...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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...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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...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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...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 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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