...The Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, more commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, was dedicated on October 28, 1886 and was a gift to the United Stated from France. It is a monument to American independence given in honor of "the Alliance of the two Nations in achieving the Independence of the United States of America and attests their abiding friendship." The Statue of Liberty resides outside of Manhattan in New York City, on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor. Physically, the statue rises only 151 feet, 1 inch, but it sits on a tall pedestal for a total height from the ground to the torch of 305 feet, 1 inch. This leads many visitors to remark how small it looks in person compared to what they imagined from images of the Statue of Liberty. With that said, her index finger is taller than a man at 8 feet, 1 inch. Clad in copper sheeting 3/32 of an inch thick, the Statue of Liberty contains over 60,000 pounds of copper and a quarter of a million pounds of steel, part of a total of 450,000 pounds. The origin of the Statue of Liberty began with Edouard de Laboulaye, know as the Father of the Statue of Liberty. Leboulaye was born in France in 1811 and became French historian and a leading expert on the Constitution of the United States, and a supporter of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. Because Laboulaye firmly believed every person had an inalienable, sacred right to freedom, he spent much of his time encouraging...
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...The Statue of liberty is a very well-known statue ,it has made many impacts on different kinds of people. The statue not only resembles liberty, hope, and freedom but it also comprises a friendship between the French and America. The Statue of Liberty has its own features which make it historical, the hard work put into the process of building it later paid off because The Statue of Liberty is now a great symbol for the United States. It all started when the United States was going to celebrating their 100th anniversary of Independence from Great Britain. When a French man named Edouard de Laboulaye proposed to build a statue for the Americas. Laboulaye idea was proposed during a dinner party, and a man who attended this party was interested...
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...symbol to that country, state, town or region and it is something big that went down in history. The Statue of Liberty is the upper New York Bay, on Ellis Island, and is a symbol of freedom. The Statue of Liberty is a monument that was a gift from France. It was given to America in 1886 to celebrate the friendship between them during the Revolutionary War. The statue stands...
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...The Story of the Fourth of July The Declaration of Independence We celebrate American Independence Day on the Fourth of July every year. We think of July 4, 1776, as a day that represents the Declaration of Independence and the birth of the United States of America as an independent nation. But July 4, 1776 wasn't the day that the Continental Congress decided to declare independence (they did that on July 2, 1776). It wasn’t the day we started the American Revolution either (that had happened back in April 1775). And it wasn't the day Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence (that was in June 1776). Or the date on which the Declaration was delivered to Great Britain (that didn't happen until November 1776). Or the date it was signed (that was August 2, 1776). So what did happen on July 4, 1776? The Continental Congress approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. They'd been working on it for a couple of days after the draft was submitted on July 2nd and finally agreed on all of the edits and changes. July 4, 1776, became the date that was included on the Declaration of Independence, and the fancy handwritten copy that was signed in August (the copy now displayed at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.) It’s also the date that was printed on the Dunlap Broadsides, the original printed copies of the Declaration that were circulated throughout the new nation. So when people thought of the Declaration of Independence...
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...On May 11 we are going to New York City. We are going to visit the 9/11 Memorial, Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Coney Island, Empire State Building, and the Empire State Building. We are going to visit these places over the span of 3 days. Not only is this trip going to be a fun trip, but also a historical one. There are multiple historical places in New York. Times Square is a popular commercial strip in lower Manhattan. It’s name Longacre Square. It was named Times Square in 1904 when New York Times moved its headquarters there. They built subways through there to be sure the newspapers got out. New York Times made a marketing plan and started introducing the new year with fireworks. Theaters moved in after New York Times came in. Once...
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...The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad. The statue is situated in Upper New York Bay on Liberty Island, south of Ellis Island. Both islands were ceded by New York to the federal government in 1800.[149] As agreed in an 1834 compact between New York and New Jersey that set the state border at the bay's midpoint, the original islands remain New York territory despite their location on the New Jersey side of the state line. Land created by reclamation at Ellis is New Jersey territory.[150] A universal symbol of freedom and democracy, the Statue of Liberty also celebrates the international friendship of the United States and France. It was given to us as a gift from France. Built to commerate an alliance during the American Revolution, the Statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886...
