Statue Of Liberty Analysis

In 1865 when the American Civil War was close to the end, a French historian Edouard de Laboulaye suggested that France should create and give to the United States a statue that would symbolize the nation’s success in building a viable democracy. However, because of the lock of money, the work on the statue didn’t start until the end of 1875. The creator of the statue is the French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi who created the statue out of sheets of hammered copper and Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the creator of Eiffel Tower created the statue’s steel frame. The female form represented by the sculpture is based on Libertas, the Roman goddess of liberty. The statue was given to the United States and was

There was a great wave of immigration to America's shores. Between 1840 and 1850, an additional 1.5 million newcomers journeyed to the United States.Nearly one half were from Ireland.Between 1846 and 1860,about 1.5 million Irish

According to a study by the Migration Policy Institute, approximately 41.3 million immigrants were living in the United States in 2013, an all-time high for a nation historically built on immigration. Immigrants accounted for 13 percent of the total 316 million U.S. residents and adding the U.S.-born children of immigrants means that approximately 80 million people, or one-quarter of the overall U.S. population, is either of the first or second generation (Zong, Batalova).

From 1815 to 1850, five million Europeans immigrated to the United States, and three of those five million arrived within just a decade from 1845-1854. This was the largest immigration America had seen compared to its total population. Most of the immigrants were either Irish or German, but they all had one thing in common: they wanted better lives for their families. In their home countries, they often experienced religious persecution or had little economic opportunity. Many heard the exaggerated stories of the abundant American farmland and widespread freedom, making them more eager to settle there.

The nation began regulating and controlling immigrants in 1875. Beginning in 1970’s the percent of people living in the U.S. that were foreign born began to rise. Passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1965 was a turning point. In 1980, 6.2 percent of the U.S. population was foreign born and by 2010 that number (para. 2).

On August 21st, 2017, three confederate statues were removed from their post at the University of Texas at Austin and relocated into the Briscoe Center for American History. These statues included Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Albert Sidney Johnson as well as, Confederate cabinet member John Reagan. Ten days later, a panel discussed the different perspectives of the meanings and removal of these statues. Guest speakers included Walter L. Buenger, Peniel E. Joseph, Ben Wright and Jaqueline Jones (as moderator).

The Statue of Liberty was created on October 28th of 1886 and currently stands in Liberty Island in New York. The statues torch is made of gold, the internal framework is composed of steel and wrought iron, and the external body is composed of copper. The outside portion is composed of copper that has naturally oxidized over time and has gained its signature green color. The Statue of Liberty is relatively large standing at over three hundred feet tall from base to the tip of the the torch.

The best option would be to keep these statues in their original place or in a museum only if an updated supplemental statue or plaque is added that indicates how things are different at the present time. By keeping the Confederate statues and plaques inside a museum, the message those pieces present can be controlled by presenting them with additional context; doing so will allow the stricter presentation of information preventing the further empowerment of groups that wish to use the statues to represent hate in modern society. Pitcaithley recalled that in New Mexico on the Santa Fe Plaza Obelisk monument that represented Native Americans, an “activist carved out [racial slurs]” (Pitcaithley). Instead of masking the vandalism the state decided to take this opportunity and enlighten the locals about racism and how a lifeless monument, that they have become desensitized to, can cause such an enormous hate towards certain groups of

The immigration population in the United States is large and comes from numerous countries across the globe. The population of foreign-born residents in America is roughly 40.7 million people in 2012. Within this number 18.6 are naturalized United States citizen and 22.1 million are not citizens. Of the 22.1 million noncitizens, roughly 11.3 million are unauthorized immigrants. Today’s immigrant population makes up 13 percent of the total United States population, still below its high of 14.8 percent in 1890. Most of the foreign born population in America comes from Mexico, which accounts for roughly 28 percent. Followed by China, India, Philippines, Vietnam, Cuba, and Korea. Of the undocumented foreign-born population a majority of those is from Mexico, roughly 6 million or 52 percent of these

The Rocky statue in Philadelphia, PA serves as an iconic symbol that has shaped the image of Philadelphia, while demonstrating that location influences the way people see art. The statue stands tall next to the Rocky Stairs, and plants into the minds of the people ideas of inspiration, self-determination, and pride in accomplishment, which all help raise Philadelphia up as a proud and progressing city. It’s presence at the art museum also demonstrates the effects of location on a piece of art. Location works like a manipulation in that it influences the way people see the artwork. Would People look at the statue the same if it was next to a rundown building, or if it

The history of Immigration to The United States of America started with the movement of people to The U.S. It first started with European settlements from around 1600. Many Immigrants came searching for religious freedom and others came for greater economic opportunities. According to, www.Americanimmigrationcouncil.org, ‘’ The immigration and naturalization act (INA), the body of law governing current immigration policy, provides for an annual worldwide limit of 675,000 permanent immigrants, with certain exceptions for close family members.’’

In April of this year, The Charlottesville city council voted to remove and sell the confederate statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, and to the renaming of both parks where the statutes are located. Alerting the attention of white nationalist Richard Spencer who organized a march of Ku Klux Klan members to gathered in Charlottesville, Va. On August,12,2017. According to (The daily progress) They protested the removal of Confederate General, Robert E. Lee’s statue. The protest gathered about 1,000 people opposing the group of 30 to 50 Klan members, numbers that were cited by (NRP.ORG) The aftermath resulted in altercations between both parties that ended in a car ploughed into the crowd of the counter protesters who identify as Antifa,

Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty have incommon is they are both nice places to visit during break. Even though they are expensive and you have to wait in line (which feels like forever) at the end it there pretty cool interesting places to visit. They both have meanings to them why it was built, which is quite interesting to learn about while you are there.

Another demonstration of corruption is between Evey and the bishop. V plans for Evey to disguise herself as a young religious girl and to get in contact with the bishop. While the bishop attends to Evey, he suggests to do a religious activity and directs her to a bedroom. Wary of the bishop’s actions, Evey distracts him until he interrupts, “Now take off your clothes please...Oh nevermind, allow me to” (Moore 53). The bishop is associated with religious authority, meaning that he has power in the church. The irony is that he is supposed to be practicing ethics, considering the religious aspects that he involves himself in. However, the bishop nearly sexually harassed Evey, which is against the common knowledge of religious authority. The victims

The piece of art that I chose was the statue of Augustus from the Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities. The statue itself is made of marble and shows the emperor Augustus in a flowing toga holding a collection of scrolls. The body and the head appear to be from different time periods with the head being typical of other depictions of Augustus contemporary to the time of his reign. The body however appears to be more similar to work found during the hadrianic period making it several centuries than the head. The common theory is that head and body were joined together sometime in the eighteenth century when both pieces were stored in Venice. Overall, the statue despite being a conglomerate work from different periods is a good