Statue of Liberty

Lazarus was a Jew living in New York during the late 19th century. Her ancestors had been expelled from Spain in 1492 under the Spanish monarchs, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon. Once in the United States her family became more secular but still practiced the main Jewish holidays. In her poem In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport, Lazarus reflects on what life in the new world means to her, her family, and other Jews that have also become more secular over the…

The second industrial revolution was a period during 1865-1905 in which the United States had a surge of industrial growth. This was due in part by the emergence of factory as foremost realm of industrial production. Numerous families during this period had to relocate and uproot their families from rural to urban areas in order to save money and shorten the commute. Subsequently, this led to a large influx of the population relocating in cities. A large migration of immigrants to America was…

American History Essay America did not live lived up to Emma Lazarus poem, “The New Colossus” which was engraved on the Statue of Liberty. America was the complete opposite of the poems purpose. In this essay, evidence and examples from nine different articles, websites, and films will show why America as a whole did not live up to the poems expectations of a free land for all. First, in the Film “War On the Weak” (Dunaway, 2007), the film describes a time period in which Americans came up…

free…” (Par. 1). Engraved within the Statue of Liberty, the icon of freedom, this sonnet defines the United States of America. Even before its independence from Britain, the United States was widely known as land of opportunity for those seeking a better life for themselves and their families. Emigrating by the thousands, many immigrants, both in the past and in the present, have made their way into this country to obtain the American concept of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” It…

Many of the major political issues of our time revolve around the U.S.-Mexican border. Although the scholarly opinions tend to favor an open border and policies that benefit immigrants, perspectives often differ based Reporter David Von Drehle and an immigrant named Richard Rodriguez both penned selections of the same name: “The Great Wall of America”. These articles are similar in that they both explore the effects of border control and immigration policy on the mythical concept of the American…

The Statue of liberty is built on Liberty Island, in New York City was completed on October 28th1886. The Statue of liberty used to be called the Liberty Enlightening the world. The meaning behind this statue is freedom. This meaning is, because Immigrates traveled to the statue of liberty to become free and have a better life. The sculptor was Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, along with the architects Gustave Eiffel, Maurice Koechlin and Richard Morris Hunt and Eugene Viollet-Le-Duc. It took eleven…

country which should be a paradigm for democracy and compassion. Take for example the words of Emma Lazarus which exemplify this ideology in her poem “The New Colossus” which are inscribed on perhaps our nation’s most recognizable symbol: The Statue of Liberty. “Give me your tired, your poor, /Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, /The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, /Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me: /I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” If we wish to stand by…

democracy. To cement their friendship, France proposed to give America a statue to honor their newfound freedom and values. The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognized national landmarks in the world, and to the American people, its central message of equality and freedom are represented in the statue’s very makeup from its physical features to its garments through their rich origins, construction, and symbolism. The Statue of Liberty‘s origins stem from the effort to seal and…

The promise of America was the promise of freedom and unity, of liberty and peace. People all around the world, from different areas, cultures, everyone came to America seeking the American dream.coming from the farthest places in the world on boat, arriving in this new land where natural rights are protected, leaving their homes to become part of a community bound together by a common future rather than by reverence for a common past. Arriving in boatloads, immigrants flowed off of the boat…

Have you ever wondered how the colossal New York skyscrapers and bridges are built? Every tourist who has visited New York is astounded by the beauty of the city, however, I see NY with a different vision. Even though I spent my infancy in the relatively small and ancient city of Cusco, with just a few impressive and interesting constructions, due to my father’s profession in civil engineering, I was always connected to the construction world. Since I was a child, I have asked myself many…