英语课堂展示美国五个文化象征
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Buffalo nickel is not too observant of conventional standards, but was printed in the United States as a memorial to the westward expansion on the frontier and the near extinction of the American Buffalo due to hunting. Buffalo nickel is one of the coins that coin collectors want the most and is very rare.
Times Square, nicknamed "The Crossroads of the World" and "The Great White Way," has achieved the status of an iconic world landmark and is a symbol of New York City and the United States.
And now, after more than a century, the Statue of Liberty in a free American nation has become a symbol of friendship between the people of U.S. and France, always reminding the American people of democracy & longing for the noble ideals of freedom.
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Buffalo Nickel, produced from 1913 to 1938, honored a pair of connected tragedies from the settlement of the American frontier. White people had used it as models for most American coins. In 1915, a buffalo would be sold for $100 and killed for meat, a hide, and a wall decoration made from its horns.
Uncle Sam is a common national personification of the American government that, according to legend, came into use during the War of 1812 and was supposedly named for Samuel Wilson.
As early as 1835 Brother Jonathan made a reference to Uncle Sam implying that they symbolized different things: Brother Jonathan was the country itself while Uncle Sam was the government and its power.
At the start of the first World War, Times square was the center of the Theater district and attracted a large number of visitors.
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The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, dedicated on October 28, 1886 and designed by Bartholdi.
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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 upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4,1776. A broken chain lies at her feet.
Sam Wilson was a meat packer in New York, who supplied rations for the soldiers. They had to stamp their contractors name and where the rations were coming from, onto the food they were sending. So, on the package it was labeled “E.A – US.” When someone asked what that stood for, a coworker joked and said “Elbert Anderson (the contractor) and Uncle Sam”, referring to Sam Wilson, though it actually stood for United States
He recruited his sister as the model for the woman, dressing her as a woman in 19th-century America. The man is modeled on Wood's dentist. The three-pronged hay fork is echoed in the stitching of the man's overalls, the Gothic window of the house and the structure of the man's face. Each element was painted separately; the models sat separately and never stood in front of the house.
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Hollywood is a district in Los Angeles, California, United States situated west-northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Due to its fame and cultural identity as the historical center of movie studios and movie stars, the word Hollywood is often used as a metonym of American cinema.
The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States: a welcoming signal to immigrants arriving from abroad.
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