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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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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Liberty vs Security had been a major issue throughout history. In recent years there has been an increase of insecurity regarding the safety of the country. Government has stated several new laws of enforcement to attack terrorism and preserve security to the country. The United States is a nation based on their fundamental sense of freedom‚ also known for many as the land of the free. However‚ questions are meant to be drawn to ask between being secure or maintain our liberty as US citizen? Can
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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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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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action must take place for the United States to continue on its present path of stability and prosperity. The quandary is that the U.S. has‚ from its birth‚ been known as one large melting pot. In fact‚ there is a poem written upon the Statue of Liberty indicating that this country stands for freedom and the admission of those seeking refuge. The answers to these very prominent issues do not lie in creating a large wall or creating more restrictions‚ but they lie in strictly adhering to the laws
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The concept of liberty seems to have been consistently analysed and re-structured throughout history by ambitious philosophers keen on creating a ‘better world’. John Stuart Mill‚ a British philosopher of the XIX century‚ is not an exception from this trend. With his thought-provoking work “On Liberty”‚ he sets a basis for what he believes will lead to the development of the human being and contribute to its progress. This gives way to his Principle of Liberty‚ which illustrates that only a free
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Visual Analysis: Statue Of Liberty Junaid Dharani Thesis: The Statue of Liberty is an American apple pie‚ but the iconic New York monument was actually ringed to the united states as a present from France in glory in the carnival of American independence. Audience: For general public‚ students in classroom. Purpose: Purpose is to make reader get more knowledge about the monument and its facts and figures. Even trying to share few of
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