Проект на тему: Places of interest in New-York, выполнил Дукачев Андрей, учащийся 9-б класса (индивидуальное обучение)

АДМИНИСТРАЦИЯ СУЗЕМСКОГО РАЙОНА БРЯНСКОЙ ОБЛАСТИ

МУНИЦИПАЛЬНОЕ БЮДЖЕТНОЕ ОБЩЕОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНОЕ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЕ

«СУЗЕМСКАЯ СРЕДНЯЯ ОБЩЕОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНАЯ ШКОЛА №2»

Проект

на тему: Places of interest in New-York

Работу выполнил: Дукачев Андрей,

учащийся 9-б класса (индивидуальное обучение)

Руководитель: Стонт Я.С., учитель английского языка

2015

п. Суземка

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Empire State Building

2. The Rockefeller Center

3. The Statue of Liberty

4. The Guggenheim Museum

5. Broadway Theatre

Bibliography

Introduction

New York has a global impact on world commerce, technology, education, art, media and other spheres. It is the largest and most populous city in the United States. The territory of the city is divided into five boroughs: Brooklyn, Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. The first name of the city was New Amsterdam, because it was inhabited by Dutch colonists. The city gets over 50 million annual visitors. Its sights attract people of different professions, hobbies and interests. The Statue of Liberty, Broadway Theatre, Times Square, Rockefeller Center, Empire State Building, American Museum of National History, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Central Park are among the most popular New York City attractions.

1. The Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is in Manhattan on 5th A venue between 33rd Street and 34th Street. It is a business building where over 25,000 people work every day . The Empire State Building is 102 stories tall. For many years, it was the tallest building in the world. From the top observation deck you can see for almost 320 kilometers.

The Empire State Building was built between 1930 and 1931 during the Great Depression. At that time, it was difficult to find a job. People were very poor and many did not have enough to eat. The construction of the Empire State Building provided many jobs. For many New Yorkers, the new skyscraper became a symbol of hope that some day America would be strong again.

2. The Rockefeller Center

Rockefeller Center was named after John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928 and developed it beginning in 1930. Rockefeller initially planned a syndicate to build an opera house for the Metropolitan Opera on the site, but changed plans after the stock market crash of 1929 and the Metropolitan's continual delays to hold out for a more favorable lease, causing Rockefeller to move forward without them. Rockefeller stated, "It was clear that there were only two courses open to me. One was to abandon the entire development. The other to go forward with it in the definite knowledge that I myself would have to build it and finance it alone. He took on the enormous project as the sole financier, on a 27-year lease (with the option for three 21-year renewals for a total of 87 years) for the site from Columbia; negotiating a line of credit with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and covering ongoing expenses through the sale of oil company stock. The initial cost of acquiring the space, razing some of the existing buildings and constructing new buildings was estimated at $250 millions.

3. The 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 in New York City, in the United States. The copper statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, a French sculptor, was built by Gustave Eiffel and dedicated on October 28, 1886. It was a gift to the United States from the people of France.

The statue is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess, who bears a torch and a tabula ansata (a tablet evoking the law) upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. A broken chain lies at her feet. The statue is an icon of freedom and of the United States, and was a welcoming sight to immigrants arriving from abroad.

Bartholdi was inspired by French law professor and politician Édouard René de Laboulaye, who is said to have commented in 1865 that any monument raised to American independence would properly be a joint project of the French and American peoples. He may have been minded to honor the Union victory in the American Civil War and the end of slavery. 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 site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.

4. The Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. The museum was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, the artist Hilla von Rebay. It adopted its current name after the death of its founder, Solomon R. Guggenheim, in 1952.

In 1959, the museum moved from rented space to its current building, a landmark work of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the cylindrical building, wider at the top than the bottom, was conceived as a "temple of the spirit". Its unique ramp gallery extends up from ground level in a long, continuous spiral along the outer edges of the building to end just under the ceiling skylight. The building underwent extensive expansion and renovations in 1992 (when an adjoining tower was built) and from 2005 to 2008.

The museum's collection has grown organically, over eight decades, and is founded upon several important private collections, beginning with Solomon R. Guggenheim's original collection. The collection is shared with the museum's sister museums in Bilbao, Spain, and elsewhere. In 2013, nearly 1.2 million people visited the museum, and it hosted the most popular exhibition in New York City.

5. Broadway Theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly known as Broadway, refers to the theatrical performances presented in the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Broadway Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in Manhattan, New York City. Along with London's West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.

The Broadway Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold a record US$1.36 billion worth of tickets in 2014, an increase of 14% over the previous year. Attendance in 2014 stood at 13.13 million, a 13% increase over 2013

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