and an eager news media.
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And you'd need the support of the government, which is problematic considering the Bolsonaro administration has more or less granted agribusiness the Brazilian version of Manifest Destiny to steamroll the Amazon.
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One is called "Feast," written by Ms. Du and Ms. Duncan about welcoming the Arrivals; the other, "Train," is by Mr. Chacon and Mr. Kearney and about something like Manifest Destiny.
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It's one of many ways "to complicate the narrative" told by so many works in the wing, Ms. Yount said, the products of artists on the conquering side of Manifest Destiny.
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Without Manifest Destiny, there could have been no victory in World War II. But because settling that continent involved slavery and genocide against the indigenous inhabitants, American history is morally unresolvable.
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You could put it on the cover of a book extolling the righteousness of Manifest Destiny, the 19th-century notion that white settlement was divinely destined to spread across North America.
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It can describe the diverse geography of a region; the imperialist nation-building of "Manifest Destiny"; the genocidal policies pursued against Native Americans; or the utopian view of possibilities in the wilderness.
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Mr Musk agreed, and said that the few people who did want to go would likely be motivated by a sense of adventure or some notion of the manifest destiny of humanity.
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This anonymity of place figures into the artist's interest in 19th-century landscape photography and tonalist painting, particularly the ways in which those mediums relate to the American West and Manifest Destiny.
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Like America's own manifest destiny, now that Roy has won the Wild West, he must finally head to the promised land of California, as he planned to do so many years ago.
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That land belonged to other people, and the path to Manifest Destiny was paved with violence and theft, and even at its most innocent was dangerous and fraught in incredibly mundane ways.
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For example, believing in one's inherent superiority and the legacy of manifest destiny for white Americans makes a lack of economic success particularly disappointing to whites who feel more entitled to it.
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The cowboy — a historical figure, a way of life and livelihood, a symbol of Manifest Destiny, an advertising trope, an idealized version of manhood, and a tragic loner — is no simple symbol.
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An adult re-read reveals several characters, including Wilder's mother, saying things like "The only good Indian is a dead Indian," as well as romanticizing themes of American supremacy and manifest destiny.
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The Lakota had their own version of Manifest Destiny through their hold on the Black Hills (in what became South Dakota and Wyoming), which they believed to be the birthplace of humanity.
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Iowa's population is comprised mostly of white descendents of European immigrants, who fulfilled their manifest destiny when they settled here before the Civil War as its native inhabitants were driven away or murdered.
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Taking place during the Texas Revolution, in the winter of 1836, at a fortified Catholic mission in San Antonio, Texas, the siege and fall of the Alamo epitomized the concept of Manifest Destiny.
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A lot of the stuff that'd been brewing around in my head became so much more real in that environment—this manifest destiny impulse, spreading out over land, owning land, all of that.
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In some ways, Mr. Washington plays the role once embodied by John Wayne, except that the fight now usually takes place in cities instead of the wild West of Hollywood's own Manifest Destiny.
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Starting in the 16th century, the church provided Moscow's rulers with a political theology of Manifest Destiny, asserting that Moscow had become the Second Jerusalem and the Third Rome (after Rome and Constantinople).
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He felt a special urgency when returning to Jacksonian America in 1832, where manifest destiny and the race west seemed to strip the land at a pace that portended the darkness of industrial Bolton.
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The only real effect a half-century of coyote killing produced, then, was to introduce coyote Manifest Destiny, as they spread out of the West and into the East and South and big cities.
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To the colonizers, who spread more slowly than the diseases they brought, these were largely invisible deaths, which helped create the pernicious myth of an empty continent and a Manifest Destiny to fill it.
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The words of the Constitution were backed up by a gun; Manifest Destiny was accomplished with bullets and saving the world from tyranny would have been impossible without men at arms, trained to kill.
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It embodies the fallacies I remember about Texas and further testifies to the United States: endless resource and space, manifest destiny, and the exclusion of the individuals who have been here the entire time.
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"A lot of the time, what with you marching around ranting about 'Manifest Destiny' or '54-40 or Fight,' we were never all that sure whether you were friend or foe," the editorial board wrote.
