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The Statue of Liberty and The dream for freedom Introduction “We are pioneers and trailblazers. We fight for freedom. We transfer our dreams to truth. Our struggles will become a nation.” Every time I watch the documentary named America, the story of us, these sentences like clock striking in my mind, makes me burst into tears, moved and inspired. Yes, it is America, the nation people all over the world look forward to. It is the America, not a historical one but the pioneers of the new world, always full of energy and creation. Looking back to the development of this nation, we can easily feel hard and really inspired. Literature Review When it comes to America, the picture of the Statue of Liberty might hit your mind. This famous icon has come to symbolize this great nation’s highest spirits, hard-working、never stop struggling for freedom and something we might ignore without knowing the history of the Statue. In Enlightening the World the reader follows two different but related tracks of analysis. Both eventually arrive at the same destination, the Statue of Libertys unveiling in October 1886 on Bedloes Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor, but each approach emphasizes different aspects of the statues creation story along the way. The structure of the study stems from the authors efforts to reconcile a social history with an intellectual history. On the one hand there is the handful of individuals, mostly men, who played central roles in the conception, design, and construction of the monumental statue. (A notable exception on the male-dominated roster is Emma Lazarus, whose famous sonnet `The New Colossus is discussed in Chapter Twelve.) On the other hand there are the political ideas that the liberty statue supposedly expresses, ideas that are taken without reservation by Khan to be emblematic of American political modernity and national identity: constitutional government, participatory politics, individual liberty and ‘enlightenment’. These two h