Statue

bottom of the Statue of Liberty, Emma Lazarus once said, “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.” The Statue of Liberty is a piece of art work that stands tall in New York city. It is a for Americans as well as an educational attraction. Therefore, New York City defines the meaning of freedom because of the Statue of Liberty.…

The Statue of Liberty. A once guiding beacon for many immigrants escaping conflict and brutal regimes. The chance to have a life of freedom and safety was waiting on the vast streets filled with skyscrapers and office workers. Safety was there, waiting patiently for the refugees who would get jobs and in turn help the economy. These times have long passed in the wake of the new era of xenophobia and fear that these poor refugees who are struggling to survive and support their families are here…

Isabella NazarioLA-2nd2/14/18 Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty stands in the New York Harbor and has greeted a lot of immigrants into Ellis Island. At the time, Lady Liberty was letting them know that their journey to find democracy, freedom, and a better way of life, was finally over. The Statue of Liberty stands on Ellis Island as a symbol of freedom. Liberty Enlightening the World" (the full name of the statue) was a gift from France to the United States in 1886. It…

Charles B. Rangel once said, "The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation." The statue of the liberty poem, "New Colossus" was created by Emma Lazarus in 1883. It reads how freedom in America is expressed by the Statue of Liberty; the mother of exiles will open her arms to those who have nowhere else to be truly free. The ways to balance the values of freedom expressed in the sonnet and immigration in…

Egyptian statue of Memi and Sabu, dating from 2575 to 2465 BC, a time known as the 4th Dynasty, ie the beginning of the Pyramid Age (Loan, 2015) is actually a pair of statues, pieces of art common in the ancient Egypt, made of limestone, one of the oldest and most popularly used minerals during the era, while the Gudea statue, on the other hand, is a statue that was made between 2150 and 2100 BC in Neo-Sumerian culture, carved in diorite, a very hard and dark material. In ancient Egypt, statues…

they are dated to over 4,000 years ago. In the Statue of Memi and Sabu, the medium is made up of limestone and paint, whereas in the Seated Statue of Gudea, the medium is consisted of Diorite. Their physical dimensions are quite similar, and they also belong to the same timeline of 8000 – 2000 BC, but the chronology of Memi and Sabu is Egyptian while the chronology of Gudea is Mesopotamian (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, n.d.). The medium that the statues were made of can be indicative of the…

would feel sacred. When a place fells sacred it helps to create authority where the monument stands. For a monument to never lose its meaning, it should have an effect on everyone that sees it, so much so, generations to come will still remember. A statue or monument can be portrayed in many different ways, so the best thing to do is to make something that no matter what, can be hard for the figure to be portrayed as negative. In order for a monument to be properly memorialized…

china). People will respect him, but if he wasn’t popular or didn’t do something great in life, then he would not be remembered and would not be cared by people. For example, source F demonstrates that the when a bronze statue was placed in a fair and nobody paid any attention to the statue. This source tries to shows that when people consider building a monument they must select someone from the past in which the people would be interested in looking at and remembering. If monuments are built…

Monuments are a way to capture an understanding of an iconic person or event in history and cast it in marble, granite, and bronze, so when erecting memorials, people should research the subject intensively, as well as, gauging the feelings of the citizens so that the ideas it represents will not be disputable or controversial. Furthermore, the location, the medium, and the design are essential elements of a monument, as all aspects represent embedded meanings. To start, before erecting a…

of the most popular monuments is the statue of Abrham Lincoln, he was awarded this honor because of his honesty and his fight towards the rights of all beings to be equal. A monument is a place of worship but in reality actually holds nothing special. It is to only there to remind and teach of some of the greatest actions that have previously happened. "The memorial itself contains no actual relic of Lincoln. It is a pure represantation a colossal marble statue.." (Savage Kirk). In all honesty…