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One of the things I talked about on Manifest Destiny is incarceration, how we've moved from public torture and executions to the torturing of the soul, putting people in solitary confinement for years on end.
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A domestic icon of cleanliness, the washboard's popularization in the 19th-century binds it to two synchronous developments in American history: Westward expansion under the mantle of manifest destiny and the waning of the slaveholding South.
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The uncomfortable truth is that the entire reason America has a sprawling national parks and public lands system is because of the white supremacist intent that undergirded everything from the Manifest Destiny to the Termination Era.
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" After hearing from both sides, the committee issued a statement that said the artwork "glorifies slavery, genocide, colonization, Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, oppression, etc." and does not represent the San Francisco school's "values of social justice.
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So, too, the realization of our Manifest Destiny was so much laying waste, and our rise to the status of world's most powerful military nation, an achievement built, with no exaggeration, on the deaths of millions.
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Despite the federal ban on marijuana, leaders of the industry are taking a Manifest Destiny view, believing it is only a matter of time for pot to become as widely accepted as alcohol across the country.
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Well, when I was in the second grade, my mother and father broke down the truth about "Manifest Destiny," a lofty phrase that whitewashes the truth about Europeans taking Native American lands by force, lies and larceny.
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She pointed me to an extraordinary piece of writing by John L. O'Sullivan, who coined the term Manifest Destiny, in support of the racist Mexican War in 1845: In the case of California [resistance] is now impossible.
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Mr. Putin's devotees also make passing references to "Third Rome," a 15th-century idea of Manifest Destiny for the Orthodox Church, in which Moscow would become the spiritual center of the true church after Rome and Constantinople.
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The book is a brilliant rebuttal to the myth of "manifest destiny", replacing the idea of a single historical narrative with something messier and more true: the sheer contingency of events that might easily have gone another way.
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" A reckoning with the assumptions of manifest destiny at its core, the game aims to "interrogate the American dream, what it means, if it's even attainable, who it's accessible to, and who gets left out if it is.
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Playing from the perspective of either a US or Hawaiian soldier could make for a game that touches on hot-button issues and sheds light into the harsh repercussions that resulted from the States' obsession with Manifest Destiny.
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Although Native Americans lived in what would become Grand Staircase for twelve thousand years, early European-Americans avoided the area assiduously; so daunting was its terrain that, for centuries, it deflected the otherwise unstoppable force of Manifest Destiny.
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The lands were not the ancestral home of the tribe but rather a spot in the Louisiana wetlands where they were forced to seek refuge in the nineteenth century, during the harshest years of America's Manifest Destiny era.
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We were specifically interested in image makers of the 19th century, because for the first time in American history, photography meant that all of the treasures of Manifest Destiny were now able to be seen on a popular scale.
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Van Houtryve's series is something of a correction to US history textbooks, which fail to highlight the history above; instead, they often encapsulate this complicated period of land switching hands through the ideologies of manifest destiny and western expansionism.
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The works delineate new boundaries and challenge the photographic traditions of the West as a hallowed land — the landscape as a rugged vista to be conquered and tamed under the banner of Manifest Destiny and the settling of Zion.
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"It was really about Manifest Destiny," she said, "about expanding the U.S." On April 33, the Senate approved what turned out to be a bargain by a vote of 37 to 2 thanks, in part, to support from Sen.
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As much as it was a symbol of the glitz of Hollywood and the "Manifest Destiny" of California, it was also a symbol of something as simple as sunshine, and — with the advent of the highway — as accessible as vacation.
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Whether it's an early reference to Manifest Destiny or a secret Masonic symbol embedded by the Illuminati, the pyramid would later gain an all-seeing eye on top and become the back of the Great Seal of the United States.
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For years, he said, he had dreamed of Russia embracing, or rather re-embracing, the pioneer spirit, and he was delighted by the Kremlin's backing of a program meant to reassert the country's manifest destiny as a continent-straddling power.
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Whereas their references to industrial progress, such as the Transcontinental Railroad, celebrate Manifest Destiny within the age-old conflict of man versus nature, she merely wanted to exist in nature and become one with nature through her body and free spirit.
