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.

The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost expresses the idea that we all have the inner courage it takes to keep growing and experiencing new things. If we all just took the same “road,” we would all have the same experiences, and that would not be very interesting.

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consider an orange peel: if you want to try and lay it flat, you have to stretch it, we know exactly how things are being stretched or squashed at any given point. we have many different map projections because each has different patterns of some projections can even preserve certain features of the earth without

treating native americans justly and giving them equal rights as citizens of the united states" was not a way in which americans sought to solve the indian problem. removal was the most popular idea.