Iowa- An American Portrait

"Iowa - Portraits of Americans" The movie "Iowa - Portraits of Americans" is conveyed by Tom Brokaw. It describes the land, people, education, work, religion and family life of Iowa. One of the main topics of this movie is the general view of Iowa State. There are more than 20,000 farms in Iowa State, 98% of the total land in Iowa State is used for production, 90% of the whole land is used for food production. The reverence of Iowa's vast land and fertile soil began with Native Americans.

But how does an image become an icon? Historian Harvard Historian Steven Beer published in his new book, American Gothic, and was published with the 75th anniversary of paintings depicting Wood's famous Iowa state. The cultural history of the farmer and his hard wife (or daughter) 's portrait. There are few people who know about the original picture, but most people understand the image through copying or imitation. When Bill showed this picture to the 59th grader at Harvard University, they admitted this, but only 31 people knew the title and only 5 people could name the artist .

Tom Brokaw talks about the movie "Iowa - American Portrait". It describes the land, people, education, work, religion and family life of Iowa. One of the main topics of this movie is the general view of Iowa State. There are more than 20,000 farms in Iowa State, 98% of the total land in Iowa State is used for production, 90% of the whole land is used for food production. The reverence of Iowa's vast land and fertile soil began with Native Americans. Years later, European immigrants settled in Iowa. They first settled near the Mississippi River and crossed Iowa for a short period of 40 years. They began cultivating the soil immediately and I learned that my family can live on 80 acres of land. For Iowa, work is absolutely necessary. It gives meaning and pride to life, and agriculture is a business that can be inherited from generation to generation.

Poet Wendy Xu was born in China and brought up in New York and Iowa. I studied at the University of Iowa, got a bachelor's degree and studied at the graduate school at Amherst University in Massachusetts. As the founding coordinator of the Youngor / Jones reading series, Xu coordinated the jubilat / Jones reading series, and served as editor of iO: New American Poetry Magazine and iO Books. She lives in Brooklyn. Xu often uses newlines as sharp hinges in one section, and meditation poetry includes intimate and short lived nature.