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...figures in art is The Statue of Liberty, it has the most amazing, fine detail in the statue that it is just amazing to think that someone could have built this. The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States in 1886, it is measured from the ground to the top of the torch to be 93 meters tall and it weighs 203 metric tons. On the tablet the she holds it reads the date that the declaration of independence is which is, July 4, 1776. Visitors and tourists are allowed to go into the crown of the Statue, to get there they need to climb up 354 stairs. The crown of the statue has 25 windows around it, about 4 million people enter the statue every year. The crown has 7 spikes on it which represent the 7 continents in the world; in a deeper meaning they represent the concept of freedom around the world. Edouard de Laboulaye provided the idea for the statue, while Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi designed it. Gustave Eiffel, the man who created the Eiffel tower was also behind the design for the statue, he specialized in the spine. Some other cool and interesting facts about the statue is that in winds higher than 50 mph it can sway 3 inches and the torch of the statue can move up to 5 inches. The statue of liberty has been hit by over 600 lightning bolts every year since it was built. In my opinion this is one of the greatest forms of art in the world, it has a great meaning behind it and it is amazing how anyone could have possibly came up with the idea of a statue this big and large,...
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...Exiles She is the most recognizable woman in the world, but what is the significance of the sexuality of the Statue of Liberty? Most people have little to no knowledge over why this monumental statue is a woman. It has been debated over the years about her true significance. Some believe it was just choice and that she’s just a 152 foot tall, green woman in a robe, with a torch in one hand, book in the other. The truth, the representation of the statue of liberty portrayed as a woman has everything to do with her sexuality, it was not just a coincidence. She was designed and sculpted by the French freeman, Auguste Bartholdi in 1878. It took him and his crew a long 9 years of building until it was finally completed in 1884. It was believed that he had a vision of a “magnificent” goddess with a torch in one hand welcoming visitors to the “land of freedom and opportunity” (Bond). Therefore, as you would guess, he constructed a goddess. Specifically, Libertas meaning “liberty” (“The Statue of Liberty and Statue”), derived from ancient Rome. Her role, to stand for freedom of slavery, oppression and tyranny. Surprisingly, her posture wasn’t based off of the goddess, but on what the Colossus was thought to look like before the earthquake destroyed it in the nineteenth century. Colossus was a statue in the city of Rhodes of a Greek titan Helios. A giant copper statue, standing straight up with head held high, as a significance of power. Ultimately, she was the perfect symbol...
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...The lady enlightening the world In New York harbor, on liberty island, a mighty green woman figure stands as a clear idea of what America is going to be, a multicultural country protects freedom of speech and religion, liberty didn`t only mean freedom from the British empire, liberty also meant freedom for immigrants who leaving their mother countries and come to the united states to create a new life without any persecution from any kind. My goal in this paper is to focus on the meanings for the statue of liberty which have changed over the time, and the countless roles in its 127-year history. I have organized my paper into two main sections, in the first one, we`re going to reflect on some of the various political and cultural meanings of the statue of liberty, in the second section I focus on the universal meanings of the statue as freedom, emancipation, and the national unity. Political and cultural meanings As the American civil war drew to close, in the summer of 1865, several French intellectuals were at a dinner party at the historian Edouard de Laboulaye`s mansion in Glatigny, Laboulaye was a French law...
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...For my opus I have decided to compare and contrast two unequivocal three dimensional statues: our treasured “Circle of Knowledge” and the famous “Statue of Liberty”. First we have the “Circle of Knowledge” which is located on the Mandeville campus of Northern Caribbean University (NCU), Jamaica. Presented as a gift from the graduating class of 2002 this towering 2.44meters statue, of a male and female student, was sculpted by Jamaica’s own, Basil Watson, who specialises in ‘human figure’. This monument appears to be a more contemporary style of sculpture that was cast from bonded bronze, giving it its firm gray hue. The Statue of Liberty was also a gift, a gift of friendship, from the people of France to the United States. This 93meters, colossal, pastel green statue of a woman is a neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbour, in Manhattan. The artist responsible for this piece is Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi but Architects such as Gustave Eiffel and Richard Hunt helped with its construction. Using mediums such as copper, wrought iron and steel the construction of the statue started in September of 1875 and it opened to public viewing on October 28, 1886. Even with their extensive difference in size, the frontal exhibit of each in its own location serves as a welcoming and a reminder to its viewers. The Circle of Knowledge was explicitly designed with NCU in mind. It embodies the values and ethos of the university. This life-size, well proportioned...
