Unidad III

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Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World, French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886. The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American of declarations Independence. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue has become an icon of freedom and of the United States.

 

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. Due to the troubled political situation in France, work on the statue did not commence until the early 1870s. In 1875, Laboulaye proposed that the French finance the statue and the Americans provide the pedestal and the site. Bartholdi completed both the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions. The arm was displayed in New York's Madison Square Park from 1876 to 1882. Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened due to lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the world initiated a drive for donations to complete the project, and the campaign inspired over 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar. The statue was constructed in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.

Preguntas 

1. De acuerdo al título y la imagen, ¿cuál cree usted que es el tópico que está a punto de leer?

        Un tópico referido a la Estatua de la Libertad.

       2.¿Cuál es la idea general del texto?

Explicar que es la estatua de la libertad, cuando fue hecha, donde se encuentra ubicada, etc.

      3. ¿Que palabras se repiten? 

The Statue, World, dedication, exposition, Island, french.

     4. ¿Que palabras se parecen al español? 

 Statue, Monument, president, dedication, france

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     5. ¿De qué trata el texto? Lee el primer párrafo y el último o la ultimas ideas del último párrafo?

La estatua de la libertad es una escultura neoclasica que se encuentra en la Isla Libertad de la ciudad de Nueva York, la estatua fue un regalo de Francia a los Estados Unidos de América.

Fuente: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Liberty