Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Post 4 - Macedo dos Santos

On Sunday, weather gave me the opportunity to visit a important landmark of the United States: The Statue of Liberty. It was an emotional experience or me. I dreamed with that moment since I was a child. I think all English Teacher wish to know the Statue. I learned some informations like: The statue was designed by a young French sculptor, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, who was striving to build a statue like the great Colossus that once stood at the Greek island Rhodes.
The statue's face was modeled after his mother's and the story goes that the body was modeled after a prostitute.The crown of Lady Liberty, as the statue is often affectionately called, has seven spikes, symbolizing the Seven Seas across which liberty should be spread. In her left hand she holds a tablet with the Declaration of Independence and in her right hand a torch, symbolizing Enlightenment.

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