1. Unit 4 Five Symbols of American Culture -----The Statue of Liberty
白城师范学院大学外语教学部 郭勇

2. What can be seen as the symbols of Chinese culture?
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What can be seen as the symbols of Chinese culture?
What do you know about it?

3. Chinese Culture Dragon Tea Forbidden City Giant Panda
Free Talk
Dragon
Tea
Forbidden City
Giant Panda
Traditional Chinese
Medicine
The Terra Cotta
Warriors
Great Wall
Silk Road
china
Oracle
Beijing Opera
Chinese Martial Arts

4. What can be seen as the symbols of American culture?
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What can be seen as the symbols of American culture?

5. Five Symbols
The Statue of Liberty
Barbie

6. Five Symbols
The Buffalo Nickel
American Gothic
Uncle Sam

7. The Statue of Liberty

8. Details Another name : Liberty Enlightening the World
Height: 46 meters
Weight:225tons (496,000P)
History: 128 years
Location: Liberty Island
Pedestal: 47 meters

9. Symbolic Meaning Torch: light Statute Book :justice and independence
Crown: seven continents and four oceans
A broken chain: freedom

10. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty

11. The Statue of Liberty
In the mid-1870s, French artist Frederic Auguste Bartholdi was working on an enormous project called Liberty Enlightening the World, a monument celebrating US Independence and France-America alliance. At the same time, he was in love with a woman whom he had met in Canada. His mother could not approve of her son ’s affection for a woman she had never met, but Bartholdi went ahead and married his love in 1876.

12. That same year Bartholdi had assembled the statue’s right arm and torch, and displayed them in Philadelphia. It is said that he had used his wife’s arm as the model, but felt her face was too beautiful for the state. He needed someone whose face represented suffering yet strength, someone more severe than beautiful. He chose his mother.

13. The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on an island in Upper New York Bay in It had his mother’s face and his wife’s body, but Bartholdi called it “my daughter, Liberty”.

14. Homework Barbie can be seen as the symbols of American culture.
What do you know about its unknown stories?

15. Thanks for your attention!