question: Do Aram Avakian and Denis Peterson both have American heritage?
answer: yes
context: Title: Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival
  Passage: The Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, hosted by the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans in New York City, is one of the largest outdoors celebrations of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in the United States.  Each year, in May, the festival offers music, performances, arts, food, history and corporate outreach.  The first festival in 1979 grew out of the civil rights movements of that era when President Jimmy Carter signed the proclamation to declare the first week in May to be Asian American Heritage Week.  The proclamation was later extended to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month for the entire month of May.  The festival has continued every year to celebrate the diverse cultures of Asian Americans and their contribution to American society.  It has become so large that it takes the Coalition all year to put together.
  Title: American Heritage of Invention &amp; Technology
  Passage: American Heritage of Invention & Technology was a quarterly magazine dedicated to the history of technology.  It was a spinoff of "American Heritage" magazine.  It started in the summer of 1985 and there were three issues a year until 1992, when it became quarterly.  Following the Summer 2007 issue (volume 23, number 1), publication was suspended (along with "American Heritage" itself).  Publication of the magazine resumed with the Summer 2008 issue (volume 23, number 2), under the slightly changed title American Heritage's Invention & Technology.  The last issue was Winter 2011 (volume 25, number 4).
  Title: American Heritage School (American Fork, Utah)
  Passage: American Heritage School and Family Education Center (American Heritage Schools, Inc., also known as American Heritage or AHS) is an accredited private school serving grades K - 12, and distance education program located in American Fork, Utah.  AHC serves approximately 1,100 students in grades K-12 on-campus and approximately 1,000 students participating in distance education and homeschool courses offered by the school's Family Education Center.
  Title: End of the Road (1970 film)
  Passage: End of the Road is a 1970 film directed, co-written, and edited by Aram Avakian and adapted from a 1958 novel by John Barth, and stars Stacy Keach, James Earl Jones and Harris Yulin.
  Title: 11 Harrowhouse
  Passage: 11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 British film directed by Aram Avakian.  It was adapted by Charles Grodin based upon the novel by Gerald A. Browne with the screenplay by Jeffrey Bloom.  It stars Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, James Mason, Trevor Howard and John Gielgud.
  Title: Denis Peterson
  Passage: Denis Peterson is an American hyperrealist painter whose photorealist works have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Tate Modern, Springville Museum of Art, Corcoran MPA and Max Hutchinson Gallery in New York.
  Title: Cops and Robbers (1973 film)
  Passage: Cops and Robbers is a 1973 crime comedy film directed by Aram Avakian with an original screenplay by Donald E. Westlake which Westlake subsequently expanded into a novel.  The film stars Cliff Gorman as Tom and Joseph Bologna as Joe.
  Title: Garry Peterson
  Passage: Garry Denis Peterson (May 26, 1945) is a Canadian drummer who has been a long-term member of the Canadian rock band The Guess Who.  Along with Randy Bachman, he has also recorded and toured with another Canadian rock band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive from 1984-1986.
  Title: Richard Estes
  Passage: Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings.  The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes.  He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters as John Baeder, Ralph Goings, Chuck Close, Audrey Flack, and Duane Hanson.  Author Graham Thompson writes "One demonstration of the way photography became assimilated into the art world is the success of photorealist painting in the late 1960s and early 1970s.  It is also called super-realism or hyper-realism and painters like Richard Estes, Denis Peterson, Audrey Flack, and Chuck Close often worked from photographic stills to create paintings that appeared to be photographs."
  Title: Aram Avakian
  Passage: Aram A. Avakian (April 23, 1926 – January 17, 1987) was an Armenian-American film editor and director.  His work in the latter role includes "Jazz on a Summer's Day" (1960) and the indie film "End of the Road" (1970).
citations: Aram Avakian Denis Peterson