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...was one of the world tallest skyscrapers in 1931. The Empire State Building is famous because its observation deck that has the wonderful view over the city of New York. Also, the Empire State Building is used in “King Kong” movie that is very famous. That’s a reason why most children would like to go there to look at it. The Empire State Building is also very famous at tower lighting systems. It makes perfect sense. It is so amazing to look at the sense of lights that changes its color everyday to make the Empire State Building attractive. The Statue of Liberty that was a famous statue made by the French engineer Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. It was given as a gift from the French government for 100th anniversary of America’s Independence. The Statue of Liberty is “46.5 meters (151ft) tall and together with the pedestal it reaches a height of 93 meters (305ft).” (aviewoncities.com). It was famous because the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of friendship, hope and freedom representing immigrants starting a new life in America. Most...
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...New York City The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century--among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia--but none settled there until 1624. That year, the Dutch West India Company sent some 30 families to live and work in a tiny settlement on “Nutten Island” (today’s Governors Island) that they called New Amsterdam. In 1626, the settlement’s governor general, Peter Minuit, purchased the much larger Manhattan Island from the natives for 60 guilders in trade goods such as tools, farming equipment, cloth and wampum (shell beads). Fewer than 300 people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved to Manhattan. But it grew quickly, and in 1760 the city (now called New York City; population 18,000) surpassed Boston to become the second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a population 202,589, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere. Today, more than 8 million people live in the city’s five boroughs. New York City in the 18th Century In 1664, the British seized New Amsterdam from the Dutch and gave it a new name: New York City. For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany;...
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...“The work of each of these artists represents a particular depth of understanding and sensitivity about the history of our nation.” Dakar: Places in Our Live [1] “Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and, as many original, artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.” Andre Marlaux[2] Introduction Art is a tenuous relationship as history would attest but it is one that could not be belittled or undermined. It produced various schools of thought among the ancient Greeks and continues to provide profound forum of debate among contemporary scholars. As President Ferdinand Marcos have stated, “For the artist has always been a dynamic factor in social and cultural development and art is always an essential vehicle of truth and of relationship”.[3] In the realm of human experience, the artist has to confront the truth in its various critical situations consequently depending on, his interpretation of urgent realities; he becomes either the advocate of change or an adversary of it. But he can never be uncommitted nor be irresponsible. In the present time where plans and options for governments shift in the global expediency, the artist must always guard against obstacles to national growth and progress. "Art and Globalization makes an important contribution to the diverse critical practices and aesthetic performances that define the global era.[4]” These remarks were written for the book entitled Arts and...
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...GLENCOE LANGUAGE ARTS Grammar and Language Workbook G RADE 9 Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 936 Eastwind Drive Westerville, Ohio 43081 ISBN 0-02-818294-4 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 024 03 02 01 00 99 Contents Handbook of Definitions and Rules .........................1 Troubleshooter ........................................................21 Part 1 Grammar ......................................................45 Unit 1 Parts of Speech 1.1 Nouns: Singular, Plural, and Collective ....47 1.2 Nouns: Proper and Common; Concrete and Abstract.................................49 1.3 Pronouns: Personal and Possessive; Reflexive and Intensive...............................51 1.4 Pronouns: Interrogative and Relative; Demonstrative and Indefinite .....................53 1.5 Verbs: Action (Transitive/Intransitive) ......55 1.6 Verbs: Linking .............................................57 1.7 Verb Phrases ................................................59 1.8 Adjectives ....................................................61 1.9 Adverbs........................................................63 1.10 Prepositions...
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...Chap1 Comparing Apples and Oranges The concept of “apples and oranges” relates to the consistency of anything that is compared with something else. Whenever you make a comparison in sentence, you have to make sure the things you compare are , in fact, comparable. Than ①主语比较 1. Because the Earth’s crust is more solid there and thus better able to transmit shock waves, an earthquake in the eastern United States will typically devastate an area 100 times greater than will a quake of comparable magnitude occurring in the West.(D-P35-9) 2.Local residents claim that San Antonio, Texas, has more good Mexican American restaurants than does any other city in the United States. (D-p78-14) 3.The guiding principles of the tax plan released by the Treasury Department could have even greater significance for the economy than do the particulars of the plan. (C-p8-6) 4. Because natural gas is composed mostly of methane, a simple hydrocarbon, vehicles powered by natural gas emit less of certain pollutants than those burning gasoline or diesel fuel. (C-p8-16) 5. The United States government employs a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than does any other government. (C-p22-8) 6. The pay of senior executives increased in 1990 by a larger percentage than did the wages of other salaried workers. (C-p67-5) 7. A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load...
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