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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A statue that came as a result of a joint effort between the French and the Americans‚ and is a symbol today for enlightenment and freedom is what we now call today the Statue of Liberty. Artist Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and Alexandre Gustave Eiffel were the people responsible for the statue. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was the one to design the statue around 1876 to commemorate the American Declaration of Independence. Another name for the statue is the Mother of exiles who welcomed a plethora
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Aphrodite Greek goddess Aphrodite once made a suggestion to everyone to "Follow your heart" (Riordan). That is one thing that Aphrodite always did as the goddess of love and beauty. She lived a famous and an extraordinary life as told through her background‚ strengths and weaknesses‚ answering prayers‚ and left her legacy through the temples and celebrations in her honor. Aphrodite was the daughter of Uranus. She was born from the Paphos sea in the island of Cyprus. Paphos was named after Aphrodite’s
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THE PARTHENON AND THE ELGIN MARBLES BY EPAMINONDAS VRANOPOULOS Athens 1985 PREFACE The response to the Greek government’s demand for the return to Greece of the sculptures of the Parthenon‚ now in the British Museum‚ has been so encouraging that it has given rise to hopes that the Elgin Marbles‚ as they have come to be known‚ may indeed one day be restored to their rightful home. The favourable response has come from UNESCO and from public opinion world-wide‚ including Britain.
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dawn of age. Whether it be how hunt for food‚ make weapons‚ or even construct the things around us‚ we are living in a very advanced society. While all these things may be true‚ we still borrow numerous ideas from these so called archaic societies. Statues used for decoration now were used for worship then yet still hold very similar structures. Long ago relief was one of not many techniques to create art and yet is still used commonly today. Even the architecture in our homes and public buildings is
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Aphrodite is an extremely important and influential Goddess on Mount Olympus. During this project‚ I have gained an understand of how Aphrodite was portrayed in society‚ culture‚ and the ethos of the Greeks. I found it interesting to find that even know she is the Goddess of beauty‚ love and sexuality she is only really mentioned in most modern day stories as being sexual deviant. This was funny to me because she reminded me about how many girls can relate to her in high school. I learned from Aphrodite
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some type of 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
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During the 1980s‚ when housing choices began to dwindle‚ homelessness became a major issue. The Merriam Webster dictionary defines homelessness as someone without a permanent home‚ typically living on the streets. For this visual analysis essay‚ the image selected is a meme of a homeless man. The text on the meme says that “Homeless people are lucky that they never have to clean their house.” Many questions come to surface after reading the text‚ which include‚ “Who would say such a thing?” “Why
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The piece I have chosen is entitled the Steleophorus Statue. It is from Dynasty 18‚ Reigns of Tuthmosis III and IV from around 1479 to 1390 BCE. The statue depicts a male figure that is kneeling. He is also holding part of a large stela rising to his chin while placed on his knees with hieroglyphic writing on it that has damaged and worn over time. The most prominent destruction is seen on the left side where a large chunk of the tablet has been broken off. In addition to the fragmented stela‚ much
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Statues and sculptures of early ages provide rich information for modern history about the past because they reflect cultures‚ traditions and lifestyle of those times and also carry writing symbols like cuneiform‚ hieroglyph etc. The comparison of such statues is very useful in the cultural context because it brings understanding of differences and similarities depending on location‚ period‚ and origin of suggested pieces of art. Too compare the Statues of Memi and Sabu and Seated Statue of Gudea
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