The New Colossus Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus” is about the huge welcome that the immigrants coming to America saw as their boat came in to Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty is being compared to the giant statue of Helios at Rhodes in Greece. Unlike the giant statue in Greece that was build to show the conquering of their country, in America the Statue is a symbol of freedom and a new life for thousands of people who came to America to start a new life. “The New Colossus” starts out stern and telling. The poem begins by telling us what the giant statue is not, then shifts and becomes caring and softer.
The diamond’s identity changed from a In 1877 the Legendary Tiffany Diamond was discovered in the Kimberley diamond mine in South Africa. Charles Tiffany collaborated with acclaimed gemologist George Frederick Kunz “in sourcing the finest gemstones in America and the world for Tiffany's clientele”( Charles Lewis Tiffany). Dr. Kunz’s memorial reports that “At the early age of twenty-three Dr. Kunz was made vice-president of Tiffany and Company”(knn). A year after the discovery, the 287.42-carat rough stone was purchased by Mr. Tiffany for $18,000. The rough stone was brought to Paris, where Dr. Kunz studied it for a year before cutting it.
COMA 103 26 February 2012 Specific Purpose: I am going to inform my classmates about the historical background and physical details of The Statue of Liberty. Thesis: The Statue of Liberty is a statue standing on Liberty Island in New York City given to the United States as a gift from France. Introduction a. Standing on Liberty Island is a woman with 7 spikes in her crown, holding a book and a torch at high. b.
********* ********** 17 November 2011 Encyclopedia Project Dundee, Oregon In 1874, a man named William Reid made the voyage from Dundee, Scotland to Portland, Oregon with high hopes of economic success. Back in Scotland, Reid was American vice consul for five years. While acting in this role he published a pamphlet, “Oregon and Washington as Fields for Capital and Labor.” In Portland, Reid became a resident agent at Scottish bank, later organizing the Oregon and Washington Mortgage Savings Bank, then the First National Bank in Salem. Due to his work in these fields, Oregon enacted a law that authorized foreign corporations to build railroads. In 1880, immediately after this law was put into place, Reid began construction on The Oregonian
loool In 1903 veteran socialist Tom Mann spoke to a crowd of a thousand people at the unveiling of the Eight Hour Day monument, funded by public subscription, on the south side of Parliament House on Spring St before relocating it in 1923 to the corner of Victoria and Russell Streets outside Melbourne Trades Hall It took further campaigning and struggles by trade unions to extend the reduction in hours to all workers in Australia. In 1916 the Victoria Eight Hours Act was passed granting the eight-hour day to all workers in the state. The eight-hour day was not achieved nationally until the 1920s. The Commonwealth Arbitration Court gave approval of the 40-hour five-day working week nationally beginning on 1 January 1948. The achievement
Thomas Nast was born September 27, 1840, Landau, Bandan, which is now Germany. He was the son of a musician in the 9th regiment Bavarian band. His mother took him to New York in 1846. He studied art there for about a year with Alfred Fredericks and Theodore Kaufmann and at the school of the National Academy of Design. After school (at the age of 15), he started working in 1855 as a draftsman for Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper; three years afterwards for Harper's Weekly.Nast drew for Harper's Weekly from 1859 to 1860 and from 1862 until 1886.
Stanton is a journalist, an antislavery orator. In 1840, I got married to him and had 7 children after that. I became interested in political activities at an early age. I was only 11 when I went with my father to a labor union meeting. I saw right away that political action could change the situation.
They were exposed on pewter plate. The exposure process took as long as eight hours. He formed a partnership with Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre in 1829 to continue the new art form, but died of a stroke in 1833 leaving Daguerre to perfect the technique himself. Deguerre was a painter who was trying to figure out how to make images with a camera obscura permanent. Niepce had been experimenting with iodized pewter and silver-coated metal plates.
Chapter I 1. Origin The origin of the Statue of Liberty project is sometimes traced to a comment made by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye in mid-1865. In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: "If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort—a common work of both our nations." The National Park Service, in a 2000 report, however, deemed this a legend traced to an 1885 fundraising pamphlet, and that the statue was most likely conceived in 1870.
Handler co-founded Mattel, a Southern California toy company with her husband Elliot Handler, and spearheaded the introduction of the doll. Barbie s physical appearance was modelled on the German Bild Lilli doll, a risqué gag gift for a man, based upon the cartoon character featured in the West German newspaper Bild Zeitung. Barbie made its debut in the American International Toy Fair in New York on 9 March, 1959. This date is also considered to be Barbie s official birthday. Barbie sells over 1 billion annually across 150 countries.