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In citing Jackson, Ms. Richardson said, Roosevelt generally spoke not of his racial record and what she called the "incredibly racist version of Manifest Destiny" Jackson promoted, but the idea that the government belong to the people, not the wealthy.
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By the early 1900s, however, the cherry blossom had been co-opted by an increasingly ambitious and avaricious government, one that by the 1930s was embracing its own version of Manifest Destiny as a justification to colonize the Asian continent.
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The movie, which pulls from a biography by James R. Hansen, similarly fits its take on Armstrong into a traditional idea of American masculinity — someone strong and tough who prioritizes action over words, someone suitable to extend Manifest Destiny beyond the stratosphere.
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And it was all painted bright white—to look like Roman ruins, but also to subtly reinforce the authoritarian themes of the expo, a celebration of the 400th anniversary of European arrival in North America and the fulfillment of America's manifest destiny.
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And across the Atlantic, they found it in an entire system of race-based caste laws and practices: America's Jim Crow segregation, citizenship laws, and anti-miscegenation laws; the doctrine of Manifest Destiny that masked a genocide; the wholehearted embrace of eugenics.
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After a few hours, all the talk about manifest destiny—and fossil fuels and Guantánamo Bay and 9/11 and Ferguson and the ways in which social media companies have tricked us into surrendering our privacy—was beginning to feel like a wall.
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Historians labeled that zeal for American greatness as Manifest Destiny — an acknowledgment that, whether by Providence or something else — this nation was always on a path to write the course of history, and play such a critical role on the stage of mankind.
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The game ends with Traveler apparently signaling a new age and a new mission for the Guardians, with Zavala announcing a new catholic interpretation of the Last City that encompasses anywhere and everywhere humanity can go—a Manifest Destiny, as it were.
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Through its wall labels and catalogs, it reinterpreted famous works of the Western landscape and Manifest Destiny — the belief that Americans were destined by God to govern the North American continent — through the lens of the impact on Native Americans and the environment.
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" Nayyera Haq: Trump's appeal to racist history It was no accident that President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor to one of America's most divisive voices, Rush Limbaugh, in the same State of the Union speech where he referenced "America's manifest destiny.
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The last President to use the term manifest destiny in his annual address was Woodrow Wilson in 1920, who also made sure the first film screened at the White House was "The Birth of A Nation," a movie glorifying the early Klan.
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In reality, Roseanne Barr overdosed on entitled bigotry, supported by a culture at war, where the President of the United States is celebrated for being an open racist or gentrifiers feel empowered to call the police as a manifest destiny weapon of choice.
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In Bradford's perspective, the best way to include ordinary citizens, especially persons of color and nonconforming gender, in the ongoing story of America's manifest destiny, is to teach disadvantaged youth how to include their own experiences and views in response to significant events.
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The world where George, Jane, Judy, and Elroy Jetson lived, with robot housekeepers and ozone-scraping luxury smart homes that can dress and groom you by themselves, was a vertical manifest destiny, one where audiences could hang their starry-eyed hopes about the future.
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Reagan's "Morning in America" re-election campaign co-opted John Ford's iconography of Manifest Destiny and in the process formalized the current strain of American exceptionalism — a belief system that ignores the degree to which racism and genocide enabled the European expansion across the continent.
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A sloping plaza now ushers visitors into the subterranean Museum at the Gateway Arch, overhauled to explore Western colonization from different viewpoints, including that of Manifest Destiny (themed "the West was won"), Native Americans ("the West was stolen") and Mexico ("the North was taken").
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The tacit assumption undergirding much of Western civilization — and indeed the US, particularly in its notion of manifest destiny — is that we are improving, becoming more efficient workers, generating more wealth, developing greater technological advances, creating more leisure time, having healthier and better lives.
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But even liberals scratched their heads over a few descriptions, like calling Ronald Reagan "bellicose" in his dealings with the Soviet Union or describing Manifest Destiny as a belief in "white racial superiority" without also explaining its philosophical mission to spread liberty, democracy and technical innovations.
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Like other Native Americans, writes Pekka Hamalainen of the University of Oxford (also the author of "The Comanche Empire"), they were seen as the helpless "victims" of Manifest Destiny—foes of the Lewis and Clark expedition, General Custer's nemesis, the martyrs of the Wounded Knee massacre.
