In 2011, President Barack Obama awarded the pianist Van Cliburn with the National Medal of the Arts. Read this excerpt from President Obama’s speech at that event: And I speak personally here because there are people here whose books or poetry or works of history shaped me. . . The fact is that works of art, literature, works of history, they speak to our condition and they affirm our desire for something more and something better.

Conduct online research and identify a song or piece of music, work of visual art, movie, or piece of literature that inspires you or helps you understand life a little better. Write a paragraph explaining the aspects of the piece of art you chose that appeal to you most.

they both built pyramids.

the conservative movement opposed the women´s suffrage like josephine jewell dodge comanding the national association opposed to woman suffrage.

the first 10 amendments to the u.s. constitution are known as the bill of rights. those 10 amendments establish the most basic freedoms for americans including the rights to worship how they want, speak how they want, and assembly and peaceably protest their government how they want. the amendments have also been subject to much interpretation since their adoption, particularly the right to carry a gun under the second amendment.

"a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference," said thomas jefferson, the author of the declaration of independence and the third president of the united states.

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