Roadside memorial

Equality as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, is the quality or state of being equal : the quality or state of having the same rights, social status, etc. This nation was founded on three main principles, which were liberty, freedom, and equality. Though our country has struggled on many occasions to maintain each of these principles, the hardest one to maintain seems to be that of equality. Every human being has a desire to be seen as equal, its basic human nature. We seek equality in every

granted the city access to the fund that housed the $16,800 it would cost to build the statue. The man who was commissioned to sculpt the statue was Henry Hering of New York. Henry had done some statuary work previously in the memorial shrine in the park. His work upon the memorial is entitled Pro Patria, and when it was erected in 1929 it was the largest bronze cast in the United States. Hering had studied and worked with Augustus Saint-Gaudens another prominent sculptor at the time. The statue was

Rhetorical Analysis Compare and Contrast of Seminal U.S Documents     431 BCE was the year that the end of the Peloponnesian war. A great amount of lives of Athenians were lost, and the city of Athens held a public funeral to keep up with the traditions. At these funerals, a citizen was chosen to give a speech at this event. And happen so, Pericles was chosen to give at this funeral oration, not knowing that it would become one of the most famous speech of all time. Future world leaders would

1.  Describe the character BOOTH in your own words as though we were writing them on the board.   Booth is a black man in his 30's that is looking to settle down with Grace. Booth is the younger brother of Lincoln that struggles to make any income. He is a good looking man, or at least he portrays himself to be, that is somewhat dirty and unkempt due to the fact that he does not have the money to afford running water. Usually he wears average streets clothes, maybe some rugged jeans and a worn shirt

Scott in 1953, with whom he had four children. Over the next several years he got more and more involved in his peaceful approach to the civil rights movement, and gave his most famous speech, titled “I Have A Dream…”, in 1963 in front of the Lincoln Memorial. The speech starts with King bringing up some history that involved African-Americans. The first thing he brings up is the Emancipation Proclamation, which is the document that Abraham Lincoln signed that freed all slaves in the United States. He

speech is one of the greatest speech in history of our nation where black people fought for their own freedom and independence. This speech is delivered by martin Luther King on the day of 28 august 1963, and the speech took place around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. The thousands of people attended this historical speech. This speech became the light of hope for Negros slaves by gaining the liberty, freedom and pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, Martin Luther King is a great speaker and his

The View Of Washington It all started on a day you wished you had, big giant buses arriving at school waiting for children.After the buses arrived huge crowd of students huddle in their groups waiting to leave on the bus.When we all were ready to go all the teachers made sure that all the student were there and the parents. Then the bus started to move and rumble like a truck starting its engine.As we passed many states like Maryland and many more states.It took 3 hours to get there and look

the driveway, he sparked an idea. Since he knew there was an memorial, seeing it and hearing about it, he wondered if their crosses were up. Or anything to remember them. Probably not, knowing how the world saw these two teenage killers. He didn’t think they would put up anything for them since they killed thirteen innocent people. Society doesn’t take those things lightly. With some curiosity still in him, he wanted to see the memorial himself. He could only picture what it looked like. With one

This is a primary source that is presented through a speech. It was co-written and delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr., an American Baptist minister, spokesperson and social activist who led U.S. Civil Rights Movement from the mid-1950s until 1968 where he was assassinated. He was also the leader the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), a group committed to achieving equality for African-Americans through peaceful protests. Although he had protested and delivered several speeches, he

civil-rights movement across the country at the time, it also became one of the most influential and inspirational pieces of rhetoric in American history. Location / Date? August 28, 1963, before more than 200,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in