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American Anthropologist 24 1 — Berson, Sherry L. Exploring America in the s: New Horizons is an interdisciplinary humanities unit that looks at literature, art, and music of the s to provide an understanding of how those living through the decade experienced and felt about the world around them.

Through the lens of "identity," it explores life in America and the myriad groups that coexisted in harmony and, often, with friction. Cultural movements like grunge and Generation X will be examined alongside larger issues such as rising racial tensions following the O. Simpson trial and Rodney King riots, the conflict between progress and morality as scientific advances in cloning and the Internet changed the U. The unit uses field-tested instructional strategies for language arts and social studies from The College of William and Mary, as well as new strategies, and it includes graphic organizers and other tools for analyzing primary sources.

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Utopia has been achieved. For centuries, disease, hunger, poverty and war have been things found only in the histories. And applied genetics has given men and women the bodies of athletes and a lifespan of over a century. They should all have been very happy But Hamilton Felix is bored. And he is the culmination of a star line; each of his last thirty ancestors chosen for superior genes. Hamilton is, as far as genetics can produce one, the ultimate man.

And this ultimate man can see no reason why the human race should survive, and has no intention of continuing the pointless comedy. However, Hamilton's life is about to become less boring. Kirk,Sarah J. American Horizons Author : Keith F. At the same time, American Horizons considers those ways in which U.

American Horizons presents an opportunity to view the nation's history as more than a mere sequence of events for students to memorize. Although adhering to the familiar chronological organization of the U. History course, their narrative style and structure provide the flexibility of shiftingemphasis from time to time to the global aspects of American history. Although the story of the United States is always at the center, that story is told through the movement of people, goods, and ideas into, within, or out of the United States.

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Exploring America in the s: New Horizons is an interdisciplinary humanities unit that looks at literature, art, and music of the s to provide an understanding of how those living through the decade experienced and felt about the world around them.

Through the lens of "identity," it explores life in America and the myriad groups that coexisted in harmony and, often, with friction.