Hello everybody, i am going to talk about the statue of liberty. My talk will be in two parts. In the first part, i will talk about the history of the statue, and then in the second part i will describe the statue. The presentation will last six minutes and after my talk there will be time for a discussion and any questions.
Now, let’s move to the first part of my talk which is about the history
Part One:
In 1865 during a dinner, Bartholdi, a French architect had the idea that France had to offer to united states a gift to commemorate the centennial of united states independence and a gift which would be a symbol of friendship from France to America.
So, in 1875 the statue was created and was offered to United States un 1886.
Concerning the localization: the statue of liberty is one of the most famous monuments of New York. It is stands at Liberty Island in the south of Manhattan and close to Ellis Island;
That’s all for the first part, so now i want to describe the statue.
Part 2:
The statue of liberty is one hundred fifty one tall, it represents a woman with a crown, the seven pointes of this crown represent the seven continents and the seven sears the woman holds in her left hand a tablet close to her body and a flaming torch high in her right hand.
The tablet mentions law
Worldwide; the statue embodies peace, brotherhood and liberty.
She became the symbol of immigration.
She has been associated with the Emma Lazarus’s poem “the new colossus” and has been a symbol of welcome so arriving immigrants who could see the statue when they got close to United States by boat.
Today the immigrant arrive by plane at the J.F Kennedy airport where the same poem has been united.
Part 3
The statue of Liberty, besides being a very important monument of the city of New York, became one of the symbols of the United States and represent in a more general way the freedom and the emancipation towards the oppression. Of its inauguration in 1886 until the Jet