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Module Four Short Answer: Monuments as Cultural Works Joshua Minnick Information Technology Department, Southern New Hampshire University HUM-100 Perspectives in the Humanities Dr. Bob Studinger November 19, 2023 . 1
The monument I selected to research is the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is a one hundred fifty-one-foot-tall copper statue located in the harbor of New York City, New York. It is positioned on a pedestal that is one hundred fifty-four feet tall. It was designed by French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi as a joint effort between the French and American people. The statue itself was designed and built in France while the pedestal was created in America. The internal structure that supports the copper sheeting on the outside of the statue was designed by Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the engineer who later designed the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. The statue has become one of the most iconic figures in American history and is known around the world as a symbol of the United States of America. The original intentions of the Statue of Liberty were to be a symbol of the friendship between American and France and to be a beacon to the world of the superiority of the American system of government offering liberty and freedom to all. The statue was intended to symbolize the freedom offered by a system of government that is based upon a democratic process and has a system of checks-and-balances that stops one branch of government from having ultimate control over its people. Bartholdi and Laboulaye, the Frenchman who is credited as the first to offer the idea for the statue, strongly believed in the ideal that all people are born with an inalienable right to freedom. The Statue of Liberty was also created with hopes the French people would push for France to return to a democratic government from the current authoritarian government under Napoleon III. Although the original intention of the Statue of Liberty was to be a symbol of freedom and a partnership between America and France, later interpretations have changed the meaning and cultural understanding to be of a beacon of support for immigration and people hoping to create a better life in America. This is not out of line with the original intention to symbolize 2
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