Monument Dbq

People create monuments for others to see the great achievements of people in the past or to create monuments to represent a incident that was sorrowful (such as nine eleven) or to represent a event that was wonderful. Sometimes people may not care about monuments that represent the past and only be interested in the monument if they get a connection from it. People should consider a couple of factors before building a monument. The first factor: that needs consideration before building a monument is, an important event in history that people can look back to and admire. The second factor: to consider before building a monument or memorial, is that it must be placed in a place that fits the monument or memorial. The third factor: the importance …show more content…
People build monuments of the figures from the past, so more people can see those figures and appreciate the work or change caused by great people. For example, source B, displays an image with a monument of Christopher Columbus. People can go to this monument and appreciate Christopher Columbus ( after all he did discover america and his great travels to china). People will respect him, but if he wasn’t popular or didn’t do something great in life, then he would not be remembered and would not be cared by people. For example, source F demonstrates that the when a bronze statue was placed in a fair and nobody paid any attention to the statue. This source tries to shows that when people consider building a monument they must select someone from the past in which the people would be interested in looking at and remembering. If monuments are built of unpopular figures, then the people will not go out of their way to visit those monuments or …show more content…
We build a memorial for people to go and pay their respects to the innocent people who lost their lives. People also build memorials so they can honor those people--the korean war veterans memorial which honors all the people that gave their lives trying to stop communism. These types of sad memorials should always be considered building, because they remind people everywhere the loss or the honor of the people. However, those memorials must be built in a area that fits the memorial because if the memorial isn’t built in a environment that connects with that memorial, then the vibe gets ruined when trying to pay respects to the environment. For example, in source E, demonstrates a Holocaust museum being built in the mall at Washington, D.C. which is an ideal place to put a Holocaust museum because this museum will fit in with all the other monuments and memorial in washington. Not only that, but source G, displays a memorial in its own area, with the names of people that are lost to give a special meaning to the memorial. This source suggests that when memorials are built they must be placed in its own area--like the Holocaust museum--to give a memory of those people. The monuments must be placed within a place that fits its mood, so when people go to the site it fits the