Damien Memorial School

Many societies will come and go but “when all is lost to rust and rot, what remains may be two enormous granite oddities in the Great Plains,” (Source C) one of these monuments is a memorial for Crazy Horse; although it may seem to memorialize someone who is dead, Crazy Horse stands for the culture of the Native American people more than what he did as a person. Therefore he stands for the remaining culture that is left in the United…

One must think, what does it take to create a monument? People create monuments to honor past events that affected the way people live or how people act and ect. When i think of making a monument I think about impress the public. The monuments that are up around the United States are really inspiring to people because of what they mean and the history behind them. Monuments should be made to honor special events or people and should be taken well care of so that people can respect the monument…

Columbus, Iwo Jima, The Vietnam Memorial, and the drawn out list continues of the many remarkable people and events that over the years artists have created memorials of/for. People create statues, plaques, mausoleums, etc., all for someone who has done something so phenomenal for this nation, as well of astonishing and even devastating events that have forever left an imprint on America and the rest of the world. Designing and having the task of dedicating a beautiful memorial to something…

and non-Jewish communities, primarily due to the fact that a museum dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust would be built in the United States, who did little to stop the Holocaust from occurring.” (Source E) Such as with the proposed Holocaust Memorial Museum in the National Mall, some citizens may take offense from the monument. This can cause an uproar of complaints as well as a loss of business to the companies around it. Additionally, the funds spent to build the structure will be wasted.…

will be located. These memorials show memorable events of historic periods that occurred in the past. Factors like location and the investment would have a great affect when establishing a monument. Memorials are valuable and should be presented honorably. Investment in monuments would show how important the memorial would be because it would bring tremendous representation and input definition. Investing in monuments would be a huge profit to the future since memorials are created…

deep sacrifice has been made and the location, along with the price, is reasonable. A monument should be constructed when a deep sacrifice to the country has been made; “all the names of those missing and killed (57,000) must be part of the memorial;...” (Lin) This evidence shows that those 57,000 people that either went missing or were killed made an enormous sacrifice for the United States. Their sacrifice will never be forgotten due to their braveness for stepping up and answering the…

Throughout much of history commemorating people became primary evidence of important events and important figures portrayed during that time. From small statues to enormous temples, it shed light to the type of role or power the person held. Most of these commemorating items were built in order to show the power of the person and for a place of worship for future people/citizens, due to their religious views or rituals. The mummy portrait of a woman and the bust of a woman, were both very…

calls a jail sail. What 's going through your head at that time; will my parents believe me? Why did the police come after me? Who did they kill? How did they kill them? In May 5 ,1993 three teenagers were convicted of three murders are Damien Echols was 18 Jason Baldwin was 16 and Jessie Misskelley was 17: and one of them was ordered to serve a life time in prison . Echols who was sentenced to death. That involved three boys from West Memphis. They were an easy…

In the matter of Roper v. Simmons (2005), 17 year old Christopher Simmons and two accomplices had planned a murder in great detail and carried out the killing of victim Shirley Crook. In 1993, Simmons entered Crook’s home, robbed her, tied her up, and finally threw her off a bridge. The case had an overwhelming amount of evidence including a confession from Simmons, testimony from another accomplice in the planning of the murder, and a videotaped reenactment of the murder. At the age of 17,…

Saint Hildegard of Bingen, who was born in Germany, is the patron saint of creativity. Needless to say, she was a woman of many talents. As a result, she left the people surrounding her greatly impacted by her visions, writing, pieces of music, and unique connection with God. Saint Hildegard was truly an astounding woman, and she definitely deserves the title of Patron Saint. Saint Hildegard’s spiritual journey started for her when she was just three years old. Ever since she was a toddler,…