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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Graffiti and street art have been around as early as ancient Rome but has had a nasty reputation related to vandalism‚ which is a leading factor to why most people have a blind eye to seeing its real meaning. Banksy‚ a well-known street artist whose art work is symbolic‚ insightful‚ and meaningful is always being called out for vandalism instead of being praised for his work. Graffiti is most abundant in urban areas‚ but most of the graffiti in New York City isn’t symbolic or meaningful‚ it’s mostly
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Battle for Place: Urban regeneration and planning in the Liberties/Coombe area “There is a district in Dublin that possesses many remarkable and peculiar features. It is still called the Liberties and derives its name from certain privileges and immunities enjoyed by the inhabitants having manor courts of their own‚ and seneschals to preside in them.” * Mr and Mrs Hall during their tour of Ireland “Urbanization is one of the most important geographic phenomena” (Knox & Marston‚ 2011)
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Mrs. Helmreich Liberty‚ Equality and Fraternity The French Revolution was a horrific time in history. The slaughtering of innocent men‚ women and children just because they were judged to be aristocrats was ghastly. The motto of the French Revolution was Liberty‚ Equality and Fraternity. The people did not follow the motto. The characters in The Scarlet Pimpernel are hypocritical of the motto that they cherish. Bibot‚ Beauregard and Chauvelin all used the motto Liberty‚ Equality and Fraternity
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Only Daughter In the essay entitled “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros‚ she wrote about her life growing up in a Mexican-American family of nine; to which she was the only daughter. Although her father did love her‚ he did not show it much at all. The effects on Cisneros’s life due to her father’s lack of attention while growing up were: Spending time alone‚ attending college‚ and becoming a professional writer. The first important effect due to Cisneros’s father’s lack of attention was
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Mitchell English 401-14 October 19‚ 2008 “Crash” This movie was very captivating and it made you think of the impacts people have on each other. In every scene of this movie‚ one person always leads to another character‚ whether it be a Chinese man being ran over by the inner city car thief‚ or the rich wife of Rick Cabot being “unhappy” all the time against other races than her own. This movie sets examples for others not to follow‚ basically concentrating on the different stereotypes and how
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The Code of the Streets IN THIS ESSAY IN URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY A SOCIAL SCIENTIST TAKES US INSIDE A WORLD MOST OF US ONLY GLIMPSE IN GRISLY HEADLINES—"TEEN KILLED IN DRIVE BY SHOOTING"—TO SHOW US HOW A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR RESPECT GOVERNS SOCIAL RELATIONS AMONG MANY AFRICAN-AMERICAN YOUNG MEN By Elijah Anderson Of all the problems besetting the poor inner-city black community‚ none is more pressing than that of interpersonal violence and aggression. It wreaks havoc daily with the lives of community
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Mills begins his essay on Liberty by voicing the “struggle between authority and liberty”. He explains how liberty changed overtime‚ from the protection of tyranny to the tyrants themselves becoming the servants to the people‚ rather than there masters. This progression was reached as man realised they wanted their leaders to serve instead of rule‚ and to reflect the interests of the majority of society instead of a select few. Mills divided this control of authority into two mechanisms- Rights
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Give me Liberty The theme of liberty is a common value‚ which has always inflamed human’s hearts in all historic events. But what do we mean by liberty? It is a complex concept‚ but in this essay we will sum up this idea as the ability to do no matter when or what without any abusif oppression of someone else. People are always ready to defend this abstract concept with words and‚ if necessary‚ guns. However‚ even if this idea of liberty is common to everyone‚ it does not mean that everybody have
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This essay is a synopsis of Carl Jung’s book "Psychology and Religion." In Psychology and Religion‚ Carl Jung takes a medical psychology standpoint to discover the links between the human unconscious mind and the ways in which religious symbolism and the idea of religion are deciphered. Jung wrote this material as a series of lectures that was given to Yale students in 1937‚ and the references to "modern" religion and its symbols relate to that time period. In this book‚ Jung reveals much of his
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