Monuments Are The Grapling-Irons In Making The Memorial By Maya Lin

In the article “I Detest Our Confederate Monuments. But They Should Remain”, by Lawrence Kuznar, an anthropologist writes about the Confederate Monuments and why they should remain. Kuznar believes by removing the monuments, it makes no difference. Regardless of whether history is favorable or not, the monuments exist in places that are designed to celebrate their subjects. These statues and monuments have no place in town squares, city parks or any other public place beyond battlefields, private property or out of view from the public.

The main problem to take into consideration when thinking about building a monument is the damage it will cause to the area it is being built on. An example of this is the previously mentioned Crazy Horse statue. Just like Mount Rushmore, this mountain-side carved statue deeply disrupts the natural state of the region. In fact, Source C points this out by saying that “It’s easy to feel affection for Mount Rushmore’s strange grandeur, but only if you forget where it is and how it got there”. To me, it’s too close to graffiti.”

Monuments are important in keeping history in the present. The viewer experiences the emotions and actions in that specific part of time. Some monuments have awkward locations or the people chosen are unsuitable to represent the time. Any group or agency must consider who the person is and where the monument’s location should be before publically displaying it.

Monuments: The Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, and The Washington Monument. All are representations of our past and have historical meaning behind them. However, what about the other monuments scattered around? While monuments are wonderful and powerful when done right, location, size and resources needed must be considered for the monument to truly mean something. Firstly, monuments are meant to mean something, but can only do that when the location has been planned out and is significant to that area.

After careful consideration I have decided that Confederate monuments should not be aloud in public places. These monuments stand for things that our country doesn’t. I think even if we take down the monuments that we will never forget our history. I still think that we should keep some monuments ,but in museums and for learning because we need to teach children about our past so they

Accordingly, people raise monuments, create memorials, secure antiques, and fund museums to record and preserve the past events in a country. In accordance with the Merriam Webster dictionary, monuments are structures erected in commemoration of a distinguishable person or event. Nowhere in the definition it is stated that the matter in remembrance has to be praised or is considered a model for the society. As a matter of fact, they only portray people or events that should be remembered, no matter if they are regarded as admirable or detestable. Each and everyone of these objects should be maintained in public view to remind people of their past, especially those from the catastrophic Civil

Many people enjoy monuments, but they are unaware of the controversial issue involved. Most agencies or groups have the right intentions of constructing a monument, but do not realize the public opinion of the case. Monuments intend to recognize a person, place, or event. When you think about a monument, you would most likely think about the memorial informing people of something significant in history. It is not the intention to bring the entire history lesson about the subject, but doing so would shame it. Although monuments are intentionally made in commemoration, some do not express the whole truth and some are absolutely meaningless.

The first factor that should be considered when building a monument, is the reason for the monument to be built. As stated before, there are some monuments that were built for a good reasons, others for horrific events. Though there are too many good memorializations to mention, the amount of bad memorializations are fewer. An example of one of those monuments is the Savannah Memorial Park from Source D. Graveyards are good places to have, because you can have a nice place to go visit those who are no longer with you. However, it is a memorial that was built for a very sad reason. Many people have died in order to make this a memorial, and there will be many more to come.

Monuments set boundaries around who or what should be remembered as significant, noble, and “accurate”. Just as elementary school curriculum codes shared definitions of normalcy, power, and modernity, monuments too are an important part of a manufactured public memory around which certain unquestioned realities are shaped. Their immensity and sterilized isolation of a single event or person can create an immutable singularity of narrative, particularly around events that might destabilize hegemonic narratives. In this way, monuments in America have been used to actively misinform the public, discourage citizen participation in public memory, and sustain colonial legacies while erasing many other marginalized

Have you ever been driving and on a side of the road you see a plaque or a building with a plaque in front of it? Those are called memorials. Today I’m going to tell you a little about memorials and why they are important. Lets just say there are a lot of really cool memorials such as the Gateway Arch in St.Louis, Missouri, Steilneset Memorial to victims of the witch trials in Norway, or the Pentagon memorial in

Monument most people love them (not extremist) we find monument important to our U.S history because they came here to leave a mark a legacy. When other countries and people from other states come to travel and stop at monuments and historic landmark is bringing us together as we know it. Like the bringing in paris where you put a lock on there for (to lock your love) .so it does bring countries together and

People will argue these monuments are racist’s symbols, which produce hatred, and a direct negative effect on people, and that is why they should be taken down, but do they really? What about those people who feel pride and honor when seeing these statues? Do we ignore the history of our nation to appease a few loud and ignorant people? How do we decide who decides our history? Is it the ones who are the loudest? The ones who have the most money? Are we as American ok with curtailing and erasing our history? When we start to take apart our history and selectively hide or delete these images we are dangerously close to becoming a society based off of totalitarian ideals, of censoring speech and controlling knowledge. We are getting back to the

The purpose of monuments are to bring back memories to people that were affected the most. They can either bring people together or drive them away. Depending on their history. For example the area where 9/11 happened that would be an area that would bring strife to people. It would bring americans together but it might not bring “muslims’’ and americans together. They draw out a sense of sadness depending on what the monument mean to everyone else. If it’s a the monument on Capitol Hill it’ll bring out a sense of greatness. If it’s the monument in Japan it’ll bring out

Monuments are used to memorialize and honor moments, individuals and events of the past. Some monuments do this better than other monuments. In creating a monument there are three essential factors a group or agency should consider to make the monument as effective as possible: location, design features, purpose and backstory. Why these factors? Location and design factors play a massive role in the reception the monument will receive, based on its environment, size and looks a monument will be perceived differently. The purpose and backstory are the two single most important factors to consider in creating a monument. The monuments history, its reason, is the reason just? Is the purpose proper? Does it accurately memorialize the subject? All these questions come with the purpose and backstory of a monument.