Memorial Tournament

The writer develops an effective argument that examines the three key factors (location, size, and material) a group or agency should consider in memorializing an event or person and in creating a monument in order to “effectively pay homage to deep sacrifice or honor moments of great achievement.” The sources selected illustrate a critical understanding of each source’s position, allowing the student to convincingly engage the sources to facilitate the student’s own argument.For example, in the

If pictures are worth one million words then a 3-d picture which is a monument is worth one million stories. The purpose of monuments is to tell a story about an events therefore crital thinking adn efforts are placed into making monuments. Depending on where the monuemnt is located and how it is built including its pose and the material it is made up of, it helps the audience live in that moment with the monuments,making the monument and the sudience one. The position of a monument is very important

The Lincoln Memorial is a never going to forget things. The monument has a interesting history. It is visited by millions. If you go to D.C. you will not go a day without hearing about it. If you are ever in D.C, visit the Memorial. It will be one of the coolest thing you will see. If you go to Washington D.C you people won't miss the Lincoln memorial. The statues is 19 feet . It is made from white marble. They started building it on February 12, 1915 which was Lincoln’s birthday. It was finished

The monument that stand in my hometown is the soldiers and sailor monuments as tribute to the men in the Civil War from Athens, Ohio. The monument was built in 1963 for the 2,610 men who served for the Union from Athens County. The men went into battle for the defense of the Union. A lot of these men served in the 18th Ohio infantry. The veterans of the Civil War along with resident General Grosvenor set out to find funding for the monument. There were a lot of troubles in the beginning. The monument

see art as in a form of a memorial that helps society "in their rememory" in the words of Toni Morrison. When you think about memorials, one might ask themselves what are they for and what is the symbolic reason behind it? An artist named Marjorie Woodruff expresses the same questions that are being raised. Marjorie Woodruff dedicated an public art installation Spiral: The Lucy E. Parsons Memorial. One does not agree with the time frame of the memorial because a memorial is there to preserve the existence

In this essay, we look into the decorative motifs and the gravestone type of the random gravestone sample I've collected previously for the Evergreen Data project. By looking into the two categories using battleship curves and the frequency seriation method, we are able to get a better sense of the model of culture change that the seriation displays. This could in turn, allow us to see various factors cultural and economic wise, that impacted towards the change in gravestone style over time. The

Some of the function and value of public apologies for historical wrongs may include things such mending a relationship in order to move forward, to look good for voters/public, to make yourself feel better for committing an unethical act, for your own advantage such as saying sorry, in order to, use their resources, and to feel/look morally superior. The value of a public apology for historical wrongdoings is very low for multiple reasons. (1) The person is saying sorry in hindsight. If the person

The image depicts a monument commemorating the French residents of Fauquembergues who perished in WWI. At the base of the monument is inscribed the years of the conflict 1914-1918 which suggests that it was built in the post war period. The monument appears to have been built in a city square as modern buildings have been built up around it. An angelic female figure stands upon the base of the monument possibly representing the Republic of France holding steadfast in the face of German invasion.

Visiting a monument provokes an emotion in people of feeling connected to their country and of patriotism that helps us see our country in a positive way. Moreover, they are ways for different places to show everyone what they have gone through or what they are proud of. Deciding to build a monument to honor or bring awareness to an important event comes with many factors a groups or agency should consider before the monument is built. The factors that need to be looked over and thought out properly

The Removal of the Confederate Statues On August 12, 2017, a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, VA turned into a violent and brought renewed attention to dozens of Confederate monuments from around the country. The removal of the confederate statues has its pros and cons as to why they should take them down. My opinion to this debate is that they shouldn’t take the statues down. There are three reasons why I would not want them removed. The first is that what we should see in the statues