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Presented in a largely didactic manner, Kite, who is Oglala Lakota, taught the audience various phrases in the Lakota language, including "Manifest Destiny" — the poisonous phrase introduced in the 1840s and used to justify the raping and pillaging of Native Americans and their lands by theist white American settlers.
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A visitor who enjoys reading all the didactics will leave this show with a much richer understanding of a diverse, divided, by turns confident and anxious United States bent on territorial and economic expansion from the 12003s to the 1860s, a crucial period bookended by Manifest Destiny and the Civil War.
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Because the same society that taught some people they were heroes, saviors, inheritors of the Manifest Destiny ideal, taught me I existed only in the background of their stories, doing their nails, diagnosing their illnesses, supporting their love interests — and perhaps the most damaging — waiting for them to rescue me.
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Though there were several prior almost-shots-fired skirmishes between the countries, from the Lumberjack War to the Trent Affair, these larger forces of commerce, American Manifest Destiny, and mutual mistrust brought us as close to annexing Canada as we ever were in the second half of the 19th century.
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And I am wary of a lot of other things, such as plastic credit cards, payroll deductions, insurance programs, retirement benefits, savings accounts, Green Stamps, time clocks, newspapers, mortgages, sermons, miracle fabrics, deodorants, check lists, time payments, political parties, lending libraries, television, actresses, junior chambers of commerce, pageants, progress, and manifest destiny.
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The new museum has six galleries, including "Colonial St. Louis," explores the founding of St. Louis and the indigenous and Creole culture before the Louisiana Purchase; "Jefferson's Vision," which documents how St. Louis shaped the West; and "Manifest Destiny," which follows the trails, the settlers and the conflicts for those heading west.
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When he opened the restaurant sometime between 1904 and 1907, Des Moines was still closer to its origins as a frontier town, a Manifest Destiny-era military settlement built upon the confluent banks of the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers, than to the insurance town, filled with professionals, that the city would later become.
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It is so much at the root of particular ideas that make this nation tick — intransigent patriarchy, manifest destiny, white settler ideology (which imagines the social world as a place of relentless competition for dominance and sees violence as the primary mediator among men vying for dominance) — that one could argue that the gun helped construct these ideologies.
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Whitman's "Hitler's American Model," with its comparative analysis of American and Nazi race law, joins such previous studies as Carroll Kakel's " The American West and the Nazi East ," a side-by-side discussion of Manifest Destiny and Lebensraum; and Stefan Kühl's " The Nazi Connection ," which describes the impact of the American eugenics movement on Nazi thinking.
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Despite being erected in 1907, "The Four Continents" reflects the derogatory racist outlook of 20123th Century Manifest Destiny, just as the Roosevelt statue, dedicated in 1940, made its appearance while lynchings were being carried out across the Jim Crow South, and while Northern whites rioted to maintain racially segregated jobs and neighborhoods in Chicago, Detroit, and Los Angeles.
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The rich and poor, the privileged and underprivileged, are all so sure that they are right about everything that we all feel it is our manifest destiny to go even to the farthest corners of the earth to teach the benighted souls of underprivileged lands (everywhere else!) all about what it means to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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Cannibalism was the prime reason the story lodged itself in our national psyche; but more than that, the fate of the Donner party was a denial, a violent repudiation, of the myth of Manifest Destiny: Here were a group of westward pioneers, the very picture of courage, resourcefulness and pluck, who ended up reduced to a level of squalor and barbarism almost beyond words.
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Someone in 1949, apparently, didn't approach the task of constructing a novelty motel, the theme of which was the culture of the people we systematically murdered for the purposes of Manifest Destiny, with the utmost cultural sensitivity.) Although the Wigwam Motel was almost discarded, in a way, having fallen into decay and transformed into a pay-by-the-hour fuck motel (a sign that reads "Do it in a Tee Pee" which once hung outside is now stashed away out back) before it was purchased by the current proprietor's parents for $1 million in 2003, an investment they, as of two years ago, had yet to recoup.
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