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October 20, 2016

I am researching the "Charging Bull" statue on Wall Street for my project. On the "Charging Bull" Wikipedia page, I would like to add a section about how the Bull is and always has been a symbol of economic prosperity and representative of capitalism in one of the financial capitals of the world--New York City. I would like to juxtapose this with the Occupy Wall Street Movement in New York City and elaborate on how the statue was closed off in the height of the Movement. This post will be beneficial as it focuses on the original political meaning of the Bull as related to a more modern-day issue, like Occupy Wall Street. I will also focus on the controversy of the Bull's meaning in relation to the Movement.

References

Dunlap, David W. 2008 "Downtown's Bull, No Longer Emblematic but Still Popular.(Metropolitan Desk)(Antoni Di Modica's 'Charging Bull' Sculpture in Bowling Green, Lower Manhattan)."The New York Times, September 17.

Inter-university Consortium for Political Social Research. 1999 ''Crash of '87 Was It Expected? The Evidence from Options Markets''. ICPSR (Series) ; 1187. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] (October 20, 2016)

Jackson, Kenneth T., and Keller, Lisa, eds 2010. The Encyclopedia of New York City (2). New Haven, US: Yale University Press. Accessed October 20, 2016. ProQuest ebrary.

Klein, Jennifer. 2013. "Class Power, Democracy, and the Market: Reflections on David Montgomery." Labor: Studies In Working Class History Of The Americas 10, no. 1: 73-80. America: History & Life, EBSCOhost (October 20, 2016).

Shaer, Matthew. 2003 "Bull's Best Friend" New York 45, no. 2 (January 16, 2012): 13-14. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost  (October 20, 2016).

Tufekci, Zeynep, Freelon, Deen, and Gleason, Benjamin. 2013. "#Occupy Wall Street." American Behavioral Scientist 57, no. 7 966-82.

Van Gelder, Sarah. 2011 This Changes Everything : Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement. Maxine Greene Collection. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Wall street's charging bull. (2012, Spring). Italian America, 17, 11. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1018538242?accountid=27495

October 27, 2016

The structure of the current Wikipedia page for the "Charging Bull" is as follows:

1-Description

2- History I would like to keep the structure of the article the same, except adding a section after "In Popular Culture" about the juxtaposition of the Charging Bull and the Occupy Wall Street movement. This will improve the information in the article and add an interesting perspective that isn't now present.
 * 2.1- Construction and installation  2.2 Ownership  2.3 Use as a tourist attraction  3. In popular culture  4. See also  5. References

November 3, 2016

Significance on the Occupy Wall Street Movement
In the height of the Occupy Wall Street Movement in Lower Manhattan, surrounding the Charging Bull, barricades were put up surrounding the statue to protect it from protesters. This physical action taken on the statue has larger social implications. As the raging bull represents financial prosperity and capitalism, the act of barricading it spoke to larger social implications as to protect these values against a movement that challenges those ideals. Once the Movement lost attention and the volume of protesters decreased, the threat of the Movement to the statue was reduced and it now stands without barricades but with constant police presence.

November 10, 2016

I linked three articles to my addition to the "Charging Bull" article (Occupy Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, and Capitalism). I could not find articles to link my article from. I continued polishing my work and I am getting ready to finalize it.November 16-17, 2016

Contribution is still on Wikipedia page. It is also above, titled "Significance on the Occupy Wall Street Movement"