THE STATUE OF LIBERTY The Statue of Liberty by award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is only one hour long‚ but is one of the most powerful films that I have ever watched. It’s a part of a series that Burns has done entitled “America.” Because our society today is struggling with how to respond to refugees and how to uphold the values that the Statue represents‚ the film really resonated with me. I chose the film to study the way that Burns uses archival imagery and narration‚ but the film is
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The Cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. W.E. Dubois‚ American Social Reformer and Political Activist (1868-1963) The day the war officially started on Iraq‚ thousands of people gathered at the Texas Capitol to protest the U.S. involvement in the war. That morning‚ as a government employee working at the Courthouse‚ I was notified via email of the impending protest. The email urged supervisors to let "non-essential personnel" leave early so that they could avoid the turmoil that
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of dissent for Trumps presidency. The march brought not just women but men together while conveying a healthy excersize of thousands’ freedom of speech. Now at this point‚ assuming the unspoken rule of coexistence among one another‚ I would believe civil disobedience would positively impact the society as the want for change along with peaceful
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Kerr Connections 10 7 October 2014 Liberty University (L.U.) Liberty University started out by a preacher‚ Dr.Jerry Falwell‚ challenging his congregation to establish a Christian college in Lynchburg‚ Virginia. That challenge became Lynchburg Baptist College. In 1975‚ Lynchburg Baptist College changed to Liberty Baptist College. In 1980‚ the college became fully accredited with the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Liberty is the seventh largest university
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Sons of Liberty The Sons of Liberty were groups of colonists that gathered together to protest taxes that were imposed on them by the British government. Secret groups of men got together to protest the taxation and fees that they felt were unfairly imposed on them. One of the events that precipitated this was the Stamp Act passed by the British parliament in 1765. This caused a firestorm of opposition from the colonists‚ including legislative resolutions in Virginia and public demonstrations
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sites which preservation and protection are considered important for the world community. Introduction The Statue of Liberty (officially named‚ Liberty Enlightening the World) is a monument that was gifted to the USA by France and is of a female person that represents Libertas‚ the Roman goddess of freedom. It was declared on the 28th of October 1886 and is situated on Liberty Island in New York Harbour. History Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholin was asked to design a statue to commemorate
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something. But who am I?" This is the thoughts of women in the 1960s‚ specifically Stephanie Coontz‚ a woman who just wants equal rights as her son. With the Civil Rights Movement going on‚ this sparked the imagination of hundreds of women across America that they should have equal rights. The actions of the feminist movement during the Civil Rights Movement created gender equality‚ helping improve the modern United States. The birth of every tree needs a person to plant that seed. The first seed
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As a citizen of the United States you are gifted with civil rights. These rights are what protect your social and political freedoms as well as keep equality up in the mist; although it will never be achieved. Many people organize protest and other means to get the attention of the public; to let them know we are being cheated out of our rights. Some examples of these are the voting rights‚ women’s rights‚ black rights‚ and immigration reform acts. The voting rights act is the act which legalized
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Civil Rights Act 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits the legal discrimination of any one person for any reason another person may come up with. The whole Civil Rights Act was based on one document entry that summarizes the entire Civil Rights Act of 1964 in one sentence: "To enforce the constitutional right to vote‚ to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations‚ to authorize the Attorney General
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between the two. The Statue of Liberty‚ also known as Lady Liberty‚ is a 151 foot statue of a woman holding a book and a torch. She symbolizes democracy and freedom from tyranny and oppression. Located in the Port of New York and New Jersey is the Statue of Liberty‚ built by Gustave Eiffel‚ to fabricate the symbol of freedom. Standing at the entrance of the harbor‚ Lady Liberty welcomes arriving immigrants before reaching the United States. Directly behind the Statue of Liberty is Ellis Island‚ established
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