safe and peaceful. However‚ one year later‚ 2021‚ twenty years after the 9/11 attacks‚ 10‚000 homegrown terrorists orchestrate the largest attack on U.S. soil in history. Hundreds of thousands people are injured. The Gateway Arch is obliterated. The Statue of Liberty stands in ruins. When the dust has cleared‚ the death toll is 45‚000. The largest amount of Americans to die in one day on U.S. soil since the Civil War. Many other countries are in anarchy. America itself is close. But many efforts keep
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masses yearning to breathe free…” America’s call to the world for the people most in need of liberty‚ their wretched and their homeless. This quote comes from the 1883 sonnet‚ New Colossus‚ by Emma Lazarus and is engraved on a plaque affixed to the Statue of Liberty. While American Literature predates Lazarus by a few centuries‚ her sonnet along with Thomas Jefferson’s 1776 contribution in the Declaration of Independence help define what makes certain literature American. Expressing the beliefs of
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The statue in Ann Petry’s “Mother Africa” has multiple facets in regards to the group’s perceptions of the statue. I will be covering how the symbolic meanings the different groups divided by gender and age projected onto the bronze statue of the woman‚ seeing only the surface of the statues. The statue has singular purpose function for the men in Mother Africa‚ to be a sexual object for their admiration and lust. The statue is not seen to the majority of the men as the white woman that Mannie
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he two statues presented‚ Seated Statue of Gudea and Statue of Memi and Sabu‚ are similar in that they are made out of similar mediums‚ sculpted with a representational style‚ and both are static and without movement‚ despite coming from different cultures. They differ in their function‚ and how their details lend to their function. The Statue of Gudea and Statue of Memi and Sabu are both crafted out of stone. One is painted limestone and one is diorite. The medium is a sturdy one‚ lending to the
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The statue of Liberty first arrived in America in 1886 and took up permanent residency on Bedloe’s island in New York Harbor. The statue weighs in at 280 tons and is visible for more than 42 miles on a clear day. The statue of Liberty is without a doubt‚ among the most monumental figures in American history. The Statue of Liberty is made of an aluminum scaffolding‚ an iron framework and metal skin made from copper. Originally‚ she was to be made of bronze‚ but weight problems required a switch to
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Considering the two statues‚ Seated Statue of Gudea and Statue of Memi and Sabu‚ it can be seen that the cultural context in which the statues were created plays an important role in the finished work of art. This idea that the context can play a role in the work of art being considered is first introduced to us in the Art History: A preliminary Handbook (Belton‚ 1996.). Dr. Belton notes two types of context‚ Primary and Secondary. Primary context refers to the context of the artist’s life‚
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Statue of Memi and Sabu shows to persons‚ one man and one woman standing beside each other. The man is taller and in both people only part of their body is covered. Seated Statue of Gudea represents a person who is seated and his cloth covers all his body. The person is a man. In the first one‚ the sculpture is lighter and uses a brighter color. In the second one‚ the sculpture uses curvy lines and it sounds like they have used more advanced tools or techniques to make it since it is clear the second
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Marble Statue of a Wounded Warrior Marble Statue of a Wounded Warrior is a Roman statue‚ crafted in the second century A.D.‚ as a copy of a bronze Greek statue cast between 460 and 450 B.C. Though sculpted with obvious technical aptitude‚ Wounded Warrior is riddled with anatomical imprecision and is inhibited by a reluctance to depict the unsightliness of injury in combat. The first time I laid my eyes on this exquisite artifact‚ I was astonished by its fierce presence. The orientation
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Image pair 1: Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II (with smaller royal family figures)‚ 20m high‚ Exterior: Abu Simbel temple‚ Egypt‚ 1279-1213 BCE Gian Lorenzo Bernini‚ David‚ marble‚ 1.7m high‚ Galleria Borghese‚ Rome 1623-4‚ At the exterior to the Abu Simbel Temple‚ in the small village of Nubia in Southern Egypt‚ there lies the ‘Four statues of Pharaoh Ramesses II’. These 20 metre tall‚ statues were carved into the bare stone at around 1279- 1213 BCE‚ and were an exaggeration of Ramesses II’s
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History of the Statue of Liberty It’s one of the most famous landmarks in the entire world. Standing guard in New York Harbor since 1886‚ the iconic Statue of Liberty has been one of New York City’s and America’s most treasured symbols for well over a century now. But did you know the statue actually has a very tumultuous history and‚ almost unbelievably‚ was almost never built? Here’s a quick look at the hidden history of the famed Statue of Liberty. Origins The genesis of the Statue of Liberty goes
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